Ajax, Monaco, Brighton and Atalanta advance to the league phase

ByDavid Mitchell

Michel’s Ajax, with Ter Stegen between the sticks, Monaco, Brighton, Atalanta, Copenhagen and Pananthinaikos qualified this Thursday for the league phase of the Conference League by beating the Swiss Zion (5-3)to the Polish Gornik Zabrze (4-1), Norwegian Tromso (4-0), Hapoel Tel Aviv (0-1), Finnish Intre Turku (4-1) and Czech Hadrec Králové 1-2 and they will be present in the draw that takes place this Thursday.

Rapid Vienna from Austria, Finnish Kuopio, Czech Jablonec, Dutch Twente, Swiss Lugano, German Freiburg, Inter Escaldes from Andorra, Latvian Riga, Croatian Hajduk Split, Norwegian Brann, Pafos from Greece, Italian Atalanta, Denmark’s Nordsjaelland, Bosnian Borac, Portuguese Braga, Midtjylland of Denmark, the Rid imps of Gibraltar, Belgian Ghent and Getafe of Spain.

The draw for the league phase of the Conference League will be held this Friday starting at 1:00 p.m. CET (-2 GMT) after knowing the Europa League clashes.

Conference League playoff (second leg) results

WEDNESDAY

RAPID VIENNA (AUT) 2(3) – Hearts (ESC) 2(4) (2-2)

THURSDAY

KUPS KUOPIO (FIN) 1 – Shamrock Rovers (IRL) 0 (1-1)

JABLONEC (CZE) 1(4) – Rangers (ESC) 0(3) (0-1)

Qarabag (AZE) 1 – TWENTE (NED) 4 (1-0)

Maccabi Tel Aviv (ISR) 1 – LUGANO (SUI) 1 (1-2)

FREIBURG (GER) 4 – Motherwell (ESC) 1 (3-1)

MONACO (FRA) 4 – Gornik Zabrze (POL) 1 (3-2)

INTER ESCALDES (AND) 0(4) – Drita (KOS) 0(2) (2-2)

RIGA (LAT) 2 – Klaksvik (FRO) 1 (0-0)

COPENHAGEN (DIN) 4 – Inter Turku (FIN) 1 (0-0)

Rakow (POL) 2 – HAJDUK SPLIT (CRO) 3 (2-2)

Hradec Kralove (CZE) 1 – PANATHINAIKOS (GRE) 2 (2-2)

BRANN (NOR) 3 – PAOK (GRE) 2 (1-1)

PAFOS (CYP) 4 – Dinamo City (ALB) 2 (1-1)

Hapoel Tel Aviv (ISR) 0 – ATALANTA (ITA) 1 (0-0)

St. Gallen (SUI) 2 – NORDSJAELLAND (DIN) 3 (0-1)

AJAX (NED) 5 – Sion (SUI) 3 (4-2)

BORAC (BIH) 3 – Vikingur (ISL) 1 (3-1)

BRIGHTON (ENG) 4 – Tromso (NOR) 0 (0-0)

Austria Vienna (AUT) 0 – BRAGA (POR) 0 (0-2)

Rijeka (CRO) 1 – MIDTJYLLAND (DIN) 4 (0-2)

Larne (NOR) 2 – L. RID IMPS (GIB) 3 (2-0)

Hibernian (ESC) 2 – GHENT (BEL) 3 (0-0)

Partizan (SRB) 2 – GETAFE (ESP) 1 (1-3).

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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