Details about a new club competition project

In the beginning of July it was only mentioned, while from last Friday in Tanzanian city of Arusha all facts have been revealed about the new club international tournament that will be launched on the African continent kicking off in exactly one year from now.

At the Super league event 24 clubs will be involved and those would come from three regions: Central/West, North together with Southern/East. Eight of them are going to participate from each region whilst maximum three clubs are permitted per country. Playing periods will be from August until May which means that the duration of the tournament for one season would be 10 months. Future finalists is going to play a maximum of 21 games, and the total account is 197. Relegation and promotion play offs are also expected to be staged.

Besides the trophy in terms of finance, the champions would be rich for 11.1 million euros, and the whole competition worth 97 million euros.

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Introducing the final elimination stage

Bit by bit we came towards the last elimination round in each of the three club international tournaments. Also called the fourth qualifying or play-off stage, the following clubs would play the first 90 minutes. Thus commencing in the second part of this month the layout for each duels will have to look like this:

Champions league...

Tuesday, 16 August at 21.00 CET: Bodo/Glimt - Dinamo Zagreb.

Tuesday, 16 August at 21.00 CET: Glasgow rangers - PSV.

Tuesday, 16 August at 21.00 CET: Kobenhavn - Trabzonspor.

Wednesday, 17 August at 18.45 CET: Qarabag - Viktoria.

Wednesday, 17 August at 21.00 CET: Dynamo Kyiv - Benfica (playing in Lodz, Poland).
Wednesday, 17 August at 21.00 CET: Maccabi Haifa - Crvena zvezda.

...Conference league...

Wednesday, 17 August at 18.45 CET: Djurgarden - APOEL.

Thursday, 18 August at 18.00 CET: Rakow - Slavia Praha.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: CSKA Sofia - Basel.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Nice.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Molde - Wolfsberger.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Rigas futbola skola - Linfield.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Slovacko - AIK.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Young boys Bern - Anderlecht.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.30 CET: Universitatea - Hapoel Be'er Sheva.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.45 CET: Basaksehir - Antwerp.

Thursday, 18 August at 20.00 CET: Zrinjski - Slovan.

Thursday, 18 August at 20.15 CET: Maribor - Cluj.

Thursday, 18 August at 20.30 CET: FcsB - Viking.

Thursday, 18 August at 20.30 CET: Koln - Fehervar.

Thursday, 18 August at 20.30 CET: Lech - Diddeleng.

Thursday, 18 August at 20.45 CET: Villarreal - Hajduk.

Thursday, 18 August at 20.45 CET: West ham - Viborg.

Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: AZ - Gil vicente.

Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: Fiorentina - Twente.

Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: Partizan - Hamrun.

Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: Skupi - Ballkani.

Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: Vaduz - Rapid Wien.

...and Europa league.

Thursday, 18 August at 18.30 CET: Ferencvaros - Samrock rovers.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Apollon - Olympiacos.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Malmo - Sivasspor.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Pyunik - Sheriff.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Zurich - Hearts.

Thursday, 18 August at 19.45 CET: Ludogorets - Zalgiris.

Thursday, 18 August at 20.00 CET: Dnipro-1 - AEK [Larnaca (playing in Koshice, Slovakia)].

Thursday, 18 August at 20.00 CET: HJK - Silkeborg.

Thursday, 18 August at 20.30 CET: Gent - Omonia.

Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: Austria Wien - Fenerbahce.

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Continuation of football activities

Since December 2021 football has not being played in Ukraine because of: first players went on deserved winter break, and then the war broke out in the country this February. Hence the whole last season got suspended while on 12 July it was revealed that the new one will start this month.

Former Olympic champion, and now minister of youth and sports Wadim Hutzajt announced the plan that the 2022-23 season would start on 23 August. Each duels are going to be played without spectators, whilst stadia will be equipped with shelters in case of air-raid siren would sound out.

This date was deliberately chosen for beginning because it is a day of the National flag of Ukraine.

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Forbidden name was mentioned

In some parts of the world the following name is loveable by many, while at the other end it is forbidden even to be mentioned. Exactly the second scenario happened at the football game in Turkey.

Fenerbahce and Dynamo Kyiv played their match on 27 July at the second elimination round of the Champions league event. During the duel the home public have chanted the name of Vladimir Putin, and that was the reason that the European football organization has conducted an investigation into this matter. At the end (somehow) they have concluded that the club was guilty of the behaviour of their spectators who just wanted to distract the guests. Because of that (incident) seven days ago the club was ordered to pay 50.000 euros.

And the same affiliation today has punished Hajduk who in the third phase of the Conference league played against Vitoria. Racist chants from their fans was the main reason of why this was issued, thus in the next match of the Croatian club against Villarreal at the play off stage have to close section of their stadium plus give away 23.000 euros.

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Goalkeeper took out the ball of his own net seven times

Conference league 2022-23 season, elimination stage 3, leg 2 (night 3 out of 3):

Kyzylzhar - APOEL 0:0

Tobol - Zrinjski 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 34 Mario Cuze

               1:1 53 Serges Deble

- The goalkeeper of the home team was awarded a direct red card at 79.

Rakow - Spartak Trnava 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 67 (67.13) Vladyslav Kochergin

Petrocub - Fehervar 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 30 Budu Zivzivadze

               1:1 34-pen Constantin Sandu

               1:2 39 Budu Zivzivade

Cluj - Shakhtyor 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 37 (36.31) Jefte Sanchez

Twente - Cukaricki 4:1

Scorers: 0:1 06 (06.16) Luka Adzic

               1:1 16 (15.56) Robin Propper

               2:1 33 (33.01) Michel Vlap

               3:1 83 (83.02) Christos Tzolis

               4:1 90+2 (91.37) Christos Tzolis

Konyaspor - Vaduz 2:4

Scorers: 0:1 17-pen (17.17) Guilherme Haubert Sitya

               1:1 27 (27.10) Franklin Sasere

               1:2 31 (30.41) Manuel Sutter

               1:3 67 (66.25) Tunahan Cicek

               1:4 88 (87.58) Cedric Gasser

               2:4 90+4 (94.10) Amir Hadziahmetovic

Djurgarden - Sepsi 3:1

Scorers: 0:1 08 Cosmin Matei

               1:1 12 Hampus Finndell

               2:1 23 Joel Asoro

               3:1 70 Joel Asoro

Hapoel Be'er Sheva - Lugano 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 50 Miguel Vitor

               2:0 60-own goal Albian Hajdari

               2:1 73-pen Ousmane Doumbia

               3:1 84 Rotem Hatuel

- On 42 Jonathan Sabbatini (Lugano) failed to convert a penalty.

Basel - Brondby 2:1 ; on penalties: 3-1

Scorers: 1:0 39-pen Fabian Frei

               1:1 45 Mathias Kvistgaarden

               2:1 45+4 Andi Zeqiri

Universitatea - Zorya 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 05 (04.29) Raul Michel Melo da Silva

               2:0 52 (52.19) Stefan Baiaram

               3:0 56 (55.57) Nicusor Bancu

FcsB - Dunajska Streda 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 28 (27.47) Andrei Cordea

Panathinaikos - Slavia Praha 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 57 (56.57) Andraz Sporar

               1:1 90+5 Vaclav Jurechka

Antwerp - Lillestrom 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 10 Anthony Valencia

               2:0 69 Birger Verstraete

Basaksehir - Bridablik 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 43 (43.18) Stefano Okaka

               2:0 73 (73.19) Ahmed Touba

               3:0 83 (83.13) Danijel Aleksic

KI - Ballkani 2:1 ; on penalties: 3-4

Scorers: 1:0 55 Mads Mikkelsen

               1:1 83 Ermal Krasniqi

               2:1 89 Patrick da Silva

Hibernians - Rigas futbola skola 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 44-pen Petr Maresh

               1:1 70-pen Jake Grech

               1:2 78 Andrej Ilic

               1:3 87 Andrej Ilic

Levski - Hamrun 1:2 ; on penalties 1-4

Scorers: 0:1 78 Matthew Guillaumier

               1:1 90 Wenderson de Freitas Soares

               1:2 90+2 Ryan Camenzuli

Anderlecht - Paide 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 62 Fabio Silva

               2:0 70 Michael Murillo

               3:0 74 Michael Murillo

Aris (Thessaloniki) - Maccabi Tel Aviv 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 60-pen (59.50) Andre Gray

               1:1 74 Eran Zahavi

               2:1 80 Cheick Doukoure

- Due to nasty foul on 58 the visiting midfielder Dan Glazer has received a direct red card.

Sligo rovers - Viking 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 44 William Fitzgerald

- Frank Liivak (Sligo rovers) has failed to convert an 11 metre punishment on 74.

Rapid Wien - Neftci 1:0, after 30 additional minutes 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 66 (66.16) Marco Grull

               2:0 112 (111.56) Ferdy Druijf

Lech - Vikingur (Reykjavik) 2:1, 4:1 after extra time

Scorers: 1:0 31 Mikael Ishak

               2:0 44 Kristoffer Velde

               2:1 90+5 Danijel Djuric

               3:1 96 Filip Marchwinski

               4:1 118 Afonso Sousa

- At 110 Julius Magnusson has received his second yellow card leaving the guests to finish this match with 10 men.

- The penalty from Afonso Sousa (Lech) was saved at 118.

Saint Patrick's athletic - CSKA Sofia 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 12 Mauricio Garcez

               0:2 82-pen Ivan Turitsov

Young boys Bern - KuPS 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 03 Jean-Pierre Nsame

               2:0 34 Vincent Sierro

               3:0 57 Jean-Pierre Nsame

Gil vicente - Riga 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 15-own goal Glody Ngonda Muzinga

               2:0 22 Kevin Villodres

               3:0 45 Francisco Navarro

               4:0 75-pen Francisco Navarro

Kisvarda - Molde 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 14 Jasir Asani

               2:0 29 Jasir Asani

               2:1 69 Sivert Mannsverk

AZ - Dundee united 7:0

Scorers: 1:0 21 (20.58) Vangelis Pavlidis

               2:0 30 (30.12) Tijjani Reijnders

               3:0 35 (35.15) Vangelis Pavlidis

               4:0 41 (40.29) Tijjani Reijnders

               5:0 44 (43.47) Hakon Evjen

               6:0 46 (49 seconds) Dani de Wit

               7:0 73 (73.18) Mayckel Lahdo

Additional information 1: APOEL, Zrinjski, Rakow, Fehrvar, Cluj, Twente, Vaduz, Djurgarden, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Basel, Universitatea, FcsB, Slavia Praha, Antwerp, Basaksehir, Ballkani, Rigas futbola skola, Hamrun, Anderlecht, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Viking, Rapid Wien, Lech, CSKA Sofia, Young boys Bern, Gil vicente, Molde, AZ have all entered in the last qualifying phase.

Europa league 2022-23 season, qualifying phase 3, leg 2:

HJK- Maribor 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 54 Santeri Hostikka

Zurich - Linfield 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 10 Donis Avdijaj

               2:0 25 Donis Avdijaj

               3:0 84 Ivan Santini

Slovacko - Fenerbahce 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 56 (55.32) Serdar Dursun

               1:1 57 (57.16) Ondrej Shashinka

Diddeleng - Malmo 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 49 Mohamed Buya Turay

               0:2 52 Ola Toivonen

               1:2 55 Samir Hadji

               2:2 60 Dejvid Sinani

 

Slovan - Olympiacos 1:1, 2:2 after extra time ; on penalties: 3-4

Scorers: 0:1 53 (53.06) Philip Zinckernagel

               1:1 90+4 (93.44) Ivan Shaponjic

               1:2 100 (99.56) Aguibou Camara

               2:2 108 (107.40) Andre Green

- Myenty Abena (Slovan) was awarded with his second yellow card on 97 (96.22).

Partizan - AEK (Larnaca) 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 24 Ricardo Gomes

               1:1 50 Adam Gyurcso

               2:1 54 Ricardo Gomes

               2:2 57 Imad Faraj

Additional information 2: into the fourth elimination round are HJK, Zurich, Fenerbahce, Malmo, Olympiacos and AEK (Larnaca).

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