Middle phase

We came to phase number five of qualifying matches for the European championship 2024, while same number of rounds have to be played until the end of this campaign. Whole stage will begin and finish from second part next week, and starting from the weekend together with the following two nights we are stepping into the second part of these eliminations.

Round 05

07 September, Thursday at 16.00 CEt: Kazakhstan - Finland.

07 September, Thursday at 18.00 CEt: Lithuania - Montenegro.

07 September, Thursday at 20.45 CEt: Czech Republic - Albania.

07 September, Thursday at 20.45 CEt: Denmark - San Marino.

07 September, Thursday at 20.45 CEt: France - Republic of Ireland.

07 September, Thursday at 20.45 CEt: Netherlands - Greece.

07 September, Thursday at 20.45 CEt: Poland - Faroe islands.

07 September, Thursday at 20.45 CEt: Serbia - Hungary.

07 September, Thursday at 20.45 CEt: Slovenia - Northern Ireland.

08 September, Friday at 18.00 CEt: Georgia - Spain.

08 September, Friday at 20.45 CEt: Bosnia and Herzegovina - Liechtenstein.

08 September, Friday at 20.45 CEt: Croatia - Latvia.

08 September, Friday at 20.45 CEt: Cyprus - Scotland.

08 September, Friday at 20.45 CEt: Luxembourg - Iceland.

08 September, Friday at 20.45 CEt: Slovakia - Portugal.

08 September, Friday at 20.45 CEt: Turkiye - Armenia.

09 September, Saturday at 15.00 CEt: Azerbaijan - Belgium.

09 September, Saturday at 18.00 CEt: Andorra - Belarus.

09 September, Saturday at 18.00 CEt: Estonia - Sweden.

09 September, Saturday at 18.00 CEt: Ukraine - England (playing in Wroclaw, Poland).

09 September, Saturday at 20.45 CEt: Kosovo - Switzerland.

09 September, Saturday at 20.45 CEt: Romania - Israel.

Round 06

10 September, Sunday at 15.00 CEt: Kazakhstan - Northern Ireland.

10 September, Sunday at 18.00 CEt: Faroe islands - Moldova.

10 September, Sunday at 18.00 CEt: Finland - Denmark.

10 September, Sunday at 18.00 CEt: Montenegro - Bulgaria.

10 September, Sunday at 20.45 CEt: Albania - Poland.

10 September, Sunday at 20.45 CEt: Greece - Gibraltar.

10 September, Sunday at 20.45 CEt: Lithuania - Serbia.

10 September, Sunday at 20.45 CEt: Republic of Ireland - Netherlands.

10 September, Sunday at 20.45 CEt: San Marino - Slovenia.

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Ending of an elimination campaign

This month are finishing the qualifiers for the African Cup of Nations 2023 (2024) tournament. Over 7 nights throughout the continent the 44 teams would play the last 22 elimination duels. Because it is extremely difficult to find the correct kick-offs as there is no information anywhere about them (with certainty), the following ones have to be taken with reserve.

06 September, Wednesday at 21.00 CEt: Libya - Equatorial Guinea.

07 September, Thursday at 18.00 CEt: Angola - Madagascar.

07 September, Thursday at 18.00 CEt: Ghana - Central African Republic.

07 September, Thursday at 21.00 CEt: Algeria - Tanzania.

07 September, Thursday at 21.00 CEt: Tunisia - Botswana.

07 September, Thursday at 21.00 CEt: Niger - Uganda.

08 September, Friday at 18.00 CEt: Egypt - Ethiopia.

08 September, Friday at 20.00 CEt: Burkina Faso - Eswatini (playing at Marrakesh, Morocco).

08 September, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Mali - South Sudan.

09 September, Saturday at 15.00 CEt: Malawi - Guinea.

09 September, Saturday at 15.00 CEt: Mozambique - Benin.

09 September, Saturday at 18.00 CEt: Democratic Republic of Congo - Sudan.

09 September, Saturday at 18.00 CEt: Ivory coast - Lesotho.

09 September, Saturday at 18.00 CEt: Mauritania - Gabon.

09 September, Saturday at 21.00 CEt: Comoros - Zambia.

09 September, Saturday at 21.00 CEt: Morocco - Liberia.

09 September, Saturday at 21.00 CEt: Senegal - Rwanda.

10 September, Sunday at 18.00 CEt: Nigeria - Sao Tome e principe.

10 September, Sunday at 18.00 CEt: Togo - Cape verde.

10 September, Sunday at 21.00 CEt: Gambia - Congo (playing at Marrakesh, Morocco).

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Arrested high official

This Tuesday the director of the Chinese Super league Liu Jun was detained for investigation. Local media has reported that he is accused for bribery and corruption charges. Severely violating laws of the game, the 47-year-old official was also the president of now the non existing club Jiangsu Suning, and also being named the executive director of Inter in 2016 after the Suning holdings group has invested in the club.

Lately a lot of arrests was made within People's Republic of China, from directors to former trainers and other sport workers, because of bribery.

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Instead of a previously determined name used another

Launched in August 2022 everyone thought that the African Super league will kick off with 24 high ranked football clubs on the continent exactly one year later. This scenario is still going to be planned for the 2024-25 season, but for 2023 it has a new name and has reduced clubs for more than a half - to only 8. As it was said earlier, this event will not replace the (already famous) African Champions league.

Details of the debut tournament have been announced on Tuesday where the middle word is completely omitted and from now is known as the African football league. All clubs are familiar out of which they come from three parts: North, Central-West and South-East region, and the first ever draw is on 02 September at the Egyptian capital Cairo. In total there will be 14 games where everything starts with quarter-finals, semi-finals and final times two (every club is going to be play on a two legged format, home and away). One year ago it was revealed that Tanzania will host the first ever game of the competition, and that still has not changed as 20 October would commence the show with the opening ceremony. The last two duels are scheduled to be held on 05 and 11 October.

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Bye bye club qualifiers for 2023

Conference league 2023-24 season, fourth qualifying round, leg 2, single night:

HJK - Farul 2:0

Scorer: 1:0 19 Bojan Radulovic

             2:0 69 Bojan Radulovic

Bodo/Glimt - Sepsi 2:2, after extra time 3:2

Scorers: 1:0 24 Sondre Sorli

               2:0 29 Amahl Pellegrino

               2:1 42 Isnik Alimi

               2:2 46 Roland Varga

               3:2 99-pen Amahl Pellegrino

- Marius Stefanescu received his second yellow card at 120, so Sepsi finished this duel with 10 players.

APOEL - Gent 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 28 Matisse Samoise

               0:2 79 Tarik Tissoudali

               1:2 90+5-own goal Davy Roef

Twente - Fenerbahche 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 71-pen (71.19) Edin Dzeko

Viktoria - Tobol 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 32 Tomash Chory

               2:0 59 Rafiu Durosinmi

               3:0 90+3 Ibrahim Traore

Brann - AZ 3:3, 5-6 on penalties

Scorers: 0:1 12 Mayckel Lahdo

               0:2 29 Sven Mijnans

               1:2 45 Fredrik Knudsen

               1:3 49 Ruben van Bommel

               2:3 65 Joachim Soltvedt

               3:3 82 Japhet Sery Larsen

- Home midfielder Felix Myhre has been removed from the match at 120 because of a direct red card.

PAOK - Hearts 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 15 Taison Freda

               2:0 23 Brandon Thomas

               3:0 57 Giannis Konstantelias

               4:0 70 Taison Freda

Beshiktash - Dynamo Kyiv 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 52 Vincent Aboubakar

Partizani - Astana 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 24 Archange Bintsouka

               1:1 46 Marin Tomasov

BATE - Ballkani 1:0 (neutral terrain)

Scorer: 1:0 29 Artem Kontsevoy

Dnipro-1 - Spartak Trnava 1:1, 1:2 after 30 additional minutes (neutral place)

Scorers: 0:1 03 Erik Daniel

               1:1 60-own goal Nicolas Gorosito

               1:2 106 Martin Bukata

- Dnipro-1 has ended this play with nine footballers: on 99 Ruslan Babenko had to depart due to direct red card, while his teammate Oleh Horin has left because he saw his second yellow card at 108.

Ferencvarosh - Zhalgiris 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 04 (03.31) Adama Traore

               2:0 42-pen (41.25) Barnabas Varga

               3:0 47 (47.14) Adama Traore

Celje - Maccabi Tel Aviv 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 12 Aljosha Matko

               1:1 49 Gavriel Kanichowski

Demirspor - Genk 1:0, on penalties 4-5

Scorer: 1:0 45+9 (54.13) Cherif Ndiaye

- Two seconds before the goal was given, an 11 metre punishment from Cherif Ndiaye was beautifully saved.

Fiorentina - Rapid Wien 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 59 Nicolas Gonzalez

               2:0 90-pen Nicolas Gonzalez

Club Brugge - Osasuna 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 27 Johan Mojica

               0:2 53 Ante Budimir

               1:2 73 Igor Thiago

               2:2 75 Andreas Skov Olsen

Eintracht Frankfurt - Levski 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 79 Jessic Ngankam

               2:0 85 Ellyes Skhiri

Partizan - Nordsjaelland 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 29 Ibrahim Osman

- Nemanja Nikolic (Partizan) has waved goodbye to the crowd on 83 because of two yellow cards.

Legia - Midtjylland 1:1, 6-5 on penalties

Scorers: 1:0 53 Tomash Pekhart

               1:1 70 Paulo da Silva

Aston villa - Hibernian 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 10 Jhon Duran

               2:0 34 Leon Bailey

               3:0 60 Matthew Cash

Additional information: HJK, Bodo/Glimt, Gent, Fenerbahche, Viktoria, AZ, PAOK, Beshiktash, Astana, Ballkani, Spartak Trnava, Ferencvarosh, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Genk, Fiorentina, Club Brugge, Eintracht Frankfurt, Nordsjaelland, Legia and Aston villa are all included in the group phase draw for the competition that will take place on Friday, 01 September at 14.30 CEt.

Europa league 2023-24 season, fourth (second) elimination stage, leg 2, single night:

Qarabag - Olimpija 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 24-pen (23.45) Toral Bayramov

               1:1 35 (35.06) Diogo Pinto

Aris (Limassol) - Slovan 6:2

Scorers: 1:0 20 Yannick Gomis

               2:0 24 Julius Szoke

               2:1 37 David Strelec

               3:1 45+7 Yannick Gomis

               4:1 50 Yannick Gomis

               5:1 66 Mihlali Mayambela

               6:1 72 Morgan Brown

               6:2 88 Tigran Barseghyan

Sheriff - KI 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 15-pen Luvannor Silva

               2:0 34 Luc Kassi

               2:1 74 Armel Zohouri

Zorya - Slavia Praha 2:1 (neutral spot)

Scorers: 1:0 32 (31.50) Danyil Alefirenko

               2:0 40 (40.06) Denys Antyukh

               2:1 83 (82.30) Matej Jurasek

Sparta Praha - Dinamo Zagreb 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 02 Lukash Haraslin

               2:0 24 Asger Sorensen

               3:0 67 Filip Panak

               3:1 70 Martin Baturina

               4:1 87 Victor Olatunji

Ajax - Ludogorets 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 62 (61.22) Matias Tissera

Chukarichki - Olympiacos 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 34 Georgios Masouras

               0:2 45 Pep Biel

               0:3 53 Panagiotis Retsos

Lugano - Union Saint-Gilloise 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 07 Dennis Eckert Ayensa

- From 90+3 Albian Hajdari had to leave his teammates of Lugano because of a direct red card.

Aberdeen - Hacken 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 14 (13.23) Ibrahim Sadiq

               0:2 40 (40.09) Ibrahim Sadiq

               1:2 55-pen (55.00) Bojan Miovski

               1:3 81-pen (80.37) Amor Layouni

Zrinjski - LASK 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 38-pen Nemanja Bilbija

               1:1 52 Branko Jovichic

Supplemental information: in the group stage draw ceremony on Friday, 01 September from 13.00 CEt we are going to see the following club names: Qarabag, Aris (Limassol), Sheriff, Slavia Praha, Sparta Praha, Ajax, Olympiacos, Union Saint-Gilloise, Hacken and LASK.

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