Forest Face Malmö In Final Rerun, Palace Land Dynamo Kyiv As European Draws Made

Nottingham Forest will big a rerun of their 1979 European Cup last triumph complete Malmö connected their return to continental action aft 20 years away.

The Swedish champions will sojourn nan City Ground for 1 of Forest’s 8 Europa League ties, evoking memories of Trevor Francis’s winning extremity successful nan first of their back-to-back European titles. Forest will compete connected this shape aft swapping places pinch Crystal Palace, who were controversially demoted to nan Conference League for breaching multi-club ownership rules. The prime of Palace’s ties are trips to look Dynamo Kyiv, astir apt to beryllium staged successful Poland, and nan Ligue 1 nine Strasbourg.

Aston Villa joined Forest successful nan Europa League tie and, nether tourney master Unai Emery, will consciousness assured of navigating a schedule that brings visits to Feyenoord, a José Mourinho-less Fenerbahce, Basel and Go Ahead Eagles. They will big Red Bull Salzburg, Young Boys and Bologna, arsenic good arsenic nan imaginable logistical headache of a necktie against nan Israeli nine Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Forest, competing successful Europe for nan first clip since a Uefa Cup run successful 1995-96 that coincidentally brought different brace of meetings pinch Malmö, will besides invited Porto, Ferencvaros, and Midtjylland to nan City Ground. They will recreation to Real Betis, Braga, Sturm Graz and Utrecht.

The Forest owner, Evangelos Marinakis, and Palace co-owner, Steve Parish, sat a matter of yards from 1 different successful nan tie hall. They saw Palace, playing successful Europe for nan first time, drawn to play AZ Alkmaar, nan Finnish broadside KuPS and nan Cypriot nine AEK Larnaca astatine Selhurst Park. As good arsenic their distant games against Dynamo and Strasbourg, they will make nan short travel to Dublin for a necktie pinch Shelbourne. In opposition pinch nan Europa League’s eight-strong fixture lists, only six convention shape ties are contested by each Conference League club.

Rangers and Celtic will compete successful nan Europa League aft costly Champions League playoff defeats. Russell Martin’s Gers will big Roma, Braga, Ludogorets and Genk; they will meet Porto, Ferencvaros, Sturm Graz and Brann away. Celtic and Brendan Rodgers will invited Roma, Sturm Graz, Utrecht and Braga to Glasgow; they will sojourn Feyenoord, Crvena Zvezda, Midtjylland and Bologna.

A location gathering pinch Shakhtar Donetsk was nan item of Aberdeen’s Conference League draw. The dates and bid of some competitions’ ties are expected to beryllium confirmed by Sunday.