The draws for the second Europa Conference League competition has been completed with England’s West Ham placed in the same group as Belgium’s Anderlecht. Both clubs faced-off in the 1976 European Cup Winners’ Cup final, a game Anderlecht won by 4 goals t 2 at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels.
West Ham enjoyed a successful run in the Europa League last season, losing to the eventual champions Eintracht Frankfurt in the semi-finals.
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FCSB and Silkeborg join West Ham and Anderlecht in Group B of the Conference League, while Villarreal also learned their early opponents.
After winning the 2021 Europa League and reaching the Champions League semi-finals last season, Villarreal will hope to avoid a bumpy landing in the tertiary competition, with Hapoel Be’er-Sheva, Austria Wien and Lech Poznan their Group C opponents.
✅ Europa Conference League pots
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Draw in full:
Group A: Istanbul Basaksehir, Fiorentina, Hearts, RFS
Group B: West Ham, FCSB, Anderlecht, Silkeborg
Group C: Villarreal, Hapoel Be’er-Sheva, Austria Wien, Lech Poznan
Group D: Partizan, Koln, Nice, Slovacko
Group E: AZ, Apollon Limassol, Vaduz, Dnipro-1
Group F: Gent, Molde, Shamrock Rovers, Djurgarden
Group G: Slavia Prague, Cluj, Sivasspor, Ballkani
Group H: Basel, Slovan Bratislava, Zalgiris Vilnius, Pyunik
The six rounds of group games take place from September 8 to November 3, with the Europa Conference League final to be played on June 7 at Slavia Prague’s Eden Arena.
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