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Last year, the footballers of the Hungarian Ferencváros Budapest advanced to the group stage of the Champions League.
They will want to repeat the success this year as well, in the 1st preliminary round of LM 2021/2022 the Kosovo club KF Priština, which succeeded in the qualification, will stand in their way. The first match is scheduled for Tuesday from 6 pm in the Hungarian capital, retaliation is a week later in Pristina.
Ferencváros, in which the Slovak representative Róbert Mak also appears in the staff, last year gradually eliminated the Swedish Djurgaarden, the Scottish Celtic Glasgow, the Croatian Dinamo Zagreb and finally the Norwegian Molde FK. In the event of promotion, the Hungarian team will face a successful two-match match in the second round between the Lithuanian Žalgiris Vilnius and Linfield Belfast from Northern Ireland. The Slovak striker Jakub Sylvestr also wears the Žaligiris jersey.
The traditional participant of European competitions from Romania CFR Cluj will start his pilgrimage at home against the Bosnian club Borac Banja Luka. Last year, Cluj only made it to the second preliminary round, but in the European League it made it to the group stage. In the Champions League, he joined the group for the last time in the 2012/2013 season.
The program of the 1st preliminary round is divided into two days, the Slovak representative Slovan Bratislava will enter the competition on Wednesday, when he will welcome the Irish Shamrock Rovers in Tehelné pole. Retaliation is scheduled for next week. In the event of a promotion, Slovan will encounter the same opponent that he would have met last year – the Swiss Young Boys Bern. The draw for the third preliminary round will take place on 19 July.
Champions League 2021/2022 – 1st preliminary round first matches
Tuesday, July 6:
18:00 Ferencváros Budapest – KF Pristina / Robert Mak (Ferencváros) /
18:00 Flora Tallinn – Hibernians
18:00 HJK Helsinki – Buducnost Podgorica
19:00 CFR Cluj – Borac Banja Luka
19:00 Žalgiris Vilnius – Linfield Belfast / Jakub Sylvestr (Žalgiris) /
19:30 Esch Fola – Lincoln Red Imps
20:00 FC Shkendija – NS Mura
Wednesday, July 7:
18:00 FK Bodö / Glimt – Legia Warsaw
18:00 Dinamo Tbilisi – Neftchi Baku
18:30 ŠK SLOVAN BRATISLAVA – Shamrock Rovers
19:00 Ludogorets Razgrad – Shachor Soligorsk
19:00 Maccabi Haifa – Kajrat Almaty
19:00 Malmö FF – FC Riga
19:00 Teuta Durrës – ifferiff Tiraspoľ
20:00 Connah’s Quay – FK Alaškert
20:00 Dinamo Záhreb – Valur Reykjavík
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Champions League / 1st qualifying round