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Uefa Champions League Draw Details Planning a Football Trip to the Champions League this year, the draw was made yesterday and it features the four English teams with some great fixtures including an all English tie. Confirmed: quarter-final fixtures First legs 9 April: Liverpool v Porto 9 April: Tottenham v Man. City 10 April: Ajax v Juventus 10 April: Man. United v Barcelona Second legs 16 April: Juventus v Ajax 16 April: Barcelona v Man. United 17 April: Porto v Liverpool 17 April: Man. City v Tottenham Semi-Final Draw The semi-final draw was also made yesterday Man. City or Tottenham v Juventus v Ajax
Barcelona v Man. United v Porto v Liverpool
Planning a Football Trip to
the USA – Rivalry Week
If you a planning a Football Trip to the USA then a good week
to plan for is Rivalry Week which will take place from August
21-25 in 2019. This post helps you plan that Football Trip.
Heineken Rivalry Week involves derby games in all fixtures so
you have a great choice of games that weekend. In addition to
that special events will be arranged in pubs in the cities
where the games are taking place.
The games take place from from August 21-25;
D.C. United vs. New York Red Bulls (Aug. 21; 8 pm ET |
UniMas)
LAFC vs. San Jose Earthquakes (Aug. 21; 10:30 pm ET |
UniMas)
Sporting Kansas City vs. Minnesota United FC (Aug. 22;
9:30 pm ET | ESPN)
Orlando City SC vs. Atlanta United (Aug. 23; 8 pm ET |
ESPN)
Portland Timbers vs. Seattle Sounders FC (Aug. 23; 10
pm ET | ESPN)
NYCFC vs. New York Red Bulls (Aug. 24; 7 pm ET | ESPN2)
FC Cincinnati vs. Columbus Crew SC (Aug. 25; 8 pm ET |
FS1)
LAFC vs. LA Galaxy (Aug. 25; 10 pm ET | FS1)
Planning a Football Trip to June International Fixtures Planning a Football Trip to June International Fixtures? This post details the June international fixtures to help you plan your football trip. The qualifying competition for Euro 2020 carries on in June and there are some great fixtures for you to plan a Football Trip for and also the odd Friendly Europa Nations League Portugal vs Switzerland, 7:45pm Wednesday 5th June, Estadio do Dragao Netherlands vs England, 7:45pm Thursday 6th June, Estadio D. Alfonso Henriques Match for third place Sunday 9 June 2019: Guimaraes, 12:00 Final Sunday 9 June 2019: Porto, 19:45 Friendly Croatia vs Tunisia, 5:30pm Tuesday 11th June, Stadion Varteks Euro 2020 Qualification Friday 7 June Group A: Czech Republic v Bulgaria, Montenegro v Kosovo Group B: Ukraine v Serbia, Lithuania v Luxembourg
Group D: Georgia v Gibraltar (18:00), Denmark v Republic of Ireland Group F: Faroe Islands v Spain, Sweden v Malta, Norway v Romania Group G: FYR Macedonia v Poland, Austria v Slovenia, Latvia v Israel Saturday 8 June Group C: Estonia v Northern Ireland (18:00), Belarus v Germany Group E: Croatia v Wales (15:00), Azerbaijan v Hungary (18:00) Group H: Iceland v Albania (15:00), Moldova v Andorra (18:00), Turkey v France Group I: Russia v San Marino (18:00), Belgium v Kazakhstan, Scotland v Cyprus Group J: Finland v Bosnia and Herzegovina (18:00), Armenia v Liechtenstein (18:00), Greece v Italy Monday 10 June Group A: Czech Republic v Montenegro, Bulgaria v Kosovo Group B: Ukraine v Luxembourg, Serbia v Lithuania Group D: Denmark v Georgia, Republic of Ireland v Gibraltar Group F: Spain v Sweden, Malta v Romania, Faroe Islands v Norway Group G: Poland v Israel, FYR Macedonia v Austria, Latvia v Slovenia Tuesday 11 June Group C: Germany v Estonia, Belarus v Northern Ireland Group E: Azerbaijan v Slovakia (18:00), Hungary v Wales Group H: Andorra v France, Iceland v Turkey, Albania v Moldova Group I: Kazakhstan v San Marino (16:00), Belgium v Scotland, Russia v Cyprus Group J: Italy v Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece v Armenia, Liechtenstein v Finland Booking Your Trip
Ticket Links Planning a Football Trip to Africa Cup of Nations 2019 The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations will be held from 15 June to 13 July 2019 in Egypt, this post has all the initial details of the schedule, venues and tickets to help you plan your Football Trip. he competition will be held from 15 June to 13 July 2019, as per the decision of the CAF Executive Committee on 20 July 2017 to move the Africa Cup of Nations from January/February to June/July for the first time. It will also be the first Africa Cup of Nations expanded from 16 to 24 teams. The tournament was initially scheduled to be hosted by Cameroon. On 30 November 2018, Cameroon was stripped of hosting the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations due to infrastructural delays, the Boko Haram insurgency and the Anglophone Crisis. Cameroon will host the 2021 event, having lost the rights to the 2019 edition. North Africa will host the tournament for the first time in 12 years after being hosted by Egypt also in 2006.
This is the fifth time that Egypt will host the African Cup after 1959, 1974 1986 and 2006 to be the most host country in the continent. Egypt boast many international-standard venues with the Cairo International Stadium (72,000) and Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria (87,000) boasting the largest capacities. Format At the finals, the 24 teams will be drawn into six groups of four teams each. The teams in each group play a single round robin. After the group stage, the top two teams and the four best third teams will advance to the round of 16. The winners will advance to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinal winners will advance to the semifinals. The semifinal losers will play in third place match, while semifinal winners will play in final. More information to follow as it is announced. Planning a Football Trip to 2019 Inter Games tournament Planning a Football Trip for June, there is limited choice as most of the European leagues will have finished. One option is the Inter Games tournament which will take place on the island of Anglesey. This post has all the details. The draw has been made for the 2019 Inter Games tournament in Anglesey, which is being staged because football is not on the schedule for the NatWest International Island Games in Gibraltar.
The tournament takes place between 15-22 June, three weeks before the Island Games. There will be ten teams contesting the men’s tournament and five competing in the women’s equivalent, with the draw for groups in the men’s tournament to be conducted this Sunday (in partnership with the Football Association of Wales). Ynys Môn, Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Shetland, Western Isles, Orkney, St Helena and Hitra will compete in the men’s category and Ynys Môn, Isle of Man, Jersey, Western Isles and Hitra in the women’s. Planning a Football Trip to 2020 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final The 2020 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final will be the final match of the 2019–20 UEFA Women’s Champions League, the 19th season of Europe’s premier women’s club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Women’s Cup to the UEFA Women’s Champions League. It will be played at the Viola Park in Vienna, Austria on 24 May 2020.
This is the first UEFA club competition final hosted at the stadium, and the first to be hosted by the city of Vienna since the 1995 UEFA Champions League Final at the Ernst- Happel-Stadion. The game will be played on the 24 May 2020 See our guide to Planning a Football Trip to Vienna – Coming Soon Ticket Information will be updated when available. Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions, with a fourth allowed in extra
time. Planning a Football Trip to 2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship Planning a Football Trip to the 2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship. It will take place in Estonia in Summer 2020 and this post has the details. The 2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2020) will be the 19th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (38th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men’s under-17 national teams of Europe. Estonia, which were selected by UEFA on 9 December 2016, will host the tournament. All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Estonia qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round, which takes place in autumn 2019, and Elite round, which takes place in spring 2020. A total of 16 teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2003 eligible to participate. The 16 teams will be drawn into four groups of four teams. The hosts Estonia will assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams will be seeded according to their results in the qualification elite round. The seven best elite round
group winners (counting all elite round results) will be placed in Pot 1 and drawn to positions 1 and 2 in the groups, and the remaining eight teams (the eighth-best elite round group winner and the seven elite round group runners-up) will be placed in Pot 2 and drawn to positions 3 and 4 in the groups. All the games are scheduled to be played in Tallin at the moment so should be easy to see a lot of football with little travel required once you arrive in Estonia Planning a Football Trip to Nations League Finals 2019 Hosts Portugal, England, Switzerland and the Netherlands will contest the inaugural Finals in June 2019. This post has all the details to plan a Football Trip to Nations League Finals 2019 Schedule Semi-finals Wednesday 5 June: Portugal v Switzerland (Porto, 19:45) Thursday 6 June: Netherlands v England (Guimaraes, 19:45) Third-place play-off Sunday 9 June: Guimaraes, 14:00 Final Sunday 9 June: Porto, 19:45
Tickets The ticket application window for the Finals in Portugal will open early in 2019 exclusively via UEFA.com. Fans can register their interest at UEFA.com/tickets by selecting UEFA Nations League. For ticket sales to the general public on UEFA.com, tickets will not be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Instead, in the likely event that demand exceeds supply, a ballot will be conducted to allocate the tickets once the sales period has ended. 2019 AFC Asian Cup – Latest News Planning a Football Trip to 2019 AFC Asian Cup, it starts today but there is still time to plan your Football Trip. The 2019 AFC Asian Cup will be the 17th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international men’s football championship of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation. It will be held in the United Arab Emirates from 5 January to 1 February 2019. The weather is perfect at the moment with temperatures between 25 degrees and 30 degrees and a little cooler at night. Flights to Abu Dhabi are around £300 at the moment, flying in or out of London or £375 from Manchester. Flights to Dubai are even less between £200 and £300.
Hotels are available from between £50 and £100 a night for a
double room in a good hotel
Booking.com
In 2019 the Asian Cup will be held across eight different
stadia in four different cities across the United Arab
Emirates
Each of the venues will stage at least three group stage games
and a knockout round tie each. The breakdown of venues and
games can be seen in the table below.
Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 UAE (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
2 Thailand 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
3 India 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage
4 Bahrain 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Time
Date Game Venue
(UK)
Al Nahyan
January 5,
UAE vs Bahrain 11am Stadium, Abu
2019
Dhabi
January 6, Sharjah Stadium,
Thailand vs India 1:30pm
2019 Sharjah
Zayed Sports City
January 10,
Bahrain vs Thailand 1:30pm Stadium, Abu
2019
DhabiTime
Date Game Venue
(UK)
Maktoum bin
January 10,
India vs UAE 4pm Rashid Al Maktoum
2019
Stadium, Dubai
Mohammed bin
January 14,
UAE vs Thailand 1:30pm Zayed Stadium,
2019
Abu Dhabi
January 14, Khalifa bin Zayed
India vs Bahrain 1:30pm
2019 Stadium, Al Ain
Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Australia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
2 Syria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
3 Palestine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage
4 Jordan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Time
Date Game Venue
(UK)
January 6, Australia vs Hazza bin Zayed
11am
2019 Jordan Stadium, Al Ain
January 6, Syria vs Sharjah Stadium,
3:30pm
2019 Palestine Sharjah
January 10, Khalifa bin Zayed
Jordan vs Syria 1:30pm
2019 Stadium, Al Ain
January 11, Palestine vs Maktoum bin Rashid Al
11am
2019 Australia Maktoum Stadium, Dubai
January 15, Australia vs Khalifa bin Zayed
1:30pm
2019 Syria Stadium, Al Ain
January 15, Palestine vs Mohammed bin Zayed
1:30pm
2019 Jordan Stadium, Abu DhabiGroup C
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 South Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
2 China PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
3 Kyrgyzstan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage
4 Philippines 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Time
Date Game Venue
(UK)
January 7, China PR vs Al Nahyan Stadium,
11am
2019 Kyrgyzstan Abu Dhabi
January 7, South Korea vs Sharjah Stadium,
1:30pm
2019 Philippines Sharjah
January 11, Philippines vs Zayed Sports City
1:30pm
2019 China PR Stadium, Abu Dhabi
Maktoum bin Rashid
January 11, Kyrgyzstan vs
4pm Al Maktoum
2019 South Korea
Stadium, Dubai
January 16, South Korea vs Mohammed bin Zayed
1:30pm
2019 China PR Stadium, Abu Dhabi
January 16, Kyrgyzstan vs Khalifa bin Zayed
1:30pm
2019 Philippines Stadium, Al Ain
Group D
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Iran 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
2 Iraq 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
3 Vietnam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage
4 Yemen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Time
Date Game Venue
(UK)
January 7, Iran vs Mohammed bin Zayed
4pm
2019 Yemen Stadium, Abu Dhabi
January 8, Iraq vs Zayed Sports City
1:30pm
2019 Vietnam Stadium, Abu Dhabi
January 12, Vietnam vs Al Nahyan Stadium, Abu
11am
2019 Iran Dhabi
January 12, Yemen vs
1:30pm Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah
2019 Iraq
January 16, Vietnam vs Hazza bin Zayed
4pm
2019 Yemen Stadium, Al Ain
January 16, Iran vs
4pm Al-Maktoum Stadium, Dubai
2019 Iraq
Group E
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Saudi Arabia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
2 Qatar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
3 Lebanon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage
4 North Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Time
Date Game Venue
(UK)
January 8, Saudi Arabia vs Maktoum bin Rashid Al
4pm
2019 North Korea Maktoum Stadium, Dubai
January 9, Qatar vs Hazza bin Zayed
4pm
2019 Lebanon Stadium, Al Ain
January 12, Lebanon vs Al-Maktoum Stadium,
4pm
2019 Saudi Arabia Dubai
January 13, North Korea vs Khalifa bin Zayed
11am
2019 Qatar Stadium, Al AinTime
Date Game Venue
(UK)
January 17, Saudi Arabia vs Zayed Sports City
4pm
2019 Qatar Stadium, Abu Dhabi
January 17, Lebanon vs Sharjah Stadium,
4pm
2019 North Korea Sharjah
Group F
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
2 Uzbekistan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockouts
3 Oman 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage
4 Turkmenistan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Time
Date Game Venue
(UK)
January 9, Japan vs Al Nahyan Stadium,
11am
2019 Turkmenistan Abu Dhabi
January 9, Sharjah Stadium,
Uzbekistan vs Oman 1:30pm
2019 Sharjah
January 13, Zayed Sports City
Oman vs Japan 1:30pm
2019 Stadium, Abu Dhabi
Maktoum bin Rashid
January 13, Turkmenistan vs
4pm Al Maktoum Stadium,
2019 Uzbekistan
Dubai
January 17, Oman vs Mohammed bin Zayed
1:30pm
2019 Turkmenistan Stadium, Abu Dhabi
January 17, Japan vs Khalifa bin Zayed
1:30pm
2019 Uzbekistan Stadium, Al Ain
The last day of the group stage is January 17, with the
knockout stage commencing on January 20 – a last 16 will be
followed by quarter-finals, semi-final and a final in Abu
Dhabi.Tickets Early bird tickets for the Asian Cup went on sale on June 28 for corporate tickets and general sale tickets can be purchased via Ticketmaster. Most tickets will be sold in advance online, but ‘last-minute’ tickets for games that have not already sold out will also be available to buy during the tournament at sales centres in the UAE. Gone but not forgotten In 2018 we lost some football greats, here is our tribute to those gone but not forgotten football heroes. Ray Wilkins
Cyrille Regis Jimmy Armfield
Davide Astori Ray Wilson
Kevin Beattie
Alan Gilzean
Liam Miller
Jlloyd Samuel
Neale Cooper Goran Bunjevčević
Bruno Boban Fernando Nuno LaFuente* * Alive as it turns out
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