Danish teams to face Ukrainian and Swedish opposition in Conference League qualification

Svend Bertil Frandsen

Published 9 hours ago

FC Copenhagen and FC Nordsjælland were pitted against Ukrainian and Swedish opposition when the draw was made for the second qualifying round of the Conference League

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/svensson-bo/hpYJ6izc/"]Bo Svensson[/a]'s troops will face Ukrainian outfit [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/polissya-zhytomyr/f3sGNX3j/"]FC Polissya[/a], who ended up in third place in the Ukrainian league. FC Polyssya will start at home before the return match awaits in the Parken Stadium. The matches will be played on 23 July and 30 July.[/p][embed guid="5088dac2-e0de-49cb-b61e-c48524f1dae9" url="https://x.com/FCKobenhavn/status/2067223733467558281" social-type="twitter" /][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/fc-copenhagen/hSPZwbEh/"]Copenhagen[/a] rivals [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/nordsjaelland/2wZHnGDH/"]FC Nordsjaelland[/a] will face Swedish GAIS in the same qualifying round. FC Nordsjaelland could have been facing a trip to Kosovo, Ireland, Serbia, Hungary, the Faroe Islands, or Iceland, but it all ended with a Swedish challenge.[/p][p]GAIS starts at home, before FC Nordsjaelland will enjoy the home field advantage in the return leg. [/p]

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