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Connah's Quay have been drawn at home to Dynamo Tbilisi in the next round of the Europa League qualifying.
Nomads played their Champions League qualifier against Sarajevo in Cardiff the other week (they lost so drop to EL) so assuming they play at CCS again this time it'll be like 1976 all over again.
Anyone remember that night?
Connah Quay v Dynamo Tbilisi,
Bala Town v Standard Liege
B36 Torshavn v TNS
Decent draw for the Welsh Premier teams, big fish for Bala. Hopeful at least one can get through to the next round with it being only one leg.
For the first time the Welsh Premier League starts before they play a European game... I've always thought they should bring the league forward so the teams are at least match fit going into European competition.
its right and fair that clubs playing in the Welsh set up represent us in Europe and not the old days like us , Wrexham, Swansea, County or merthyr
We had some great nights
Why are Connahs Quay playing in Cardiff?
I'd say beating Tblisi was City's best result in Europe post Real Madrid. Dunno if it's right, but the site I just looked at said the two games were played five days apart.
The one thing I remember about that game was how fast the Tbilisi players were. They made us look like carthorses at times.
I may be mistaken but didn't the return leg in Tbilisi draw a crowd of 100,000 ?
I always thought for some reason that we played in our all yellow kit at home when we played them but, not sure why but it was our fantastic blue with the yellow and white stripe shirt but away kit yellow shorts and socks.
I was at the game and as you say it was some result given the quality of the opposition. At that point I remember David Kipiani being one of the best players I had seen in the flesh. The site I saw had the games two weeks apart 15/29 September.
I went to the Dinamo Arena for the Georgia vs Wales World Cup qualifiers a couple of years ago. Think it's fair to say that even with the capacity now half of what it was when City played with seating, 40 years on it would not meet the definition of "state of the art".
I thought I'd misread the 9 in 29 for a 0 when I read about the correct dates, but it was someone on the 11v11 site that must have done that because I just had another look and it definitely says the matches were played on the 15th and 20th.
I attended this game, was on a ship somehere on the Thames, Purfleet maybe...
Yes I was at the home leg as well, I’m sure I have the programme in my big Cardiff city box in the loft. Being only 13 years old I wasn’t allowed to travel to Tbilisi
It was widely reported at the time that the crowd was 100,000 for the away leg. Wasn’t it also the furthest distance a European team had ever travelled for a game? Pretty sure that was reported at the time as well