Europa League 2009-10: Second Qualifying Round, First Leg Results

A mas­sive num­ber of clubs are involved in the Sec­ond Qual­i­fy­ing Round (80 in total).

The win­ners of the 23 First Qual­i­fy­ing Round ties were joined in this round by a fur­ther 57 clubs that includes the domes­tic cup win­ners from the national asso­ci­a­tions ranked 30 to 53 in the UEFA coef­fi­cient, the runners-up from the asso­ci­a­tions ranked 19 to 34, the third-placed sides from the asso­ci­a­tions ranked 16 to 21, the fourth-placed sides from the asso­ci­a­tions ranked 10 to 15 and the fifth-placed sides from the asso­ci­a­tions ranked 7 to 9.

What does all that mean? It means that some well known names enter the com­pe­ti­tion like Roman­ian giants FC Steaua Bucure?ti, Turk­ish side Galatasaray SK, Dan­ish club Aal­borg BK (a par­tic­i­pant in last season’s Cham­pi­ons League group stage. The Dan­ish sides did not farewell in the first leg as Brøndby IF, the first Dan­ish side to reach the UEFA Cham­pi­ons League group stage in 1995/96, suc­cumbed 1–0 at home against Eston­ian side FC Flora. Mean­while Aal­borg BK could only draw 0–0 with FK Slav­ija Sarajevo.

The biggest wins of the night went to Dutch side NAC Breda and Rapid Vienna. Brada ran riot on Armenia’s Gandza­sar, rack­ing up a 6–0 score­line. Rapid Vienna also had a good day at the office as they beat Vllaz­nia of Alba­nia 5–0.

The com­plete first leg results were as fol­lows (win­ners are in bold):

Sliema Wan­der­ers (Malta) 0–0 Mac­cabi Netanya (Israel)
Cru­saders (North­ern Ire­land) 1–1 Rabot­nicki (FYR Mace­do­nia)
Zestaponi (Geor­gia) 1–2 Hels­ing­borg (Swe­den)
Milano (FYR Mace­do­nia) 0–4 Slaven Belupo (Croa­tia)
Naf­tan (Belarus) 2–1 AA Gent (Bel­gium)
MSK Zilina (Slo­va­kia) 2–0 Dacia Chisinau (Moldova)
Fla­mu­tari Vlore (Alba­nia) 1–0 Moth­er­well (Scot­land)
Liepa­jas Met­alurgs (Latvia) 2–1 Dinamo Tbil­isi (Geor­gia)
Sevo­jno (Ser­bia) 0–0 FBK Kau­nas (Lithua­nia)
Dinamo Minsk (Belarus) 0–0 Tromso (Nor­way)
Honka (Fin­land) 2–0 Ban­gor City (Wales)
Met­al­ist Donetsk (Ukraine) 3–0 MTZ-RIPO (Belarus)
Tobol (Kaza­khstan) 1–1 Galatasaray (Turkey)
Zim­bru Chisinau (Moldova) 0–0 Pacos de Fer­reira (Por­tu­gal)
Skonto Riga (Latvia) 1–1 Derry City (Ire­land)
Bnei Yehuda (Israel) 4–0 Dinaburg (Latvia)
Rosen­borg (Nor­way) 0–0 Karabakh (Azer­bai­jan)
Anortho­sis (Cyprus) 2–1 Petrovac (Mon­tene­gro)
Vetra (Lithuanua) 0–1 HJK Helsinki (Fin­land)
Suduva (Lithua­nia) 0–1 Ran­ders (Den­mark)
Elfs­borg (Swe­den) 3–0 Hal­adas (Hun­gary)
Cherno More (Bul­garia) 1–0 Iskra-Stal (Moldova)
Sigma Olo­mouc (Czech Repub­lic) 1–1 Fram (Ice­land)
Rapid Wien (Aus­tria) 5–0 Vllaz­nia (Alba­nia)
Sturm Graz (Aus­tria) 2–1 Siroki Bri­jeg (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Basel (Switzer­land) 3–0 Santa Coloma (Andorra)
Steaua Bucuresti (Roma­nia) 2–0 Ujpest (Hun­gary)
Omo­nia (Cyprus) 4–0 HB (Faroe Islands)
AaB Aal­borg (Den­mark) 0–0 Slav­ija (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Legia War­saw (Poland) 3–0 Olimpi Rus­tavi (Geor­gia)
Gor­ica (Slove­nia) 1–0 Lahti (Fin­land)
Dif­fer­dange (Lux­em­bourg) 1–0 Rijeka (Croa­tia)
Rudar Velenje (Slove­nia) 0–1 Red Star Bel­grade (Ser­bia)
Brondby (Den­mark) 0–1 Flora Tallinn (Esto­nia)
Sara­jevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) 1–0 Spar­tak Trnava (Slo­va­kia)
Juvenes/Dogona (San Marino) 0–1 Polo­nia War­saw (Poland)
Falkirk (Scot­land) 1–0 Vaduz (Liecht­en­stein)
NAC Breda (Nether­lands) 6–0 Gandza­sar (Arme­nia)
St. Patrick’s Ath­letic (Ire­land) 1–1 Val­letta (Malta)
KR (Ice­land) 2–0 Larissa (Greece)

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