Shamrock Rovers will play Lillestrom of Norway for a place in the Europa League if they can overcome Albanian side Egnatia over the next 10 days.<\/p>\n
The Hoops are in the Europa League third round of qualifying and take on Egnatia, beginning on Tuesday in Tallaght Stadium.<\/p>\n
Lillestrom have only played in European competition twice in the last decade, going out in the second and third round of qualifying.<\/p>\n
Their most recent campaign was 2022-2023 when they were defeated by Belgian side Royal Antwerp in the third round.<\/p>\n
They were competing in the second tier of Norway when winning a domestic cup last year to qualify for Europe.<\/p>\n
Lillestrom are fourth in the Eliteserien after 15 games of this year, 13 points off leaders Bodo\/Glimt after a 4-0 defeat to that side last week.<\/p>\n
Defeat to Egnatia will see Shamrock Rovers drop into a play-off for a Conference spot against the loser of the tie between Finnish side KuPS and Romanian team Universitatea Craiova.<\/p>\n
Shels and Bohs play Ajax and FC Midtjylland in the third round of the Conference.<\/p>\n
The Reds, if causing a huge upset, would take on Swiss outfit Sion or Armenian side Noah in the play-off.<\/p>\n
The Gypsies would be in line to take on Derry City’s conquerors Riejka from Croatia or Ilves of Finland.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Celtic will face LASK in the Champions League play-offs.<\/p>\n
Martin O’Neill\u2019s side were drawn out first against the Linz-based Austrian champions.<\/p>\n
The Hoops avoided a potential rematch with Kairat Almaty, who knocked Celtic out on penalties at the same stage last season following a goalless 210 minutes of action.<\/p>\n
The first leg will take place on 18 or 19 August with the second leg the following week.<\/p>\n
Rangers have an outside chance of taking on Larne for a place in the Europa League.<\/p>\n
The Gers must beat Polish side Jagiellona as their European campaign starts this week.<\/p>\n
If they do progress, the Glasgow outfit would take on the winner of the tie between Northern Irish champions Larne and Georgian side FC Iberia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shamrock Rovers will play Lillestrom of Norway for a place in the Europa League if they can overcome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-581839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}