{"id":729813,"date":"2026-08-06T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729813\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:04:10","slug":"thursdays-europa-conference-league-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729813\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday&#8217;s Europa &#038; Conference League qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s next for Scottish sides?published at 22:28 BST<\/p>\n<p>22:28 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We can safely say that it will be Benfica who will go on to face AGF Aarhus of Denmark or Sabah of Azerbaijan in the Champions League play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It looks like Rapid Vienna will be next up for Hearts in the Conference League play-offs, with the Austrians having beaten Paide Linnameeskond 4-1 in their first leg in Estonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iberia 1999 will be favourites to face Rangers in a Europa League play-off after their goalless draw in Larne, but should the Ibrox side fail to mount a comeback at home to Jagiellonia, the Czech Republic could be their next destination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jablonec beat RFS of Latvia 2-0 in the first leg of their Conference League qualifier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, should Hibs protect their narrow lead over Shkendija after next week&#8217;s trip to North Macedonia, Gent are favourites to be their play-off opponents after the Belgians&#8217; 1-0 win away to IFK Gothenburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freiburg lie in wait for Motherwell should they complete the job at home to HJK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s next for Scottish sides?published at 22:28 BST 22:28 BST We can safely say that it will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-729813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}