{"id":805133,"date":"2026-08-07T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805133\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:02:13","slug":"thursdays-europa-conference-league-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805133\/","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 6 August<\/p>\n<p>22:28 BST 6 August<\/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 6 August 22:28 BST 6 August We can safely say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-805133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}