The capacity group of Panathinaikos and its possible opponents in Europa

THE Panathinaikos defeated again by Bragathis time with 0-1, in the crowded and pulsating Olympic stadium, in the second leg of the 2-1, in the playoffs of the Champions League and was eliminated from the groups of the competition.

Now, the continuation finds the “greens” in his groups Europa League. The draw for them will take place next Friday (1/9, 14:00, COSMOTE SPORT 1), and the Panathinaikosdue to his long absence from European competitions and his low rate, will be in the fourth capacity group.

Even though they are still barely clear 19 out of 32 teams who will be in the second tier European competition, due to the “open” pairs in the Champions League and Europa League playoffs, we have a first picture of how the capacity groups are formed so far, so that some of the possible opponents become known.

Capacity groups:

1st Group

West Ham (England) 50,000 (last year’s Conference League holder)

Liverpool (England) 123,000

Roma (Italy) 97,000

Ajax (Netherlands) 89,000 (if they exclude Ludogorets 21,000, first leg 4-1)

Villarreal (Spain) 82,000

Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) 72,000

Atalanta (Italy) 55,500

Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) 55,000 (if eliminated Sparta Prague 14,000, first leg 3-1)

2nd Group

Sporting Lisbon (Portugal) 52,500

Slavia Prague (Czech Republic) 52,000 (if they exclude Zoria 16,000, first leg 2-0)

Rennes (France) 44,000

PSV (Netherlands) 43,000 or Rangers (Scotland) 54,000

Olympiakos (Greece) 39,000 (if Tsoukaritski is excluded 6,475 / cannot be a rival of Panathinaikos)

Betis (Spain) 37,000

LASK (Austria) 36,000 (if they exclude Zrinski 8,500, first leg 2-1)

Marseille (France) 33,000

3rd Group

Qarabag (Azerbaijan) 25,000 (if eliminated Olympia 9,000, first leg 2-0)

Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia) 24,500 (if eliminated Aris Limassol 4,895, first leg 2-1)

Molde (Norway) 24,000

Brighton (England) 21,914

Sherif Tiraspol (Moldova) 19,500 (if they exclude Klaksvik 8,000, first leg 1-1)

Union St Gilois (Belgium) 19,000 (if Lugano 6,335 out, first leg 2-0)

Freiburg (Germany) 16,496

Maccabi Haifa (Israel) 13,000

4th Group

AEK (Greece) 11,000 or Antwerp (Belgium) 17,000

Sturm Graz (Austria) 12,500

Toulouse (France) 12,232

Aberdeen (Scotland) 8,000 (if they eliminate Hacken, first leg 2-2)

Backa Topola (Serbia) 6,475

Servette (Switzerland) 6,335

Panathinaikos (Greece) 5,045

Rakov (Poland) 5,000 (if eliminated from Copenhagen, first leg 0-1)