The Matchday Man
@TheMatchdayMan
UEFA Club and Country Competition focus, from the Qualifiers to the Finals and then back again.
THREAD 🧵: There’s no round bigger in the European season than the Second Qualifying Round, 58 ties across the #UEL and #UECL. This Thursday sees the majority of the round’s 116 total teams in action, with more than half being new entrants to this stage. With a focus on new…




The moment Sean McAllister sealed a famous first away win in Europe for @DgnSwifts 🤩
Brøndy IF 🇩🇰 have slipped up in the First Leg of their #UECL tie with Faroese Cup holders Havnar Bóltfelag 🇫🇴 It’s going to plan for a good spell at Tórsvøllur. The Danish side are eventually 1-0 up and have created a lot of chances in the second half especially. They’re…

Vardar 2-1 Lausanne-Sport WHAT A PERFORMANCE. One of the best performances I’ve seen from a Macedonian side in Europe. Deserved to win by a far greater margin, should have scored at least 3/4 goals. Massive game in Switzerland next week.
Tonight’s #UEL Results: -On the basis of this First Leg, Legia Warsaw 🇵🇱 have got themselves a game with Baník Ostrava 🇨🇿. The Czech third-placers are playing their second consecutive European campaign after 14 years without any. Legia have needed to comeback twice to draw in…


It’s all gone wrong tonight for FC Košice 🇸🇰 They’re 2-0 and seemingly in control by the 16th minute of their #UECL First Leg. Opponents FC Neman Grodno 🇧🇾 flip everything on its head in the second half though, a Pavel Savitsky 🇧🇾 brace and a Maksim Kravtsov 🇧🇾 penalty.…

🇵🇹🏝️ We can only imagine the Santa Clara coach’s pep talk at the final whistle in Croatia: “We’re still fighting for this tie. They’ve got to come to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and do something, and I’ll tell you, honestly, I would love it if we beat them!”
51 passes before Shaktar’s 3rd goal btw Here’s the full move
One of my favourite #UECL ties of the round has finished its First Leg. In one corner, FC Vaduz 🇱🇮, an increasingly popular story of the Liechteiner club who play in 🇨🇭 due to the lack of a national league system, and almost always appear in Europe as they are the world record…

There might not be a bigger single win in all of qualifying. Stavanger-based club Viking 🇳🇴 are having a great 2025, currently leading the Eliteserien by 5 points (albeit with a notable chasing pack behind) and targeting what would be a first title since 1991. Their #UECL…

More Andorran headline making in #UECL Qualifying. FC Santa Coloma 🇦🇩 got a notable scalp of Borac Banja Luka 🇧🇦 in Round 1, and now have the advantage over Polissya Zhytomyr 🇺🇦, leading the Premier League fourth-placers from behind. Polissya are a relatively new face on the…

Incredible display of football culture by AIK Stockholm supporters in Tallinn 🇪🇪
St. Joseph’s 🇬🇮 played out a 5-4 aggregate epic with Northern Irish side Cliftonville in the #UECL First Qualifying Round, winning it in extra-time of the Second Leg. Another opponent from the island of Ireland for Round 2, but once much tougher. Try as they might, they’re not…

A #UECL upset starts to brew in 🇰🇿 Aktobe 🇰🇿 dropped into the Conference League after being seen off by Legia Warsaw 🇵🇱 in the Europa League. Their opponents down a level are Czech heavyweight Sparta Praha 🇨🇿, who were in the UCL League Phase last season and have started this…

A real mismatch after Leg 1 of this #UECL tie, both on and off the pitch. Rosenborg 🇳🇴 are a well-known name, the record 26-time Norwegian champions who have been playing European campaigns since the 1960s. FK Banga 🇱🇹 on the other hand are a club from the small city of…

The qualifying draws for both the #UEL and #UECL had felt particularly brutal on Ilves 🇫🇮, the Tampere club who get their fantastic badge from the fact that their name translates to “Lynx” in Finnish. Starting out in the Europa League, the Veikkausliiga runners-up had to begin…

Zimbru Chisinau 🇲🇩 earn a valuable result in Astana, with Guy Dahan’s stunning goal and Nicolae Cebotari’s decisive saves, proving to be crucial in securing the draw. Zimbru continue to show a lack of composure in front of goal, a weakness that still needs to be addressed
Victory in the #UECL First Legs for FC Dinamo City 🇦🇱, a new name for an old club. This is the modern persona of Dinamo Tirana 🇦🇱, a 75yo team and a historic powerhouse with 18 Kategoria Superiore titles and 14 Kupa e Shqipërisë. Since their last title in 2010, they’ve had a…

🚨43 ties. 86 teams. One day.🚨 Today the UEFA Europa Conference League QR2 will host a monumental marathon of clashes across Europe today. Every corner of the European continent will have a match being played today. 📍 Full map of every tie below ⬇️