UEFA Conference League 2022/2023

[wyze]

I wanted penalties...

 

[Glass box]

Biraghi is a defensive liability

 

[Glass box]

Talented Ogbonna in for West Ham

 

[wyze]

Could we snatch or should we try to snatch castrovilli from them over the summer? What u think guys?

 

[SiamoNoi]

West Ham


First trophy after 43 years.

First European trophy after 58 years.

 

[DiegoMilito22]

Second loss for Italians in the final.

 

[pupivn]

2 down 1 to go

 

[Glass box]

West Ham


First trophy after 43 years.

First European trophy after 58 years.

Just checked, they won the Intertoto in 1999 (basically the same level as the ECL now). But iirc they weren't awarding a trophy for it they just promoted the winners to the Uefa Cup back then.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

I guess it's on us to save Italy's honor.

This couldn't possibly go wrong.

 

[bubba zanetti]

West Ham


First trophy after 43 years.

First European trophy after 58 years.

England sucks

 

[Ajesh]

UEFA refereeing has just become a popularity contest.

 

[SiamoNoi]

Just checked, they won the Intertoto in 1999 (basically the same level as the ECL now). But iirc they weren't awarding a trophy for it they just promoted the winners to the Uefa Cup back then.

Yeah,against Metz. But not counting that cause there was no trophy,just promotion.

This was their third final (1965 & win against Munchen 1960 in ECWC,1976 & loss against Anderlecht in ECWC).

 

[brehme1989]

Just checked, they won the Intertoto in 1999 (basically the same level as the ECL now). But iirc they weren't awarding a trophy for it they just promoted the winners to the Uefa Cup back then.

lol, that's like comparing the Champions League to the Lega Pro qualifiers

 

[IM21]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1666554404206460934

 

[Glass box]

lol, that's like comparing the Champions League to the Lega Pro qualifiers

How come? The 6th or 7th placed teams from top leagues were going to Intertoto. Like they now go to Conference

 

[brehme1989]

How come? The 6th or 7th placed teams from top leagues were going to Intertoto. Like they now go to Conference

It was a tournament by invitation to play in June for a Uefa Cup ticket.

 

[Glass box]

It was a tournament by invitation to play in June for a Uefa Cup ticket.

Completely forgot it was invitational lol. Still, was a third tier competition that brought you a Uefa Cup/now EL ticket. Not sure how it's a CL/Lega pro qualifiers comparison.

 

[brehme1989]

Completely forgot it was invitational lol. Still, was a third tier competition that brought you a Uefa Cup/now EL ticket.

Nope, it was 4th tier but even lower

1. Champions League
2. Cup Winners Cup
3. Uefa Cup

Although no one really cared about those things, they were all pretty much the same for most people until the early 2000s, but the CL group format made people appreciate it more in the late 90s.

Then they abolished the CWC and the Uefa Cup got bigger, in terms of participants. But at the same time, less significant.

You can imagine that the Intertoto was even less significant by the time we reached the 2000s. On very few occasions you'd see large crowds attend these games. All other competitions were selling out.
Playing in the summer didn't help, but a team like Dortmund would still bring 40-50k people but other teams had like 2-3k fans at best. Teams combined it as part of their pre-season, so you'd see 1-2 home games of the bigger clubs there have a lot of fans, as if they were playing their first game of the season.

This kind of stopped now as teams are traveling a lot and play more games in general so they don't give their fans home games. For example, we used to have that Tim Trophy nonsense with Milan and Juventus, which typically was selling out. That's gone.
Ajax used to host a tournament every year since the 70s, they stopped in the early 2010s and I think they spun it off it to a youth tournament now.

So yeah, no one ever cared about the Intertoto. Unless they really wanted to play in Europe because it was considered a travesty not to go for at least a Uefa Cup, like when Juventus played there, with Zidane and Del Piero in their lineup... So you can imagine World Cup winner, Ballon d'Or winner, was relegated to playing in the Intertoto a year later because they wanted to win the Uefa Cup, only to lose 4-0 to Rafinha's daddy's team.

 

[Il Drago]

West Ham


First trophy after 43 years.

First European trophy after 58 years.

1964/65. Same season La Grande Inter won European Champions Cup. Just saying.

 

[ADRossi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1666554404206460934

Grande