Today at 23:00 Baku time in German Freiburg at the European Park Stadium, the match of the 1st round of the group of the Europa League between the local club and the champion of Azerbaijan Karabakh.
will begin.
The match will be served by a team of referees from Belgium led by Eric Lambrechts.
Both teams perform in the Group “G” along with the Greek “Olympiacos” and the French “nan”. These teams will play in France today.
Previously, the lot twice brought Karabakh twice with German clubs. In 2010, the Agdam in the final qualification round of the Europa League twice lost to the Dortmund Borussia – 0: 4, 0: 1.
Three years later, at the same stage of the same tournament, Karabakh got the Frankfurt Aintracht. This time there were no defeat, but both matches of the Azerbaijani club still lost – 0: 2, 1: 2.
In total, Azerbaijani and German clubs in European competitions met eight times and representatives of Germany won all matches.
If Karabakh will play at the group stage of the European Cup for the ninth time in a row, then Freiburg is an infrequent guest in the European arena. The team only fell into European competitions four times. The debut took place in 1995, when Freiburg lost the Czech Slavia in the first round.
For the first time in the group stage, the rival “Karabakh” managed to break through in 2013. Then, in the group of the Europa League, along with the Spanish “Seville”, the Portuguese “Estoril” and the Czech “Slovan” “Freiburg” took 3rd place and dropped out of the struggle. And in the 2017/18 season, the team of Christian Strahah even managed to give in to the qualification of the Europa League Slovenian “Domzale”.
Last season of the German championship, Freiburg took 6th place and five years later will play in European competitions again. Moreover, at the moment, a team with 12 glasses leads in the German Bundesliga. 5 rounds were played in the German championship.