Just a day after advancing to the Europa League Playoff Round, Maccabi Tel Aviv was drawn against Altach in Nyon, Switzerland and will go head-to-head with the Austrian outfit for a ticket to the Europa League Group Stages.
The Yellow & Blue are seeded in the Playoff Round and will play against a club that is unseeded with the first match on August 17th and the return leg in August 24th.
Cruyff: “Every team which reaches the Playoff stage is a respectable opponent and Altach is no exception having finished 4th in the Austrian league and managed to knockout Gent in the previous round with a draw away and a victory at home. We won all six of our qualifiers so far and despite playing each time at home first, the fact we are playing the return leg at home in front of our fans is always encouraging”.
SC Rheindorf Altach was founded in 1929 and plays in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. They are a relative newcomer to European football as this only the club’s second season in continental play. The 2015/16 campaign was their first as they lost to Belenenses in the Playoff Round by an aggregate score of 1:0.
This year they qualified to play in the Europa League qualifying rounds by finishing 4th in their domestic league and advanced to the Playoff Round by defeating Belgium club Gent 4:2 on aggregate. Altach plays their European home matches in Innsbruck at the multi purpose Tivoli-Neu Stadium that seats 16k spectators.
