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The Celtic players line up prematch. New Celtic manager Ronny Deila urges his team forward. There could have been a match-up with KR two years earlier, the Icelandic champions drawn against HJK Helsinki in the second qualifying round of the 2012/13 Champions League, with the winners drawn to face Celtic in the next tie. Son of a former Estonian international goalkeeper, who was accused of war crimes and fled his homeland after the Second world War, Edvaldsson was signed by Celtic from Danish outfit Holbaek after a brief trial in Ireland in the summer of 1975, whilst the club recovered from the loss of Billy McNeill and Jimmy Johnstone as players and the serious illness of Jock Stein following his road accident. Their biggest scalp would probably be Dinamo Bucharest in the UEFA Cup of 1997/98, whilst their best run was in the Europa League of 2010/11, eliminating the Faroese side IF and Slovenians MSK Zilina, before exiting to Dinamo Tbilisi of Georgia. Celtic have been drawn at home to Icelandic champions KR Reykjavik in the first qualifying round for the Champions League. Celtic and KR have met once before in European competition, with several firsts involved. He played with a future Hoops star in Brian McClair as the next league meeting of the clubs finished in a 3-1 win for Celtic two months later, and again as the teenager’s home double beat Celtic 2-1 in January 1983. He would then play as 10 Men won the League the next month. Celtic vs Knattspyrnufelag Reykjavikur. Former Newcastle United and Everton manager Gordon Lee had a spell there in the mid-80’s, whilst former player Atli Edvaldsson, one of the country’s most famous sons, was the man who won the Centenary Double in 1999 before leaving to take over the national team. Matt Corr took us on a journey through all the possible Champions League first round opponents before UEFA narrowed the options down yesterday by placing teams into various groups ahead of today’s draw. He would be back on home soil within a month of joining Celtic, as the Hoops were drawn against Edvaldsson’s old club Valur – who also featured his brother Atli – in the first round of the 1975/76 European Cup Winners’ Cup. the draw took place this morning at 11am at the UEFA offices in Nyon in Switzerland and the home advantage for the one off tie will please Neil Lennon immensely. Two years later, the opening round of the 1969/70 European Cup saw KR beaten 12-2 by Feyenoord in Rotterdam, with Ove Kindvall scoring a hat-trick and Ruud Geels going one better with four, perhaps a record tally for a substitute in continental competition. KR Reykjavik got 0 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses in the past 0 games. Edvaldsson would feature regularly against his former club in his second and final season at Motherwell, before ending his playing career back in his home city of Reykjavik with Throttur. Built in 1951, it has been home to KR since 1984. I hope you enjoyed that look at the fourth of our potential European opponents and our links with clubs and players from that country. The only sour note on the night was his twice-taken and twice-missed penalty with 20 minutes remaining, Johannes blasting the ball over then seeing his retaken effort saved by the keeper. Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round, 2nd Leg. The Celtic Star founder and editor, who has edited numerous Celtic books over the past decade or so including several from Lisbon Lions, Willie Wallace, Tommy Gemmell and Jim Craig. Like Billy McNeill’s Celtic, they won a League and Cup Double in their centenary year, 1999 in KR’s case, a first title in 31 years. 7:45pm, Tuesday 18th August 2020. And in Celtic’s greatest-ever season, the first round of the 1966/67 European Cup saw KR paired with French champions Nantes, the Canaries winning 3-2 in the first leg in the Laugardalsvollur, before finishing the tie with a comprehensive 5-2 win in France, thus qualifying to meet Jock Stein’s Lions in the second round.

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