UEFA Europa League

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday the National Stadium was due to be finished by December 1, 2026 and that an agreement had been reached for it to be the venue of the 2028 UEFA Europa League final, and noted that it would be one of the three most beautiful stadiums in Europe.

ATHENS - Serbia's TSC lost to Greek side Olympiacos 5-2 away from home in the last round of the UEFA Europa League group stage on Thursday evening.

Ayoub El Kaabi (21 min), Daniel Podence (40, 42 min), Vejko Ilic (46 min OG) and Youssef El-Arabi (68 min) provided the goals for Olympiacos, while Ifet Djakovac (48 min) and Aleksandar Cvetkovic (61 min) scored for TSC.

BELGRADE - Red Star Belgrade lost 2-1 to German side RB Leipzig at home in a UEFA Champions League Group G Matchday 4 game on Tuesday evening.

Two Scottish supporters of Hearts soccer club were sentenced on Monday to an eight-month jail term. The two Hearts supporters were arrested by Greek police after trying to enter the Toumba stadium in Thessaloniki with flares, where Hearts played against PAOK to qualify for the UEFA Europa League.

MONACO - Serbian runner-up football champions TSC were on Friday drawn to play West Ham, Olympiacos and Freiburg in Group A of the 2023/2024 UEFA Europa League, while Cukaricki will face Ferencvaros, Fiorentina and Genk in UEFA Europa Conference League Group F.

The draw ceremonies for the group stages of the two competitions were held in Monaco.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Partizan Belgrade have crashed out of European club football competitions after a 1-0 home defeat to Danish side Nordsjaelland in the return leg of the UEFA Europa Conference League play-offs on Thursday evening.

The visitors dominated the game in the first half and missed several chances before Ibrahim Osman scored the winner in the 30th minute.

NYON - Serbia's Partizan Belgrade were on Monday drawn to face Romania's FCSB Bucharest or Danish outfit Nordsjaelland in the UEFA Europa Conference League play-offs if they qualify.

In the first leg of the third qualifying round, Partizan will face Azerbaijani side Sabah away on Thursday evening and host the second leg in Belgrade a week later.

Arda Guler, a young Turkish football star, was welcomed by press, fans and team administrators in Madrid on Friday after Spain's Real Madrid and Turkey's Fenerbahce football clubs finally agreed on the highest transfer fee - 30 million euros - ever paid for a Turkish player on Thursday.

"Many clubs wanted me, but when Real Madrid want you, it's over," Arda said in Madrid on Friday.

BELGRADE- TSC were on Tuesday drawn to play title holders Red Star at home in the semi-finals of the Serbian football cup and Vojvodina will host Cukaricki in the other semi-final.

The draw ceremony was held at the Football Association of Serbia.

The semi-final matches will be played on May 17 and the final is scheduled for May 25.

There can be no denying that Bulgarian football has never been at a lower point. The nation hasn't qualified for a major football tournament since Euro 2004, and you have to go back a further six years for their last appearance at the FIFA World Cup.