FC Copenhagen, Legia Warsaw and Djurgarden.
Chelsea's Conference League Knock -out opponents of this campaign hardly read as a WHOs WHO of European heavyweights.
But after obtaining Champions League qualification for 2025-26 on the last day of the Premier League season, in which Nottingham Forest was beaten 1-0 to finish fourth, the blues have the chance to limit a successful first campaign under Enzo Maresca with silverware.
They are confronted with real betis in the second of the three major European finals of this season on Wednesday, in the Tarczynski Arena in Wroclaw.
There is a piece of history at stake for Chelsea, because they offer to become the first team that won four different large UEFA tournaments.
The betis of Manuel Pellegrini is now chasing a first European trophy, which has seen the last four two-time conference competition-two.
Who is at the top? We look ahead to the showpiece of the Wednesday conference with our opta-driven preview.
What is expected?
The OPTA Supercomputer supports Chelsea to lift the trophy, giving them a chance of 51.1% to win the final within 90 minutes.
Betis gets a chance of 25.4% on the victory, with 23.5% of simulations that require extra time or fines to crown a winner.
If Chelsea triumphs, they have to put an end to the Hoodoo of the Spanish teams about English clubs in the final.
Spanish parties have won each of their last nine major European finals against English opponents. The last Premier League team that won against a Laara side was Liverpool against Alaves, in the UEFA Cup 2001 (5-4).
Betis plays in their first major European final. They are the 12th Spanish club that reaches their first UEFA-Showpiece match and the first since Villarreal in 2020-21, who won the Europa League on penalties against Manchester United.
They have only won one of their eight meetings with English opponents in all competitions (one draw, six defeats), although that victory came to Chelsea in the Champions League in 2005-06.
In the meantime, Chelsea has lost three of their last four games against Spanish parties in UEFA matches (one win), all against Real Madrid in the Champions League between 2022 and 2023.
Those are just as many defeats as they suffered against Spanish parties in their previous 29 (11 victories, 15 draws, excluding the Super Cup).
The redemption of Antony is to end in glory?
When Antony-a takeover of £ 85 million from Ajax left in 2022-Manchester United to join Betis for a loan agreement with half a season in January, he left Old Trafford for a choir of Spot.
In 17 European performances for the Red Devils, the Brazilian only passed two goals and never lay on an assist.
In eight conference competitions for Betis in the past four months, he collected seven targets, scored four goals and helped three.
“He didn't surprise me because I knew him from England earlier,” Pellegrini said about the revival of Antony.
“Even if you buy a player for that amount, it is not always because you have made a mistake.
“Perhaps there are a few reasons why Antony could not play as he knows at Manchester United, but that is something else.”
Antony also helped betis in the end of the sixth in Laliga, which means that next season they will play Europa League football, regardless of the outcome on Wednesday, and after he defeated Ghent (3-1 on aggregated)), Vorroria guimaraes (6-2), Jagiellonia (4-3) and Fiorentina and Fiorentina have disputed and Fiorentina. Stricter route to the latter than Chelsea.
This will be a first major European final for former Manchester City and Real Madrid boss Pellegrini, because he only becomes the second Chilean coach who reached one after Fernando Riera with Benfica in the 1963 European Cup (lost 2-1 of AC Milan).
Los Verdiblancos do not travel to Poland to come up with the figures, and Antony will certainly enjoy the chance to show the English public what he can do.
Chelsea -Rotation stops here
From Chelsea it was always expected that he would get to the Conference League, given the enormous means at their disposal, and they could even afford to leave Cole Palmer from their competition text in the first half of the season.
But the blues have taken competition seriously and now have history in their sights.
After having won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1971, 1998), the Champions League (2012, 2021) and the Europa League (2013, 2019), they could be the first team in history that four different large UEFA tournaments won (excluding the Super Cup).
The men of Maresca have reached the final in a striking style, with their 38 goals in this edition of the Conference League a record for one season for the competition, which was founded in 2021.
Chelsea has had 16 different scorers in the competition – more than any other team, while their 36 used players are also the most club.
They used the earlier rounds of this competition to rotate, but apart from the introduction of Filip Jorgensen instead of Robert Sanchez between the sticks, it is not expected that Maresca will tinker on Wednesday.
The six goals of Marc Guiu make him the most productive player of Chelsea in Europe this season, before Christopher Nunku on five goals.
But with the first to only return from an injury and the latter will probably leave at the end of the campaign, Nicolas Jackson would have to return to lead the line after being suspended for the last two Premier League matches of Chelsea.
Maresca hope to add his name to a long list of Chelsea managers to taste European glory in their debut seasons. The last seven blues bosses to reach a large continental final (including Maresca) have now done this in their first campaign, with five of the previous six winners.
Gianluca Vialli won the Cup Winners' Cup 1997-98, Roberto di Matteo won the Champions League 2011-12, Rafael Benitez won 2012-13 Europa League, Maurizio Sarri won the 2018-19 Europa League and Thomas Tuchel Won the 2020-21 Champions.
The only one of those six managers who lost their final was Avram Grant, in the Champions League 2007-08.
Players to watch
Real Betis – Cedric Bakambu
Antony is not the only player who has to keep an eye on Chelsea, because only Afimico Pululu (eight) Bakambu's seven conference competition goals has improved this period.
Bakambu also has two assists in its nine trips, with only cells midfielder Svit Seslar (10) with more target involvement in this edition.
At the age of 34, it is unlikely that Bakambu is on the list of many large clubs, because they want to strengthen their striker in the summer, but that he is going slightly under the radar, should not take away from what a fantastic campaign he had in this competition this season.
Chelsea – Enzo Fernandez
Only Seslar (eight) has more assists this season in the Conference League than Chelsea -midfielder Fernandez (five), despite the fact that the Argentinian only plays 251 minutes.
Of all players who played this period for 250 minutes in the competition, Fernandez has the best minutes per goal or assistant (one every 42).
Fernandez has experience to help his country into major awards, but this is the first chance of the 24-year-old to lift a trophy with the blues.