Martin has a lot to spend in Europe after Rangers reached the quarter -finals of the European League last season under the leadership of temporary coach Barry Ferguson.
However, he hopes to improve the Champions League qualified defeat by Dynamo KyIV, which means that the Philippe Clement team at the time has fallen into the second -class competition.
Rangers, as for HIBS and UNITED in their competitions, you need to move forward in three stages this time if they want to make the Champions League appropriate.
For the sake of clouds, they will open this time their European campaign against a team, just as it was in the local league.
On paper, Panathinaikos will provide the most difficult test, and the Greek side is 111 in the European club classification, 86 places behind Rangers, with Servette 139 (one behind the heart of Midlothian) and Brann 189.
Athens has never lost against Scottish opponents for 90 minutes in four meetings with Rangers, two with Motherwele and one with Aberdeen, and won four of his seven matches.
However, Rangers had advanced when they met the last IBROX team.
After his victory over Aberdeen 3-0 at home in the European Union Cup 2007-2008 group stage, the Greeks followed the goals away after 0-0 in Glasgow in a 1-1 draw in Athens in round 32.
They overcame Rangers 3-1 in Abrox, and they directed 1-1 at home, in the Champions League group in 2003, while they were aside from Motherweell 5-0 in their last meeting with a Scottish team in 2012-in the third round of the Champions League.
Panathinaikos has not reached the Champions League since 2010-11 and began last season in the European League qualifiers, defeating Botev Plovdiv but lost to Ajax before qualifying for the conference lens.
They lost 4-1 at home in front of the winners in the end of the end of the year and overcame the new saints 2-0 in Wales in the new league stage, where they finished thirteenth, before defeating Vikingur Reykjavik in the knockout stage, then lost to Fiorentina at the end of 16.
She advanced the most farthest service in the Champions League, which is the third round, where they were beaten by Rangers after a 1-1 draw in Switzerland followed a 2-1 loss in Abrax.
In their only other meeting with a Scottish team, they lost one goal against Aberdeen in the second round of the European Cup in 1985.
Last season, they were expelled by Chelsea in the round of the conference match after their victory over Braga.
Rangers' opponents of Rangers did not qualify, Bran, only once to get team football – in 2007 in the European Union Cup.
Last season, the Bergen team defeated the Eagles in the second round of the conference, then defeated Saint Mirin 4-2 by assembling it after a 3-1 victory in Norway, before losing to Astana in the qualifying round.
Whatever is one of the three aspects they face, Rangers will start their campaign on 22/23 and 29/30.
It appeared victorious and will be in the third round of the European Champions League qualifiers on July 21. You lose and will be the same stage of the European League.
