UEFA Champions League Qualifying: While the team spent yesterday morning recovering from the effort that yielded Wednesday night's 3-0 victory over BATE Borisov Bohemians officials were already preoccupied with preparations for the games against Rosenborg and this morning's draw for the third qualifying round of the Champions League.

Club secretary Gerry Cuffe will be Nyon for the draw which will reveal who the winners of the games between the Norwegian and Irish champions will go on to face. With the likes of Borussia Dortmund, Deportivo La Coruna and Lazio as well as British clubs Chelsea, Newcastle and Rangers becoming involved at this stage of the competition the third round offers the potential for earning considerable revenue, not least from the television rights with a game against German and Spanish opponents being worth up to €500,000.

At the this stage, though, the Dubliners are trying not to look beyond the games with Rosenborg, a team whose pedigree ensures they will visit Dalymount next Wednesday as clear favourites to progress.

Last season the Norwegians made it to the group stages where they played Inter Milan, Ajax and Olympique Lyonnais and took a total of four points, remaining unbeaten at home and managing a fourth draw in Amsterdam.

And under new manager Age Hareide they are already well on the way to making sure of their place in next year's competition with the Trondheim club having established a 10-point lead at the top of their domestic league thanks to a run of 10 wins in 13 games to date.

Bohemians manager Stephen Kenny admits Rosenborg's record is impressive but insists they are the sort of team that Irish sides must aspire to beating if real progress is going to be made during the seasons ahead.

"Sure, they've beaten the Milans and the Celtics and the like but they're not one themselves. They've won big games because they work hard at what they do and they go out there with a game plan. That's exactly what we'll look to do against them."

Kenny's preparations were boosted yesterday when Shelbourne agreed to a request to postpone next week's league game between the two Dublin clubs and while he recognises that the backlog of fixtures may hamper his side's attempt to make up ground on their neighbours in the title race he has no doubts about the decision to concentrate everything on the European campaign.

"We've already had to postpone one game when Rovers were playing their European games so we'll have a couple hanging over us but you have to do it, you just don't know when the opportunity is going to come up again so you have to grab it and make the most of it while you can."

In financial terms the importance of even this week's win is obvious to a club that has made no secret recently of its need to generate additional revenue in order to meet its commitments. Bohemians will receive €50,000 from UEFA for progressing to the second round. After travelling expenses the club might expect to keep about a third of that sum but a full house (capacity at Dalymount is currently restricted to just 8,000 because of the restriction that all spectators be seated) for Wednesday's first leg against Rosenborg would generate around €100,000 with television rights, domestic and Norwegians adding up to another €50,000. Additional sponsorship, merchandising and bar revenue could bring the total worth of beating BATE to somewhere in excess of €180,000.

While his employers attempt to maximise the benefit of the victory over the coming days Kenny was yesterday concentrating on how to assemble intelligence on the Norwegian champions at such short notice. Rosenborg have a league game on Sunday evening but Bohemians will be playing at the same time in Dundalk and so Kenny has asked Derek O'Neill, a regional development officer with the FAI, to travel to Trondheim over the weekend.

Rosenborg's management, on the other hand, have already seen both of Bohemians' games against BATE as Hareide travelled to Borisov and his assistant Ola By Rise came to Dublin for the return leg.

The Norwegian made clear after Wednesday's game that his side should win the game, observing that while he feels Bohemians are stronger than the Shelbourne team Rosenborg beat 4-2 on aggregate three years ago they are only "mid table" material back at home.

"If we allow our standards to slip then we will lose," said Rise, "but if we play as well as we can then we will cause Bohemians problems. I think they are a good side but they play a very rigid 4-4-2 system and while I know it will be difficult for us I'm sure we can make it very difficult for them."