cptaidan88
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1st Round draw today.
The 32 teams are divided into two groups (group 1 and 2) of ten teams and into one group (group 3) of 12 teams.
Within the three groups, the 32 teams are divided equally as 16 seeded teams and 16 unseeded teams.
Group 1 (seeded sides in bold)
Astana (KAZ)
Ludogorets (BUL)
Crvena zvezda (SRB)
Shkëndija (MKD)
AIK (SWE)
Sūduva (LTU)
CFR Cluj (ROU)
Ferencváros (HUN)
Nõmme Kalju (EST)
Ararat-Armenia (ARM)
Group 2 (seeded sides in bold)
Celtic (SCO)
Qarabağ (AZE)
Sheriff Tiraspol (MDA)
F91 Dudelange (LUX)
Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
Valletta (MLT)
Sarajevo (BIH)
Sutjeska (MNE)
Partizani (ALB)
Saburtalo (GEO)
Group 3 (seeded sides in bold)
BATE Borisov (BLR)
Maribor (SVN)
Rosenborg (NOR)
HJK Helsinki (FIN)
Dundalk (IRL)
The New Saints (WAL)
Winners of the preliminary round (a team from Gibraltar, Kosovo, San Marino or Andorra)
Piast Gliwice (POL)
Valur Reykjavík (ISL)
Linfield (NIR)
HB Tórshavn (FRO)
Riga (LVA)
I don't understand the logic in the three groups (doesn't seem to be geographic) but so be it. I think Celtic will get through this round but will come a cropper in the next.
2nd round is drawn tomorrow and is done on the assumption the seeded sides progress. They will be joined by and FC Kobenhavn, Dinamo Zagreb, APOEL, and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Ajax and PAOK will be added in the 3rd Round and then , Young Boys and Slavia Praha will be added in the final play off Round.
A total of 4 teams from that will make it into the group stage.
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The "league" route (ie didn't win their national league) draw will also begin tomorrow.
The seeded teams - Basel and Olympiacos, will play the unseeded teams - PSV Eindhoven and Viktoria Plzen.
In the following round, the two winners will be seeded and joined by Porto and Dynamo Kyiv, who will play unseeded sides Club Brugge, Krasnodar (Russia), Istanbul Basaksehir, or LASK Linz (Austria).
The four winners of those will then play one final play off tie, and the two winners will enter into the group stage.
The 32 teams are divided into two groups (group 1 and 2) of ten teams and into one group (group 3) of 12 teams.
Within the three groups, the 32 teams are divided equally as 16 seeded teams and 16 unseeded teams.
Group 1 (seeded sides in bold)
Astana (KAZ)
Ludogorets (BUL)
Crvena zvezda (SRB)
Shkëndija (MKD)
AIK (SWE)
Sūduva (LTU)
CFR Cluj (ROU)
Ferencváros (HUN)
Nõmme Kalju (EST)
Ararat-Armenia (ARM)
Group 2 (seeded sides in bold)
Celtic (SCO)
Qarabağ (AZE)
Sheriff Tiraspol (MDA)
F91 Dudelange (LUX)
Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
Valletta (MLT)
Sarajevo (BIH)
Sutjeska (MNE)
Partizani (ALB)
Saburtalo (GEO)
Group 3 (seeded sides in bold)
BATE Borisov (BLR)
Maribor (SVN)
Rosenborg (NOR)
HJK Helsinki (FIN)
Dundalk (IRL)
The New Saints (WAL)
Winners of the preliminary round (a team from Gibraltar, Kosovo, San Marino or Andorra)
Piast Gliwice (POL)
Valur Reykjavík (ISL)
Linfield (NIR)
HB Tórshavn (FRO)
Riga (LVA)
I don't understand the logic in the three groups (doesn't seem to be geographic) but so be it. I think Celtic will get through this round but will come a cropper in the next.
2nd round is drawn tomorrow and is done on the assumption the seeded sides progress. They will be joined by and FC Kobenhavn, Dinamo Zagreb, APOEL, and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Ajax and PAOK will be added in the 3rd Round and then , Young Boys and Slavia Praha will be added in the final play off Round.
A total of 4 teams from that will make it into the group stage.
___________________
The "league" route (ie didn't win their national league) draw will also begin tomorrow.
The seeded teams - Basel and Olympiacos, will play the unseeded teams - PSV Eindhoven and Viktoria Plzen.
In the following round, the two winners will be seeded and joined by Porto and Dynamo Kyiv, who will play unseeded sides Club Brugge, Krasnodar (Russia), Istanbul Basaksehir, or LASK Linz (Austria).
The four winners of those will then play one final play off tie, and the two winners will enter into the group stage.