UEFA Champions/Europa League play-off draw - 7th August

Cosimo · 6 Aug 2015 at 07:23

Champions League 11:00

League route

Automatic entrants: Valencia, Manchester United, Bayer Leverkusen, Lazio, Sporting CP

Third qualifying round winners: AS Monaco, Rapid Wien, Club Brugge, CSKA Moskva, Shakhtar Donetsk

Champions route

Third qualifying round winners: APOEL, Astana, BATE Borisov, Celtic, Dinamo Zagreb, FC Basel, Partizan, Malmö, Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Skënderbeu

Seeding

The teams with the five highest coefficients in each route – this applies to both League and Champions – will be seeded and drawn against the other five teams in that route. To determine each tie, one side apiece from the seeded and non-seeded pots will be drawn and placed in another pot, with the first of the two to then be picked out at home in the first leg. The seeding pots will be confirmed on Friday morning.

Matches

Ties will be played on 18/19 and 25/26 August, the ten winners joining the 22 clubs automatically qualified for the group stage.

Europa League 12:00

Southampton

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=2269821.html

Coverage

BBC Sport website, UEFA and Eurosport

No1newts · 6 Aug 2015 at 22:57

Marvellous stuff by West Ham

welcome to the Bilic era, can't even beat the dross of Europe

Genuinely think they will be a good shout to go down this year, very poor decision getting rid of Alardyce.

Tute · 6 Aug 2015 at 23:04

That's weird, I thought Shakhtar were seeded and Lazio unseeded.

Either way, Brugge would be the easiest I think, then Rapid. I'd like to avoid CSKA because it'll no doubt mean playing on some nasty pitch with no fans.

Cosimo · 7 Aug 2015 at 06:47

Southampton have made it to the draw whilst Liverpool and Tottenham have a bye to the group stage.

Tute · 7 Aug 2015 at 11:15

Haha, i'll take that.

Robbo · 7 Aug 2015 at 11:46

Manchester United have been drawn against Bruges in the Champions League play-offs - with the first leg at Old Trafford.

Nice.

(Now we'll lose)

fez · 7 Aug 2015 at 12:32

Lovely. There were a few teams we could have ended up with that would have been a stiff challenge but brugge should be ok.

eatcustard · 7 Aug 2015 at 13:19

At least UTD dont have to travel to Commie land

Cosimo · 7 Aug 2015 at 13:20

Celtic v Malmo
Manchester United v Club Brugge
Southampton v Midtjylland

Should all get through.

Nate75 · 7 Aug 2015 at 13:26

Cosimo said:
Celtic v Malmo
Manchester United v Club Brugge
Southampton v Midtjylland

Should all get through.

typo?

Cosimo · 7 Aug 2015 at 13:36

Nate75 said:
typo?

It's real. The Danish champions.

Tute · 7 Aug 2015 at 16:20

eatcustard said:
At least UTD dont have to travel to Commie land

Despite Monaco and probably Lazio being better teams I really wanted to avoid CSKA above them simply for this reason. It's a long way to travel midweek to play.

Evo8 · 8 Aug 2015 at 01:39

I'm a Celtic fan and this could be a tricky tie for us. We don't travel well and we've not started the season particularly well although it has just started.