Europa League play-off draw LIVE: Tottenham, Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen and Motherwell discover fate
Re-live the draw as British clubs found out who they need to beat to enter the Europa League group stage
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Your support makes all the difference.The Europa League play-off draw took place on Friday as Tottenham, Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen and Motherwell discovered their fates.
All five clubs still need to get through the next round before reaching the play-offs, and all were part of the complicated play-off draw, which was made even more complex by Uefa’s ruling that only certain stadiums can be used, meaning clubs without a certified stadium cannot play each other.
Celtic are in the ‘champions path’ while Spurs and the other Scottish clubs are in with the muggles or ‘main path’.
Here’s the draw in its entirety:
Champions Path
Group 1:
Young Boys (SUI) vs Tirana (ALB)
GNK Dinamo (CRO) vs Floriana (MLT) / Flora Tallinn (EST)
Djurgården (SWE) / CFR Cluj (ROU) vs KuPS (FIN) / Sūduva (LTU)
Group 2:
Ararat-Armenia (ARM) / Celje (SVN) vs Crvena zvezda (SRB)
Dynamo Brest (BLR) vs Ludogorets (BUL)
Sarajevo (BIH) / Budućnost Podgorica (MNE) vs Riga (LVA) / Celtic (SCO)
Group 3:
Legia (POL) / Drita (KOS) vs Qarabağ (AZE)
Sheriff (MDA) / Dundalk (IRL) vs KÍ (FRO) / Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO)
Main Path
Group 1
Hapoel Beer-Sheva (ISR) / Motherwell (SCO) vs Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) / SønderjyskE (DEN)
Rosenborg (NOR) / Alanyaspor (TUR) vs Mura (SVN) / PSV Eindhoven (NED)
St. Gallen (SUI) / AEK Athens (GRE) vs Wolfsburg (GER) / Desna Chernihiv (UKR)
Group 2:
Basel (SUI) vs Anorthosis (CYP) vs CSKA-Sofia (BUL) / B36 (FRO)
Sporting CP (POR) / Aberdeen (SCO) vs LASK (AUT) / Dunajská Streda (SVK)
Charleroi (BEL) / Partizan (SRB) vs Apollon Limassol (CYP) / Lech (POL)
Group 3:
Beşiktaş (TUR) / Rio Ave (POR) vs AC Milan (ITA) / Bodø/Glimt (NOR)
Copenhagen (DEN) / Piast Gliwice (POL) vs Rijeka (CRO) / Kolos Kovalivka (UKR)
Malmö (SWE) / Lokomotiva Zagreb (CRO) vs Granada (ESP) / Locomotive Tbilisi (GEO)
Group 4:
Shkëndija (MKD) / Tottenham (ENG) vs Rostov (RUS) / Maccabi Haifa (ISR)
FCSB (ROU) / Slovan Liberec (CZE) vs APOEL (CYP) / Zrinjski (BIH)
Standard Liège (BEL) / Vojvodina (SRB) vs Fehérvár (HUN) / Reims (FRA)
Willem II (NED) / Rangers (SCO) vs Galatasaray (TUR) / Hajduk Split (CRO)
TOTTENHAM AND THE SCOTTISH TEAMS
For those of you mainly interested in how the British teams are looking, here you go:
Sarajevo (BIH) / Budućnost Podgorica (MNE) vs Riga (LVA) / Celtic (SCO)
Hapoel Beer-Sheva (ISR) / Motherwell (SCO) vs Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) / SønderjyskE (DEN)
Sporting CP (POR) / Aberdeen (SCO) vs LASK (AUT) / Dunajská Streda (SVK)
Shkëndija (MKD) / Tottenham (ENG) vs Rostov (RUS) / Maccabi Haifa (ISR)
Willem II (NED) / Rangers (SCO) vs Galatasaray (TUR) / Hajduk Split (CRO)
MAIN PATH IN ITS ENTIRETY:
Group 1:
Hapoel Beer-Sheva (ISR) / Motherwell (SCO) vs Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) / SønderjyskE (DEN)
Rosenborg (NOR) / Alanyaspor (TUR) vs Mura (SVN) / PSV Eindhoven (NED)
St. Gallen (SUI) / AEK Athens (GRE) vs Wolfsburg (GER) / Desna Chernihiv (UKR)
Group 2:
Basel (SUI) vs Anorthosis (CYP) vs CSKA-Sofia (BUL) / B36 (FRO)
Sporting CP (POR) / Aberdeen (SCO) vs LASK (AUT) / Dunajská Streda (SVK)
Charleroi (BEL) / Partizan (SRB) vs Apollon Limassol (CYP) / Lech (POL)
Group 3:
Beşiktaş (TUR) / Rio Ave (POR) vs AC Milan (ITA) / Bodø/Glimt (NOR)
Copenhagen (DEN) / Piast Gliwice (POL) vs Rijeka (CRO) / Kolos Kovalivka (UKR)
Malmö (SWE) / Lokomotiva Zagreb (CRO) vs Granada (ESP) / Locomotive Tbilisi (GEO)
Group 4:
Shkëndija (MKD) / Tottenham (ENG) vs Rostov (RUS) / Maccabi Haifa (ISR)
FCSB (ROU) / Slovan Liberec (CZE) vs APOEL (CYP) / Zrinjski (BIH)
Standard Liège (BEL) / Vojvodina (SRB) vs Fehérvár (HUN) / Reims (FRA)
Willem II (NED) / Rangers (SCO) vs Galatasaray (TUR) / Hajduk Split (CRO)
MAIN PATH: GROUP 2
Basel / Famagusta vs CSKA Sofia / Torshavn
Sporting Lisbon / Aberdeen vs LASK / Streda
Charleroi / Partizan vs Limassol / Poznan
MAIN PATH: GROUP 1
Apoel / Motherwell vs FC Plzen / Sonderjyske
Rosenborg / Alanyspor vs Mura / PSV Eindhoven
St. Gallen / Athens vs Wolfsburg / Desna
CHAMPIONS PATH IN ITS ENTIRETY:
Group 1:
Young Boys (SUI) vs Tirana (ALB)
GNK Dinamo (CRO) vs Floriana (MLT) / Flora Tallinn (EST)
Djurgården (SWE) / CFR Cluj (ROU) vs KuPS (FIN) / Sūduva (LTU)
Group 2:
Ararat-Armenia (ARM) / Celje (SVN) vs Crvena zvezda (SRB)
Dynamo Brest (BLR) vs Ludogorets (BUL)
Sarajevo (BIH) / Budućnost Podgorica (MNE) vs Riga (LVA) / Celtic (SCO)
Group 3:
Legia (POL) / Drita (KOS) vs Qarabağ (AZE)
Sheriff (MDA) / Dundalk (IRL) vs KÍ (FRO) / Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO)
GROUP 3
Warsaw / Drita vs Qarabag
Tirsaspol / Dundalk vs KI / Tbsili
GROUP 2
Ararat-Armenia / MK vs Red Star
Dynamo Brest vs Ludogorets
FK Sarajevo / Buducnost Podgorica vs Riga / Celtic
GROUP 1
Young Boys vs KF Tirana
Dinamo Zagreb vs Floriana FC / Flora Tallinn
Djurgardens / Cluj vs Kuopio / Suduva
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