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)
MAIN PATH
Group 2
Seeded: 1 Sporting CP (POR) / Aberdeen (SCO), 2 Mura (SVN) / PSV Eindhoven (NED), 3 Copenhagen (DEN) / Piast Gliwice (POL)
Unseeded: 4 LASK (AUT) / Dunajská Streda (SVK), 5 Rijeka (CRO) / Kolos Kovalivka (UKR), 6 Rosenborg (NOR) / Alanyaspor (TUR)
MAIN PATH
Group 1
Seeded: 1 Basel (SUI) vs Anorthosis (CYP), 2 Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) / SønderjyskE (DEN), 3 Beşiktaş (TUR) / Rio Ave (POR)
Unseeded: 4 CSKA-Sofia (BUL) / B36 (FRO), 5 AC Milan (ITA) / Bodø/Glimt (NOR), 6 Hapoel Beer-Sheva (ISR) / Motherwell (SCO)
KEY
Here’s a key for those groups ahead of the draw in a few moments:
*5 Teams eliminated from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Path)
**2 Teams eliminated from UEFA Champions League second qualifying round (Champions Path)
CHAMPIONS PATH
Group 3
Seeded: Qarabağ (AZE)*
Unseeded: Sheriff (MDA) / Dundalk (IRL), KÍ (FRO) / Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO), Legia (POL) / Drita (KOS)
CHAMPIONS PATH
Group 2
Seeded: Dynamo Brest (BLR)*, Crvena zvezda (SRB)*
Unseeded: Ludogorets (BUL)**, Sarajevo (BIH) / Budućnost Podgorica (MNE), Riga (LVA) / Celtic (SCO), Ararat-Armenia (ARM) vs Celje (SVN)
CHAMPIONS PATH
Group 1
Seeded: Young Boys (SUI)*, GNK Dinamo (CRO)*
Unseeded: Floriana (MLT) vs Flora Tallinn (EST), Tirana (ALB)**, KuPS (FIN) vs Sūduva (LTU), Djurgården (SWE) / CFR Cluj (ROU)
WHAT TIME DOES THE DRAW START?
The draw should get under way around 1pm BST.
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