UEFA Champions League play-off draw lineupPublished: Wednesday 5 August 2015, 22.39CET
The 20-team lineup for the UEFA Champions League play-off draw, streamed live in our DrawCentre from 12.00CET on Friday, has been set with the end of the third qualifying round.
League routeAutomatic entrants:
Valencia (ESP), Manchester United (ENG), Bayer Leverkusen (GER), Lazio (ITA), Sporting CP (POR) Third qualifying round winners:
AS Monaco (FRA), Rapid Wien (AUT), Club Brugge (BEL), CSKA Moskva (RUS), Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) Champions route
Third qualifying round winners:
APOEL (CYP), Astana (KAZ), BATE Borisov (BLR), Celtic (SCO), Dinamo Zagreb (CRO), FC Basel (SUI), Partizan (SRB), Malmö (SWE), Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR), Skënderbeu (ALB) 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.
Bye to group stage: Barcelona (holders), Bayern München, Chelsea, Benfica, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, Zenit, PSV Eindhoven, Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid, FC Porto, Arsenal, Manchester City, Sevilla, Olympique Lyonnais, Dynamo Kyiv, Olympiacos, Galatasaray, AS Roma, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Wolfsburg, KAA Gent
Draw facts:
• If Valencia win their play-off, Spain will be the first nation to have five clubs in the same group stage.
• Borussia Mönchengladbach could be the 11th different German side to compete in the UEFA Champions League group stage, one more than France and behind only Spain on 13.
• Astana are the only remaining European Cup debutants.
Previous winners in play-offs
Manchester United (1968, 1999, 2008), Celtic (1967)
Other UEFA Cup /UEFA Europa League (UEL) or European Cup Winners' Cup (CWC) winners in play-offs
Valencia (2004 UEL, 1980 CWC), Shakhtar Donetsk (2009 IUEL)
Sporting CP (1964 CWC)
Clubs who could be their nation's first group stage representatives
Skënderbeu (ALB), Astana (KAZ)
Clubs that could return to group stage from 2014/15
Bayer Leverkusen, Sporting CP, FC Basel, Shakhtar Donetsk, CSKA Moskva, AS Monaco, BATE Borisov, Malmö, APOEL
Teams remaining from second qualifying round who have previously progressed from there to group stage
BATE Borisov (2008/09, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2014/15), Partizan (2010/11), APOEL (2009/10, 2011/12), Dinamo Zagreb (2011/12, 2012/13), Celtic FC (2013/14), Malmö (2014/15)
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