Former winners among qualifying draw hopefuls
Monday, June 24, 2013
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Last season's UEFA Champions League round of 16 competitors Celtic FC are among the teams in the first and second qualifying round draws on Monday in Nyon.
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Last season's UEFA Champions League round of 16 competitors Celtic FC, along with 2012/13 group stage participants FC BATE Borisov and GNK Dinamo Zagreb, will be keeping a keen eye on proceedings at Monday's first and second qualifying round draws in Nyon, streamed live on UEFA.com from 12.00CET.
Celtic, who lifted the European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1967, and fellow former winners FC Steaua Bucureşti are two of 32 sides that kick off in the second stage. They will be joined there by two of EB/Streymur, SP Tre Penne, FC Lusitans and FC Shirak, respectively the title holders in the Faroe Islands, San Marino, Andorra and Armenia, who face off in the first qualifying round on 2/3 and 9/10 July.
UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino and UEFA competitions director Giorgio Marchetti will make the draw for the second round, with the games played over two legs on 16/17 and 23/24 July. The 16 victorious teams must navigate the third qualifying round and a play-off to reach the group stage.
In both draws, balls containing the seeded clubs from one group are placed in one bowl, with balls for the unseeded clubs in the same group positioned in another. A ball is taken from each bowl and placed in a large empty bowl in the middle, where they are shuffled. The first team drawn plays its first match at home, against the second team drawn
Full list of 2013/14 UEFA Champions League participants
First qualifying round draw (seeded teams in bold)
EB/Streymur (FRO)
SP Tre Penne (SMR)
FC Lusitans (AND)
FC Shirak (ARM)
Second qualifying round draw
Group 1
FC Steaua Bucureşti (ROU)
FC Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)
FC Sheriff (MDA)
NK Maribor (SVN)
Neftçi PFK (AZE)
FK Željezničar (BIH)
KS Skënderbeu (ALB)
Birkirkara FC (MLT)
FK Vardar (MKD)
FK Sutjeska (MNE)
Group 2
Celtic FC (SCO)
Legia Warszawa (POL)
IF Elfsborg (SWE)
Molde FK (NOR)
HJK Helsinki (FIN)
FK Ekranas (LTU)
FH Hafnarfjördur (ISL)
The New Saints FC (WAL)
Sligo Rovers FC (IRL)
Cliftonville FC (NIR)
FC Daugava Daugavpils (LVA)
JK Nõmme Kalju (EST)
Group 3
FC BATE Borisov (BLR)
GNK Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)
FK Partizan (SRB)
ŠK Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC (ISR)
FC Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO)
Győri ETO FC (HUN)
PFC Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL)
FC Shakhter Karagandy (KAZ)
CS Fola Esch (LUX)
Winner first qualifying round Match 1
Winner first qualifying round Match 2
