UEFA Conference League third qualifying round draw

The 2024/25 UEFA Conference League third qualifying round draw was held at 14:00 CET on Monday 22 July at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland. Fixtures will take place on 8 and 15 August.

2024/25 UEFA Conference League third qualifying round draw

Champions Path

Vikingur Reykjavík (ISL) or KF Egnatia (ALB) vs Virtus A.C. 1964 (SMR) or FC Flora Tallinn (EST)
FC Differdange 03 (LUX) or FC Ordabasy (KAZ) vs FC Struga (MKD) or FC Pyunik (ARM)
FC Ballkani (KOS) or Hamrun Spartans FC (MLT) vs Larne FC (NIR)
HJK Helsinki (FIN) vs FC Dinamo Batumi (GEO) or FK Dečić (MNE)

Main Path

FK Mladá Boleslav (CZE) or FK Transinvest (LTU) vs Hapoel Beer Sheva FC (ISR) or PFC Cherno More (BUL)
Kilmarnock FC (SCO) or Cercle Brugge KSV (BEL) vs KuPS Kuopio (FIN) or Tromsø IL (NOR)
FC Zimbru Chişinău (MDA) or FC Ararat-Armenia (ARM) vs SC Dnipro-1 (UKR) or Puskás Akadémia FC (HUN)
FC Zürich (SUI) or Shelbourne FC (IRL) vs Vitória SC (POR) or Floriana FC (MLT)
Paksi FC (HUN) or AEK Larnaca FC (CYP) vs FK Radnički 1923 (SRB) or FK Mornar (MNE)
F91 Diddeleng (LUX) or BK Häcken (SWE) vs Stjarnan (ISL) or Paide Linnameeskond (EST)
NK Maribor (SVN) or Universitatea Craiova (ROU) vs AFC Ajax (NED) or FK Vojvodina (SRB)
FK Sarajevo (BIH) or FC Spartak Trnava (SVK) vs Wisła Kraków (POL) or SK Rapid Wien (AUT)
St Patrick's Athletic (IRL) or FC Vaduz (LIE) vs Maccabi Haifa FC (ISR) or FC Sabah (AZE)
Valur (ISL) or St Mirren FC (SCO) vs Go Ahead Eagles (NED) or SK Brann (NOR)
FC CSKA 1948 (BUL) or FK Budućnost Podgorica (MNE) vs FK Žalgiris (LTU) or Pafos FC (CYP)
Ilves Tampere (FIN) or FK Austria Wien (AUT) vs Djurgården (SWE) or FC Progrès Niederkorn (LUX)
CS Corvinul 1921 Hunedoara (ROU) or HNK Rijeka (CRO) vs FC Milsami Orhei (MDA) or FC Astana (KAZ)
MFK Ružomberok (SVK) or Trabzonspor A.Ş. (TUR) vs HNK Hajduk Split (CRO) or HB Tórshavn (FRO)
FC Noah (ARM) or Sliema Wanderers FC (MLT) vs AEK Athens FC (GRE) or Inter Club d'Escaldes (AND)
FK Auda (LVA) or Cliftonville FC (NIR) vs Breiðablik (ISL) or FC Drita (KOS)
FC Iberia 1999 Tbilisi (GEO) or FK Partizani (ALB) vs İstanbul Başakşehir (TUR) or La Fiorita 1967 (SMR)
Brøndby IF (DEN) or KF Llapi 1932 (KOS) vs Legia Warszawa (POL) or Caernarfon Town FC (WAL)
SC Braga (POR) or Maccabi Petah Tikva FC (ISR) vs CFR 1907 Cluj (ROU) or FC Neman Grodno (BLR)
Molde FK (NOR) or Silkeborg IF (DEN) vs KAA Gent (BEL) or Víkingur (FRO)
NK Osijek (CRO) or FCI Levadia Tallinn (EST) vs PFC Zire (AZE) or FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda (SVK)
FC St. Gallen 1879 (SUI) or FC Tobol (KAZ) vs Riga FC (LVA) or WKS Śląsk Wrocław (POL)
Panathinaikos FC (GRE) or PFC Botev Plovdiv (BUL) vs HŠK Zrinjski Mostar (BIH) or NK Bravo (SVN)
Omonoia FC (CYP) or FC Torpedo Kutaisi (GEO) vs Sumqayıt FK (AZE) or Fehérvár FC (HUN)
F.C. Copenhagen (DEN) or FCB Magpies (GIB) vs FC Baník Ostrava (CZE) or FC Urartu (ARM)
NK Olimpija Ljubljana (SVN) or FC Polissya Zhytomyr (UKR) vs FC Sheriff Tiraspol (MDA) or IF Elfsborg (SWE)

Seeded teams in bold.

Match dates and kick-off times to be announced by: 26 July (first and second legs)

DRAW PROCEDURE

Based on Article 14 of the UEFA Conference League Regulations (UECL Regulations), the following draw procedure has been adopted by the Club Competitions Committee.

Match system

The qualifying phase and play-offs follow the knockout system, whereby each team plays each opponent twice, in home and away matches.

Draw system and conditions

A draw between the same number of seeded and unseeded clubs determines the ties for the qualifying phase and play-offs. Clubs are seeded for these draws in accordance with the club coefficient rankings established at the beginning of the season and with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. If, for any reason, any of the participants in the rounds concerned are not known at the time of the draw, the coefficients of the two clubs involved in the undecided tie are used for the purposes of the draw. For the club advancing to the next round of the competition as winner of the tie, the coefficient of the club with the higher coefficient of the two clubs involved is used for the purposes of the draw. For the other club, which is fed into the relevant round of the competition from another competition, the lower coefficient of the two clubs in the pairing of the other competition is used for the purposes of the draw.

The UEFA administration may form groups for the draw in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. Clubs from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.

A draw is conducted to determine the ties of each match and which team plays the first-leg match at home.

In accordance with the relevant decisions of the UEFA Executive Committee, teams from the following associations may not be drawn against each other:

Armenia – Azerbaijan
Gibraltar – Spain
Kosovo – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kosovo – Serbia
Kosovo – Russia*
Ukraine – Russia*
Ukraine – Belarus

* All teams from Russia are suspended until further notice by the decision of the Executive Committee of 28 February 2022, and as confirmed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on 15 July 2022.

Draw system (Champions Path)

The eight teams (two teams entering directly from the Champions League first qualifying round Champions Path, and the six pairings of teams participating in the Conference League second qualifying round Champions Path ties, indicated for the purposes of this draw as Winners of Pairings 1 to 6) were divided equally into four seeded teams and four unseeded teams.

As the teams qualifying from the second qualifying round of the Conference League were not known at the time of the draw, the coefficient of the team with the higher coefficient of the two teams involved in each undecided Conference League second qualifying round tie was used for the seeding for the purposes of the draw. Therefore, if a team in a Conference League second qualifying round tie had a coefficient that would entitle it to be seeded for the Conference League third qualifying round draw, the winner of that tie was automatically seeded for the draw.

Groupings (Champions Path)

Seeded
HJK Helsinki (FIN)
Winners of Pairing 1: Virtus A.C. 1964 (SMR) or FC Flora Tallinn (EST)
Winners of Pairing 2: FC Struga (MKD) or FC Pyunik (ARM)
Winners of Pairing 3: FC Ballkani (KOS) or Hamrun Spartans FC (MLT)

Unseeded
Winners of Pairing 4: FC Dinamo Batumi (GEO) or FK Dečić (MNE)
Larne FC (NIR)
Winners of Pairing 5: FC Differdange 03 (LUX) or FC Ordabasy (KAZ)
Winners of Pairing 6: Vikingur Reykjavík (ISL) or KF Egnatia (ALB)

Draw procedure (Champions Path)

Three bowls were prepared for the draw, with the balls containing the names of the seeded and unseeded teams and/or pairings placed in the corresponding marked bowls.

One ball was then taken from each of these bowls and placed in the third empty central bowl, where they were shuffled. The first team and/or pairing then drawn from this bowl was considered the home team for the first leg of the first tie, which they will play against the second team drawn.

The process was then repeated with the remaining balls to complete all the ties.

Draw system (Main Path)

The 52 teams (the 43 pairings of teams participating in the competition's second qualifying round ties, and nine pairings of teams participating in the Europa League second qualifying round Main Path) were divided into four groups of ten pairings (Groups 1 to 4) and one group of 12 pairings (Group 5), with an equal number of seeded and unseeded pairings in each group.

As the teams qualifying from the second qualifying round of the Conference League were not known at the time of the draw, the coefficient of the team with the higher coefficient of the two teams involved in each undecided Conference League second qualifying round tie was used for the seeding for the purposes of the draw. Therefore, if a team in a Conference League second qualifying round tie had a coefficient that would entitle it to be seeded for the Conference League third qualifying round draw, the winner of that tie was automatically seeded for the draw.

Furthermore, as the teams entering the competition from the second qualifying round of the Europa League (Main Path) were not known at the time of the draw, the coefficient of the team with the lower coefficient of the two teams involved in each undecided Europa League second qualifying round tie was used for the seeding for the purposes of the draw.

Groupings (Main Path)

Group 1

Seeded
1 İstanbul Başakşehir (TUR) or La Fiorita 1967 (SMR)
2 Maccabi Haifa FC (ISR) or FC Sabah (AZE)
3 Hapoel Beer Sheva FC (ISR) or PFC Cherno More (BUL)
4 FC Milsami Orhei (MDA) or FC Astana (KAZ)
5 Paksi FC (HUN) or AEK Larnaca FC (CYP)

Unseeded
6 St Patrick's Athletic (IRL) or FC Vaduz (LIE)
7 FK Mladá Boleslav (CZE) or FK Transinvest (LTU)
8 FC Iberia 1999 Tbilisi (GEO) or FK Partizani (ALB)
9 FK Radnički 1923 (SRB) or FK Mornar (MNE)
10 CS Corvinul 1921 Hunedoara (ROU) or HNK Rijeka (CRO)

Group 2

Seeded
1 Legia Warszawa (POL) or Caernarfon Town FC (WAL)
2 Go Ahead Eagles (NED) or SK Brann (NOR)
3 KuPS Kuopio (FIN) or Tromsø IL (NOR)
4 HNK Hajduk Split (CRO) or HB Tórshavn (FRO)
5 F91 Diddeleng (LUX) or BK Häcken (SWE)

Unseeded
6 Valur (ISL) or St Mirren FC (SCO)
7 Kilmarnock FC (SCO) or Cercle Brugge KSV (BEL)
8 Brøndby IF (DEN) or KF Llapi 1932 (KOS)
9 Stjarnan (ISL) or Paide Linnameeskond (EST)
10 MFK Ružomberok (SVK) or Trabzonspor A.Ş. (TUR)

Group 3

Seeded
1 CFR 1907 Cluj (ROU) or FC Neman Grodno (BLR)
2 FK Žalgiris (LTU) or Pafos FC (CYP)
3 SC Dnipro-1 (UKR) or Puskás Akadémia FC (HUN)
4 AEK Athens FC (GRE) or Inter Club d'Escaldes (AND)
5 NK Maribor (SVN) or Universitatea Craiova (ROU)

Unseeded
6 FC CSKA 1948 (BUL) or FK Budućnost Podgorica (MNE)
7 FC Zimbru Chişinău (MDA) or FC Ararat-Armenia (ARM)
8 SC Braga (POR) or Maccabi Petah Tikva FC (ISR)
9 AFC Ajax (NED) or FK Vojvodina (SRB)
10 FC Noah (ARM) or Sliema Wanderers FC (MLT)

Group 4

Seeded
1 KAA Gent (BEL) or Víkingur (FRO)
2 Djurgården (SWE) or FC Progrès Niederkorn (LUX)
3 Vitória SC (POR) or Floriana FC (MLT)
4 Breiðablik (ISL) or FC Drita (KOS)
5 FK Sarajevo (BIH) or FC Spartak Trnava (SVK)

Unseeded
6 Ilves Tampere (FIN) or FK Austria Wien (AUT)
7 FC Zürich (SUI) or Shelbourne FC (IRL)
8 Molde FK (NOR) or Silkeborg IF (DEN)
9 Wisła Kraków (POL) or SK Rapid Wien (AUT)
10 FK Auda (LVA) or Cliftonville FC (NIR)

Group 5

Seeded
1 F.C. Copenhagen (DEN) or FCB Magpies (GIB)
2 Omonoia FC (CYP) or FC Torpedo Kutaisi (GEO)
3 Riga FC (LVA) or WKS Śląsk Wrocław (POL)
4 NK Olimpija Ljubljana (SVN) or FC Polissya Zhytomyr (UKR)
5 HŠK Zrinjski Mostar (BIH) or NK Bravo (SVN)
6 NK Osijek (CRO) or FCI Levadia Tallinn (EST)

Unseeded
7 PFC Zire (AZE) or FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda (SVK)
8 FC St. Gallen 1879 (SUI) or FC Tobol (KAZ)
9 Sumqayıt FK (AZE) or Fehérvár FC (HUN)
10 FC Baník Ostrava (CZE) or FC Urartu (ARM)
11 FC Sheriff Tiraspol (MDA) or IF Elfsborg (SWE)
12 Panathinaikos FC (GRE) or PFC Botev Plovdiv (BUL)

Draw procedure (Main Path)

Groups 1 to 4

All the clubs in each of the four groups were randomly assigned a number: 1 to 5 for the seeded teams/pairings and 6 to 10 for the unseeded teams/pairings.

Three bowls were prepared for the draw, with the balls containing the numbers for the seeded and unseeded teams for Groups 1 to 4 placed in the correspondingly marked bowls.

One ball was taken from each of these bowls and placed in the third empty central bowl, where they were shuffled. The teams represented by the first number then drawn from this bowl were considered the home team of the first pairing of all four groups, and they will play against the teams indicated by the number of the ball drawn second from this bowl.

For example, if the first ball drawn contained the number 2 and the second the number 8, the clubs assigned the numbers 2 and 8 in each of the four groups would play each other. The first ball drawn, here containing the number 2, designated the home team for the first leg in all four ties.

The process was then repeated with the remaining balls to complete all the ties.

Group 5

The procedure for this group was exactly the same as above, with the only difference being that the seeded teams and/or pairings were assigned numbers 1 to 6, and the unseeded teams and/or pairings assigned numbers 7 to 12.

Draw explanation (Champions Path and Main Path)

A video explaining the draw procedure was shown prior to the draw.

Calendar elaboration

The stadiums, dates and kick-off times for all qualifying matches are fixed by the home clubs in consultation with their respective associations and must be confirmed to the UEFA administration by the deadline set by the UEFA administration. The UEFA administration may alter or confirm dates and kick-off times in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee.

If two or more clubs from the same city, within a radius of 50km of each other and/or playing in the same stadium, take part in any of the UEFA club competitions, and if the association and the clubs concerned explicitly declare when entering the clubs that their matches cannot be played on the same day or on consecutive days, the UEFA administration may alter or confirm dates and kick-off times in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee.

The UEFA administration decides on match dates and fixture reversals on a case-by-case basis and in accordance with the applicable principles set by the Club Competitions Committee. In any case, the UEFA administration reserves the right to impose a match date if the circumstances so require.

Any changes of date and fixture reversals will be communicated in writing to the clubs and their respective associations by 15:00 CET on 23 July 2024.