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

The Europa League trophy (Getty Images)

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)

Key points

• Celtic are in ‘champions path’
• Spurs and other Scottish clubs in ‘main path’
• No two teams without approved grounds can play each other

[18 September 2020 13:41 · Alex Pattle]

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)

[18 September 2020 13:37 · Alex Pattle]

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)

[18 September 2020 13:32 · Alex Pattle]

We’ll have the remaining two groups for you in a moment…

[18 September 2020 13:25 · Alex Pattle]

MAIN PATH: GROUP 2

Basel / Famagusta vs CSKA Sofia / Torshavn

Sporting Lisbon / Aberdeen vs LASK / Streda

Charleroi / Partizan vs Limassol / Poznan

[18 September 2020 13:24 · Alex Pattle]

MAIN PATH: GROUP 1

Apoel / Motherwell vs FC Plzen / Sonderjyske

Rosenborg / Alanyspor vs Mura / PSV Eindhoven

St. Gallen / Athens vs Wolfsburg / Desna

[18 September 2020 13:22 · Alex Pattle]

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)

[18 September 2020 13:21 · Alex Pattle]

GROUP 3

Warsaw / Drita vs Qarabag

Tirsaspol / Dundalk vs KI / Tbsili

[18 September 2020 13:17 · Alex Pattle]

GROUP 2

Ararat-Armenia / MK vs Red Star

Dynamo Brest vs Ludogorets

FK Sarajevo / Buducnost Podgorica vs Riga / Celtic

[18 September 2020 13:13 · Alex Pattle]

GROUP 1

Young Boys vs KF Tirana

Dinamo Zagreb vs Floriana FC / Flora Tallinn

Djurgardens / Cluj vs Kuopio / Suduva

[18 September 2020 13:02 · Alex Pattle]

THIS SEASON’S FINAL

A reminder that this term’s final will take place in Gdansk in May!