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FC Porto and PSV Eindhoven are among six former European champions preparing to enter the UEFA Europa League fray on Friday when the play-off round draw takes place in Nyon.
FC Porto, PFC CSKA Moskva and PSV Eindhoven are preparing to enter the UEFA Europa League fray on Friday when the draw for the play-off round takes place in Nyon, streamed live on UEFA.com from 13.30CET.
Those UEFA Champions League regulars are among 24 sides who begin their European campaigns when the first legs are played on 19 August, with the returns a week later. They are joined in the draw by 35 third qualifying round winners and the 15 losing teams from the corresponding stage in the UEFA Champions League.
Liverpool FC and Juventus sealed their passage when the second legs concluded on Thursday evening and are not the only former European Champion Clubs' Cup winners in the Friday's draw, with six holders of the continent's biggest prize preparing to make their bows. Porto are chief among them, with PSV, FC Steaua Bucureşti, Aston Villa FC, Feyenoord and BV Borussia Dortmund completing a stellar lineup.
Big-spending Manchester City FC and 2005 UEFA Cup winners CSKA Moskva are also in the reckoning, and even the lowest-ranked newcomers, Dundee United FC, have a major continental final to their name – the Scottish outfit lost 2-1 to IFK Göteborg in the 1987 UEFA Cup showpiece
Draw format
The 74 clubs are divided into seven groups for the draw – five of ten teams and two of 12. Within the seven groups an equal number of sides will be seeded and unseeded in accordance with the club rankings established at the beginning of the season. A ball will be taken from each of the bowls containing seeded and unseeded teams, and placed in a large empty bowl in the middle where they will be shuffled. The first club drawn will play its first match at home and sides from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
Clubs and Coefficent
FC Porto (POR) [CW] 76.659
PFC CSKA Moskva (RUS) 66.758
PSV Eindhoven (NED) 66.309
FC Steaua Bucureşti (ROU) 47.898
LOSC Lille Métropole (FRA) 46.748
Bayer 04 Leverkusen (GER) 40.841
Paris Saint-Germain FC (FRA) [CW] 39.748
Club Brugge KV (BEL) 36.580
US Città di Palermo (ITA) 35.867
Getafe CF (ESP) 33.951
Manchester City FC (ENG) 33.371
AEK Athens FC (GRE) 25.979
Aston Villa FC (ENG) 25.871
FC Lokomotiv Moskva (RUS) 25.758
FC Metalist Kharkiv (UKR) 25.410
Feyenoord (NED) 16.309
SSC Napoli (ITA) 14.867
BV Borussia Dortmund (GER) 14.841
Grasshopper-Club (SUI) 12.675
SC Vaslui (ROU) 11.398
Trabzonspor (TUR) [CW] 10.390
SC Tavriya Simferopol (UKR) [CW] 7.910
Dundee United FC (SCO) [CW] 5.158
