Champions League third qualifying round draw sets ten ties

The Champions League third qualifying draw set the next routes in both paths.

Many places still belong to unresolved pairings. Each pairing has one home match and one away match on consecutive midweeks.

Champions-path winners learn their next route

Thun or GNK Dinamo will face KI Klaksvik or Kauno Zalgiris.

Mjallby or Lincoln Red Imps will meet Iberia 1999 Tbilisi or Slovan Bratislava.

Levski Sofia or Universitatea Craiova will play Omonia or Kairat Almaty. AGF Aarhus or Lech Poznan will face Sabah or KuPS Kuopio.

These pairings keep the champions path separate from clubs entering through league positions.

Ararat-Armenia or Shamrock Rovers will meet Egnatia or Celje.

Vikingur Reykjavik or Hapoel Beer-Sheva will face Larne or Crvena Zvezda.

The winners remain on the champions route throughout this qualifying stage.

Olympiacos were drawn against NEC Nijmegen. Union Saint-Gilloise will face Bodo/Glimt. Sparta Praha will play Lyon.

Olympiacos, NEC, Union Saint-Gilloise, Bodo/Glimt, Sparta Praha and Lyon enter as named league-path clubs.

The remaining league-path line also contains unresolved pairings. Its possible opponents are already fixed by the draw.

Seeded and unseeded entries were kept apart under the draw procedure.

The champions and league paths remain separate throughout this qualifying round.

Crvena Zvezda face two possible opponents

Serbian champions Crvena Zvezda first have a second-round tie with Larne.

The winner will then face Vikingur Reykjavik or Hapoel Beer-Sheva.

Unresolved pairings leave alternative opponents, but every possible route is fixed.

In every pairing, the name shown first will host the opening match. The other side will host the return.

The champions path contains domestic title winners. The league path contains clubs qualifying through high domestic positions.

UEFA used seeded and unseeded positions inside each route. A seeded entry was matched with an unseeded entry in the relevant pool.

Unfinished second-round ties entered as a single pairing.

The coefficient of the higher-ranked possible winner determined the relevant seed position.

That method allows the next draw to occur before all previous matches are played.

No club could be drawn against another entry from the same pot.

The ties begin in early August

Opening matches are followed by returns on the next midweek. Each side hosts part of the contest.

The opening matches and return games take place on consecutive midweeks.

Another qualifying assignment involves Novak Simovic at the HJK-Coleraine match.

Winners move to the play-off round, the final step before the league phase.

Olympiacos against NEC and Sparta Praha against Lyon are direct league-path fixtures.

Union Saint-Gilloise against Bodo/Glimt is the third direct pairing.

The Fenerbahce route remains the only conditional league-path tie.

Every champions-path entry remains conditional because the previous round is unfinished.

Second-round winners take the listed third-round places without another draw.

Winners simply replace the paired labels.

Aggregate winners continue toward the play-offs, while both qualifying paths remain separate.

The draw also fixed the home order

The first-listed team or pairing hosts the opening match. Its opponent hosts the return.

Each club hosts part of the contest. The first-listed side opens at home.

The opponent hosts the return on the next midweek.

The combined result sends the winner forward in Champions League qualifying.

The draw fixed opponents, dates and home order.

Unresolved entries must win their second-round ties before taking a third-round place.

Each second-round winner inherits the listed place and home order in the draw.

The next round leads toward seven league-phase places

Champions-path losers move into the Europa League play-offs. League-path losers enter the Europa League phase directly.

The next draw follows before the third-round ties begin. Winners still face a final qualifying round.

Direct entrants are already waiting in the league phase. Qualifying supplies the remaining places.

A final two-leg tie still separates the third-round winners from the league phase.

Several lines contain two possible opponents because the previous qualifying round remains unfinished. The winner of that pairing takes the listed place.

The champions path keeps domestic league winners together. The league path contains clubs that qualified through high domestic positions.

Every tie uses one home match and one away match. The combined result decides which club reaches the final qualifying stage.

The first-listed club hosts the opening meeting. The opposing club then receives the return match on the following midweek.

Unresolved names do not make the draw provisional. They describe a fixed route for whichever club advances from the earlier tie.

Travel planning can begin before every opponent is known. Clubs already know their possible destination and the order of home matches.