- Title: SOCCER-CHAMPIONS/DRAW-MORNING Play off round draw beckons at UEFA HQ
- Date: 7th August 2015
- Summary: NYON, SWITZERLAND (AUGUST 7, 2015) (REUTERS) UEFA HEADQUARTERS UEFA FLAGS UEFA FLAGS AND BUILDING UEFA BUILDING UEFA HEADQUARTERS SATELLITE TRUCKS SATELLITE TRUCKS AND CAMERAMAN CAMERAMAN UEFA MAIN ENTRANCE SIGN READING (English) "UEFA" WITH SECURITY MAN UEFA ACCREDITATION DESK UEFA SIGN SECURITY MAN IN FRONT OF UEFA BOARDS WITH EUROPEAN TEAMS SIGNS UEFA BOARDS WITH EUROPE
- Embargoed: 22nd August 2015 13:00
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- Location: Switzerland
- Country: Switzerland
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: Some of Europe's biggest teams will be nervously awaiting the draw for the play off round of the Champions League on Friday (August 7) with millions of pounds at stake if they make it through to the group stages.
The draw will be split into two sections, with 10 teams who won their domestic leagues in one pot, and 10 who qualify by finishing between second and fourth in their domestic leagues in the other.
The biggest names are in the latter pot, where Manchester United, Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen, Shakhtar Donetsk and Sporting Lisbon among the seeds.
Unseeded teams include CSKA Moscow, Lazio, Club Brugge, Monaco and Rapid Vienna.
The "champions route" also has five seeds - Basel, Celtic, APOEL, BATE Borisov (Belarus) and Dinamo Zagreb. The unseeded teams are Maccabi Tel Aviv, Partizan Belgrade, Malmo, Skenderbeu Korce of Albania and Kazakhstan outfit Astana.
The draw for the play off stage of the Europa League will also take place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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