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3rd qualifying round

Nyon - Friday 13 July 2012, 10:30 - your local time

Procedure

3rd qualifying round

Monday, June 6, 2011

Thirty new entrants join the 40 qualifiers from the previous round, with half seeded based on UEFA coefficients.

15 July, Nyon

The 40 victors from the last stage are joined by 30 new contenders for the third qualifying round.

Equal numbers of seeded and unseeded teams are then allocated to seven groups of ten teams for the draw, with half in each seeded based on UEFA coefficients. For each group, balls containing seeded teams will be placed in one bowl and unseeded teams in another. A ball from each bowl will be placed in a large empty bowl in the middle, where they will be shuffled. The first team drawn will play its first match at home, against the second team drawn.