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Another season starts here

Thursday, June 19, 2003

Friday will see the draw for the first and second qualifying rounds of the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League.

Draw in Nyon
Little over three weeks since AC Milan were crowned Champions League winners in Manchester, the draw for next season's first two preliminary stages will be held at UEFA's headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland at 12.00CET on Friday. The UEFA Cup draw will follow two hours later.

Champions League experience
Celtic, the 1967 European champions and last month's beaten UEFA Cup finalists, are among several sides entering the second qualifying round with recent Champions League experience - notably RSC Anderlecht, Rosenborg BK and FC Shakhtar Donetsk.

The breakdown
Twenty teams are in the hat for the ten first qualifying round matches. The ten winners will join 18 sides in the 14 second qualifying round ties. In both rounds, a team from the seeded section of the draw will be paired with an unseeded side.

Match dates
All matches will be played over two legs. The first qualifying round will be played on 16 and 23 July and the second qualifying round on 30 July and 6 August.

UEFA Champions League first qualifying round draw
First leg matches: 16 July 2003
Second leg matches: 23 July 2003
Teams - seeded/unseeded
1 - HJK Helsinki (FIN)11 - FC BATE Borisov (BEL)
2 - Skonto FC (LAT)12 - Sliema Wanderers FC (MLT)
3 - Omonia AC (CYP)13 - Barry Town AFC (WAL)
4 - Bohemian FC (IRL)14 - FC Pyunik (ARM)
5 - FC Sheriff (MOL)15 - KF Tirana (ALB)
6 - FC Dinamo Tblisi (GEO)16 - FC Flora (EST)
7 - FK Leotar (BHZ)17 - Glentoran FC (NIR)
8 - FBK Kaunas (LIT)18 - CS Grevenmacher (LUX)
9 - KR Reykjavík (ISL)19 - HB Tórshavn (FAR)
10 - FK Vardar (MKD)20 - FC Irtysh Pavlodar (KAZ)

UEFA Champions League second qualifying round draw
First leg matches: 30 July 2003
Second leg matches: 6 August 2003
Teams - seeded/unseeded
Celtic FC (SCO)Djurgårdens IF (SWE)
RSC Anderlecht (BEL)AFC Rapid Bucuresti (ROM) 
SK Slavia Praha (CZE)NK Maribor (SLO)
Rosenborg BK (NOR)MŠK Žilina (SVK)
Wisla Kraków (POL)Winners match 1
NK Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)Winners match 2
Grazer AK (AUT)Winners match 3
FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)Winners match 4
FK Partizan (YUG)Winners match 5
CH (DEN)*Winners match 6
Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC (ISR) Winners match 7
PFC CSKA Sofia (BUL)Winners match 8
MTK Hungária FC(HUN) Winners match 9
PFC CSKA Moskva (RUS)Winners match 10

*The championship in Denmark will be decided on Sunday.

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