First UEFA Champions League draws on Monday
Thursday, June 18, 2015
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The draws for the 2015/16 first and second qualifying rounds will be made from 12.00CET on 22 June and streamed live on UEFA.com with a total of 38 teams involved.
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The draws for the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League first and second qualifying rounds will be made from 12.00CET on Monday 22 June and streamed live on UEFA.com.
First qualifying round draw
• The eight teams (the champions of Northern Ireland, Wales, Armenia, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, San Marino, Andorra and Gibraltar) will be separated into two pots according to coefficient, with the four highest-ranked sides seeded.
Seeded
The New Saints FC (WAL)
FC Levadia Tallinn (EST)
FC Pyunik (ARM)
FC Santa Coloma (AND)
Unseeded
Crusaders FC (NIR)
B36 Tórshavn (FRO)
Lincoln FC (GIB)
SS Folgore (SMR)
• Ties will be played on 30 June/1 July and 7/8 July.
Second qualifying round draw
• The champions of the 30 nations who enter in this round will be joined by the four first qualifying round winners. Four balls will contain slips of paper reading 'Winner first qualifying round tie 1' to 'Winner first qualifying round tie 4' and will take the coefficient of the seeded team in each of those ties.
• Before the draw teams will be split into groups with equal numbers of seeded and unseeded teams who will be drawn together.
Group 1
Seeded
APOEL FC (CYP)
NK Maribor (SVN)
Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC (ISR)
KKS Lech Poznań (POL)
Qarabağ FK (AZE)
Unseeded
FK Sarajevo (BIH)
FC Astana (KAZ)
FK Rudar Pljevlja (MNE)
FK Vardar (MKD)
Hibernians FC (MLT)
Group 2
Seeded
Celtic FC (SCO)
FC BATE Borisov (BLR)
Malmö FF (SWE)
HJK Helsinki (FIN)
Molde FK (NOR)
FC Midtjylland (DEN)
Unseeded
Winner first qualifying round tie 1
FK Ventspils (LVA)
FK Žalgiris Vilnius (LTU)
Winner first qualifying round tie 3
Stjarnan (ISL)
Dundalk FC (IRL)
Group 3
Seeded
FC Steaua Bucureşti (ROU)
PFC Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL)
GNK Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)
FK Partizan (SRB)
Videoton FC (HUN)
KF Skënderbeu (ALB)
Unseeded
FC Dila Gori (GEO)
FK AS Trenčín (SVK)
Winner first qualifying round tie 2
FC Milsami Orhei (MDA)
Winner first qualifying round tie 4
CS Fola Esch (LUX)
• Ties will be played on 14/15 and 21/22 July.
Both draws
Balls containing the seeded clubs are placed in one bowl, with balls for the unseeded clubs positioned in another. A ball is taken from each bowl and put into a large empty bowl in the middle, where they are shuffled. The first team drawn plays its first match at home, against the second side drawn.
2015/16 UEFA Champions League draw schedule
Dates subject to change
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