Europa League Play Off Draw

Written by Dan on August 6, 2009

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Here are all 76 teams entered in today’s Europa League Fourth Qualifying Round split into their seeded & unseeded groups. Villa are seeded and will be drawn against one of the teams from the bottom, unseeded group.

The Play Off Round will be played over two legs, home and away, to be held on 20th & 27th August 2009. 

Seeded teams
Werder Bremen (Ger) Lille OSC (Fra) Aston Villa (Eng)
Villarreal (Esp) Everton (Eng) Athletic Bilbao (Esp)
AS Roma (Ita) Club Brugge (Bel) Partizan Belgrade (Srb)
PSV Eindhoven (Ned) Heerenveen (Ned) Hapoel Tel-Aviv (Isr)
Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukr) Galatasaray (Tur) FC Twente Enschede (Ned)
Zenit St. Petersburg (Rus) Austria Wien (Aut) Dinamo Zagreb (Cro)
Hamburger SV (Ger) Lazio Roma (Ita) Litex Lovech (Bul)
Benfica (Por) Hertha BSC (Ger) Fulham FC (Eng)
Valencia (Esp) Sparta Praha (Cze) CSKA Sofia (Bul)
Ajax (Ned) Dinamo Bucuresti (Rom) Toulouse FC (Fra)
Steaua Bucuresti (Rom) AEK Athens (Gre) CFR Cluj (Rom)
Fenerbahçe (Tur) Slavia Praha (Cze) OB Odense (Den)
FC Basel (Sui) Metalist Kharkiv (Ukr)
Unseeded teams
Lech Poznan (Pol) MSK Zilina (Svk) Stabæk IF (Nor)
Genoa (Ita) Tromsø IL (Nor) Sturm Graz (Aut)
Slovan Liberec (Cze) Rapid Wien (Aut) Bnei Yehuda (Isr)
Red Star Belgrade (Srb) Vorskla Poltava (Ukr) MFK Kosice (Svk)
Hearts FC (Sco) FC Sion (Sui) Slovan Bratislava (Svk)
Brøndby IF (Den) NAC Breda (Ned) St. Patrick’s Athletic (Irl)
Trabzonspor (Tur) BATE Borisov (Bls) NK Maribor (Slo)
Metalurg Donetsk (Ukr) Nacional Funchal (Por) FK Sarajevo (Bos)
En Avant Guingamp (Fra) IF Elfsborg (Swe) Garabag Agdam (Azb)
FC Vaslui (Rom) Sivasspor (Tur) FK Baku (Azb)
PAOK Thessaloniki (Gre) Racing Genk (Bel) Levadia Tallinn (Est)
Amkar Perm (Rus) FK Teplice (Cze) FK Aktobe (Kaz)
Dinamo Moscow (Rus) Sigma Olomouc (Cze)

I’ll be updating the fixtures and results on the Europa League page throughout the competition.

There’s an explanation of the process up to the Group Stage draw here or there’s a flow chart showing the path to groups below (click for a full-size version).

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