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Scottish clubs feature in European play-off draws


Steven Naismith, Philippe Clement, Derek McInnes and Stephen Robinson

Rangers, Hearts, Kilmarnock and St Mirren will feature in Monday’s European play-off draws.

Dynamo Kyiv or Scottish Premiership runners-up Rangers will be one of the seeded entries in the Champions League play-off draw.

The Ukrainian side or Philippe Clement’s team will be drawn to face the winner of the Slavia Prague v Union Saint-Gilloise tie or the Salzburg v FC Twente tie.

Dynamo and Rangers meet for the first leg of their third qualifying tie on Tuesday evening in Poland, where Dynamo are temporarily playing. Rangers’ home leg will be the following Tuesday at Hampden, with Ibrox currently unavailable due to renovation works.

Should either side lose at either the third qualifying round or play-off stages, they will enter the new league phase of the Europa League.

Hearts, third in last season’s Premiership, are unseeded in the third group of ties in the Europa League play-off draw. All other entrants will come from the third qualifying round, which begins on Thursday.

Possible eventual opponents include Cercle Bruges, who knocked out Kilmarnock last week, and Portuguese side Braga. Should Hearts lose, they will enter the Conference League group stage.

Kilmarnock or Tromso will feature in the first group of ties drawn in the Conference League play-off round, with St Mirren or Brann in group two. Frances’ Lens are possible opponents for Killie while St Mirren could face Italians Fiorentina.

Kilmarnock and St Mirren both play the home legs of their third qualifying round ties on Thursday, with the return legs the following Thursday in Norway. Killie lost 2-1 to Belgium‘s Cercle on aggregate to drop into the Conference League while St Mirren beat Iceland’s Valur 4-1 over two legs to reach the final round before the group stage.

All play-off ties will be played over the final two midweeks in August.

The draw for the revamped Champions League proper takes place on 29 August, with the first of eight rounds of fixtures in mid-September.

The draws for the league phase of the Europa League, of which there will be eight rounds of fixtures, and the Conference League group phase, which has six match nights, will be on 30 August.

The Europa league phase starts on the final midweek of September with the Conference group stage commencing in early October.

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