How does European qualifying work for clubs from UK?

Rangers, Hibernian and Dundee United are among 10 teams from the UK who volition observe their archetypal opponents successful the qualification rounds of the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League this week.

The draws for the archetypal circular of qualifying for each 3 competitions instrumentality spot connected Tuesday, 17 June with the 2nd circular qualifying draws a time later.

All 3 competitions person 4 rounds of qualifying anterior to a league phase.

The 3 Scottish teams participate astatine the 2nd qualifying circular of their respective contention - Rangers successful the Champions League, Hibs successful the Europa League and Dundee United successful the Conference League.

Northern Irish champions Linfield and Welsh rubric winners The New Saints some participate the archetypal circular of Champions League qualifying.

Dungannon Swifts, who won the Irish Cup, participate the 2nd circular of Conference League qualifying alongside Dundee United

The remaining 4 teams from the UK - Penybont and Haverfordwest County from Wales, and Larne and Cliftonville from Northern Ireland - each diagnostic successful the Conference League's archetypal qualifying round.

The archetypal and 2nd rounds of qualifying for each 3 competitions instrumentality spot crossed July.

The 28 teams successful the Champions League's archetypal qualifying circular person been divided into 2 pots - seeded and unseeded.

The New Saints and Linfield are some seeded, meaning that - connected insubstantial - they person a much advantageous draw.

Teams they could perchance look see Dinamo Minsk of Belarus, Shelbourne from the Republic of Ireland and Armenian broadside Noah, who met Chelsea successful the radical stages of the 2024-25 Conference League.

Should either broadside beforehand to the 2nd qualifying round, they volition participate the champions way - for clubs who qualified arsenic nationalist champions.

Both teams would participate arsenic unseeded teams, wherever imaginable opponents see Danish champions Copenhagen oregon Slovakian champions Slovan Bratislava.

Rangers participate astatine this point, but are successful a abstracted conception known arsenic the league path.

The Glasgow broadside are 1 of 3 seeded teams successful that way and volition look either Panathinaikos (Greece), Servette (Switzerland) oregon Brann (Norway) successful the 2nd round.

Scottish champions Celtic participate astatine the play-off qualifying circular and volition look 1 of 8 sides for a spot successful the Champions League, with Basel (Switzerland) and Sturm Graz (Austria) among their imaginable opponents.

Hibernian are the lone British broadside entering either of the archetypal 2 Europa League qualifying rounds.

As 1 of 8 unseeded sides successful the 2nd qualifying round, their imaginable opponents see Braga of Portugal, Belgian outfit Anderlecht oregon Midtjylland from Denmark.

PAOK (Greece) and Young Boys (Switzerland) volition participate aboriginal successful the competition, arsenic good arsenic 16 losing sides from earlier qualifying rounds successful the Champions League.

Aberdeen volition participate the last circular of Europa League qualifying and volition beryllium an unseeded squad successful the draw.

Of the 10 UK teams featured successful the archetypal 2 qualification rounds for Europe's 3 nine competitions, six are going into the Conference League.

Northern Irish duo Larne and Cliftonville and Welsh sides Penybont and Haverfordwest County each participate the archetypal round.

Larne participate arsenic a seeded team, with the different 3 sides each unseeded.

Dundee United and Dungannon Swifts participate the 2nd circular of qualifying, with the erstwhile seeded and the second unseeded.

Larne are guaranteed to beryllium a seeded broadside successful the 2nd qualifying round, should they get that far.

Nottingham Forest volition participate the last circular of Conference League qualifying and are guaranteed to beryllium a seeded broadside successful that draw, meaning they volition debar a gathering with Fiorentina (Italy), Rayo Vallecano (Spain), Mainz (Germany) and Strasbourg (France), among others.

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