A total of 27 out of the 38 teams set to participate in the first two draws of the UEFA Champions League’s Champions Path have already been confirmed.
23 clubs from the First Qualifying Round and 4 from the Second Qualifying Round — who enter the competition directly — are already known, Idman.biz reports.
Azerbaijani champions Qarabag are among the seeded teams starting from the Second Qualifying Round. Managed by Gurban Gurbanov, the team will avoid the First Round and will be placed in the seeded pot during the draw.
Qarabag’s possible opponents will mainly be the winners of First Qualifying Round ties. These include matchups involving Lincoln (Gibraltar), KuPS (Finland), TNS (Wales), Drita (Kosovo), Breidablik (Iceland), and Linfield (Northern Ireland).
Champions League
Champions Path – First Qualifying Round
Seeded teams:
Ludogorets (Bulgaria)
Romanian champions
Malmö (Sweden)
Žalgiris (Vilnius, Lithuania)
RFS (Latvia)
Bosnian champions
Lincoln (Gibraltar)
KuPS (Finland)
Slovenian champions
TNS (Wales)
Drita (Kosovo)
Breidablik (Iceland)
Linfield (Northern Ireland)
Unseeded teams:
Inter Club d’Escaldes (Andorra)
Shkëndija (North Macedonia)
Levadia (Estonia)
Dinamo Minsk (Belarus)
Ħamrun Spartans (Malta)
Kairat (Kazakhstan)
Noah (Armenia)
Differdange (Luxembourg)
Iberia (Georgia)
Víkingur (Faroe Islands)
Shelbourne (Ireland)
Albanian champions
Maltese champions
Virtus (San Marino)
TBD:
Budućnost (Montenegro)
Moldovan champions
Second Qualifying Round
Seeded teams:
Crvena Zvezda (Serbia)
Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia)
Danish champions
Qarabag (Azerbaijan)
Winner of the Ludogorets tie
Winner of the Romanian champions’ tie
Unseeded teams:
Winner of the Lincoln tie
Winner of the KuPS tie
Winner of the TNS tie
Winner of the Drita tie
Winner of the Breidablik tie
Winner of the Linfield tie
Unconfirmed teams:
Israeli champions
Pafos (Cyprus)
Polish champions
Croatian champions
Ukrainian champions
Hungarian champions
6 winners from First Qualifying Round ties
League Path – Second Qualifying Round
Seeded:
Rangers (Scotland)
Unseeded:
Brann (Norway)
TBD:
Panathinaikos (Greece)
Czech runners-up
Austrian runners-up
Swiss runners-up
The First Qualifying Round draw will take place on June 17, followed by the Second Round draw on June 18.
Vugar Kheyrullayev
Idman.biz
