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UEFA Europa League Draw Preview

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FOR an unprecedented third season in a row, Rangers have Group Stage Europa League football to look forward to having superbly navigated another tough set of qualifying matches.

The draw for those Group Stages takes place at Noon in Nyon, Switzerland.

Performances over the last two seasons mean Steven Gerrard’s side are in pot three of four, meaning they will draw a team from pot one, a team from pot two, and a team from pot four, with the pots all organised on clubs’ individual seeding.

Country protection, as always, is in operation, meaning Gers can’t be drawn against the other half of the Old Firm today.

The teams the Light Blues could potentially face, therefore, are as follows:

Pot 1

  • Arsenal (ENG)

  • Tottenham Hotspur (ENG)

  • Roma (ITA)

  • Napoli (ITA)

  • Benfica (POR)

  • Leverkusen (GER)

  • Villarreal (ESP)

  • CSKA Moscow (RUS)

  • Braga (POR)

  • Gent (BEL)

  • PSV Eindhoven (NED)

Pot 2

  • Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)

  • Sparta Prague (CZE)

  • Slavia Prague (CZE)

  • Ludogorets (BUL)

  • Young Boys (SUI)

  • Red Star Belgrade (SRB)

  • Rapid Vienna (AUT)

  • Leicester City (ENG)

  • Qarabağ (AZE)

  • PAOK (GRE)

  • Standard Liège (BEL)

  • Real Sociedad (ESP)

Pot 4

  • Zorya Luhansk (UKR)

  • LOSC (FRA)

  • Nice (FRA)

  • Rijeka (CRO)

  • Dundalk (IRL)

  • Slovan Liberec (SVK)

  • Royal Antwerp (BEL)

  • Lech Poznań (POL)

  • Sivasspor (TUR)

  • Wolfsberg (AUT)

  • Omonoia (CYP)

  • CSKA Sofia (BUL)

The impact of Covid-19 means the six ties will be played over a significantly shorter period of time this season, with the provisional dates for those as follows:

  1. Matchday 1: 22 October

  2. Matchday 2: 29 October

  3. Matchday 3: 5 November

  4. Matchday 4: 26 November

  5. Matchday 5: 3 December

  6. Matchday 6: 10 Decembe r