The UEFA Conference League Play-Off round draw will take place at UEFA Headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland and will start at 1pm (UK time) today!
Potential Opponents?
Hibs are in the Main Path of the draw and have been selected as an unseeded team in Group 3 and could face any of the following seeded teams, should we progress.
SK Slavia Praha (CZE) vs SC Dnipro-1 (UKR)
Olympiacos FC (GRE) vs KRC Genk (BEL)
FC Santa Coloma (AND) vs AZ Alkmaar (NED)
Aston Villa (ENG)
Draw Procedure
All the clubs in each of the three groups are randomly assigned a number: 1 to 4 for the seeded teams and 5 to 8 for the unseeded teams.
Hibs are in Group 3, ball number 8.
Three bowls are prepared for the draw, with the balls containing the numbers for the seeded and unseeded teams for Groups 1-3 placed in the correspondingly marked bowls.
One ball is taken from each of those bowls and placed in the third empty central bowl, where they are shuffled. The number shown from the first ball drawn from this bowl indicates the home teams of the first pairing of all three groups, and they will play against the teams indicated by the number of the ball drawn second from this bowl.
For example, if the first ball drawn contains the number 2 and the second the number 8, the clubs that have been assigned the numbers 2 and 8 in each of the three groups will play each other. The first ball drawn, here containing the number 2, designates the home team for the first leg in all three ties.
The same procedure is carried out with the remaining balls to complete the pairings of these three Groups.
When will the ties take place?
The two-legged ties will take place on Thursday 24 August and Thursday 31 August.
