UEFA Europa League Play Off Round Draw

Following the UEFA Champions League draw in Nyon was the UEFA Europa League play-off round draw which sees participants join for the first time in European competition and also those who were eliminated in last round's UEFA Champions League earlier this week.

Trabzonspor who have just joined the competition have drawn a first leg home tie against French side Toulouse and after a good season in last year's Turkish Super Lig manager Hugo Broos will no doubt be looking to improve on that with a good season in Europe as well. Speaking to the press after the draw, the Trabzonspor manager commented on the technical ability of French teams saying "French teams have a high technical capacity and are very organised teams. This means they must be analysed well. Following the draw, we are up against a team who you can not say are a bad side".
It is understood that assistant coach Turgut Kural will be flying out to France this evening to watch their opponents' game against Monaco tomorrow.

Elsewhere in the draw Sivasspor who were knocked out of the Champions League on wednesday have been drawn against last season's UEFA Cup winners Shakhtar Donetsk who were also knocked out of the UEFA Champions league earlier this week.

The two Istanbul giants also in the competition, Galatasaray SK and Fenerbahce SK have drawn Levadia Talinn and SC Sion respectively.

The first leg's of the play off will be played on August 20th followed by the second leg the following week on August 27th. The only exception to the rule will be Shakhtar Donetsk's second leg tie which will be played on the 25th of August due to their European Super Cup game against last year's Champions League winners FC Barcelona which will be played on August 28th.

Here is the complete draw:

PAOK - Heerenveen

Dinamo Zagreb - Heart of Midlothian

Werder Bremen - Aktobe

Everton - Sigma

BATE - Litex

NAC vs. Villarreal

Lech - Club Brugge

Fulham - Amkar

Galatasaray - Levadia

Teplice - Hapoel Tel-Aviv

Metalurh Donetsk - Austria Wien

Twente - Qarabag

Roma - Kosice

Dinamo Moscow - CSKA Sofia

Genk - Lille

PSV - Bnei Yehuda

Lazio - Elfsborg

Trabzonspor - Toulouse

Partizan - Zilina

Baki - Basel

Ajax - Slovan Bratislava

Shakhtar Donetsk - Sivasspor

Brondby - Hertha

Athletic Bilbao - Tromso

Sarajevo - Cluj

Rapid Wien - Aston Villa

Steaua Bucuresti - St Patrick’s Athletic

Sparta Praha - Maribor

Zenit St. Petersburg - Nacional

Genoa - Odense

Dinamo Bucuresti - Liberec

Guingamp - Hamburg

Sion - Fenerbahce

Sturm - Metalist

Slavia Praha - Crvena Zvezda

Benfica - Vorskla

Vaslui - AEK

Stabaek - Valencia