Today at 2pm in Monaco, UEFA will hold the draw for the group stages of the Europa League. Here's a complete list of Maccabi Tel Aviv's potential rivals
Last night the list of 48 clubs competing in the group stage of the Europa League was finalised after the completion of the last of the play-off matches. Maccabi Tel Aviv entered that list automatically after their opponents, Greek club POAK Thessaloniki, returned to the Champions League play-offs as a result of the suspension of Ukrainian side Metalist Kharkiv from European competition. For the purpose of the draw, these 48 clubs have been divided into four pots in accordance with their coefficients representing their accumulated achievements in European competition. Maccabi has been assigned to the lowest pot 4 and will face one opponent from each of the other three higher pots.
Here follows a list of Maccabi Tel Aviv's potential rivals, grouped into those three pots:
Pot 1: Valencia CF and Sevilla FC (Spain), Olympique Lyonnais and FC Girondins de Bordeaux (France), ACF Fiorentina and Lazio (Italy), PSV Eindhoven and AZ Alkmaar (Holland), Tottenham Hotspur FC (England), FC Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine), FC Rubin Kazan (Russia), Standard de Liège (Belgium)
Pot 2: Wigan Athletic FC and Swansea City AFC (England), APOEL FC (Greece), PAOK FC (Cyprus), FC Salzburg (Austria), KRC Genk (Belgium), GNK Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine), Trabzonspor AS (Turkey), FC Anji Makhachkala (Russia), Real Betis Balompié (Spain), SC Freiburg FC (Germany)
Pot 3: Vitória SC, Estoril Praia and Paços de Ferreira (Portugal), Eintracht Frankfurt FC (Germany), Legia Warszawa (Poland), SK Rapid Wien (Austria), FC Sheriff (Moldavia), FC Chornomorets Odesa (Ukraine), NK Maribor (Slovenia), FC Kuban Krasnodar (Russia), IF Elfsborg (Sweden)
Maccabi Haifa is the twelfth club in Pot 3 but in the group stage teams may not have opponents from the same country.
The draw will take place at 2 pm and will be broadcast on the Israeli sports channel Sport 1 (also HD). Live updates will be streamed on the Maccabi Tel Aviv Facebook page.
