UEFA Champions League qualifying has been underway since June, but it’s finally winding down to the final stage. There are 20 teams in the playoffs, with half of them dropping into the Champions League group stage. The teams trying to make it in will be drawn in the playoffs on Friday.
Champions League draw 2016 live stream: Time, TV schedule and how to watch online
The final 20 teams trying to make the Champions League will learn whom they have to play to get in on Friday.
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The top three teams in England, Spain and Germany are already in the Champions League, along with the top two teams in Italy, France and Portugal, plus the champions of Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey and the UEFA Europa League. They’ll be joined by 10 more playoff winners -- five non-Champions from top leagues and five champions of leagues outside the top 13.
Here are the pots that teams can be drawn from. Champions will play each other, while high-placed teams from better leagues will also play each other. Seeded teams can play only unseeded teams.
Champions route
Seeded teams
Viktoria Plzen
Red Bull Salzburg
Celtic
APOEL
Legia Warsaw
Unseeded teams
Dinamo Zagreb
Ludogorets
FC Copenhagen
Hapoel Be’er Sheva
Dundalk FC
League route
Seeded teams
Manchester City
FC Porto
Villarreal
Ajax
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Unseeded teams
AS Roma
Steaua Bucharest
AS Monaco
Young Boys
FC Rostov
The draw takes place at 12 p.m. CET, 6 p.m. ET from Nyon, Switzerland. You can watch a free live stream of the draw at UEFA.com.
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