There are a few teams we’d hope to avoid in the second round draw, including Shakhtar Donetsk (who beat Arsenal 3-0 a couple of years back), Slavia Prague, Partizan Belgrade, Rosenborg, Wisla Krakow and our 1997 opponents Dynamo Zagreb.
One thing seems certain and that is when the third round draw is made on July 25 we’ll be faced with a much tougher task to make the group stages than last season.
Draw for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League:
1 FC Pyunik (Arm) v KR Reykjavik (Ice)
2 FC Sheriff (Mol) v FC Flora (Est)
3 HB Torshavn (Far) v FBK Kaunas (Lit)
4 FC BATE Borisov (Bls) v Bohemian FC (Irl)
5 FK Vardar (Mac) v Barry Town AFC (Wal)
6 CS Grevenmacher (Lux) v FK Leotar (Bsh)
7 HJK Helsinki (Fin) v Glentoran FC (NIrl)
8 Sliema Wanderers FC (Mlt) v FC Skonto (Lat)
9 Omonia AC (Cyp) v FC Irtysh Pavlodar (Kaz)
10 FC Dinamo Tbilisi (Geo) v KF Tirana (Alb)
Draw for the second qualifying round of UEFA Champions League:
MTK Hungaria FC (Hun) v Winners match 7
Winners match 1 v PFC CSKA Sofia (Bul)
Winners match 3 v Celtic FC (Sco)
Winners match 6 v SK Slavia Praha (Cze)
Winners match 2 v FC Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukr)
MSK Zilina (Svk) v Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC (Isr)
Winners match 4 v Rosenborg BK (Nor)
NK Maribor (Slo) v NK Dynamo Zagreb (Cro)
PFC CSKA Moskva (Rus) v Winners match 5
AFC Rapid Bucuresti (Rom) v RSC Anderlecht (Bel)
FK Partizan (Yug) v Djurgardens IF (Swe)
Wisla Krakow (Pol) v Winners match 9
Champions of Denmark v Winners match 8
Winners match 10 v Grazer AK (Aut)