Arsenal will face Turkish club Besiktas in the Champions League play-off round. Arsène Wenger’s side will travel to Istanbul for the first leg of the tie on Tuesday 19 August, with the return at the Emirates the following Wednesday.
Arsenal have never previously met Besiktas in any European competition. The Turkish side are managed by the former West Ham defender Slaven Bilic, and recently signed Demba Ba from Chelsea. Ba scored a hat-trick in Besiktas’s 3-1 second-leg victory over Feyenoord in the previous round, which gave his side a 5-2 aggregate victory.
Celtic’s Champions League reprieve earned them a clash with the Slovenian champions Maribor. The Scottish league winners were beaten 6-1 on aggregate by Legia Warsaw in the previous round but the Polish side were punished for fielding an ineligible player.
The other stand-out tie of the round pits Rafael Benítez’s Napoli against Athletic Bilbao, with the first leg in Naples.
Tottenham will face the Cypriot side AEL Limassol in the final play-off round of the Europa League. Mauricio Pochettino’s first European match in charge of Spurs will come in Cyprus on 21 August, with Limassol travelling to north London the following Thursday. Hull’s reward for a narrow win over Slovakian’s Trencin in the previous round is a tie against the Belgians Lokeren. Legia Warsaw will meet Kazakh side FC Aktobe.
Full Champions League play-off draw
Maribor v Celtic
Red Bull Salzburg v Malmo
Aalborg v Apoel Nicosia
Steaua Bucuresti v Ludogorets
Slovan Bratislava v Bate
Besiktas v Arsenal
Standard Liège v Zenit St Petersburg
FC Copenhagen v Bayer Leverkusen
Lille v Porto
Napoli v Athletic Bilbao
Ties to be played 19-20 and 26-27 August
Full Europa League play-off is draw
FK Sarajevo v Borussia Mönchengladbach
Astana v Villarreal
Apollon Limassol v Lokomotiv Moscow
PEC Zwolle v Sparta Prague
Young Boys v Debrecen
Asteras Tripoli v Maccabi Tel-Aviv
Spartak Trnava v FC Zurich
AEL Limassol v Tottenham Hotspur
Dnipro v Hajduk Split
Dinamo Minsk v Nacional
Karabakh v FC Twente
Petrolul Ploiesti v Dinamo Zagreb
HJK Helsinki v Rapid Vienna
Trabzonspor v Rostov
Zimbru v PAOK
RNK Split v Torino
Omonia Nicosia v Dinamo Moscow
Aktobe v Legia Warsaw
Lyon v Astra Giurgiu
Lokeren v Hull
Neftchi v Partizan Belgrade
Ruch Chorzow v Metalist Kharkiv
IF Elfsborg v Rio Ave
PSV v Shakhtyor
Karabukspor v St Etienne
Stjarnan v Internazionale
Panathinaikos v FC Midtjylland
Feyenoord v Zarya Luhansk
Grasshoppers v Club Brugge
Real Sociedad v Krasnodar
Rijeka v Sheriff
Ties to be played 21 and 28 August
