Celtic will enter this week's Europa League draw instead of looking ahead to finding out who they could have been playing in the Champions League league phase.
Brendan Rodgers' side blew the chance of £20m when they missed three penalties in their shootout loss to Kairat Almaty in the play-off of the UCL last night.
Kairat fought with passion from the first minute of the first leg in Glasgow until the bitter end last night, as they became the first Kazakhstani team to qualify for UEFA's top club competition.
The inquest into Celtic's failing commence as soon as Daizen Maeda missed Celtic's fifth spot kick in Almaty last night.
But the long and short of the situation is that the Scottish Premiership champions will enter the league phase of the Europa League next month.
The draw for the 2025/26 UEFA Europa League takes place on Friday August 29.
And we already know that the Hoops will enter that draw in Pot 2.
Scotland's Coefficient, renowned for their expertise regarding Scottish teams involved in European competitions, has pieced together the best and worst case scenarios from the draw for Celtic.
And there are undoubtedly some teams the Hoops will certainly want to avoid, and others they'd happily take on, with quite the range of opponents they could potentially come up against.
Best
Dinamo Zagreb
RB Salzburg
Maccabi Tel-Aviv
Young Boys
Ludogorets
FCSB
Go Ahead Eagles
AEK Larnaca
Worst
Roma
Porto
Fenerbahçe
Lyon
Nottingham Forest
Strum Graz
Stuggart
Panathinaikos
