Europa League draw LIVE as Aberdeen discover who they’ll face in the playoff round

We're getting into the serious stuff now as far as the Europa League is concerned with the draw for the final round before the group stage set to take place.

And it's Aberdeen's turn to enter the running as Barry Robson and his team are braced to learn their Euro fate.

The Premiership's third place team have the luxury of knowing that whatever happens, they'll have a place in the Conference League for their troubles. But they'd love to go one better and make it into the far more lucrative second tier of UEFA's competitions.

As a Priority One team (a top seed for all intents and purposes) the Dons will avoid the likes of Ajax, LASK and Union SG. But it doesn't mean it will be easy; still in the hat as potential opponents are Genk, Olympiacos, Slavia Prague and their former conquerers Qarabag.

The action is set to get started from UEFA's headquarters in Nyon at 12pm UK time and we'll have it all covered right here.

So stay tuned to find out what the future holds for the Pittodrie side and the rest of the teams entering the running here!

It's not like UEFA to overcomplicate these things, but this is effectively how it breaks down.

It's more complicated than it sounds, but for Aberdeen, it basically means that if they're one of the first three teams out of the hat, they will play a team from Priority Four (either FC Lugano or the winners of Olympiacos vs Genk or Slavia vs Dnipro.

If they're not, they will play a team from Priority Three; the winners of one of five third qualifying round ties. That's a ten-team list which includes former foes Qarabag and Breidablik.

Given Aberdeen's lack of Euro involvement in recent years, they have one of the lowest coefficients in their section.

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