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The draw for the third qualifying round of the Europa League takes place at 11.00am on Friday, with Liverpool, Athletic Bilbao, Inter Milan and Marseille entering the competition.

Teams are placed into small groups of seeded and unseeded teams at this stage, meaning there are six possible opponents for the games which take place on August 2 and 9.

Liverpool, who play Spurs in the United States just five days before the first legs are due to take place, could face a long-distance trip to Ukraine to face Arsenal Kiev, Renova of Macedonia, Gomel of Belarus or Israel to take on Maccabi Netanya. They would prefer to face Scottish Premier League side Dundee United from their grouping.

SPL side St Johnstone, who enter in the second round on Thursday night, could be drawn with French League Cup winners Marseille if they beat Eskisehirspor of Turkey.

The second qualifying first legs games are on Thursday night, with the second legs next week which means many of the ties in Friday's draw with be either or games.

Group One
Seeds
Khazar Lankaran or Lech Poznan
Naftan Novopolotsk or Red Star Belgrade
Differdange or Gent
Levski Sofia or FK Sarajevo
Marseille
Sparta Prague

Non-seeds
Slovan Bratislava or Videoton
Eskisehirspor or St Johnstone
JJK Jyvaskyla or FK Zeta
VMFD Zalgiris or Admira Wacker
AIK or FH Hafnarfjordur
Omonia

Group Two
Seeds
Dinamo Moscow
Bursaspor
Young Boys or Zimbru Chisinau
Steaua Bucuresti
ND Mura 05 or CSKA Sofia
Liverpool

Non-seeds
NK Osijek or Kalmar FF
Arsenal Kiev
Spartak Trnava or Sligo Rovers
Renova or Gomel
Dundee United
Maccabi Netanya or KuPS Kuopio

Group Three
Seeds
Hannover 96
Athletic Bilbao
Liepajas Metalurgs or Legia Warsaw
Anzhi Makhachkala or Budapest Honved
Rosenborg or Ordabasy Shymkent
Maritimo

Non-seeds
Shakhtyor Soligorsk or SV Ried
Servette or Gandzasar Kapan
Lokomotiv Plovdiv 1936 or Vitesse Arnhem
Inter Baku or Asteras Tripolis
Siroki Brijeg or St Patrick's Athletic
Slaven Koprivnica or Portadown

Group Four
Seeds
Metalurgi Rustavi or Viktoria Plzen
APOEL or FK Senica
Heerenveen
Inter Milan
Dacia Chisinau or IF Elfsborg
Rapid Vienna

Non-seeds
Rapid Bucuresti or Myllykosken Pallo-47
AC Horsens
Hajduk Split or Skonto FC
Vojvodina or FK Suduva
Ruch Chorzow or FK Metalurg Skopje
KF Tirana or Aalesunds

Group Five
Seeds
Metalurh Donetsk or Celik Niksic
PAOK
Genk
Levadia Tallinn or Anorthosis Famagusta
FC Twente or Inter Turku

Non-seeds
Milsami Orhei or FC Aktobe
Arhus or FC Dila Gori
Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv or FC Shirak
NK Olimpija Ljubljana or Tromso
Mlada Boleslav or Thor Akureyri

After this round, the following clubs join in as follows:
Teams entering in play-off round (drawn August 10): Newcastle United, PSV Eindhoven, Levante, AZ Alkmaar, Vfb Stuttgart, Trabzonspor, Lazio, Atromitos, Bordeaux, Midtjylland, Sporting Lisbon, Lokeren, CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Bucharesti, Metalist Kharkiv, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Heart of Midlothian, Luzern, plus the 14 losers from the Champions League third qualifying round

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