Football. ua tells who made it to the second and third most prestigious Eurotournament.

Next season, in addition to the Champions League and Europa League, there will also be a third European Cup - the Conference League.

Three teams will represent Ukraine in these two tournaments, but none of them is guaranteed a place in the group stage.. It is already known who will perform in these tournaments and will be a potential rival of our teams - Zarya, Kolos and Vorskla.

Europa League Ukraine has no direct tickets to the Europa League, and the UPL bronze medalist Luhanska Zarya will play in the qualification. Also, if Shakhtar does not qualify for the Champions League group, he will go straight to the Europa League group..

The usual seeding in the playoff round of the Europa League qualification, where Zorya starts, will not be. Teams will be divided into priorities, representatives of one priority group will not play with each other.

Read also: Dynamo and Shakhtar in the Champions League: who is in which basket Zorya, how she secured a place in the LE through the national championship or the Cup, falls into the first priority. There are also bronze medalists of Belgium (Antwerp), the Netherlands (AZ), Turkey (Fenerbahce), Austria (Sturm) and the winner of the Danish Cup (Randers). Zarya will definitely not play with these teams.

Potential rivals of Luhansk people will be teams from the fourth and third priorities. First, six teams of the first priority will "

The third / fourth priority is the teams that will be eliminated from the early stages of the Champions League qualification plus the winners of the National Association Cup 14-16 in the odds table (Scotland, Cyprus, Czech Republic) - St. Johnson, Anorthosis, Jablonec.

Of the Champions League so far, the most rated are Ferencvaros, Shkendia, Maribor, Slovan Bratislava, Dynamo (Tbilisi), Rapid (Vienna). Among them lies the probable rival of Zarya on the way to the LE group. Luhansk residents need to defeat only one opponent on the way to the group.

In the group stage, Zarya will most likely be in the third basket. Lyon, Napoli, Bayer Leverkusen, Lazio, Braga, Eintracht F, Leicester, Lokomotiv, Marseille, and probably West Ham, Real Sociedad and Betis will definitely play here.

Then comes the group stage, while only those teams that will take fourth place in the group will be eliminated from the European cups..

Conference League No one goes directly to the group stage of the Conference League - everyone will qualify.

The group will be played either by the losers of the playoffs of the LE (where Zarya will play), or the winners of the qualification. An ear to the group needs to go through two rivals, Vorskla - three. The draw for Poltava will take place on June 16 - they are the first to recognize their rivals and the first to start in July.

Teams such as Maribor, Fehervar, Sarajeva, Hibernians will play in the first round of qualification. In the second, where Vorskla starts, - Basel, Ghent, Astana, Feyenoord, Karabakh, AEK, PAOK, Molde, Sivasspor and others. Including the teams that won in the first round of qualification of the LC (League of Conferences), which complicates the understanding of the potential rivals of Maximov's team.

Vorskla is now 29th in rating, so there is every chance of getting into the top 45 as a result and being seeded at this stage of the competition..

In the third round of qualification, Anderlecht, LASK, Pasos Ferreira, Vitesse, Rubin, Kolos, Trabzonspor and 45 winners of the second round of qualification are added.

Kolos and Vorskla have the same rating, and if we assume that all the seeded ones go further, then our clubs will be 34th and 35th among the participants in this stage.. The first 26 will be seeded, which means that at least 9 teams with a higher rating will need to be eliminated in the previous stages..

34 clubs will play in the Conference League playoffs - 26 from the previous stage, three losers of the third qualifying round of the Europa League and five teams that got here directly - Roma, Tottenham, Villarreal, Rennes and Union. Probably, here our teams will no longer be seeded.