Celtic to face Maribor in Champions League play-off

Celtic’s Champions League reprieve earned them a clash with Slovenian champions Maribor in the final play-off round.

The Scottish league winners were beaten 6-1 on aggregate by Legia Warsaw in the previous round but the Poles were punished for fielding an ineligible player.

Bartosz Bereszynski, who came on as an 86th-minute substitute as Legia won the second leg 2-0 at Murrayfield on Wednesday night, was suspended following a red card for violent conduct in last season’s Europa League.

Hours before the draw for the next round was to be made, Uefa announced that Celtic had been awarded a 3-0 win in the second leg, and therefore qualified on away goals after a 4-4 aggregate result.

Celtic reached the group stages last season but failed to progress from an extremely tough pool that also included AC Milan, Barcelona and Ajax.

Arsenal will meet Turkish side Besiktas in the two-legged play-off.

Arsene Wenger’s side, who finished fourth in the Premier League last season, will travel to Istanbul for the first match in the week beginning August 18th, with the home leg taking place the following week.

Arsenal have never previously met Besiktas in any European competition.

Ronny Deila admits Celtic's dramatic reinstatement has left him feeling "very strange."

Speaking at the club’s Lennoxtown training complex the Celtic manager said: “It is very strange, I have to say that.

“First of all I feel very sorry for Legia, and my friends from Norway there.

“It is tough to think of that and now we are in the Champions League.

“That is what Uefa said, we haven’t been involved in anything.

“I am a football manager and I have to go with it and now we are preparing for Maribor.”

Tottenham will face 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 August 21st, with Limassol travelling to London the following Thursday.

Last season Tottenham made it through the group stages but were eliminated by eventual runners-up Benfica in the last 16.

Hull’s reward for a narrow win over Slovakian’s AS Trencin in the previous round is a tie against Belgians Lokeren.

The Tigers’ European adventure looked like it would end at the first hurdle thanks to Trencin’s away goal in Thursday night’s second leg at the KC Stadium but Sone Aluko netted a winner 10 minutes from time.

Lokeren, who will host the first leg, were beaten at the same stage last season by Czech side Viktoria Plzen.

Legia Warsaw will meet Kazakh side FC Aktobe.

Champions League play-off draw

Maribor v Celtic

SV Red Bull Salzburg v Malmo

AaB v APOEL Nicosia

Steaua Bucuresti v Ludogorets

Slovan Bratislava v BATE

Besiktas v Arsenal

Standard Liege v Zenit St. Petersburg

FC Copenhagen v Bayer Leverkusen

Lille v FC Porto

Napoli v Athletic Bilbao

Europa League play-off draw

FK Sarajevo v Borussia M’gladbach

Astana v Villarreal

Apollon Limassol v Lokomotiv Moscow

PEC Zwolle v Sparta Prague

Young Boys v Debrecen

Asteras Tripoli v Maccabi Tel-Aviv

FC Spartak Trnava v FC Zurich

AEL 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

FC 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 Inter Milan

Panathinaikos v FC Midtjylland

Feyenoord v Zarya Luhansk

Grasshoppers v Club Brugge

Real Sociedad v Krasnodar

Rijeka v FC Sheriff