Live Coverage: Champions League qualifying playoff draw - as it happened

After a year away, Manchester United are back in the Champions League and today learnt their fate in the playoff qualifying round.

They could have faced the likes of Lazio and Monaco, but Club Brugge came out of the hat for the Red Devils.

Read how the whole draw unfolded in our minute-by-minute updates below.

11.22amAnyway, that's it from us on this commentary. Check back on site a little later for the Europa League qualifying draw, where Southampton will find out their fate. See you there!

11.20amThe two that stand out for me are Lazio vs. Leverkusen and Valencia vs. Monaco. Only two of those four will be part of the group-stage draw later this month.

11.19amHere are all 10 ties for the final round of Champions League qualifying before the group stage: Astana vs. APOEL Skenderbeu vs. Dinamo Zagreb Celtic vs. Malmo Basel vs. Maccabi Tel-Aviv BATE Borisov vs. Partizan Belgrade Lazio vs. Bayer Leverkusen Manchester United vs. Club Brugge Sporting CP vs. CSKA Moscow Rapid Vienna vs. Shakhtar Donetsk Valencia vs. Monaco

11.17amOnce we know the 10 teams to come out of the ties, the draw for the group stage will take place on Thursday, August 27.

11.16amAND THERE WE HAVE IT! The ties will be played on August 18/19 and 25/26.

11.15amValencia vs. Monaco

11.15amRapid Vienna vs. Shakhtar Donetsk

11.14amSporting CP vs. CSKA Moscow

11.14amMANCHESTER UNITED vs. Club Brugge

11.13amLazio vs. Bayer Leverkusen

11.12amThe Champions Route is about to take place and there's one tie that can't happen - Shakhtar vs. CSKA because of the tension between Russia and Ukraine. The complications if the two come out are quite drawn out, so let's hope that doesn't happen.

11.10amI think Celtic will take that. They don't have to travel as far as Albania, Israel or Kazakhstan. The downside is that they do have the home leg first.

11.10amBATE Borisov vs. Partizan Belgrade

11.09amBasel vs. Maccabi Tel-Aviv

11.08amCeltic vs. Malmo

11.08amSkenderbeu vs. Dinamo Zagreb

11.08amAstana vs. APOEL

11.07amIt will be the Champions Route first...

11.06amHERE WE GO! UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino (below) is doing his usual briefing, but he's just handed over to Giorgio Marchetti to explain the draw. We're moments away.

11.03amSo, the League Route seems to have the strongest teams on paper and we're likely to see some of the biggest names in Europe not make it to the group stage. United will want to face Vienna, while Scottish champions Celtic would probably like to avoid Tel-Aviv and Astana as they are longer trips.

11.00amThere are two halves to this draw - the Champions Route and the League Route, with five top-seeded teams in each half. United are in the League Route and you can see all 20 teams below: Champions Route (seeded): Basel, Celtic, APOEL, BATE, Dinamo Zagreb Champions Route (unseeded): Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Partizan, Malmo, Skenderbeu, Astana League Route (seeded): Manchester United, Bayer Leverkusen, Valencia, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sporting CP League Route (unseeded): CSKA Moscow, Lazio, Club Brugge, Monaco, Rapid Vienna

10.58amThere are 20 teams involved in this draw and the biggest name of the lot is Manchester United, who will face either CSKA Moscow, Lazio, Club Brugge, Monaco or Rapid Vienna.

10.56amMorning all! We're just a few minutes away from the draw for the playoff round of Champions League qualifying. Just two games separate the sides involved today from the group stage.

Live Coverage: Champions League qualifying playoff draw - as it happened

Teams mentioned in this article :

Manchester United

Celtic