UEFA Europa League play-off draw results

Panathinaikos  will take on Qäbälä while PAOK  tie with Brøndby and Atromitos Athens versus Fenerbahçe  after the draw for the 2015/16 play-offs was made in Nyon, Switzerland.

Champions in 1992, Ajax were eliminated from the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round by Rapid Wien this week and will travel to the Czech Republic for the first leg against Jablonec. In other high-profile ties, Borussia Dortmund take on Norway's Odd and Bordeaux meet Kairat – with a distance of 5,947km between the two clubs.

Elsewhere, European debutants Altach, of Austria, meet Portugal's Belenenses while Rabotnicki, bidding to become the first club from FYROM to reach the group stage, take on Rubin Kazan.

Play-off round draw

Altach (AUT) v Belenenses (POR)
Steaua Bucureşti (ROU) v Rosenborg (NOR)
Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) v Vojvodina (SRB)
Jablonec (CZE) v Ajax (NED)
Molde (NOR) v Standard Liège (BEL)
Žilina (SVK) v Athletic Club (ESP)
Zorya Luhansk (UKR) v Legia Warszawa (POL)
Milsami Orhei (MDA) v Saint-Étienne (FRA)
Young Boys (SUI) v Qarabağ (AZE)
PAOK (GRE) v Brøndby (DEN)
Girondins de Bordeaux (FRA) v Kairat Almaty (KAZ)
Dinamo Minsk (BLR) v FC Salzburg (AUT)
Slovan Liberec (CZE) v Hajduk Split (CRO)
Panathinaikos (GRE) v Qäbälä (AZE)
Astra Giurgiu (ROU) v AZ Alkmaar (NED)
FC Krasnodar (RUS) v HJK Helsinki (FIN)
Lech Poznań (POL) v Videoton (HUN)
Rabotnicki (MKD) v Rubin Kazan (RUS)
Atromitos (GRE) v Fenerbahçe (TUR)
Southampton (ENG) v Midtjylland (DEN)
Odds BK (NOR) v Borussia Dortmund (GER)
FC Thun (SUI) v Sparta Praha (CZE)

Matches
• Ties are played on 20 and 27 August with the 22 winners going into the group stage draw in Monaco on 28 August along with 16 automatic entrants and the ten teams defeated in the UEFA Champions League play-off draw.

Bye to group stage: Schalke 04 (GER), Napoli (ITA), Tottenham Hotspur  (ENG), Villarreal (ESP), Olympique de Marseille (FRA), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (UKR), Braga (POR), Fiorentina (ITA) , Anderlecht (BEL), Liverpool (ENG), Beşiktaş (TUR), Lokomotiv Moskva (RUS), Augsburg (GER), Asteras Tripolis (GRE), FC Groningen (NED), Sion (SUI)

Road to Basel
Group stage ...
Matchday one: 17 September
Matchday two: 1 October
Matchday three: 22 October
Matchday four: 5 November
Matchday five: 26 Novembe

Transfer to round of 32 from UEFA Champions League: 8 third-place group finishers

Round of 32 draw: 14 December, Nyon

Round of 32, first leg: 18 February

Round of 32, second leg: 25 February

Round of 16 draw: 26 February (tbc), Nyon

Round of 16, first leg: 10 March

Round of 16, second leg: 17 March

Quarter-final draw: 18 March, Nyon

Quarter-final, first leg: 7 April

Quarter-final, second leg: 14 April

Semi-final draw: 15 April

Semi-final, first leg: 28 Apeil

Semi-final, second leg: 5 May

Final: 20.45CET, 18 May, St. Jakob-Park