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Who can Liverpool and Celtic draw in their Champions League play-off?

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 19:  Jurgen Klopp manager of Liverpool gives instructions during the Premier League match between Everton and Liverpool
Image: Liverpool will face a play-off match to make the group stages of the Champions League

Who can Liverpool and Celtic play in the final Champions League play-off round? We take a look at their potential opponents.

The draw to qualify for the group stages will be made at 11am BST on Friday August 4 in Nyon, with the two-legged ties to be played on August 15-16 and August 22-23.

Here, we run down who each British team could face as they look for a spot in the main draw.

Liverpool

Unlike Celtic, the Reds are yet to play a qualifying match and are seeded in the 'league route' side of the draw which means they qualified but did not win their domestic league.

League Route

Seeded clubs Unseeded clubs
Liverpool Steaua Bucharest
Sevilla Young Boys
Napoli Nice
CSKA Moscow Hoffenheim
Sporting Lisbon Istanbul Basaksehir

Napoli and Sevilla are in the same position as Liverpool and after Ajax and Dynamo Kiev lost their third qualifying round ties, CSKA Moscow and Sporting Lisbon have joined them as seeded teams and they will not play each other.

They could be drawn against one of five unseeded sides: Steaua Bucharest, Young Boys, Nice, Hoffenheim and Istanbul Basaksehir.

Liverpool could come up against former striker Mario Balotelli, who now plays for Nice, while Roberto Firmino could face his old side Hoffenheim.

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Celtic

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Celtic beat Rosenborg 1-0 in the Champions League third round qualifier

The Scottish Premiership champions saw off Rosenborg in their third-round qualifying tie and will face a final play-off to reach the group stages. Because of their league win, they feature in the 'champions route' as a seeded side.

Champions route

Seeded clubs Unseeded clubs
Celtic Qarabag FK
Olympiakos Hapoel Beer-Sheva
FC Copenhagen Slavia Prague
APOEL Nicosia Astana
NK Maribor NK Rijeka

Along with the Hoops, the four other seeded sides - Olympiakos, FC Copenhagen, APOEL Nicosia and NK Maribor - will face an unseeded club, being either Qarabag FK, Hapoel Beer-Sheva, Slavia Prague, Astana or NK Rijeka.

Three of Celtic's five possible opponents are familiar. They knocked Qarabag out of the Champions League in 2015, before eliminating both Astana and Hapoel Beer-Sheva last season.

Follow the draw with our live blog on skysports.com and the Sky Sports apps from 11.00am BST on Friday 4 August.

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