The 58 teams at this stage of the competition will be seeded so we can anticipate facing one of the 29 highest ranked sides. Before the draw competitors will be split into groups of 10 or 12 (half seeded and half unseeded). Motherwell's UEFA coefficient is 7.038 and that places us 10th in the unseeded group. Assuming seeded teams win their earlier rounds our opponent will come from this list :-
Team
Country/Coeff
vfb Stuttgart
Ger 59.922
Rubin Kazan **
Rus 58.266
Sevilla
Esp 55.105
Standard Liege **
Bel 45. 880
Udinese
Ita 42.829
Club Brugge
Bel 36.880
Hapoel Tel-Aviv **
Isr 29.575
Sparta Praha **
Cze 29.245
AS Saint Ettiene
Fra 26.800
Lech Poznan
Pol 23.650
Trabzorispor **
Tur 21.400
AaB Aalborg **
Den 19.640
Anorthosis Famagusta **
Cyp 17.366
Rosenborg BK
Nor 16.835
FC Zurich
Sui 16.785
Swansea City
Eng 16.592
MSK Zilina *
Svk 15.841
Bursaspor
Tur 14.900
FC Utrecht
Ned 13.945
Maccabi Haifa **
Isr 13.575
Rapid Wien
Aut 13.075
Metalurg Donetsk
Ukr 12.451
Levski Sofia
Bul 11.950
Estoril Praia
Por 11.833
Sturm Graz **
Aut 11.575
Omonia Nicosia ‘
Cyp 10.366
Chernomorets Odesa *a
Ukr 9.951
Vitesse Arnhem
Ned 9.945
DVSC Debrecen **
Hun 9.850
* ** Assumes success in earlier rounds
Data from Bert Kassies brilliant site.
Top seeds are Stuttgart while the lowest standing possibility is Debrecen from Hungary. The shortest journey will be to Swansea while the longest would be to Tel Aviv in Israel.
The identities of the pre-draw groupings is made known ahead of the draw (on Friday 19 July) so keen travellers will be able to make some hasty preparations in the event that the draw provides a single opponent. The 2nd Qualifying Round will be complete on Thursday 25 July so it might be that we will have as little as one week to make arrangements for the expedition.
Source: FirParkCorner
Source: FOOTYMAD
