Liverpool off to Turkey, Celtic go Dutch

Soccer: Liverpool will face Turkish side Trabzonspor in the Europa League play-off round

Soccer:Liverpool will face Turkish side Trabzonspor in the Europa League play-off round. Roy Hodgson's side will meet the club based in Trabzon, who have won the Turkish league six times, on August 19th and 26th.

The play-off is the final hurdle before qualifying for the group stage, with Friday's draw involving 74 clubs.

Trabzonspor won the Turkish cup last season but have not claimed the league title since 1984.

After being knocked out of the Champions League qualifiers by FC Braga, Neil Lennon's Celtic face a tricky tie against FC Utrecht of Holland.

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Aston Villa face Austria's most successful Rapid Vienna, who have 32 championships to their name. The rivals met in the same round last season with Villa crashing out of the competition on away goals.

Big-spending Manchester City travel to Romania for the first leg of their play-off after being paired with Timisoara.

The Romanian minnows, established since 2002, finished fifth in their domestic league last season.

Welsh outfit TNS also travel for their first leg, heading to Bulgaria to meet CSKA Sofia, after beating Bohemians in the previous round.

Juventus' reward for beating Shamrock Rovers 3-0 on aggregate is a meeting with Austria's Sturm Graz.

Play-off draw

Paris Saint-Germain v Maccabi Tel-Aviv

Bayer Leverkusen v Tavriya Simferopol

CSKA Moscow v Anorthosis Famagusta

Hajduk Split v Unirea Urziceni

Feyenoord v Gent

Genk v FC Porto

Debreceni v Litex Lovech

Aris Thessaloniki v Austria Vienna

Galatasaray v Karpaty Lviv

Palermo v Maribor

Club Brugge v Dinamo Minsk

Omonia v Metalist Kharkiv

SC Vaslui v Lille

Napoli v IF Elfsborg

Sporting Lisbon v Brøndby

Grasshopper Zurich v Steaua Bucharest

Liverpool v Trabzonspor

Celtic v FC Utrecht

Borussia Dortmund v FK Qarabag

AIK v Levski Sofia

Sturm Graz v Juventus

Getafe v APOEL

Dundee United v AEK Athens

AZ Alkmaar v FK Aktobe

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk v Lech Poznan

Rapid Vienna v Aston Villa

CSKA Sofia v The New Saints

Besiktas v HJK Helsinki

Slovan Bratislava v VfB Stuttgart

FC Sibir Novosibirsk v PSV Eindhoven

BATE Borisov v Marítimo

Lausanne v Lokomotiv Moskva

Gyori ETO v Dinamo Zagreb

Odense v Motherwell

PAOK v Fenerbahçe

Villarreal v FC Dnepr Mogilev

FC Timisoara v Manchester City

First legs to be played on August 19th; second legs on August 26th.