Champions League playoffs
August 9, 2013The teams were matched up Friday during a draw at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
Turkey's Fenerbahce, which has launched an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport against a two-year ban from European competition for match-fixing, was drawn against the English Premiership side Arsenal.
Bundesliga club Schalke is to face Metalist Kharkiv, which faces a match-fixing disciplinary hearing at UEFA next Tuesday.
The first leg of matches are to be played on August 20-21 and the second leg runs from August 27-28.
Here are the results of the Champions League draw:
Champions Route:
Steaua Bucharest vs. Legia Warsaw
Shakhter Karagandy vs. Celtic
Viktoria Plzen vs. NK Maribor
Ludogorets Razgrad vs. FC Basel
Dinamo Zagreb vs. Austria Vienna
League Route:
Fenerbahce vs. Arsenal
PSV Eindhoven vs. AC Milan
Pacos de Ferreira vs. Zenit St. Petersburg
Schalke vs. Metalist Kharkiv
Lyon vs. Real Sociedad
In the Europa League, Eintracht Frankfurt were paired with Azerbaijan club Qarabag. Stuttgart, who only just qualified for the playoff after eliminating Botov Plovdiv the night before, will take on Rijeka of Croatia.
The first leg of the Europa League playoff begins on August 22.
hc/pfd (Reuters, AP)