Today, July 18, the draw for the 3rd qualifying round of the 2022/23 Champions League will take place in Nyon, which, among other things, will determine the possible opponents of Dynamo Kyiv at this stage of the tournament - in case the White-Blues manage to pass the 2nd qualification, where, we recall, they will fight with the Turkish Fenerbahce.
Beginning of the draw procedure 13:00 Kyiv time.
Recall that Dynamo will play in the qualification of the current Champions League along the "path of" non-champions ". In this segment of the tournament, in the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League, eight clubs: two winners of the second qualification, vice-champions of the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Scotland (PSV, Union Saint-Gilloise, Sturm, Rangers), as well as the third teams of France and Portugal (Monaco, Benfica) ).
Before the draw, all participants in the 3rd qualifying round are divided into two pots - "seeded" and "unseeded" - according to their UEFA club coefficient. For pairs of the 2nd qualification, the maximum value of the coefficients of the opponents in the pair will be taken. As a result of this principle, the Dynamo-Fenerbahce pair ended up in the seeded group.
Seeded:
"Benfica" (Lisbon, Portugal) — 93.000
Rangers (Glasgow, Scotland) — 49.250
"DYNAMO" (Kyiv, Ukraine) / Fenerbahce (Istanbul, Turkey) — 44.000
PSV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) — 33.000
Unseeded:
"Monaco" (France) — 26.000
Midtjylland (Herning, Denmark) / AEK (Larnaca, Cyprus) — 19.000
"Storm" (Graz, Austria) — 7.700
"Union St. Gilloise" (Brussels, Belgium) — 6.120
The first legs of the 3rd qualifying round will take place on August 2 and 3, the return legs on August 9. The winners of the sum of two meetings will advance to the playoff round of qualification, where tickets to the Champions League group stage will be played. The losers of the 3rd qualification will receive tickets to the group stage of the Europa League.