Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Rangers have learned their Europa League opponents following a new-look draw.
Much like the Champions League, the tournament’s format has been revamped for the 2024-25 season, with the four-team group stages replaced by a single 36-team league stage.
Each club faces eight different teams once, four at home and four away. The top eight teams from the league progress to the last 16, with the clubs who finish from ninth to 24th then contesting two-legged play-offs.
The draw may have looked familiar to begin with. Balls were drawn out of the hat in the usual way, but their fixtures were then allocated using automated computer software.
Artificial intelligence also dictated which of their matches will be played home and which are away.
Spurs are back in the Europa League for the first time since 2020-21, while Manchester United feared missing out on a European place altogether having finished eighth in the Premier League last season, though they eventually qualified courtesy of their FA Cup final victory over Manchester City.
Qualifying matches concluded on Thursday evening with Ajax, Anderlecht and Besiktas making it through, while Hearts were knocked out.
You can find the draw in full here.
Man Utd fixtures
Rangers (H)
Porto (A)
PAOK (H)
Fenerbahce (A)
Bodo/Glimt (H)
Viktoria Plzen (A)
Twente (H)
Steaua Bucharest (A)
Tottenham fixtures
Rangers (A)
Roma (H)
AZ Alkmaar (H)
Ferencvaros (A)
Qarabag (H)
Galatasaray (A)
Elfsborg (H)
Hoffenheim (A)
Rangers fixtures
Tottenham (H)
Man Utd (A)
Lyon (H)
Olympiacos (A)
Union Saint-Gilloise (H)
Malmo (A)
Steaua Bucharest (H)
Nice (A)
Europa League schedule
Exact dates and kick-off times are to be confirmed.