Spartak in the third qualifying round of the Champions League will play with the winner of the PAOK pair – Basel – News from the European Cup – Football

Spartak, who finished third in the Russian league last season, was among the unclbadified in the group "The way of league representatives". The first match the red and white will take place on August 7 or 8, the return match will be held on August 14 at home

The winner of the sum of two games will pbad the round Qualifying Qualifying The loser will continue the fight in the group stage of the Europa League.

The first match of the second qualifying round of PAOK – "Basel" will take place on July 24 in Greece Thessaloniki, the return – on August 1 in Basel. Last season, PAOK and Basel took second place in their national championships

Red and White had not played in official tournaments with the Thessaloniki club before. With "Basel" Spartacus held four games – two in the European League and the Champions League. In these matches the red and white won a victory, suffered two defeats, another meeting ended in a draw. The last time these teams met in February 2011.

The remaining pairs

In "The path of the representatives of the leagues" Benfica "(Portugal) will play with" Fenerbahce "(Turkey) , "Standard" (Belgium) will meet the strongest of the pair Ajax (Netherlands) – Sturm (Austria), the Czech Slavia will face the Ukrainian Dynamo (Kiev).

In the "Champions Way" AEK (Greece) will play with the biggest confrontation "Celtic" (Scotland) – "Rosenborg" (Norway), "Salzburg" (Austria) – with "Shkendiya" (Macedonia) or "Sheriff" (Moldova), the strongest of the pair Crvena Zvezda (Serbia) – Suduva (Lithuania) will play with Legia (Poland) or Spartak (Slovakia), the winner of Kukes (Albania) – Karabakh (Azerbaijan) will compete with BATE (Belarus) or HIK (Finland), the winner from the opposition "Astana" (Kazakhstan) – "Mitjulland" (Denmark) will meet Dynamo (Zagreb, Croatia) or Hapoel (Beer-Sheva, Israel), and the strongest of the pair CFR) – Malmo (Sweden) will play with Ludogortz (Bulgaria) or Vidi (Hungary)

The first matches of the team will take place on August 7 and 8. The return matches will be held on August 14th.