The 20 sides who will compete for a place in the lucrative Group stages have been confirmed after the 15 successful teams in the Third Qualifying Round booked their place to join the 5 sides who automatically qualify.
The Third Qualifying did claim some big casualties as some of Europe's stellar sides were eliminated. Dynamo Kyiv, Rosenborg BK and Panathinaikos headed the list of big teams bidding farewell to the tournament as well as well as some group stage hopefuls such as Trabzonspor, Rangers and FK Partizan who were hoping to match their efforts of group stage qualification last season.
The tournament now enters the final round of qualifying and 10 sides will qualify for the group stage, 5 of which will come from the Champions path and 5 from the non champions path.
The draw takes place on Friday and here is a look at the sides entering and the seeded and unseeded pairings.
CHAMPIONS ROUTE:
Seeded
FC Copenhagen
BATE Borisov
Maccabi Haifa
Dinamo Zagreb
APOEL Nicosia
Unseeded
Wisla Krakow
Sturm Graz
KRC Genk
Viktoria Plez
Malmo FF
NON-CHAMPIONS ROUTE
Seeded
FC Bayern Munchen
Arsenal FC
Olympique Lyonnais
SL Benfica
Villarreal CF
Unseeded
FC Twente
Rubin Kazan
Udinese Calcio
FC Zurich
Odense BK
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