Watch Live Drawing UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League play-offs

Soccer Extreme : The UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League play-offs draw will be held in Nyon on Friday 5 August, 2011. The pairings for this stage of the two club competitions will be made during ceremonies. The draw ceremonies will be conducted by UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino and UEFA competitions director Giorgio Marchetti. Follow The UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League play-offs draw from UEFA headquarters in Nyon, France live here from 12.00 CET and 13.30 CET time (06.00 ET in the US).

The play-offs mark the final step to qualifying for the group stage of the two club competitions. For the UEFA Champions League play-offs, the ten teams in the champions route will be divided, with five seeded and five unseeded in accordance with the UEFA club coefficient rankings.

For the league route the ten teams will be split according to the club rankings established at the beginning of the season. In both cases, the teams drawn first will play the first leg at home. The clubs entering the league route at this play-off stage are four-time European champions FC Bayern München, 2006 runners-up Arsenal FC, recent semi-finalists Olympique Lyonnais and Villarreal CF, and Italy's Udinese Calcio.

For the UEFA Europa League draw, the 76 teams will be divided into four groups of ten teams and into three groups of 12 teams, with an equal number of clubs seeded and unseeded within each group. Clubs from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. As with the UEFA Champions League draw, the teams drawn first will play at home first.

A live feed from the draw hall will be available in the media working area, which is also equipped with a Wi-Fi connection. The draw will be transmitted live on UEFA.com and Eurosport.