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2018–19 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round

A total of 53 teams competed in the qualifying system of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, which includes the qualifying phase and the play-off round,^[2] with 43 teams in Champions Path and 10 teams in League Path. The six winners in the play-off round (four from Champions Path, two from League Path) advanced to the group stage, to join the 26 teams that entered the group stage.^[3]

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

The Champions Path includes all league champions which do not qualify directly for the group stage, and consists of the following rounds:

• Preliminary round (4 teams playing one-legged semi-finals and final): 4 teams which enter in this round.
• First qualifying round (32 teams): 31 teams which enter in this round, and 1 winner of the preliminary round.
• Second qualifying round (20 teams): 4 teams which enter in this round, and 16 winners of the first qualifying round.
• Third qualifying round (12 teams): 2 teams which enter in this round, and 10 winners of the second qualifying round.
• Play-off round (8 teams): 2 teams which enter in this round, and 6 winners of the third qualifying round.

All teams eliminated from the Champions Path enter the Europa League:

• The 3 losers of the preliminary round and 15 of the 16 losers of the first qualifying round (excluding 1 team which receives a bye to the third qualifying round as decided by an additional draw held after the Champions League first qualifying round draw) enter the Champions Path second qualifying round.
• The loser of the first qualifying round which receives a bye and the 10 losers of the second qualifying round enter the Champions Path third qualifying round.
• The 6 losers of the third qualifying round enter the Champions Path play-off round.
• The 4 losers of the play-off round enter the group stage.

Below are the participating teams of the Champions Path (with their 2018 UEFA club coefficients),^[4] grouped by their starting rounds.

Play-off round Team Coeff.[4] PSV Eindhoven 36.000 Young Boys 20.500 Third qualifying round Team Coeff.[4] Red Bull Salzburg 55.500 AEK Athens 10.000 Second qualifying round Team Coeff.[4] BATE Borisov 20.500 Dinamo Zagreb 17.500 Midtjylland 11.500 CFR Cluj 4.090

First qualifying round Team Coeff.[4] Ludogorets Razgrad 37.000 Celtic 31.000 APOEL 27.000 Legia Warsaw 24.500 Astana 21.750 Qarabağ 20.500 Sheriff Tiraspol 14.750 Malmö FF 14.000 Red Star Belgrade 10.750 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 10.000 Rosenborg 9.000 HJK 8.000 The New Saints 5.000 Vidi 4.250 Kukësi 4.250 Zrinjski Mostar 3.750 Shkëndija 3.500 F91 Dudelange 3.500 Spartak Trnava 3.500 Valletta 3.250 Víkingur Gøta 3.000 Crusaders 3.000 Olimpija Ljubljana 2.900 Alashkert 2.500 Sutjeska Nikšić 2.500 Sūduva Marijampolė 2.000 Spartaks Jūrmala 1.750 Cork City 1.750 Valur 1.650 Flora Tallinn 1.250 Torpedo Kutaisi 1.000

Preliminary round Team Coeff.[4] FC Santa Coloma 2.750 Lincoln Red Imps 2.750 La Fiorita 1.750 Drita 0.000

The League Path includes all league non-champions which do not qualify directly for the group stage, and consists of the following rounds:

• Second qualifying round (4 teams): 4 teams which enter in this round.
• Third qualifying round (8 teams): 6 teams which enter in this round, and 2 winners of the second qualifying round.
• Play-off round (4 teams): 4 winners of the third qualifying round.

All teams eliminated from the League Path enter the Europa League:

• The 2 losers of the second qualifying round enter the Main Path third qualifying round.
• The 4 losers of the third qualifying round and the 2 losers of the play-off round enter the group stage.

Below are the participating teams of the League Path (with their 2018 UEFA club coefficients),^[4] grouped by their starting rounds.

Third qualifying round Team Coeff.[4] Benfica 80.000 Dynamo Kyiv 62.000 Fenerbahçe 23.500 Spartak Moscow 13.500 Standard Liège 12.500 Slavia Prague 7.500

Second qualifying round Team Coeff.[4] Basel 71.000 Ajax 53.500 PAOK 29.500 Sturm Graz 6.570

Each tie, apart from the preliminary round, is played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scores more goals on aggregate over the two legs advance to the next round. If the aggregate score is level, the away goals rule is applied, i.e. the team that scores more goals away from home over the two legs advances. If away goals are also equal, then extra time is played. The away goals rule is again applied after extra time, i.e. if there are goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score is still level, the visiting team advances by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out. In the preliminary round, where single-match semi-finals and final are hosted by one of the participating teams, if scores are level at the end of normal time, extra time is played, followed by penalty shoot-out if scores remain tied.^[3]

In the draws for each round, teams are seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots containing the same number of teams. A seeded team is drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs (or the administrative "home" team in the preliminary round matches) in each tie decided by draw. As the identity of the winners of the previous round is not known at the time of the draws, the seeding is carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advances to this round, which means if the team with the lower coefficient is to advance, it simply take the seeding of its opponent. Prior to the draws, UEFA may form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they are purely for convenience of the draw and do not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition. Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA may not be drawn into the same tie. After the draws, the order of legs of a tie may be reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.^[3]

The schedule is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).^[1]

The draw for the preliminary round was held on 12 June 2018, 12:00 CEST, to determine the matchups of the semi-finals and the administrative "home" team of each semi-final and final.^[5]

A total of four teams were involved in the preliminary round draw. Two teams were seeded and two teams were unseeded for the semi-final round draw.

Seeded	Unseeded
FC Santa Coloma Lincoln Red Imps	La Fiorita Drita

	Semi-final round				Final round
	26 June – Gibraltar
	La Fiorita	0
					29 June – Gibraltar
	Lincoln Red Imps	2
					Lincoln Red Imps	1
	26 June – Gibraltar
					Drita (a.e.t.)	4
	FC Santa Coloma	0
	Drita (a.e.t.)	2

The semi-final round was played on 26 June, and the final round on 29 June 2018, both at the Victoria Stadium in Gibraltar.^[6]

Semi-final round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FC Santa Coloma	0–2 (a.e.t.)	Drita
La Fiorita	0–2	Lincoln Red Imps

Final round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Lincoln Red Imps	1–4 (a.e.t.)	Drita

FC Santa Coloma	0–2 (a.e.t.)	Drita
	Report	Shabani 99' Gërbeshi 105+3' (pen.)

Attendance: 288^[7]

Referee: Paul Mclaughlin (Republic of Ireland)

La Fiorita	0–2	Lincoln Red Imps
	Report	Hernandez 2' Moreno 51'

Attendance: 840^[7]

Referee: Jørgen Burchardt (Denmark)

Lincoln Red Imps	1–4 (a.e.t.)	Drita
Corral 61'	Report	Leci 2', 105+3' (pen.) Shabani 120' Neziraj 120+4'

Attendance: 468^[7]

Referee: Manfredas Lukjančukas (Lithuania)

The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 19 June 2018, 12:00 CEST.^[8]

A total of 32 teams were involved in the first qualifying round draw: 31 teams entering in this round, and the winners of the preliminary round. They were divided into three groups: two of ten teams, where five teams were seeded and five teams were unseeded, and one of twelve teams, where six teams were seeded and six teams were unseeded.

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
APOEL Qarabağ Sheriff Tiraspol The New Saints Vidi	Shkëndija F91 Dudelange Olimpija Ljubljana Sūduva Marijampolė Torpedo Kutaisi	Ludogorets Razgrad Legia Warsaw Malmö FF Rosenborg HJK	Víkingur Gøta Crusaders Drita[†] Cork City Valur	Celtic Astana Red Star Belgrade Hapoel Be'er Sheva Kukësi Zrinjski Mostar	Spartak Trnava Valletta Alashkert Sutjeska Nikšić Spartaks Jūrmala Flora Tallinn

Notes

The first legs were played on 10 and 11 July, and the second legs on 17 and 18 July 2018.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Torpedo Kutaisi	2–4	Sheriff Tiraspol	2–1	0–3
Shkëndija	5–4	The New Saints	5–0	0–4
Sūduva Marijampolė	3–2	APOEL	3–1	0–1
Olimpija Ljubljana	0–1	Qarabağ	0–1	0–0
F91 Dudelange	2–3	Vidi	1–1	1–2
Drita	0–5	Malmö FF	0–3	0–2
Víkingur Gøta	2–5[A]	HJK	1–2	1–3
Ludogorets Razgrad	9–0	Crusaders	7–0	2–0
Cork City	0–4[B]	Legia Warsaw	0–1	0–3
Valur	2–3	Rosenborg	1–0	1–3
Kukësi	1–1 (a)	Valletta	0–0	1–1
Flora Tallinn	2–7	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–4	1–3
Spartaks Jūrmala	0–2	Red Star Belgrade	0–0	0–2
Alashkert	0–6	Celtic	0–3	0–3
Spartak Trnava	2–1	Zrinjski Mostar	1–0	1–1
Astana	3–0	Sutjeska Nikšić	1–0	2–0

Notes

Torpedo Kutaisi	2–1	Sheriff Tiraspol
Kimadze 24' Kukhianidze 64' (pen.)	Report	Badibanga 14'

Attendance: 7,251^[9]

Referee: Aleksandrs Golubevs (Latvia)

Sheriff Tiraspol	3–0	Torpedo Kutaisi
Badibanga 9' Jô Santos 40', 55'	Report

Attendance: 5,740^[9]

Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard-Andersen (Denmark)

Sheriff Tiraspol won 4–2 on aggregate.

Shkëndija	5–0	The New Saints
Emini 14' Ibraimi 38', 53', 60', 66'	Report

Attendance: 2,700^[9]

Referee: Timotheos Christofi (Cyprus)

The New Saints	4–0	Shkëndija
Ebbe 15' Redmond 30' Cabango 35' Byrne 90+6'	Report

Attendance: 756^[9]

Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)

Shkëndija won 5–4 on aggregate.

Sūduva Marijampolė	3–1	APOEL
Cicilia 9', 13', 19'	Report	Caju 90+4'

Attendance: 3,378^[9]

Referee: Fedayi San (Switzerland)

APOEL	1–0	Sūduva Marijampolė
Poté 20'	Report

Attendance: 12,149^[9]

Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

Sūduva Marijampolė won 3–2 on aggregate.

Olimpija Ljubljana	0–1	Qarabağ
	Report	Guerrier 79'

Attendance: 5,248^[9]

Referee: Lawrence Visser (Belgium)

Qarabağ	0–0	Olimpija Ljubljana
	Report

Attendance: 21,520^[9]

Referee: Erez Papir (Israel)

Qarabağ won 1–0 on aggregate.

F91 Dudelange	1–1	Vidi
Mélisse 58'	Report	Huszti 42'

Attendance: 1,057^[9]

Referee: Zaven Hovhannisyan (Armenia)

Vidi	2–1	F91 Dudelange
Lazović 18' Šćepović 58'	Report	Clément 54'

Attendance: 2,514^[9]

Referee: Donald Robertson (Scotland)

Vidi won 3–2 on aggregate.

Drita	0–3	Malmö FF
	Report	Strandberg 13' Traustason 39' Rosenberg 82'

Attendance: 9,780^[9]

Referee: Boris Marhefka (Slovakia)

Malmö FF	2–0	Drita
Strandberg 55' Larsson 60'	Report

Attendance: 10,623^[9]

Referee: Laurent Kopriwa (Luxembourg)

Malmö FF won 5–0 on aggregate.

Víkingur Gøta	1–2	HJK
G. Vatnhamar 51'	Report	Dahlström 9' Gregersen 29' (o.g.)

Attendance: 300^[9]

Referee: Robert Hennessy (Republic of Ireland)

HJK	3–1	Víkingur Gøta
Klauss 1' Mensah 10' Yaghoubi 19'	Report	G. Vatnhamar 21'

Attendance: 5,125^[9]

Referee: Duje Strukan (Croatia)

HJK won 5–2 on aggregate.

Ludogorets Razgrad	7–0	Crusaders
Marcelinho 25', 66' Brown 40' (o.g.) Keșerü 53' Świerczok 73', 78', 80'	Report

Attendance: 4,597^[9]

Referee: Dumitru Muntean (Moldova)

Crusaders	0–2	Ludogorets Razgrad
	Report	Brown 11' (o.g.) Świerczok 65'

Attendance: 1,116^[9]

Referee: Roomer Tarajev (Estonia)

Ludogorets Razgrad won 9–0 on aggregate.

Cork City	0–1	Legia Warsaw
	Report	Kucharczyk 79'

Attendance: 5,795^[9]

Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

Legia Warsaw	3–0	Cork City
Kanté 28' Radović 73' (pen.) Carlitos 89'	Report

Attendance: 14,576^[9]

Referee: Kai Erik Steen (Norway)

Legia Warsaw won 4–0 on aggregate.

Valur	1–0	Rosenborg
Sigurbjörnsson 84'	Report

Attendance: 1,088^[9]

Referee: Rade Obrenović (Slovenia)

Rosenborg	3–1	Valur
Bendtner 55' (pen.), 90+4' (pen.) Trondsen 72'	Report	Sigurðsson 85' (pen.)

Attendance: 10,604^[9]

Referee: Stefan Apostolov (Bulgaria)

Rosenborg won 3–2 on aggregate.

Kukësi	0–0	Valletta
	Report

Attendance: 350^[9]

Referee: Þóroddur Hjaltalín (Iceland)

Valletta	1–1	Kukësi
Malano 67'	Report	Dzaria 84'

Attendance: 1,307^[9]

Referee: Igor Pajač (Croatia)

1–1 on aggregate. Kukësi won on away goals.

Flora Tallinn	1–4	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Sappinen 73' (pen.)	Report	Sahar 18' Tzedek 36' (pen.) Maman 53' Ezra 85'

Attendance: 1,106^[9]

Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)

Hapoel Be'er Sheva	3–1	Flora Tallinn
Ezra 15' Maman 27' Melikson 48'	Report	Alliku 86'

Attendance: 11,850^[9]

Referee: Tomasz Musiał (Poland)

Hapoel Be'er Sheva won 7–2 on aggregate.

Spartaks Jūrmala	0–0	Red Star Belgrade
	Report

Attendance: 2,068^[9]

Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

Red Star Belgrade	2–0	Spartaks Jūrmala
Ben Nabouhane 78' Krstičić 81'	Report

Attendance: 23,868^[9]

Referee: Alper Ulusoy (Turkey)

Red Star Belgrade won 2–0 on aggregate.

Alashkert	0–3	Celtic
	Report	Édouard 45+2' Forrest 81' McGregor 90'

Attendance: 4,948^[9]

Referee: Danilo Grujić (Serbia)

Celtic	3–0	Alashkert
Dembélé 8', 19' (pen.) Forrest 35'	Report

Attendance: 59,047^[9]

Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)

Celtic won 6–0 on aggregate.

Spartak Trnava	1–0	Zrinjski Mostar
Jirka 79'	Report

Attendance: 0^[9] (No-crowd match)

Referee: Denis Scherbakov (Belarus)

Zrinjski Mostar	1–1	Spartak Trnava
Todorović 58'	Report	Godál 15'

Attendance: 5,100^[9]

Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)

Spartak Trnava won 2–1 on aggregate.

Astana	1–0	Sutjeska Nikšić
R. Murtazayev 29' (pen.)	Report

Attendance: 20,500^[9]

Referee: Ferenc Karakó (Hungary)

Sutjeska Nikšić	0–2	Astana
	Report	Despotović 38' Muzhikov 65'

Attendance: 3,200^[9]

Referee: João Pinheiro (Portugal)

Astana won 3–0 on aggregate.

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2018, 14:00 CEST.^[8]

A total of 24 teams were involved in the second qualifying round draw.

• Champions Path: four teams entering in this round, and the 16 winners of the first qualifying round. They were divided into two groups of ten teams, where five teams were seeded and five teams were unseeded.
• League Path: four teams entering in this round. Two teams were seeded and two teams were unseeded.

Champions Path				League Path
Group 1		Group 2
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Ludogorets Razgrad[†] Astana[†] Qarabağ[†] Dinamo Zagreb Malmö FF[†]	Midtjylland Hapoel Be'er Sheva[†] Vidi[†] Kukësi[†] CFR Cluj	Celtic[†] Sūduva Marijampolė[†] Legia Warsaw[†] BATE Borisov Sheriff Tiraspol[†]	Red Star Belgrade[†] Rosenborg[†] HJK[†] Shkëndija[†] Spartak Trnava[†]	Basel Ajax	PAOK Sturm Graz

Notes

The first legs were played on 24 and 25 July, and the second legs on 31 July and 1 August 2018.

Champions Path

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Astana	2–1	Midtjylland	2–1	0–0
Ludogorets Razgrad	0–1	Vidi	0–0	0–1
Kukësi	0–3	Qarabağ	0–0	0–3
CFR Cluj	1–2	Malmö FF	0–1	1–1
Dinamo Zagreb	7–2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	5–0	2–2
Red Star Belgrade	5–0	Sūduva Marijampolė	3–0	2–0
BATE Borisov	2–1	HJK	0–0	2–1
Shkëndija	1–0	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–0	0–0
Legia Warsaw	1–2	Spartak Trnava	0–2	1–0
Celtic	3–1	Rosenborg	3–1	0–0

League Path

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PAOK	5–1	Basel	2–1	3–0
Ajax	5–1	Sturm Graz	2–0	3–1

Astana	2–1	Midtjylland
Kleinheisler 31', 90+4'	Report	Wikheim 51'

Attendance: 23,010^[11]

Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

Midtjylland	0–0	Astana
	Report

Attendance: 8,731^[11]

Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (Spain)

Astana won 2–1 on aggregate.

Ludogorets Razgrad	0–0	Vidi
	Report

Attendance: 5,327^[11]

Referee: Bojan Pandžić (Sweden)

Vidi	1–0	Ludogorets Razgrad
Hadžić 45'	Report

Attendance: 2,878^[11]

Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (Austria)

Vidi won 1–0 on aggregate.

Kukësi	0–0	Qarabağ
	Report

Attendance: 700^[11]

Referee: Ola Hobber Nilsen (Norway)

Qarabağ	3–0	Kukësi
Quintana 24' (pen.), 57' (pen.) Delarge 89'	Report

Attendance: 25,030^[11]

Referee: Peter Kralovič (Slovakia)

Qarabağ won 3–0 on aggregate.

CFR Cluj	0–1	Malmö FF
	Report	Strandberg 45'

Attendance: 6,950^[11]

Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)

Malmö FF	1–1	CFR Cluj
Traustason 55'	Report	Djoković 36'

Attendance: 18,153^[11]

Referee: Andrew Dallas (Scotland)

Malmö FF won 2–1 on aggregate.

Dinamo Zagreb	5–0	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Hajrović 22' Oršić 28' Ademi 51', 62' Hodžić 82'	Report

Attendance: 9,099^[11]

Referee: Ali Palabıyık (Turkey)

Hapoel Be'er Sheva	2–2	Dinamo Zagreb
Ogu 14' Stojanović 34' (o.g.)	Report	Budimir 49' Hajrović 54'

Attendance: 10,181^[11]

Referee: François Letexier (France)

Dinamo Zagreb won 7–2 on aggregate.

Red Star Belgrade	3–0	Sūduva Marijampolė
Ebecilio 23' Radonjić 35', 58'	Report

Attendance: 23,218^[11]

Referee: Bastian Dankert (Germany)

Sūduva Marijampolė	0–2	Red Star Belgrade
	Report	Ben Nabouhane 8' Radonjić 38'

Attendance: 4,020^[11]

Referee: Tiago Martins (Portugal)

Red Star Belgrade won 5–0 on aggregate.

BATE Borisov	0–0	HJK
	Report

Attendance: 11,567^[11]

Referee: Marco Di Bello (Italy)

HJK	1–2	BATE Borisov
Yaghoubi 28'	Report	Rafinha 20' (o.g.) Stasevich 24'