LIVE: Follow the Europa League draw as it happens with Tottenham, Swansea and Wigan finding out their group stage fates

Follow Sportsmail's coverage of the Europa League group stage draw as Wigan join Tottenham and Swansea in the hat following the latter two's play-off victories.
The Swans and Spurs came through with easy victories in the play-off round and along with the Championship outfit will now find out which of the 12 groups they will take part in for the first part of the competition.
Send me all your thoughts on the draw at dan.ripley@dailymail.co.uk or via Twitter @Ripley_77.

 

 

Dan Ripley Host commentator

12:53

Well that wraps things up here folks. There are one or two potentially tricky encounters for the three British clubs - but they should all fancy their chances of reaching the last 32.

That's all from me folks, thanks for following.

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12:16

Europa League group stage draw

Group A: Valencia, Swansea, Kuban, St Gallen

Group B: PSV Eindhoven, Dinamo Zagreb, Chornomorets, Ludogorets

Group C: Standard Liege, Red Bull Salzburg, Elfsborg, Esbjerg

Group D: Rubin Kazan, Wigan, Maribor, Zulte Waregem

Group E: Fiorentina, Dnipro, Pacos de Ferreira, Pandurii Targu Jiu

Group F: Bordeaux, APOEL, Eintracht Frankfurt, Maccabi Tel-Aviv

Group G: Dynamo Kiev, Genk, Rapid Vienna, Thun

Group H: Sevilla, Freiburg, Estoril, Slovan Liberec

Group I: Lyon, Real Betis, Vitoria, Rijeka

Group J: Lazio, Trabzonspor, Legia Warsaw, Apollon Limassol

Group K: Tottenham, Anzhi, Sheriff, Tromso

Group L: AZ Alkmaar, PAOK, Maccabi Haifa, Shakhter Karagandy

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12:16

Draw procedure

All the teams from Pot 1 will be drawn first. So Tottenham will be the first of the English clubs out of the hat. This will then be followed by pots 2, 3 and 4. Get your refresh button ready folks, here comes the draw...

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12:12

The 2014 final ambassador is now on stage in former Juventus defender Ciro Ferrara - who won this trophy with Napoli in 1989.

It looks like we will have to wait a couple of minutes longer for the business to begin.

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12:09

For the record in the dress rehearsal this morning, Spurs drew Genk, Estoril and Thun.

Wigan got Lyon, Austria Vienna and St Gallen, while Swansea drew Valencia, Frankfurt and Maccabi Tel-Aviv.

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12:07

And here comes UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino (always a good sign the draw is on the way).

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12:06

After brief highlights from last season are shown, former Chelsea defender Ricardo Carvalho is now on stage and I assume will help out with the draw. He won this trophy back in 2003 with Porto.

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12:05

The hosts, Kate Abdo and Darren Tulett are on stage at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco as the draw begins...well the build up starts at least.

Folks refresh your page to enable an auto-refresh feature to take over - or alternatively hit that F5 button regularly to get quicker updates.

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12:00

Europa League pot four

Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR)
Slovan Liberec (CZE)
Thun (SUI)
Zulte Waregem (BEL)
Apollon Limassol (CYP)
Tromso (NOR)
St Gallen (SUI)
Esbjerg (DEN)
Rijeka (CRO)
Pandurii Targu Jiu (ROU)
Ludogorets (BUL)
Shakhter Karagandy (KAZ)

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11:59

Europa League pot three

Eintracht Frankfurt (GER)
Vitoria (POR)
Legia Warsaw (POL)
Maccabi Haifa (ISR)
Rapid Vienaa (AUT)
Pacos de Ferreira (POR)
Estoril Praia (POR)
Sheriff (MDA)
Chornomorets (UKR)
Maribor (SVN)
Kuban (RUS)
Elfsborg (SWE)

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11:57

Europa League pot two

APOEL (CYP)
PAOK (GRE)
Red Bull Salzburg (AUT)
Genk (BEL)
Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)
Dnipro (UKR)
Trabzonspor (TUR)
Anzhi (RUS)
Real Betis (SPA)
Wigan (ENG)
Swansea (ENG)
Freiburg (GER)

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11:56

Europa League pot one

Valencia (SPA)
Lyon (FRA)
Tottenham (ENG)
Dynamo Kiev (UKR)
PSV Eindhoven (HOL)
Bordeaux (FRA)
Rubin Kazan (RUS)
Sevilla (SPA)
Standard Liege (BEL)
Fiorentina (ITA)
Lazio (ITA)
AZ Alkmaar (NED)

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11:53

And no that doesn't mean Swansea can face Tottenham as the Swans will be representing England in this draw following last season's League Cup success.

Easy street: Tottenham saw off Dinamo Tbilisi 8-0 on aggregate in the play-offs

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11:49

So how does this draw work? To keep it simple it's very similar to yesterday's Champions League draw.

There will be four seeding pots each containing 12 teams. One team from each pot (pot 1 containing the best ranked teams, pot 4 the worst) will be used to fill the groups from A-L.

The only other technicality is team's from the same country cannot face each other.

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11:43

Enter the Latics

Following wins for Tottenham and Swansea in the play-off round, they will join Wigan for the group stage draw - with the Latics already assured of a group stage spot following their FA Cup final victory over Manchester City last May.

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11:31

Good morning, all

Saving the best until last? Okay, so maybe that's not the case but there's a European trophy up for grabs next May and we have 12 groups that currently sit vacant in the race to reach Turin where the final will be held at the Juventus Stadium.

Now's the time we find out who will fill them spots - or more specifically where they will fill them.