CELTIC face a replay of last season’s Champions League opener after this morning’s ballot in Nyon.
The Hoops were drawn at home for the first leg and will take on either Slovan Bratislava or Kairat who have yet to decide their qualifying tie.
The opening encounter will be played in Glasgow on either August 19/20 and then Brendan Rodgers’ men will travel to either Slovakia or Kazakhstan the following week.
The winner over two legs goes into the league phase, the loser drops into the Europa League.
FLASHBACK…Brendan Rodgers discusses Celtic’s 5-1 Champions League win over Slovan Bratislava at Parkhead last September.
Celtic played Slovan in September last year at Parkhead in the new-look league phase of the elite competition and triumphed 5-1 in another exciting Europe evening under the lights in the east end of Glasgow.
Liam Scales, Kyogo Furuhashi, Arne Engels (pen), Daizen Maeda and Adam Idah were the men on target to give Rodgers’ side the perfect start to the Champions League campaign.
Across the city, Russell Martin’s Ibrox outfit, who meet the Czechs Viktoria Plzen at home tomorrow night and away a week later for a place in the play-off stage, will take on the winner of RB Salzburg v Club Brugge – if, of course, they get through.
