• Arsène Wenger's side face first-leg trip to Turkey
• Celtic drawn away to Kazakhstan champions
Arsenal have been drawn against Fenerbahce in the Champions League play-off draw with the other British team, Celtic, pitted against the Kazakhstan Premier League champions, Shakhter Karagandy.
Fenerbahce are awaiting a final ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over whether they will be allowed to go into the competition proper this season, having been banned from competing in Europe by Uefa for match-fixing in domestic competition.
They have challenged that ruling and a CAS verdict is due before the group stage draw is made, but home and away matches against Arsenal stand to go ahead before that decision arrives. Uefa on Friday said no decision has yet been made regarding what would happen in the event of Fenerbahce winning the tie and losing their CAS appeal.
Fenerbahce finished second in the Turkish Super Lig last season.
Celtic have been drawn against Shakhter Karagandy of Kazakhstan in what appears a favourable draw, a 4,000-mile trip notwithstanding, for Neil Lennon's team as they bid to reach the group stages.
*The full draw*
Dinamo Zagreb v FK Austria Vienna
Ludogorets v Basle
Plzen v Maribor
Shakhtyor Karaganda v Celtic
Steaua Bucuresti v Legia Warsaw
Lyon v Real Sociedad
Schalke 04 v FC Metalist Kharkiv
Pacos Ferreira v Zenit St Petersburg
PSV v AC Milan
Fenerbahce v Arsenal
*Ties to be played 20/21 and 27/28 August * Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago.
• Celtic drawn away to Kazakhstan champions
Arsenal have been drawn against Fenerbahce in the Champions League play-off draw with the other British team, Celtic, pitted against the Kazakhstan Premier League champions, Shakhter Karagandy.
Fenerbahce are awaiting a final ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over whether they will be allowed to go into the competition proper this season, having been banned from competing in Europe by Uefa for match-fixing in domestic competition.
They have challenged that ruling and a CAS verdict is due before the group stage draw is made, but home and away matches against Arsenal stand to go ahead before that decision arrives. Uefa on Friday said no decision has yet been made regarding what would happen in the event of Fenerbahce winning the tie and losing their CAS appeal.
Fenerbahce finished second in the Turkish Super Lig last season.
Celtic have been drawn against Shakhter Karagandy of Kazakhstan in what appears a favourable draw, a 4,000-mile trip notwithstanding, for Neil Lennon's team as they bid to reach the group stages.
*The full draw*
Dinamo Zagreb v FK Austria Vienna
Ludogorets v Basle
Plzen v Maribor
Shakhtyor Karaganda v Celtic
Steaua Bucuresti v Legia Warsaw
Lyon v Real Sociedad
Schalke 04 v FC Metalist Kharkiv
Pacos Ferreira v Zenit St Petersburg
PSV v AC Milan
Fenerbahce v Arsenal
*Ties to be played 20/21 and 27/28 August * Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago.