The 2022/23 UEFA Champions League first qualifying round draw ceremony is scheduled to begin at midday CET on Tuesday 14 June, at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland.
Teams
The teams have been divided into three groups of ten in accordance with the club coefficient rankings; within each group the clubs are split into an equal number of seeded and unseeded teams.
Group 1
Seeded
Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL)
CFR Cluj (ROU)
Ferencváros (HUN)
Maribor (SVN)
Diddeleng (LUX)
Unseeded
Sutjeska Nikšić (MNE)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk (BLR)
Tobol (KAZ)
Pyunik (ARM)
Tirana (ALB)
Group 2
Seeded
Malmö (SWE)
Bodø/Glimt (NOR)
HJK (FIN)
The New Saints (WAL)
Žalgiris (LIT)
Unseeded
Linfield (NIR)
KÍ (FRO)
Preliminary round winners
RFS (LVA)
Ballkani (KOS)
Group 3
Seeded
Qarabağ (AZE)
Sheriff (MDA)
Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
Lincoln Red Imps (GIB)
Shamrock Rovers (IRL)
Unseeded
Zrinjski (BIH)
Lech Poznań (POL)
Hibernians (MLT)
Shkupi (MKD)
Dinamo Batumi (GEO)
How the draw works
- The draw features 29 teams entering this round (the champions of the associations ranked 22 to 51 according to their association club coefficient, except Liechtenstein), and one preliminary round winner.
- For each group, two pots will be prepared: one for seeded teams and the other for unseeded teams. For each group, the balls containing the names of the seeded sides will be placed in one bowl and the balls containing the unseeded teams will be put into another bowl. One ball will be taken from each bowl and placed in a large empty bowl in the middle, where they will be shuffled.
- The same procedure will be carried out with the remaining balls to complete all the pairings of the first group and then repeated to determine the pairings for the remaining groups. The first side drawn in each tie will be the home team of the first leg.
What happens next?
The first qualifying round winners advance to the second qualifying round. Defeated teams transfer to the UEFA Europa Conference League Champions Path second qualifying round.
