Europa League draw LIVE: Rangers, Barcelona and Dortmund among teams in playoffs

Follow all the latest updates from the Europa League draw featuring Barcelona, Napoli, Dortmund, and Sevilla

The Europa League trophy before its presentation at the end of the 2020/21 campaign (Getty Images)

Barcelona against Napoli is the stand out tie in the Europa League play-offs, with Rangers taking on Borussia Dortmund.

Barcelona find themselves trying to keep alive their hopes of European football after finishing third in their Champions League group behind Bayern Munich and Benfica. It is the first time since 2003-04, when Barcelona were in the UEFA Cup, that the Catalan club will not be in the knockout stages of the Champions League, a competition they have won five times. Napoli, winners of the competition in 1989, progressed from a Europa League group which included Leicester, who they beat 3-2 in the final group game in Naples.

Sevilla, who have won the competition a record six times, will have added incentive to add to that tally with this season’s final taking place at their Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium. Real Betis also see the final hosted in their home city and will play 2008 winners Zenit St Petersburg. The competition’s most successful club Sevilla were paired with Dinamo Zagreb.

Follow all the latest from the Europa League draw below.

Europa League draw latest updates

• Rangers to face Dortmund
• West Ham won group and already through to next round
• Ties to take place in February

[13 December 2021 16:25 · Dylan Terry]

Liverpool draw Inter Milan in Champions League last-16

Liverpool will face Inter Milan in the Champions League last-16 after a second draw was conducted by Uefa.

Jurgen Klopp’s side had initially been drawn against FC Salzburg, but several teams complained after there were mistakes were spotted during the original ceremony.

[13 December 2021 16:05 · Dylan Terry]

Champions League redraw has sense of deja vu for Chelsea

Life got no easier second time around for England’s Champions League representatives after UEFA was forced into an embarrassing re-drawing of the fixtures for the round of 16.

Manchester United must go to Atletico Madrid Liverpool will face Inter Milan, and Manchester City will tackle Sporting Lisbon in the knockout stages while Chelsea will continue their title defence against Lille – the only repeat fixture from the voided draw completed earlier in the day.

[13 December 2021 15:45 · Dylan Terry]

Champions League draw

Confusion reigned following Monday's draw for the Champions League last-16 after Manchester United's ball was left out from the pot to play Atletico Madrid.

United were eventually pitted against Paris Saint-Germain in the knockout stages, but the draw was then voided.

The re-draw then saw them - rather ironically - pitted against Atletico Madrid.

[13 December 2021 15:30 · Dylan Terry]

Champions League draw

Chelsea beat Lille 2-1 both home and away in the Champions League group stages in the 2019-20 season.

[13 December 2021 15:25 · Dylan Terry]

Champions League draw

A reminder of the Champions League draw...

• Paris Saint-Germain vs Real Madrid
• Inter Milan vs Liverpool
• Villarreal vs Juventus
• Atletico Madrid vs Manchester United
• Chelsea vs Lille
• Benfica vs Ajax
• Sporting Lisbon vs Manchester City
• RB Salzburg vs Bayern Munich

[13 December 2021 15:20 · Dylan Terry]

Champions League draw

Former Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves has given his take on Manchester United being drawn against Atletico Madrid in the last 16 of the Champions League.

Speaking on BT Sport, he said: “Atletico play more defensive on the counter, they have some world-class players.

‘Slightly easier (than Paris Saint-Germain) for United but still really difficult. Flip of a coin.”

[13 December 2021 15:16 · Dylan Terry]

Champions League draw

I guess one of the casualties of today is we missed out on seeing Ronaldo vs Messi one final time. PSG and Manchester United were originally drawn together before the re-draw.

United will now face Atletico Madrid, while PSG take on Real Madrid.

[13 December 2021 15:11 · Dylan Terry]

Champions League draw

Lovely little ‘stat’ from Richard Jolly. A reminder that Barcelona have drawn Napoli in the second round of the Europa League.

[13 December 2021 15:06 · Dylan Terry]

Manchester United close training ground following Covid cases

A bit of news away from the draw...

Speaking of Manchester United, they have just released a statement following the positive Covid tests at the club confirming that the training ground has been closed.

They are due to face Brentford tomorrow evening.

The statement reads: “Manchester United can confirm that following PCR test confirmation of yesterday’s positive LFT Covid-19 cases among the first team staff and players, the decision has been taken to close down first team operations at the Carrington Training Complex for 24 hours, to minimise risk of any further infection.

“Individuals who tested positive are isolating per Premier League protocols.

“Given cancellation of training and disruption to the squad, and with the health of players and staff the priority, the Club is in discussion with the Premier League whether it is safe for Tuesday’s fixture against Brentford to continue, both from a Covid infection and player preparation perspective.

“Team and staff travel to London will be deferred pending the result of that discussion.”

[13 December 2021 15:02 · Dylan Terry]

Champions League draw

David de Gea is returning to Atletico Madrid more than a decade after leaving the club to join Manchester United. Some comeback that promises to be.