Fenerbahce's Potential Champions League Opponents Announced

As football leagues around Europe, including Turkey, have concluded the list of teams that will participate in UEFA became clear. As Fenerbahce has finished the league at the 2nd place in the Turkish league the club will begin its journey at the Champions League 3rd qualifier (league route)

Based UEFA competitions performance, Fenerbahce coefficient is 30.020, which means it would get into the draw as a non-seeded team. Unfortunately, this means that Fenerbahce will play against opponents who are stronger (performance wise) at UEFA.

Potential opponents for Fenerbahce are:

- Shahtar Donetsk (coeficient 86.033) who have concluded Ukrainian league at 2nd place and had reached the last 16 of this season Champions League (losing to Bayern Munich with agg. 7:0)

- Ajax (coefficient 66.195) who have concluded Dutch Eredivisie at 2nd place and had reached the last 16 stage at this season Europa League (losing to finalist Dnipro with agg. 2:2)

- CSKA Moscow (coefficient 55.599) who have concluded Russian league at 2nd place and who had concluded Champions League group stage at last place with 5 points.

- Club Brugge (coeficient 41.440) who have concluded Belgian league at 2nd place and who had reached the quarter-finals of Europa League (also losing to finalists Dnipro with agg. 1:0). Meanwhile, Club Brugge have also playd against Besiktas beating them 5:2 at the Europa League last 16 stage.

- Monaco (coefficient 31.483) who have concluded Ligue 1 at 3rd place and who had reached quarter-finals of Champions League (losing to finalist Juventus with agg. 1:0)

Meanwhile, other clubs of league stage who are unseeded are Swiss Young Boys (coefficient 31.375), Czech Sparta Prague (coefficient 30.825), Greek Panathinaikos (19.880) and Austrian Rapid Wien (15.635).

Draw of 3rd qualifiying round of Champions League will take place on the 17th of July. 1st leg will be played on 28-29th July and 2nd leg 4-5th August.