UEFA Champions League third subordinate turn guide

A small over dual months after better opposite Manchester United in a UEFA Europa League final, Ajax play their initial rival tie of a 2017/18 deteriorate when they take on Nice in a UEFA Champions League third subordinate round, that gets underneath approach on Tuesday.

Split pathways
The Amsterdam side are one of 10 clubs who enter a foe during this theatre in a league route – done adult of a third-placed organisation from a sixth-ranked member organisation (France) and a runners-up from a associations ranked 7th to 15th – as subordinate splits.

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The other avenue, a champions route, involves a 17 winners of a second subordinate turn ties and a pretension winners from a 3 highest-ranked associations that do not validate for an involuntary organisation place (Greece, Czech Republic and Romania).

Newcomers
Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir, Nice and Viitorul are scheming for their initial coming in a UEFA Champions League.

Ä°stanbul (P6 D2 L4) and Viitorul (P2 D1 L1) usually done their continental debuts in 2015/16 and 2016/17 respectively and have both nonetheless to win a game.

Nice, however, have a unapproachable European Cup story dating behind 60 years. The Côte d’Azur outfit were quarter-finalists in 1956/57 and 1959/60, losing to Real Madrid on both occasions.

Mario Balotelli and Nice revisit Ajax on Wednesday©AFP/Getty Images

What’s next?

• Second legs: 1 and 2 August
• Play-off draw: 4 Aug (12:00CET, streamed live on UEFA.com) 

First-leg schedule

Tuesday
QarabaÄŸ (AZE) v Sheriff (MDA)
Slavia Praha (CZE) v BATE Borisov (BLR)
AEK Athens (GRE) v CSKA Moskva (RUS)*
FCSB (ROU) v Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)*
Vardar (MKD) v København (DEN)
Partizan (SRB) v Olympiacos (GRE)

Wednesday
Astana (KAZ) v Legia Warszawa (POL)
Dynamo Kyiv (UKR) v Young Boys (SUI)*
Salzburg (AUT) v Rijeka (CRO)
Hapoel Beer-Sheva (ISR) v Ludogorets (BUL)
Viitorul (ROU) v APOEL (CYP)
Maribor (SVN) v FH Hafnarfjördur (ISL)
Nice (FRA) v Ajax (NED)*
Celtic (SCO) v Rosenborg (NOR)
Club Brugge (BEL) v Ä°stanbul BaÅŸakÅŸehir (TUR)*

*League track ties

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