Shamrock Rovers will be travelling to Belgrade for their Europa League play-off round later this month.
The Airtricity League champions have been paired with FK Partizan in this afternoon’s draw at the Uefa headquarters in Switzerland.
The fixtures are scheduled for 18 and 25 August, with the first leg expected to take place at Tallaght Stadium next Thursday week.
Rovers, whose Champions League journey was ended by FC Copenhagen on Tuesday night, are bidding to become the first Irish side to reach the group stages of European club competition.
Also in the Europa League play-off round draw, Hearts have been drawn against Spurs in what some Scots might describe as a Battle of Britain but Londoners might realistically term a David against Goliath encounter.
Every Irishman’s favourite team, Rangers, who were defeated by Malmo in the Champions League this week, take on Maribor of Slovenia, Fulham meet Dnipro of Ukraine and we published this piece before Birmingham and Stoke came out of the hat.
Because try as we might, we don’t really care who they play in Europe.
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