Meanwhile Celtic will face the victor of Flora Tallinn of Estonia and Lincoln of Gibraltar – as Brendan Rodgers looks to get the SPL champions back into the group stages of the Champions League.
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Here’s everything Celtic fans need to know about each of the possible opponents.
Red Imps played against Faroese opposition in the first qualification round in 2014, exiting their maiden European competition at the first hurdle, 5-2 on aggregate.
“We want to be in the Champions League and you can take no chances”.
Founded in 1976 by Charles Head and Charles Polson initially as a youth team, Lincoln entered the Gibraltar fourth division, before working their way up to the top. In his first season in charge.
Lincoln are managed by Julio Cesar Ribas, a former player who had a nomadic career mostly in South America, and the club now has nine players in the Gibraltar national side, including most-capped player Joseph Chipolina.
If all three WPL UEL sides make it through to the second qualifying round they will join the other 45 winners of QR1 along with another 18 teams.
The favourites to progress and play against Celtic, Flora Tallinn have good domestic pedigree having won the Estonian Meistriliiga League on 10 previous occasions.
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Flora play at the 9,692-seater Lillekula Stadium, which has previously hosted Brazil in an worldwide match against the Estonians. They lost to Albanian side Kukes in the first qualifying round of the Europa League on their last appearance and have only succeeded in one of their 20 encounters in European competition. Nope, not Henri Anier, that of Motherwell, Dundee United or Hibs fame, but his younger brother, who has also represented the Estonian national team.
