Europa League Playoff Draw Results: There's A Duel Of Diego Maradona's Former Club

JAKARTA - UEFA has completed the draw for the 2021-22 Europa League playoffs and the result is that Barcelona will immediately meet difficult opponents, namely Napoli, while Borussia Dortmund will face Rangers.

Quoted from Antara, Monday, this season's Europa League system has changed due to UEFA's new competition, the Conference League. In previous seasons, the group winners and runners-up will go directly to the last 32 of the Europa League, now it is different from the group winners being directly entered into the last 16.

Barça will face @en_sscnapoli in the Europa League First leg:🏟️ Camp Nou📅 17/02Return:🏟️ Diego Armando Maradona Stadium 24/02 pic.twitter.com/EoBPsapu4w

— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 13, 2021

While the runners-up group met with eight teams ranked third in the Champions League. The winner of this playoff match will face the group winners in the round of 16. Two teams from the same country cannot meet.

The big match in this phase is Barcelona against Napoli, with the two teams last meeting in the round of 16 of the 2019-2020 Champions League season. Barcelona advanced to the quarter-finals after winning 4-2 on aggregate.

The two teams also have something in common, namely that they were defended by the late Argentine legend Diego Maradona.

Here is the complete draw for the Europa League playoffs:

Sevilla vs Dinamo Zagreb

Atalanta vs Olympiacos

RB Leipzig vs Real Sociedad

FC Barcelona vs Napoli

Zenit St Petersburg vs Real Betis

Borussia Dortmund vs Rangers

Sheriff Tiraspol vs Braga

FC Porto vs Lazio

The Europa League playoffs will be played in February 2022, the first leg will be on 17 February 2022, while the second leg will be on 24 February 2022.