Extracting the Europa League playoffs draw (PHOTO) © EuroFootball.com

On Friday, the draw for the knockout stages of the Europa League determined the opponents for 62 football clubs at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

As we already [link="http://eurofootball.com/nw_index.php?page=nw_news&id=28120"]mentioned[/link], Panevezys "Ekranas" will face the most titled Romanian club - Bucharest "Steaua" in the main group stage.

Last season's finalists, Bilbao "Athletic", will test their strength against Helsinki's HJK, while the famous "Liverpool" will have to overcome the barrier of Vladimir Romanov's Edinburgh "Hearts".

The teams will face each other on August 23 and then again on August 30.

All draw results:

Note: "Winner of Match 29" - Goris "Dila" (Georgia) - Famagusta "Anorthosis" (Cyprus) winner of the pair.