How does the Conference League league-phase draw work?

36 clubs are seeded into 6 pots by UEFA club coefficient. Each club is drawn against one opponent from every pot; the pots are paired (1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6) and each club plays one opponent at home and the other away within each pair, never a club from its own association and at most two clubs from any single association. Certain pairings decided by UEFA are excluded.

What do the draw difficulty verdicts mean?

We rank the average opponent strength of your draw against thousands of simulated draws for the same lineup. Dream draw = easier than 90% of possible draws, Kind = 10-30%, Balanced = 30-70%, Tough = 70-90%, Nightmare = harder than 90%.

Conference League Draw Simulator 2026/27

Q: Is the Conference League draw simulator free?

Yes. The first draw needs nothing; to keep drawing, see the opponent probabilities and share your draw we ask for an email address once.

Q: Are the opponent probabilities exact?

No, they are simulated over thousands of draws of the exact lineup. Exact values under UEFA's procedure cannot be computed in closed form for a 36-club draw, so each figure carries a small margin and shifts slightly between runs.

Pick your club and simulate the UEFA Conference League league-phase draw exactly the way UEFA's draw software does it. Every simulated draw respects the official draw rules, you can flip the play-off ties that are still open, watch the opponents come out one by one, see how likely each opponent is, get a verdict on how hard your draw is, and share it as an image or a link. Free - no account needed.

How the Conference League draw works

36 clubs, seeded into 6 pots by UEFA club coefficient;
each club is drawn against one opponent from every pot; the pots are paired (1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6) and each club plays one opponent at home and the other away within each pair (6 matches in total);
never an opponent from your own association;
at most two opponents from any single association;
pairings UEFA keeps apart are excluded (Armenia-Azerbaijan, Kosovo-Serbia, Kosovo-Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine-Belarus, Gibraltar-Spain);
opponents are drawn club by club, pot by pot, only among options that keep the whole draw completable - the same principle UEFA's software uses.

Conference League draw pots 2026/27 (projected)

The 36 clubs in the UEFA Conference League league phase, seeded into 6 pots by UEFA club coefficient. Until the play-off round is finished this is our projection: qualified clubs plus, for every open play-off tie, the side our simulation favours.

Pot 1

Atalanta (Italy, coefficient 84.000)
Sporting Braga (Portugal, coefficient 63.750)
Rangers (Scotland, coefficient 59.250)
Ajax (Netherlands, coefficient 58.250)
SC Freiburg (Germany, coefficient 56.500)
AS Monaco (France, coefficient 56.000)

Pot 2

FC København (Denmark, coefficient 54.375)
Ferencváros (Hungary, coefficient 51.250)
Viktoria Plzen (Czech Republic, coefficient 50.500)
FC Midtjylland (Denmark, coefficient 48.250)
PAOK Thessaloniki (Greece, coefficient 48.250)
AA Gent (Belgium, coefficient 39.000)

Pot 3

Rapid Wien (Austria, coefficient 29.750)
Panathinaikos (Greece, coefficient 29.250)
Pafos FC (Cyprus, coefficient 24.125)
Brighton & Hove Albion (England, coefficient 23.903)
Raków Czestochowa (Poland, coefficient 22.250)
FC Lugano (Switzerland, coefficient 21.250)

Pot 4

Getafe (Spain, coefficient 19.409)
KuPS Kuopio (Finland, coefficient 14.000)
FC Drita (Kosovo, coefficient 13.625)
FC Twente (Netherlands, coefficient 13.585)
Lincoln Red Imps (Gibraltar, coefficient 13.500)
St Truiden (Belgium, coefficient 12.450)

Pot 5

Vikingur Reykjavik (Iceland, coefficient 11.750)
Kairat Almaty (Kazakhstan, coefficient 11.000)
Riga FC (Latvia, coefficient 10.500)
OFI Crete (Greece, coefficient 9.682)
FC Nordsjælland (Denmark, coefficient 8.421)
AGF Aarhus (Denmark, coefficient 8.421)

Pot 6

Ararat-Armenia (Armenia, coefficient 7.000)
FC Thun (Switzerland, coefficient 6.940)
Kauno Zalgiris (Lithuania, coefficient 6.000)
Mjällby (Sweden, coefficient 5.925)
Iberia 1999 (Georgia, coefficient 5.000)
Egnatia Rrogozhinë (Albania, coefficient 4.500)

Play-off ties still open

These clubs are not yet certain of their league phase; the simulator lets you pick either side:

Trabzonspor v Ferencváros (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
St Truiden v Omonia Nicosia (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
Egnatia Rrogozhinë v Lillestrøm SK (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
Mjällby v FC Salzburg (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
Lech Poznan v FC Thun (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
Benfica v AGF Aarhus (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
Universitatea Craiova v Ararat-Armenia (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
Crvena zvezda v Viktoria Plzen (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
Jagiellonia Bialystok v Iberia 1999 (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
Kairat Almaty v Anderlecht (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
Besiktas v Kauno Zalgiris (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
OFI Crete v CSKA Sofia (UEL play-off, loser drops into the Conference League)
Vikingur Reykjavik v FK Borac Banja Luka (UECL play-off)
Shamrock Rovers v KuPS Kuopio (UECL play-off)
FC Drita v Inter Club d'Escaldes (UECL play-off)
KI Klaksvik v Riga FC (UECL play-off)
Lincoln Red Imps v Larne FC (UECL play-off)
Motherwell v SC Freiburg (UECL play-off)
Górnik Zabrze v AS Monaco (UECL play-off)
Inter Turku v FC København (UECL play-off)
Hearts FC v Rapid Wien (UECL play-off)
Tromsø IL v Brighton & Hove Albion (UECL play-off)
Hajduk Split v Raków Czestochowa (UECL play-off)
Panathinaikos v Hradec Kralove (UECL play-off)
AA Gent v Hibernian (UECL play-off)
PAOK Thessaloniki v SK Brann Bergen (UECL play-off)
Atalanta v Hapoel Tel-Aviv (UECL play-off)
FC Midtjylland v NK Rijeka (UECL play-off)
Rangers v FK Jablonec (UECL play-off)
FC Nordsjælland v FC Sankt Gallen (UECL play-off)
Dinamo Tirana v Pafos FC (UECL play-off)
FC Sion v Ajax (UECL play-off)
Sporting Braga v Austria Wien (UECL play-off)
FC Twente v Qarabag FK (UECL play-off)
Getafe v Partizan Beograd (UECL play-off)
FC Lugano v Maccabi Tel-Aviv (UECL play-off)

How hard is your draw? Our verdict

For every draw we compute the average strength (Elo) of the opponents and rank it against thousands of simulated draws for the same lineup. The percentile tells you what share of possible draws are easier than yours, and the verdict follows from it:

Dream draw - easier than 90% of possible draws
Kind draw - 10-30%
Balanced draw - 30-70%
Tough draw - 70-90%
Nightmare draw - harder than 90% of possible draws

Frequently asked questions

Is the Conference League draw simulator free?

Yes. Your first draw needs nothing at all; to keep drawing, see the opponent probabilities and download or share your draw we ask for an email address once.

Who can my club draw in the Conference League?

Any club from another association, one from every pot, with at most two opponents from the same country. The simulator shows the probability of facing each club, based on thousands of simulated draws of the exact lineup.

Are the probabilities exact?

No - they are simulated. Exact values under UEFA's procedure cannot be computed in closed form for a 36-club draw, so we run thousands of draws; each figure carries a small margin (about ±2 percentage points at 2,000 draws) and shifts slightly between runs.

What happens after the real draw?

Once UEFA has made the official draw the page shows the real fixtures next to the simulation, so you can see how your club's actual draw compares with what it could have been.

Also try: Champions League draw simulator · Europa League draw simulator · UEFA qualifier projections and seeding pots

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