Celtic’s Europa League Draw – Marseille at home, trips to Portugal, Belgium and Cyprus

Celtic has avoided the likes of English, German and Italian opposition, any perhaps it’s worth adding the Austrian sides to that list too after the events in Linz on Tuesday night.

Celtic will face Marseille home and Benfica away from pot one in the Europa League draw which has just taken place in Monaco.

From pot two our opponents will be Hungary’s Ferencvaros at Celtic Park and an away trip to Belgium to take on Union SG aka Royale Union Saint-Gilloise who have an outstanding home record in European football.

Then from pot three Martin O’Neill will have a reunion with Spanish outfit Celta Vigo at Parkhead – the gaffer will remember them from the road to Seville – and an away trip to Cyprus to face Omonia. Finally the two opponents from pot four will be Turkish opponent in Besiktas at home and another trip to Portugal to play Torreense.

The dates and order of fixtures will be confirmed by at least Sunday for these Europa League matches.

A decent draw for Celtic with plenty of interesting fixtures and a little glamour thrown in too, especially with the two pot one opponents.

As for our chances we’ll have to wait and see what the transfer window brings over the next few days. As things stand at the moment we’re well short in quality and quantity, but Michael Nicholson will know that and will be working around the clock to get the Celtic squad up to the required standard by the start of next week.