Champions League: The New Saints to face Swedish champions BK Hacken

The New Saints celebrate winning the Cymru Premier title last season

Welsh champions The New Saints will face BK Hacken of Sweden in the Champions League first qualifying round.

Saints, 15-time Cymru Premier champions, were seeded for the draw.

Gothenburg-based Hacken secured their place in the Champions League after winning the Swedish title for the first time in 2022.

The first leg will be in Sweden on 11/12 July with the second leg on 18/19 July.

The winners will progress to the second qualifying round against either Ki Klaksvík of the Faroe Islands or Hungarian side Ferencvaros.

Should Saints lose, they will go into the Europa Conference League second qualifying round and will face Slovakia's Slovan Bratislava or Swift Hesper of Luxembourg.

Penybont will make their European debut against Andorra's Santa Coloma in the Europa Conference League first qualifying round.

Rhys Griffiths' side will be at home in the first leg on 13 July, which will be played at the Brewery Field in Bridgend. FK Sutjeska of Montengero or SS Cosmos from San Marino are the possible opponents for the winners in the second qualifying round.

Haverfordwest County's first European game since 2004 will be away to North Macedonia's KF Shkendija on 13 July.

Tony Pennock's side, who beat Newtown in last season's play-off final, will stage the second leg at Cardiff City Stadium on 20 July. B36 Torshavn of the Faroe Islands or Estonia's Paide Linnameeskond await the winners.

Last season's Cymru Premier runners-up Connah's Quay Nomads were seeded for the draw and will face KA Akureyi of Iceland.

Neil Gibson's side will be away for the first leg with the second leg at New Saints' Park Hall in Oswestry a week later, with the winner facing either Ireland's Dundalk or FCB Magpies of Gibraltar.