He's making the balls disappear now.

As if some magician fella has come on stage and is making the balls float out of the pots.

I mean what. WHAT?!

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English teams won both these tournaments last year. Tottenham won the Europa and Chelsea won the Conference.

Both are in the Champions League this season so not involved today.

Crystal Palace were demoted from the Europa League to the Conference League because of Uefa's multi-ownership rules.

Nottingham Forest were promoted from the Conference to the Europa as a result.

And then Palace had to go through the qualifiers, beating Norwegians Fredrikstad 1-0 on aggregate.

We will focus on who the British and Irish teams will play in Europe today.

Will let you know if any other dynamite fixtures come out but looking at the teams and pots I can't really imagine what they would be.

Apparently this thing should only take an hour so less waffle than you get for the Champions League draw.

Although they've brought Jurgen Klinsmann up for some chit chat.

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Now I've got some shocking news for you. This is all for show.

Uefa has actually done these draws by one push of a button.

But it's just going to drip feed what the draws were one pot at a time.

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I really nailed the formatting on those, didn't I.

Crystal Palace are in pot two alongside Shamrock Rovers.

Aberdeen are in pot four.

In pot six are teams like Shelbourne, the second Dublin team in this season's competition, and Hamrum Spartans, Malta's first team in a European group/league phase.

Pot 1

Fiorentina (ITA)

AZ Alkmaar (NED)

Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)

Slovan Bratislava (SVK)

SK Rapid (AUT)

Legia Warszawa (POL)

Pot 2

Sparta Praha (CZE)

Dynamo Kyiv (UKR)

Crystal Palace (ENG)

Lech Poznań (POL)

Rayo Vallecano (ESP)

Shamrock Rovers (IRL)

Pot 3

Omonoia (CYP)

Mainz (GER)

Strasbourg (FRA)

Jagiellonia Białystok (POL)

Celje (SLO)

Rijeka (CRO)

Pot 4

Zrinjski (ΒΙΗ)

Lincoln Red Imps (GIB)

KuPS Kuopio (FIN)

AEK Athens (GRE)

Aberdeen (SCO)

Drita (KOS)

Pot 5

Breiðablik (ISL)

Sigma Olomouc (CZE)

Samsunspor (TUR)

Raków (POL)

AEK Larnaca (CYP)

Shkëndija (MKD)

Pot 6

Häcken (SWE)

Lausanne-Sport (SUI)

Universitatea Craiova (ROU)

Hamrun Spartans (MLT)

Noah (ARM)

Shelbourne (IRL)

Rangers and Aston Villa are in pot one.

Celtic are in pot two.

Nottingham Forest are in pot three.

Pot 1

Roma (ITA)

Porto (POR)

Rangers (SCO)

Feyenoord (NED)

Lille (FRA)

GNK Dinamo (CRO)

Real Betis (ESP)

Salzburg (AUT)

Aston Villa (ENG)

Pot 2

Fenerbahçe (TUR)

Braga (POR)

Crvena Zvezda (SRB)

Lyon (FRA)

PAOK (GRE)

Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)

Ferencváros (HUN)

Celtic (SCO)

Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR)

Pot 3

Young Boys (SUI)

Basel (SUI)

Midtjylland (DEN)

Freiburg (GER)

Ludogorets (BUL)

Nottingham Forest (ENG)

Sturm Graz (AUT)

FCSB (ROU)

Nice (FRA)

Pot 4

Bologna (ITA)

Celta (ESP)

Stuttgart (GER)

Panathinaikos (GRE)

Malmö (SWE)

Go Ahead Eagles (NED)

Utrecht (NED)

Genk (BEL)

Brann (NOR)

What is this, national Aston Villa day?

In the Europa League you face two teams from each pot, including your own.

In the Conference League, it's one team from each pot.

You cannot play a team from your country - and you cannot play more than two teams from any one country.

If you remember from last season it's not groups of four teams anymore.

Each competition is one monster 36-team league. In the Europa League teams are drawn to play eight other sides - and in the Conference League it's six games.

It's done by pots - and you will face someone in your own pot.