The Celtics secured a seed seat in the Champions League playoffs. What are their potential opponents?

After winning the Scottish Premier League championship this season, the Celtics are looking forward to another Champions League trip. In the Champions League this season, Rodgers led the team to defeat Red Bull Leipzig and other powerful teams, and drew with defending UEFA Champions League champion Atlanta. In the knockout playoffs, they pushed Bayern to the last minute and nearly took a victory in Germany.

Now the Celtics will begin preparing for the European game next season. First they need to face the winner of the third round of qualifying, but after Jeka beat Dynamo Zagreb to win the Croatian League Championship last weekend, the difficulty of this match has been reduced a lot. Since Dynamo Zagreb's UEFA ranks higher than Celtics, if he wins the league championship, he will squeeze out the latter and become a seed team in the Champions League play-offs.

Before this, the Celtics did not ensure that they became a playoff seed team. Before them, eight teams ranked higher than them, with Olympiakos, Donetsk Miners and Salzburg Red Bull already behind. The Celtics also need a team (Belgrade Red Star, Dynamo Zagreb, Copenhagen and Ferencvaros) to miss the Champions League. Rijka's championship win achieved this goal.

And as Rijka defeated Dynamo Zagreb to win the championship, the Celtics became the seed team in the Champions League play-offs, avoiding teams such as Bode Shining (Norway), Copenhagen (Denmark), Belgrade Red Star (Serbia) and Ferencvaros (Hungary).

After locking the seed seat, their opponent in the play-off will be a non-seeded team. Basel in Switzerland and Graz Storm in Austria have been confirmed to be in the non-seeded team group, with Bucharest stars in Romania, Poznan in Poland, Bratislava in Slovakia and Rijka mentioned above all likely to enter this group.

There are also some teams with lower rankings in UEFA that are expected to enter the playoffs through the qualifying round, including Malmö (Sweden), Ludogorec (Bulgaria) and Ljubljana (Slovenia). The complete list of non-seeded teams cannot be determined until all qualifying matches are over.

Becoming a seed team is good news for the Celtics. This gives them a greater chance to pass the playoffs and enter the league stage of the UEFA Champions League. This means more Champions League matches and richer bonuses.