Macedonian champion Shkëndija learnt its 6 opponents at today’s draw for the UEFA Conference League.

After being knocked-out in the play-off for the Europa League yesterday by Bulgarian champion Ludogorets, Shkëndija found itself in the league phase of the Conference League. The Tetovo based team entered the draw from Pot 5 of the total six.

Here are the fixtures for the Macedonian champion:

Slovan (home)
Rayo Vallecano (away)
Jagiellonia (home)
Drita (away)
AEK Larnaca (away)
Shelbourne (home)

The order of the matches got published by UEFA on Saturday:

Shkëndija got a good draw and our opinion is that besides the La Liga participant Rayo Vallecano, Shkëndija can match all other teams and win many points.

It is interesting that Shkëndija has probably the shortest in distance away match as was draw to visit Drita in Kosovo. From Shkëndija’s hometown of Tetovo to Kosovo’s capital city of Prishtina there are 126 km. Drita is actually from the town of Gjilan, but they play in Prishtina as their home stadium is under renovation.

From the 36 participants, at the of Round 6 the top 8 teams at the joint table will Advance to the Round of 16 as seeded, those from 9-16 place will advance to the knockout phase play-offs as seeded, those from 17-24 place will advance also to the play-offs but as unseeded, while the rest of the teams will be eliminated.