Europa League Playoff Round Draw: Magpies Get Atromitros; It's Vaslui For Inter; Reds Draw Hearts

The draw for the Europa League's playoff round took place on Friday in Nyon, Switzerland:

The opening matches will take place on August 23 with the return contests to take place on August 30.  The host club of each opening match is listed first.

FC Anzhi Makhachkala (Russia) vs. AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands)

APOEL FC (Cyprus) vs. Neftchi Baku (Azerbaijan)

Atromitros (Greece) vs. Newcastle United (England)

Tromso IL (Norway) vs. Partizan Belgrade (Serbia)

FC Vaslui (Romania) vs. Inter Milan (Italy)

Heart of Midlothian (Scotland) vs. Liverpool (England)

Athletic Bilbao (Spain) vs. HJK Helsinki (Finland)

CS Maritimo (Portugal) vs. winner of suspended Anorthosis (Cyprus)-FC Dila Gori (Georgia) series

Debreceni VSC (Hungary) vs. Club Brugge (Belgium)

Molde FK (Norway) vs. SC Heerenveen (Netherlands)

FC Sheriff (Moldova) vs. Olympique Marseille (France)

Trabzonspor (Turkey) vs. Videoton FC (Hungary)

FC Midtjylland (Denmark) vs. BSC Young Boys (Switzerland)

Dinamo Bucharest (Romania) vs. FC Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine)
 
Slask Wroclaw (Poland) vs. Hannover 96 (Germany)

AC Horsens (Denmark) vs. Sporting (Portugal) 

Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel) vs. F91 Dudelange (Luxembourg)

Feyenoord Rotterdam (Netherlands) vs. Sparta Prague (Czech Republic)

Red Star Belgrade (Serbia) vs. Bordeaux (France)

Motherwell (Scotland) vs. Levante (Spain)

KSC Lokeren (Belgium) vs. FC Viktoria Plzen (Czech Republic)

Lazio (Italy) vs. ND Mura 05 (Slovenia)

AIK Solna (Sweden) vs. CSKA Moscow (Russia)

Bursaspor (Turkey) vs. FC Twente (Netherlands)

Legia Warsaw (Poland) vs. Rosenborg (Norway)

Steaua Bucharest (Romania) vs. FK Ekranas (Lithuania)

Slovan Liberec (Czech Republic) vs. Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine)

VfB Stuttgart (Germany) vs. Dynamo Moscow (Russia)

PAOK FC (Greece) vs. Rapid Vienna (Austria)

FC Lucerne (Switzerland) vs. GRC Genk (Belgium)

FK Zeta (Montenegro) vs. PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)

The winners would advance to the group stage where they will joined by defening champs Atletico Madrid (Spain), Lyon (France), Tottenham Hotspur (England), Bayer Leverkusen (Germany), Rubin Kazan (Russia), Napoli (Italy), and Academica de Coimbra (Portugal) as well as the ten losers from the Champions League's playoff round.