Europa League: Arsenal drawn with Irish team Dundalk, Celtic to face AC Milan

Updated 02/10/2020 at 12:50 GMT

After becoming just the third Irish side to ever qualify for Europe, Dundalk are in dreamland after being drawn with Arsenal in the Europa League group stages, while Celtic face the prospect of AC Milan in their group and Tottenham a trip to Bulgaria.

Alexandre Lacazette of Arsenal celebrates with teammate Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

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Irish side Dundalk are in dreamland after being drawn with Arsenal in the Europa League group stages, while Celtic face the prospect of AC Milan in their group.

The Gunners were drawn in Group B for this season's Europa League, which gets underway on October 22, along with Dundalk, Rapid Vienna and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's former side Molde in Norway.

Tottenham were handed a favourable draw, with Bulgarian side Ludogorets, LASK from Austria and Royal Antwerp in their group.

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In Europe for only the fifth time in their history, Leicester take on Portuguese side Braga, AEK Athens and face a trip to Ukraine to take on Zorya Luhansk.

Celtic have arguably the toughest draw of the British teams. as well as European giants Milan, Celtic will take on Sparta Prague and Lille, while Rangers will face Benfica, Standard Liege and Lech Poznan.

Milan, banned from the competition last season for breaching UEFA's break-even Financial Fair Play rule, scraped through 9-8 on penalties after snatching a last-gasp 2-2 draw with Portuguese side Rio Ave.

Draw in full

Group A: Roma, Young Boys, CFR Cluj, CSKA Sofia
Group B: Arsenal, Rapid Vienna, Molde FK, Dundalk
Group C: Bayer Leverkusen, Slavia Prague, Hapoel Beer-Sheva, Nice
Group D: Benfica, Standard Liege, Rangers, Lech Poznan
Group E: PSV Eindhoven, PAOK, Granada, AC Omonoia
Group F: Napoli, Real Sociedad, AZ Alkmaar, HNK Rijeka
Group G: SC Braga, Leicester, AEK Athens, Zorya Luhansk
Group H: Celtic, Sparta Prague, AC Milan, Lille
Group I: Villarreal, Qarabag, Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Sivasspor
Group J: Tottenham, Ludogorets, LASK, Royal Antwerp
Group K: CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Zagreb, Feyenoord, Wolfsberger AC
Group L: Gent, Red Star, Hoffenheim, Slovan Liberec

KEY DATES

Group stage

Matchday 1: 22 October
Matchday 2: 29 October
Matchday 3: 05 November
Matchday 4: 26 November
Matchday 5: 03 December
Matchday 6: 10 December

Round of 32

Draw: 14 December
First legs: 18 February
Second legs: 25 February

Round of 16

Draw: 26 February
First legs: 11 March
Second legs: 18 March

Quarter-finals

Draw: 19 March
First legs: 8 April
Second legs: 15 April

Semi-finals

Draw: 19 March
First legs: 29 April
Second legs: 6 May

Final

Gdańsk Stadium, Poland: 26 May

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