NYON, Switzerland -- Former European Cup winners Red Star Belgrade and Steaua Bucharest both have tricky games to qualify for the Champions League.
Defending champion AC Milan and other big teams are seeded into the financially lucrative group phase, but Red Star and Steaua were drawn by UEFA on Friday in the qualifying rounds.
Red Star, which beat Marseille on penalties in 1991, was drawn in the second qualifying round against either Macedonia's FK Pobeda or Lithuania's Levadia Tallinn. It could have drawn teams from lower-ranked nations like Faeroe Islands, San Marino, Andorra, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta or Azerbaijan.
Steaua, which upset Barcelona on penalties in the 1986 final, is also seeded into the second round and has to beat Polish champion Zaglebie Lubin to advance to the third qualifying round.
The first qualifying round is on July 17-18 and 24-25. The second is July 31-Aug 1 and Aug. 7-8.
Fourteen teams will advance to the third qualifying round where they will be joined by 18 bigger clubs, such as England's Liverpool and Arsenal, Spain's Sevilla and Valencia, Italy's Lazio, Germany's Werder Bremen, Portugal's Benfica and Dutch club Ajax.
Scottish league runner-up Rangers was seeded into the second qualifying round and will face the winner of FK Zeta of Montenegro or FBK Kaunas of Lithuania.
FK Zeta's appearance represents a first for Montenegro, which split from Serbia last year.
The first Andorran club to enter the competition - FC Ranger's - must beat Moldova's FC Sheriff in the first qualifying round to advance,
Welsh champion The New Saints is back with a new name. Called Total Network Solutions when it lost to then-defending champion Liverpool in 2005, when its sponsor was bought out it only kept its initials.
The New Saints are based in the central Welsh town of Llansantffraid, which has a population of some 1,000. They play Latvia's VK Ventspils in the first round with Austria's Salzburg waiting in the next.
Milan, which won its seventh title by beating Liverpool 2-1 in May, is one of three Italian clubs which go straight into the group phase. The others are champion Inter Milan and runner-up AS Roma.
Real Madrid and Barcelona from Spain, Manchester United and Chelsea from England, Stuttgart and Schalke from Germany, Lyon and Marseille from France, FC Porto and Sporting Lisbon from Portugal, Dutch champion PSV Eindhoven, Greek champion Olympiakos and Russia's CSKA Moscow.