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Three Tickets Left: Tonight the Champions League Play-offs Close

Three Champions League play-off ties finish tonight. The winners go into the league phase; the losers do not go home - they drop straight into the Europa League league phase.

Cover card: three tickets, one night - the three Champions League play-off second legs of 25 August 2026.

3ties tonight

3league phase tickets

3losers drop to the Europa League

74coefficient gap in one tie

3-0 upCelticThree goals of cushion, away in Linz.

3-1 upBodø/GlimtAt home, and 74 coefficient points above NEC.

2-1 upHapoel Beer-ShevaThe tightest of the three, away in Baku.

Card listing the three second legs with club crests and the first-leg score: Sabah 1-2 Hapoel Beer-Sheva, Bodo/Glimt 3-1 NEC, LASK 0-3 Celtic.

Celtic

entered at this round

3-0first leg25.08League phase

LASK

entered at this round

Hapoel Beer-Sheva

Hapoel Beer-Sheva

Q2

Víkingur Reykjavík

beat Víkingur Reykjavík3-2Q3

Red Star Belgrade

beat Red Star Belgrade3-0

2-1first leg25.08League phase

Sabah FK

Q1beat The New Saints4-1Q2

KuPS Kuopio

beat KuPS Kuopio3-0Q3

AGF Aarhus

beat AGF Aarhus5-2

NEC Nijmegen

Q3

Olympiakos Piraeus

beat Olympiakos Piraeus2-1

1-3first leg25.08League phase

Bodø/Glimt

Q3

Union Saint-Gilloise

beat Union Saint-Gilloise6-5

Scores are first legs. Above and below each tie: every qualifying round that side has already come through.

Six clubs, six very different histories

Card ranking the six clubs playing tonight by club coefficient, with national flags: Bodo/Glimt 75.5 down to NEC Nijmegen 1.5.

Club coefficient

Club coefficient

Kick-off 18:45 CET in Baku, 21:00 CET in Bodø and Linz. Snapshot as of 25 August 2026; ties and first-leg scores verified against UEFA match reports, coefficients from the eurocoefficient.com database.