The Conference League is the one people find hardest to picture, because it does not work like the other two. There are six pots, not four, and each club plays one opponent from every pot rather than two — six matches instead of eight, three at home and three away. That makes 108 matches across 36 clubs. Below is the whole draw, one tab per pot.
How to read this
Each club appears once, under its own pot, with its six opponents beneath it. H means home, A means away. Because a club plays one opponent from every pot including its own, exactly three of the six are at home for everyone. Each match appears twice below — once under each side — so 216 lines describe 108 matches.
Atalanta
Braga
Ajax
SC Freiburg
Monaco
Pot 1 against Pot 1
With six clubs in Pot 1 and one same-pot fixture each, only three of the 108 matches put two seeds together. They are the closest thing this competition has to a marquee tie before the knockout rounds, and two of the six seeds — Atalanta and Ajax — drew each other.
The three all-Pot-1 fixtures. The home club is listed first.
Trabzonspor’s six
Trabzonspor came into Pot 4 after losing the Europa League play-off 5-0 to Ferencváros, and drew SC Freiburg, Crvena Zvezda, KuPS, Heart of Midlothian, Jablonec and CSKA Sofia. Freiburg, Hearts and Jablonec come to Trabzon; the trips are to Belgrade, Kuopio and Sofia. Four of the six were playing knockout football a week ago — Freiburg, KuPS, Jablonec and Hearts all won a play-off, while Crvena Zvezda and CSKA Sofia fell out of the Europa League alongside Trabzonspor.
Pairings and pot allocations as published after the Conference League league phase draw on 28 August 2026. Every line below was generated from that dataset rather than transcribed by hand, and checked three ways: each club has six different opponents, one from every pot; each club has exactly three home matches; and the draw is symmetric — if a club is listed at home to an opponent, that opponent is listed away to them.