Celtic’s Europa League Draw – Marseille at home, trips to Portugal, Belgium and Cyprus | OneFootball

The draw for the Europa League has been made with Celtic drawn against two Portuguese opponents, plus one from France, Spain, Belgium, Hungary, Turkey  and Cyprus…

Camilo Duran of Celtic celebrates with teammates after scoring his team’s second goal during the UEFA Champions League 2026/27 play-offs first leg match between Celtic and LASK at Celtic Park on August 19, 2026. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Celtic has avoided the likes of English, German and Italian opposition, any perhaps it’s worth adding the Austrian sides to that list too after the events in Linz on Tuesday night.

Celtic will face Marseille home and Benfica away from pot one in the Europa League draw which has just taken place in Monaco.

From pot two our opponents will be Hungary’s Ferencvaros at Celtic Park and an away trip to Belgium to take on Union SG aka Royale Union Saint-Gilloise who have an outstanding home record in European football.

Martin O’Neill, Manager of Celtic looks on during the UEFA Champions League 2026/27 Play off round second leg match between LASK and Celtic at on August 25, 2026 in Linz, Austria. (Photo by Christian Bruna/Getty Images)

Then from pot three Martin O’Neill will have a reunion with Spanish outfit Celta Vigo at Parkhead – the gaffer will remember them from the road to Seville – and an away trip to Cyprus to face Omonia. Finally  the two opponents from pot four will be Turkish opponent in Besiktas at home and another trip to Portugal to play Torreense.

The dates and order of fixtures will be confirmed by at least Sunday for these Europa League matches.

A decent draw for Celtic with plenty of interesting fixtures and a little glamour thrown in too, especially with the two pot one opponents.

1st March 2026; Ibrox Scottish Premiership the Rangers versus Celtic; Chris McKay and Michael Nicholson of Celtic arrive ahead of the game. Vagelis Georgariou

As for our chances we’ll have to wait and see what the transfer window brings over the next few days. As things stand at the moment we’re well short in quality and quantity, but Michael Nicholson will know that and will be working around the clock to get the Celtic squad up to the required standard by the start of next week.