Monaco: Ajax will play at Atalanta in the marquee fixture of the Conference League after Friday’s 36-team draw paired two clubs who were in the Champions League last season.

Former Liverpool star Mohamed Salah also has dropped down to the third-tier competition with his new club Trabzonspor, which will host Freiburg, Heart of Midlothian and Jablonec.

Trabzonspor’s six-game slate also has visits to Red Star Belgrade, KuPS Kuopio in Finland and CSKA Sofia.

Atalanta, the 2024 Europa League winner, will host Ajax and gets trips across the European map to Pafos in Cyprus, Mjallby in Sweden and Kairat Almaty in Kazakhstan.

Monaco will come to Britain twice to face Brighton and Heart of Midlothian, and host Freiburg which reached the Europa League final last season.

Brighton owner Tony Bloom avoided playing Hearts, where he has a minority stake of 29% . That complies with UEFA multi-club ownership rules that limit so-called “decisive influence” at two teams in the same competition.

Brighton’s three away games include going to Getafe and Panathinaikos.

Andorra has its first ever team in a UEFA competition and Inter Escaldes will host Copenhagen, which was in the Champions League last season. Inter Escaldes will travel to Red Star, the European champion in 1991, Getafe and Mjallby.

Conference League games start Oct. 15 and the sixth and final round is played Dec. 17. The final is on June 2 in Istanbul at Besiktas’ stadium.