Europa League draw: time, broadcast, pots... Lille, Lyon and Nice's opponents

After the Champions League, it's the turn of its little sister, the Europa League, to find out its draw.

Lille, Lyon, and Nice will find out their opponents for the Europa League this Friday, starting at 12:45 p.m. in Monaco. The draw works exactly the same as the Champions League, with 36 clubs on the starting line, seeding pots, and a large button that generates the matches. Long and tedious, the explanations are more complex than the process itself (the draw will be carried out hat by hat, starting with the 1st. After drawing a club's ball, its program will be determined by an artificial intelligence). Good news for Lille: Olivier Giroud's Dogues are in pot 1, but that won't stop them from taking on some big names, like PSG in the Champions League, who will play Bayern and Barça. Lyon, for its part, will be in pot 2, while Nice will be in pot 3.

The hats

• Pot 1: AS Roma (Italy), FC Porto (Portugal), Glasgow Rangers (Scotland), Feyenoord (Netherlands), Lille OSC (France) , Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia), Real Betis Balompié (Spain), Red Bull Salzburg (Austria) and Aston Villa (England)
• Pot 2: Fenerbahçe (Turkey), Braga (Portugal), Red Star Belgrade (Serbia), Olympique Lyonnais (France) , PAOK (Greece), Viktoria Plzen (Czech Republic), Ferencvaros (Hungary), Celtic Glasgow (Scotland) and Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel)
• Pot 3: Young Boys Bern (Switzerland), FC Basel (Switzerland), Midtjylland (Denmark), Freiburg (Germany), Ludogorets Razgrad (Bulgaria), Nottingham Forest (England), Sturm Graz (Austria), FCSB (Romania) and OGC Nice (France)
• Pot 4: Bologna (Italy), Celta de Vigo (Spain), VfB Stuttgart (Germany), Panathinaikos (Greece), Malmö (Sweden), Go Ahead Eagles (Netherlands), Utrecht (Netherlands), Genk (Belgium) and Brann (Norway)

On which channel and at what time can I watch the draw?

The draw will take place from 12:45 p.m. in Monaco and will be broadcast live on Canal + Sport.