By Daniel Edu
The draw for the Europa League Round of 16 is set to take place today at noon at Uefa’s headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw will involve eight Europa League group-stage winners and eight knockout round play-off winners. Seeded teams will be paired with unseeded teams, with the seeded teams playing the first leg away on March 7 and the return leg at home on March 14. Clubs from the same country will not face each other, and there is no away goals rule.
**Seeded Teams:**
1. West Ham
2. Brighton
3. Rangers
4. Liverpool
5. Atalanta
6. Bayer Leverkusen
7. Villarreal
8. Slavia Prague
**Unseeded Teams:**
1. Roma
2. Marseille
3. Sparta Prague
4. Sporting Lisbon
5. AC Milan
6. Qarabag
7. Benfica
8. Freiburg
Additionally, the draw for the Europa Conference League Round of 16 will include seeded teams Aston Villa, Lille, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Viktoria Plzen, Club Bruges, Fiorentina, PAOK, and Fenerbahce, as well as unseeded teams Sturm Graz, Servette, Union Saint-Gilloise, Dinamo Zagreb, Olympiakos, Ajax, Molde, and Maccabi Haifa.
