The 2017/18 UEFA Champions League season begins on Tuesday when the first qualifying round kicks off.
Just 24 days on from Real Madrid lifting the trophy in Cardiff, and with little under 11 months to go to the 2018 final in Kyiv, action begins at 17:00CET when Armenia’s Alashkert welcome FC Santa Coloma to Yerevan. When these teams met last season a 0-0 draw in Andorra was followed by a 3-0 win for Alashkert.
Later on, four teams make their UEFA Champions League debuts as Gibraltar’s Europa travel to The New Saints, FCI Talllinn of Estonia go to Hibernians and Víkingur, who in 2014/15 became the first Faroese side to make it through two r…