Tottenham have been drawn with surprise qualifiers Shamrock Rovers in the group stage of the Europa League.

The Premier League side will go up against Shamrock, who are the only Irish side to progress to the group stage of the competition, along with Rubin Kazan and PAOK in Group A.

Championship side Birmingham were drawn alongside Maribor and Club Brugge, and will travel to Portugal to face top flight team Braga.

Meanwhile, Stoke City will have to travel the furthest with trips to Russia and Israel when they play Dynamo Kiev and Maccabi Tel Aviv, as well as Turkish side Besiktas.

Fulham manager Martin Jol will make a return to Holland when his Premier League side face Steve McClaren’s former club FC Twente. They also go head to head with Denmark side Odense and Polish outfit Wisla Krakow.

Full Europa League groups:

Group A: Tottenham, Rubin Kazan, PAOK, Shamrock Rovers

Group B: FC Copenhagen, Standard Liege, Hannover, Vorskla Poltava

Group C: PSV Eindhoven, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Rapid Bucharest, Legia Warsaw

Group D: Sporting Lisbon, Lazio, FC Zurich, Vaslui

Group E: Dynamo Kiev, Besiktas, Stoke City, Maccabi Tel Aviv

Group F: Paris St Germain, Athletic Bilbao, Red Bull Salzburg, Slovan Bratislava

Group G: AZ Alkmaar, Metalist Kharkiv, FK Austria Wien, Malmo

Group H: Braga, Club Brugge, Birmingham City, Maribor

Group I: Atletico Madrid, Udinese, Rennes, Sion

Group J: Schalke, Steaua Bucharest, Maccabi Haifa, AEK Larnaca

Group K: FC Twente, Fulham, Odense, Wisla Krakow

Group L: Anderlecht, AEK Athens, Lokomotiv Moscow Sturm Graz