Turkish club Fenerbahce are set to return to the Champions League against FC Vaslui of Romania in the third qualifying round after serving a one-year exile during a match-fixing investigation.

Fenerbahce, whose president was convicted of fixing in a criminal trial this month, was included in draw yesterday. However, UEFA is still examining whether the club meets entry rules.

Clubs must not have been involved in fixing any match since April 2007.

Motherwell, the Scottish league runners-up that gained the spot after indebted Rangers were excluded, will be at home first against Panathinaikos.

Two former European champions were in the draw: Celtic, the 1967 winners, are at home first against HJK Helsinki or KR Reykjavik. Feyenoord, the 1970 winners, travel first to Dynamo Kiev.

Fenerbahce were withdrawn from the Champions League just days before the group-stage draw because of an investigation into match fixing allegation during its 2011 league title run.

UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino said the status of Fenerbahce — who finished second in May to qualify for this season’s competition — could still change. UEFA disciplinary inspectors are studying files including Turkish Football Federation decisions which cleared the club’s entry.

“It’s a complicated case and our disciplinary bodies are going through the procedure,” Infantino told The Associated Press after the draw. “It’s a big dossier. It’s literally thousands of pages of work.”

The officials from the Turkish club declined to comment yesterday.

Fenerbahce are scheduled to host Vaslui on 31 July or 1 August. The club could still be expelled after having played.

Motherwell finished third in the Scottish Premier League but took the second Champions League spot which Rangers had to forfeit.

“We think we have earned the right to be here,” said Motherwell director Andrew Wilson. “We’re very excited and Panathinaikos is one of the iconic clubs of European football.”

The Scottish club has the advantage of starting its league three weeks before the season starts in Greece in late August.

In other matches drawn yesterday, FC Copenhagen will host Club Bruges first, and Belgian champions Anderlecht are home first against Shamrock Rovers or Ekranas.

FC Basel, who eliminated Manchester United in the group stage last season, will face either Molde of Norway or Latvia’s Ventspils if they complete an expected second qualifying round win against Flora Tallinn of Estonia next week.

In the third qualifying round, first-leg matches are played on 31 July and 1 August and return matches are on 7-8 August.

Winners advance to a 20-team playoff round which decides who will join 22 elite teams which got direct entry to the groups.

Third Qualifying Round Draw

League Route

Fenerbahce (Turkey) vs. FC Vaslui (Romania)

Motherwell (Scotland) vs. Panathinaikos (Greece)

FC Copenhagen (Denmark) vs. Club Bruges (Belgium)

Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) vs. Feyenoord (Netherlands)

Champions Route

NK Maribor (Slovenia) or FK Zeljeznicar (Bosnia-Herzegovina) vs. F91 Dudelange (Luxembourg) or FC Salzburg (Austria)

BATE Borisov (Belarus) or Vardar (Macedonia) vs. KS Skenderbeu (Albania) or Debreceni (Hungary)

CFR Cluj (Romania) vs. Slovan Liberec (Czech Republic) or Shakhter Karagandy (Kazakhtan)

Anderlecht (Belgium) vs. Shamrock Rovers (Ireland) or FK Ekranas (Lithuania)

Buducnost Podgorica (Montenegro) or Slask Wroclaw (Poland) vs. New Saints (Wales) or Helsingborgs (Sweden)

Ulisses FC (Armenia) or FC Sheriff (Moldava) vs. Ludogorets Razgrad (Bulgaria) or Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia)

Celtic (Scotland) vs. HJK Helsinki (Finland) or KR Reykjavik (Iceland)

Molde FK (Norway) or FK Ventspils (Latvia) vs. Flora Tallinn (Estonia) or FC Basel (Switzerland)

MSK Zilina (Slovakia) or Hapoel Kiryat Shmona (Israel) vs. Neftci (Azerbaijan) or Zestafoni (Georgia)

AEL Limassol (Cyprus) or Linfield (Northern Ireland) vs. Valletta (Malta) or Partizan (Serbia)