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Liverpool will have to settle for a place in the second pot for Friday’s Europa League group stage draw in Monaco.

The Reds’ UEFA coefficient, which is calculated based on their results in Europe over the past five years, has dropped to 47.078.

That puts them outside the top dozen clubs to qualify for Europe’s second-tier competition with the final line-up for the group stage to be confirmed once Thursday night’s play-off round second leg matches have been completed.

As a result, Liverpool could find themselves in the same group as the likes of Schalke, Basel, Napoli, Marseille, Villarreal or Fiorentina. Tottenham are also in the first pot but the Reds can’t be drawn against another English club.

Brendan Rodgers’ side tumbled out of the Champions League at the group stage last season and were then knocked out in the last 32 of the Europa League by Besiktas.

In the 2013-14 campaign the Reds didn’t even qualify for Europe and in Rodgers’ first year at the helm they lost to Zenit St Petersburg in the last 32 of the Europa League.

Liverpool didn’t make Europe in 2011-12 and the season before that they were knocked out in the last 16 of the Europa League by Braga,

It’s a far cry from 2009 when the Reds were the top-ranked club in Europe with a coefficient score of 114.077.

The draw for the Europa League group stage will take place in Monaco at noon UK time on Friday.