Juventus and Fiorentina got the luck of the draw for the Champions League third qualifying round and look set to join Italian champs Inter Milan and runners-up Roma in the group stage next month.
Juventus, which is returning to Europe's top competition after being knocked out by Arsenal in the quarter-finals in 2006, will play the winners of the ongoing clash between Tampere United of Finland and Artmedia Bratislava of Slovakia.
The Slovaks look odds-on to be Juve's opponents as they beat the Finns 3-1 in the first leg in Tampere last week.
Fiorentina, back in the Champions League for the first time in eight years, was drawn against Slavia Prague.
Pundits think the Czechs, for all their European experience, are well within the Florentines' capabilities.
The main thing in Friday's draw was to avoid sides of the calibre of Arsenal, Liverpool, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Olympique Marseille, Galatasaray and Dynamo Kiev, pundits said.
Arsenal will play Twente Enschede and Liverpool will meet Standard Liege.
Atletico Madrid will play Schalke O4 and the Turks will take on Steaua Bucharest.
Barcelona have been drawn against Beitar Jerusalem or Wisla Krakow while Olympique Marseille will face Brann Bergen of Norway or Ventspils of Latvia.
Dynamo Kiev have been drawn against Spartak Moscow.
In the UEFA Cup, Italy's sole representative Napoli appears to have another cushy draw, against Vllaznia of Albania away on August 14 and at home August 28.
As for the Champions League, the first legs will be played on August 12 and 13 and the second legs on August 26 and 27.
