The inaugural Europa Conference League group stage officially gets underway on Thursday evening.
The tournament was launched by UEFA alongside the pre-existing Champions League and Europa League formats to give more clubs the opportunity to play in Europe.
Tottenham qualified by finishing in seventh place last season, and travel to France to take on Rennes in their opener, having beaten Pacos de Ferreira 3-1 on aggregate in the play-off round to book their spot in Group G.
Sportsmail outlines everything you need to know as the group stages get underway.
The group stages of the newly-formed competition start TODAY, with the knockouts getting underway in March and the final in May
Tottenham qualified for the group stages with a 3-1 aggregate win over Pacos de Ferreira
First, a quick reminder as to what the Europa Conference League actually is.
The format comes in as a new tournament, running alongside the pre-existing Champions League and Europa League competitions.
UEFA are determined to give more clubs the opportunity to play European football, which is why they have introduced the new format.
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin shows off the brand new European trophy
'The new UEFA club competition makes UEFA's club competitions more inclusive than ever before,' UEFA president Aleksandr Ceferin said of the tournament.
'There will be more matches for more clubs, with more associations represented in the group stages.'
How were the groups formed?There were three methods in which teams qualified for the Europa Conference League group stage.
A total of 17 came through the Europa Conference League main path, with another 5 from the champions path. A further 10 joined having been eliminated from the Europa League play-offs.
The teams that dropped from the Europa League play-offs were:
Alashkert FC (Armenia), HJK Helsinki (Finland), FC Zorya Luhansk (Ukraine), Randers FC (Denmark), AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands), CFR Cluj-Napoca (Romania), SK Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia), Omonia Nicosia (Cyprus), Slavia Prague (Czech Republic) and NS Mura (Slovenia).
The groups were then determined by club coefficients, with all eight containing one team from each seeding pot.
At this stage in the competition, no team can play another from the same league.
The groupsGroup A: Maccabi Tel-Aviv, LASK, HJK Helsinki, Alashkert FC
Group B: Gent, Partizan, Flora Tallinn, Anorthosis
Group C: Roma, FC Zorya Luhansk, CSKA-Sofia, Bodo/Glimt
Group D: AZ Alkmaar, CFR Cluj, Jablonec, Randers FC
Group E: Feyenoord, Maccabi Haifa, Slavia Prague, Union Berlin
Group F: Copenhagen, PAOK, SK Slovan Bratislava, Lincoln Red Imps
Group G: Tottenham, Stade Rennais, Vitesse, NS Mura
Group H: Basel, Qarabag, Kairat Almaty, Omonoia FC
Jose Mourinho's Roma are one of Tottenham's rivals to win the Europa Conference League
In England, it's the winner of the Carabao Cup who qualifies for the Europa Conference League.
That was, as usual, Manchester City last season, but in winning in the Premier League they secured their spot in the Champions League for another season - after their painful defeat in the final to Chelsea just a few months ago.
The place in the tournament was then passed down to the next team who had not already qualified for a European
