"The current seeding list is worked out on the basis that teams such as Anderlecht, Locomotive Moscow, Dinamo Kiev and Celtic all progress through the second qualifying round.
"But even if that did not prove to be the case the ranking for Everton is still too low to give us a seeded place, which is an extremely unusual situation for an English team to be in."
A non-seeded team will always play a seeded team in the qualifying round, with teams such as Manchester United and Milan being seeded.