Four group games in the second half of July will lead to a 16 team knockout leading to the final at Hampden on Sunday 27 November.
We are in Group F of five will play each other once only before the eight winners and four best runners-up will join the teams with UEFA interest to form the round of sixteen.
Fixtures and coverage on BT$port will be announced next week but the dates selected for the competition are July 16, 20, 23, 27 and 30.
The group stage matches will include the innovation of an extra point available for the team that wins any penalty shoot-out.
Motherwell have lifted this trophy only once, in 1950. As ever we enter with more hope than expectation!