The hosts find themselves at this stage after dropping out of Europa League qualifying at the hands of Cercle Brugge, while their visitors got past KuPS in the previous round.
Kilmarnock head into their first-ever Europa Conference League outing on Thursday aiming to gain an edge in their qualifying tie, having returned to European competition for the first time since 2019 this term.

They booked a place in Europa League qualifying with an impressive domestic campaign last time around, eventually finishing fourth in the Scottish Premiership having amassed 56 points from their 38 outings.

That saw Derek McInnes's side enter the fight to reach Europe's secondary competition in the second round with a tough tie against Belgian outfit Cercle Brugge, initially coming from behind to play out a 1-1 draw in their home leg thanks to David Watson's leveller, only to fall to a 1-0 defeat in the reverse fixture as Thibo Somers netted the decisive goal in the first half.

As a result of that narrow aggregate loss, Killie dropped into Europa Conference League qualifying third round, and they now return to action on the back of a tough start to the new Scottish Premiership season, having travelled to defending champions Celtic in their curtain-raiser on Sunday and suffered a 4-0 beating with Reo Hatate and Liam Scales putting the hosts 2-0 up in the first half and Nicolas Kuhn and Anthony Ralston going on to add their names to the scoresheet.



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东道主发现自己在欧联杯预选赛中被布鲁日淘汰出局，而他们的客队在上一轮中通过了普卡普。
基尔马诺克将于周四首次参加欧联杯比赛，他们的目标是在预选赛中取得优势，这是他们本赛季自2019年以来首次重返欧洲赛场。

上赛季，他们凭借出色的国内表现获得了欧联杯预选赛的席位，在38场比赛中积56分，最终在苏格兰联赛中排名第四。

德里克·麦克尼斯的球队在第二轮艰难地与比利时球队布鲁日队交手，进入了进入欧洲二级联赛的战斗，最初在主场比赛中，由于大卫·沃森的扳平比分，他们以1比1战平，但在上半场的比赛中，由于蒂博·萨默斯的决定性进球，他们以0比1击败对手。

由于狭窄的总损失,Killie掉进欧罗巴联赛资格赛第三轮会议上,他们现在回到行动的一个艰难的开始,新苏格兰联赛赛季,在周日前往卫冕冠军凯尔特人的前奏和4 - 0击败了Reo Hatate和Liam尺度将主机2 - 0在上半年和尼古拉斯·库恩和安东尼·拉斯顿将他们的名字添加到进球。