Champions League Draw

Pot 4: Marseille, Club Bruges, Celtic, Viktoria Plzen, Maccabi Haifa, Rangers, FC Copenhagen, Dinamo Zagreb or Bodo/Glimt. * Cannot be drawn against in group ...

Matchday 5: October 25/26 Rangers were among the sides to book their place in the draw, seeing off PSV Eindhoven. Matchday 4: October 11/12

The draw will be broadcast live on BT Sport 1. Potential draws for the Premier League sides and Celtic. Reigning Premier League champions Manchester City are ...

Due to the earlier start to the season with the World Cup taking place this November, the draw for the Champions League is taking place this week. The first game of the group stage campaigns is scheduled for the 6th and 7th of September, almost a full month before last season's matchday one. The draw for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League is almost here and earlier than usual.

Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham and Celtic will find out who they will face in this season's Champions League this week. Here is everything you need ...

The round of 16 is due to take place over two legs on 14/15/21/22 February and 7/8/14/15 March 2023. It will also be streamed on the Virgin Media Player, the BT Sport Player and on BT Sport and UEFA's YouTube channels. There will be six match days in order for all the group matches to be played in the final season before the new 'Swiss format' is introduced.

The UCL draw for the 2022-23 edition of the tournament will take place in Istanbul, Turkey on August 25.

The top two finishers from each group will advance to the knockout rounds, while the bottom two in each group will be sent home. Before that happens, they’ll need to complete the draw to determine who will end up in which group ahead of the competition. [Real Madrid](https://www.managingmadrid.com) will look to defend their title after they won their 14th UCL trophy last season. [Manchester City](https://bitterandblue.sbnation.com), [Bayern Munich](https://www.bavarianfootballworks.com), Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona, [Juventus](https://www.blackwhitereadallover.com), and plenty more. We’ll go over everything you need to know about the draw ahead of Thursday’s action. Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt qualified for their first-ever UEFA Champions League, aside from the 1959-60 when it was still known as the European Cup.

Pot 1: Real Madrid, Eintracht Frankfurt, Manchester City, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, Porto, Ajax · Pot 2: Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, ...

Due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian teams have been banned from the competition. When are the Champions League group fixtures? The 26 automatic qualifiers and six play-off winners will compete in the Champions League group stage.

The pots for the 2022-23 Champions League group stage draw have been confirmed after Wednesday's qualifiers.

Matchday 5: Oct. Matchday 4: Oct. Matchday 3: Oct. As Real Madrid secured the league and UCL Double there is a vacant place among the top seeds and that goes to the champions of the [Eredivisie](/soccer/league/_/name/ned.1) -- Ajax. Matchday 2: Sept. Matchday 1: Sept.

THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE group stage draw will take place on Friday - and Express Sport has simulated the outcome to see what awaits for the four Premier League ...

But Diego Simeone’s Atletico have the experience and collective intelligence to finish on top - the battle for second will be enticing. War-affected Shakhtar will be hoping to finish above Dinamo and secure themselves a Europa League spot. And with six British teams entering this year, the chances of having two in the same group are higher than usual.

The pots for the 2022-23 Champions League group stage draw have been confirmed after Wednesday's qualifiers.

Matchday 5: Oct. Matchday 4: Oct. Matchday 3: Oct. As Real Madrid secured the league and UCL Double there is a vacant place among the top seeds and that goes to the champions of the [Eredivisie](/football/league/_/name/ned.1) -- Ajax. Matchday 2: Sept. Matchday 1: Sept.

UEFA Europa League winners Eintracht Frankfurt are in Pot One along with German giants Bayern Munich while RB Leipzig are in Pot Two and Borussia Dortmund as ...

England's Premier League are one of three competitions boasting a quartet of sides with Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, and Tottenham Hotspur with Serie A represented by both Milan clubs, SSC Napoli and Juventus to La Liga's Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, and Sevilla. Pot 2: Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, RB Leipzig and Tottenham Hotspur. UEFA Europa League winners Eintracht Frankfurt are in Pot One along with German giants Bayern Munich while RB Leipzig are in Pot Two and Borussia Dortmund as well as Bayer Leverkusen occupy Pot Three.

Giant European clubs such as Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Manchester City, and titleholders Real Madrid will all find out their group stage opponents knowing they ...

May 16-17, 2023 May 9-10, 2023 Apr. 7-15, 2023 14-22, 2023 1st Leg The preliminary qualifying rounds took place between June and August, resulting in the final six berths to the group stage. BT Sport 1, BT Sport Ultimate One of the lowest seeds from Pot 4 would cap it off: Maccabi Haifa or Viktoria Plzen. Here are some possible combinations for a potential Group of Death should the draw fall this way. In this case, the Netherlands and its reigning Eredivisie champion Ajax were elevated to Pot 1. The draw will see 32 teams split into eight groups of four.

UEFA structures the pots as follows: Pot 1 contains the reigning Champions League and Europa League winners (Real Madrid, Eintracht Frankfurt) and the domestic ...

Should Dortmund land Dest from Barcelona, as has been rumored this week, that would take Barça out of the running here and make a Chelsea/Juventus-Dortmund-Rangers trio in any group even more of a lure from a U.S. So any combination that features one of Chelsea, Barcelona and Juventus out of Pot 2 and then Dortmund and Rangers will surely catch the eye of USMNT staff, players and supporters alike in the coming weeks (since Frankfurt and Dortmund can’t be drawn together given they are both Bundesliga clubs, there’s no scenario in which all four clubs in a group features U.S. Sadio Mané has gotten off to a brilliant start with Bayern Munich, and two of his former clubs are involved in the competition. With Russian clubs barred from competition due to its nation’s invasion of Ukraine, the past stipulation that kept Russian clubs and Ukrainian clubs apart in the group stage is no longer in play. A Bayern-Liverpool-Inter/Napoli-Marseille group also offers a similar effect—four clubs in Europe’s top five leagues all with the talent to reach the knockout stage. The remaining pots are set in club coefficient order (a formula that takes into account the results of each club in UEFA competitions based on performances over the last five seasons), which limits the potential for true groups of death but does offer some intriguing possibilities.

The Champions League draw will have no new names in the 32-team lineup after the last confirmed entry ended an unlikely run by a Norwegian team.

Each team gets a basic fee of 15.6 million euros ($15.5 million), plus 2.8 million euros ($2.78 million) per win and 930,000 euros ($924,000) for each draw in the group stage. The Champions League is even more concentrated in western Europe – and not just because of the Russia ban. Liverpool is ranked highest of the 24 and Maccabi Haifa is lowest. [these Champions League groups start early](/article/covid-sports-health-soccer-middle-east-c3b5cb1fe407a31fde74f2c6f4da5e1a) on Sept. The extra 930,000 euros ($924,000) left over from each drawn game is pooled and shared among teams who won games. [according to their place in a league table](https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/tenyears/) based on historical European titles and results in the past 10 years. The 32 teams from 15 different countries go into groups of four playing home-and-away round-robin games. 6 and end five weeks sooner than usual on Nov. The top two in each group advance to the knockout stage next year. There is no such upstart this season, though some in Scotland would argue Rangers should count as a first-timer. Madrid has advanced every time. Maybe we will be lucky,” Shakhtar captain Taras Stepanenko said this week.

Dinamo joined Rangers and Copenhagen, which also advanced through their playoffs to complete a group-stage lineup stacked with 14 former former champions who ...

Each team gets a basic fee of 15.6 million euros ($15.5 million), plus 2.8 million euros ($2.78 million) per win and 930,000 euros ($924,000) for each draw in the group stage. The Champions League is even more concentrated in western Europe – and not just because of the Russia ban. [these Champions League groups start early](https://apnews.com/article/covid-sports-health-soccer-middle-east-c3b5cb1fe407a31fde74f2c6f4da5e1a) on Sept. Liverpool is ranked highest of the 24 and Maccabi Haifa is lowest. The extra 930,000 euros ($924,000) left over from each drawn game is pooled and shared among teams who won games. [according to their place in a league table](https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/tenyears/) based on historical European titles and results in the past 10 years. The 32 teams from 15 different countries go into groups of four playing home-and-away round-robin games. The top two in each group advance to the knockout stage next year. 6 and end five weeks sooner than usual on Nov. There is no such upstart this season, though some in Scotland would argue Rangers should count as a first-timer. Maybe we will be lucky,” Shakhtar captain Taras Stepanenko said this week. Madrid has advanced every time.

The Blues and Spurs both finished inside the top four of the Premier League last season and secured a Champions League spot as a result.

Napoli (ITA) Juventus (ITA) Chelsea (ENG) Liverpool (ENG) [Thomas Tuchel](https://www.football.london/all-about/thomas-tuchel)'s team exited the Champions League at the quarter-final stage last season after losing to Real Madrid, while [Antonio Conte](https://www.football.london/all-about/antonio-conte)'s Spurs side were eliminated from the Europa Conference League after UEFA ruled their postponed fixture against Rennes would be deemed as a forfeit. The 2022/23 Champions League group stage draw will take place on 25 August in Istanbul, Turkey.

We take a closer look at the teams Chelsea could be drawn against in this evening's Champions League draw in Turkey…

The draw begins at 5pm (UK time) today and will be shown live on BT Sport and via a stream on UEFA’s website. All six group fixtures will be played over an eight-week period this autumn due to the mid-season scheduling of the FIFA World Cup. That is usually only required for teams who have not been regular participants in European competition in recent years. Clubs earn points towards their coefficient based on how well they perform in the Champions League, Europa League and, from last season, the UEFA Conference League. For example, in the Champions League, clubs are awarded four points each for reaching the group stage and last 16, as well as two points for a win and one for a draw in the knockout stages. Pots 2, 3 and 4 are seeded based on individual teams’ standings within the UEFA club coefficient standing.

Liverpool, Chelsea, and Spurs face tricky draws, while daunting prospects await Celtic and Rangers.

Liverpool may face complications in returning to Istanbul – and to a fourth final in six years – from the off, as they are in pot two of today’s draw. It means Liverpool may face an immediate rematch with Real Madrid, with Chelsea and Tottenham also in the same pot. The venue is Istanbul as that’s where the final will (finally) be held.

UEFA Champions League (UCL) 2022 draw live streaming: The UCL draw for the group stage will be live streamed on Sony TEN and Sony LIV.

The Champions League groups are drawn Thursday in Istanbul. Bodø/Glimt takes a 1-0 lead to Croatia to face Dinamo Zagreb and Copenhagen leads 2-1 against host Trabzonspor of Turkey in the playoffs route reserved for national champions. If there is to be any Champions League newcomer among the 32 group-stage teams this season, it can only be Bodø/Glimt of Norway.

The Rangers name is now back in the Champions League after a 12-year absence, joining Glasgow rival Celtic in the group stage.

Each team gets a basic fee of 15.6 million euros ($15.5 million), plus 2.8 million euros ($2.78 million) per win and 930,000 euros ($924,000) for each draw in the group stage. The Champions League is even more concentrated in western Europe – and not just because of the Russia ban. The other 24 teams are seeded according to UEFA ranking based on European results in the past five seasons. The extra 930,000 euros ($924,000) left over from each drawn game is pooled and shared among teams who won games. The 32 teams from 15 different countries go into groups of four playing home-and-away round-robin games. The top two in each group advance to the knockout stage next year. A fund of 600 million euros ($596 million) gets divided between clubs according to their place in a league table based on historical European titles and results in the past 10 years. There is no such upstart this season, though some in Scotland would argue Rangers should count as a first-timer. Madrid has advanced every time. Maybe we will be lucky,” Shakhtar captain Taras Stepanenko said this week. Teams from the same country cannot be in the same group. The Rangers name is now back in the Champions League after a 12-year absence, joining Glasgow rival Celtic in the group stage.

The 32 teams that qualified for the lucrative 2022/23 UEFA Champions League group stage are set to learn their opponents as the draw is conducted from ...

— [UEFA club coefficient list](https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/club/#/yr/2022), which is a ranking based on a mathematical formula taking into account each club's performance in domestic and continental competitions over the past five years. Club Brugge (44) Atletico Madrid (9) FC Copenhagen (41) Inter Milan (23) Shakhtar Donetsk (22) Dinamo Zagreb (34) RB Salzburg (21) Rangers (33) Liverpool (2) ET: We're six hours away from finding out if the following groups can become a reality.

This season's Champions League group stage draw takes place today with 32 European teams set to learn their fate. The draw is due to start at 5pm (BST) ...

The draw which will see 32 teams placed in eight groups of four starts at 5pm (BST) on Thursday. The 2021 Champions League final between Manchester City and Chelsea was then scheduled to be held at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium venue but it was once again relocated to Portugal — this time Porto's Estadio do Dragao — just two weeks before to allow fans to attend. Our subscribers in the USA can watch it on Paramount+ and CBS Sports HQ. Teams from pot two are drawn, followed by pots three and four. Pot one contains the winners of last season’s Champions League and Europa League, as well as the winners of the top six divisions in Europe. Pots two, three and four are then determined by clubs’ UEFA coefficients. An evening that treads the line between pomposity and kitsch, replete with close-up shots of grinning club officials, is coming to Istanbul. Therefore, Celtic and Rangers could be drawn against an English side. That means, for example, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur cannot be placed together despite being in different pots. Each team can use a maximum of three stoppages in play to make substitutions, with one extra allowed in extra time. UEFA describes the launch as its “Standing Facilities Observer Programme 2022-23”. (Photo: Getty Images)

Pot 1: Real Madrid, Eintracht Frankfurt, Manchester City, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, Porto, and Ajax. Pot 2: Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona ...

Pots 2 to 4 were determined by the club coefficient rankings. Teams from the same league can't be drawn in the same group. So the four Premier League teams can't be drawn together.

The best club competition in the world returns with its usual heavy hitters, plus new and older teams taking part. The likes of Rangers and Celtic will both ...

Teams from the same country cannot be in the same group. 6 and end five weeks sooner than usual on Nov. The likes of Manchester United and Arsenal miss out once again.

Pots. Real Madrid, Eintracht Frankfurt, Man City, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, PSG, Porto, Ajax. Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, ...

Celtic and Rangers are in the fourth pot. The other pots are based on how well teams have done in Europe over the past five seasons. Scottish champions Celtic and fierce rivals Rangers are also involved this year.

The pots have been confirmed for the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League group stage draw, which will be streamed live on UEFA.com from 18:00 CET on Thursday 25 ...

When a paired club is drawn, for example, in one of the red groups (A, B, C or D), the other paired club – once it has been drawn – will automatically be assigned to one of the four blue groups (E, F, G or H). Napoli (ITA) Juventus (ITA)

The Champions League group-stage draw takes place on Thursday, with Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Celtic and Rangers set to discover their first ...

UEFA will confirm any other restrictions ahead of the draw ceremony. Matchday 4: October 11/12 Pots 2 to 4 will be determined by club coefficient rankings.

football.london takes a look at how the UEFA Champions League draw will impact Chelsea's Premier League campaign.

It is also worth noting that after that game comes the Carabao Cup third round at Manchester City, with the final game before the break coming at St. The penultimate game of the group stage is on October 25-26th and here are where things get more intense. Chelsea go to Villa Park on the 16th in a Sunday 2pm game, likely leaving a decent gap between the previous Champions League test. As will be the case with the group this season, there will be few breaks as Chelsea face their second clash on either September 13-14th. The week ends at home to Wolves. But this year's group stage will bring unique challenges given the condensed schedule before the World Cup kicks off in November.

The Champions League is the pinnacle of club football, and each year's group-stage draw marks the start of all 32 teams' quest for the European Cup.

16.00 BST: Right, we are an hour away from the draw kicking into high gear, but let's get this party started. 16.07 BST: Before we get too carried away with the 2022-23 edition of the tournament, let's take a moment to reflect on last season's Champions League. 16.21 BST: Not a single name has been drawn yet, but we can already reveal a few insights about which groups some teams will land in, and how the scheduling will unfold throughout the group stage. And the pageantry! The drama! But the start of another [Champions League](/soccer/league/_/name/uefa.champions) season, when the continent's premier clubs square off under the floodlights on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, that's when the term "European football" truly comes to the fore. Further away, more expensive flight and fewer Prince Alberts ..." He receives the 2022 UEFA President's Award, which acknowledges outstanding achievements that transcend the sport of football. Are you feeling the hype yet? And every Champions League campaign begins well before the group stage's Matchday 1. [AC Milan](/soccer/team?id=103), [Chelsea](/soccer/team?id=363) [Bayern Munich](/soccer/team?id=132), [Barcelona](/soccer/team?id=83)

The draw for the shortened group stage of the 2022-23 Champions League takes place at the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul.

Group D: Eintracht Frankfurt, Tottenham Hotspur, Sporting Lisbon, Marseille. Group E: AC Milan, Chelsea, Salzburg, Dinamo. Group F: Real Madrid, RB Leipzig, ...

Celtic face a difficult challenge against the holders, Real Madrid, RB Leipzig and Shakhtar Donetsk, while a mouthwatering group containing previous winners Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Internazionale caught the eye. Madrid’s Carlo Ancelotti won the men’s award. Rangers will face Liverpool on their return to the Champions League for the first time in 12 years after being drawn against Jürgen Klopp’s side in Group A, while Erling Haaland is set to face his former club Borussia Dortmund for Manchester City.

Liverpool will take on Rangers in the Champions League following this evening's group stage draw in Istanbul, Turkey.

Group F: Real Madrid - RB Leipzig - Shakhtar Donetsk - Celtic Group A: Ajax - Liverpool - Napoli - Rangers Group B: Porto - Atletico Madrid - Bayer Leverkusen - Brugge