Champions League draw

As the 2022/23 edition of UEFA's showpiece competition draws nearer, the idea of four beasts battling it out for two places always catches the imagination.

The ideal situation, seen by many of the bigger sides, is to be landed with one other top side as you are assured to avoid them in the next round. The three Spanish sides in Pot 2 -- Barcelona, Atlético and Sevilla -- will, of course, avoid last year’s victors thanks to UEFA keeping teams from the same country apart early on. Then again, you could make changes to the top two there and see Man City (1) and Barcelona (2) take their place.

There are a few tough teams that could be in Manchester City's way as they look to improve on their semi-final exit last season, and we here at City ...

Them teams will be in pot four, alongside teams like Celtic and Club Brugge. Tottenham, Chelsea and Liverpool are all teams Manchester City will avoid. Manchester City are in pot one alongside European Champions Madrid.

Barcelona endured a torrid run in the Champions League last season as they crashed out at the group stages itself, where they were drawn against Bayern Munich, ...

That leaves the Catalans with Manchester City, Bayern Munich, AC Milan, PSG, FC Porto, Eintracht Frankfurt and AFC Ajax as possible opponents. At one point it even looked like the Blaugrana might not even make it to the Champions League for this season. Barça came across Bayern in the group stages last season while they also played Eintracht in the quarter-finals of the Europa League and came up short against the German outfit.

Premier League-watchers will be keeping an eye on Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, as the Premier League sides enter this season's ...

— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) Who is in the Champions League group stage? Watch the Champions League draw.

TOTTENHAM face a brutal return to the Champions League when the group-stage draw is made tomorrow.After a year in the Europa League and one in the Con.

[final play-off round between Rangers and PSV Eindhoven](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/19464594/what-happens-rangers-lose-champions-league-qualifying/), Copenhagen and Trabzonspor and Dinamo Zagreb and Bodo/Glimt with the losers dropping into the Europa League. [Champions League](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/champions-league/) group stages after finishing second in Ligue 1 last term - together with Real and Inter, Spurs' opponents would have 28 successes between them. [signed Romelu Lukaku](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/19471150/chelsea-angry-inter-romelu-lukaku/), Andre Onana, Robin Gosens, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Joaquin Correa this summer. [one in the Conference League](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/17093362/tottenham-eliminated-europa-conference-league/), Antonio Conte's side finished fourth last season and secured a place in Pot 2 alongside fellow English sides Chelsea and Liverpool as well as Barcelona and Juventus. [record-extending 15th crown](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/18695095/most-champions-league-titles-real-madrid-liverpool-cristiano-ronaldo/). And they could be pitted against the holders in another Group of Death - just as they were in 2017-18.

Football.london calls on a super-computer to predict Chelsea's upcoming Champions League group stage draw.

The 2022/23 UEFA Champions League group stage draw takes place in Istanbul on Thursday and will begin at 5 PM UK time. We used a high-tech supercomputer to predict the draw (which you can use too at home). Other notable pairings in our draw see Bayern face Barcelona for the second year running, with Robert Lewandowski against his old club. Real Madrid once again gets Shakhtar, who I swear they are contractually obliged to face every year. Chelsea would again avoid any big hitters from Pot A drawing Europa League winners Frankfurt. [Trevoh Chalobah](https://www.football.london/all-about/trevoh-chalobah) going there on loan also before deadline day, with the Serie A club interested and the player concerned over his playing time.

Manchester City will soon find out who they will come up against in the group stage of this season's UEFA Champions League. The draw for the group stage of ...

Before the draw the 32 teams will be placed in one of four pots, and each group will be drawn with one team from each pot. Group winners and runner's up progress to the Round of 16. The other pots are determined by UEFA Club Coefficient rankings. That means they will not face any of Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan, Porto or Ajax. BT Sport will broadcast the draw on TV and on their YouTube channel. [City](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/all-about/manchester-city-fc) suffered a gut-wrenching semi-final exit in a thrilling tie with Real Madrid, losing 6-5 on aggregate despite winning the first leg 4-3 at the Etihad Stadium.

While we wait to find out whether the football gods will smile on the Old Lady with a favorable draw or instead pit us in a tough group, let's analyze what ...

This might actually be the most crucial pot of the entire draw. On Wednesday, the final three entrees will be determined through qualifiers. As we all know, the draw will result in eight groups each consisted of four clubs.

Here's all you need to know about when and where to follow the UEFA Champions League 2022-23 group stage draw.

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The 2022/23 UEFA Champions League group stage is set to take shape when the draw is held on Thursday, August 25. Real Madrid won the competition last season ...

AC Milan (1st, Italy) 14-22, 2023 In this case, the Netherlands and its reigning Eredivisie champion Ajax were elevated to Pot 1. 23-Inter Milan They will be drawn into eight groups each comprised of four teams. Real Madrid won the competition last season after beating Liverpool 1-0 in the final.

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.

As Premier League champions, Manchester City are in Pot 1 and therefore avoid many of Europe's biggest teams such as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and PSG. But ...

Sporting Lisbon from Pot 3 would complete a group that would be the easiest to get out of. Spurs themselves will want Eintracht Frankfurt from Pot 1, but may also fancy a first meeting with Ajax since their dramatic Champions League semi-final against Dutch side in 2019. Celtic earned an automatic spot as domestic champions and Rangers progressed past Union Saint-Gilloise and PSV in the qualifying rounds. Former Tottenham prospect Marcus Edwards now plays for Sporting but is unlikely to cause Antonio Conte's side too many problems if they are pulled out from Pot 3. They also have a point to prove after being knocked out of the Champions League group stages last season. Jurgen Klopp's former charges Dortmund are one to avoid in Pot 3, along with an Inter Milan side who won at Anfield last season. City will fancy their chances against any team in Pot 4, although Marseille are perhaps the most challenging opponent. The Reds have failed to win any of their last seven games against Los Blancos, so will not be too keen on facing them again. A short trip to Lisbon or Leverkusen would suit the Blues fine. As always, the clubs will be split into four pots of eight and one team from each pot will go into groups labelled A to H. Pots 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining teams, ranked by order of their UEFA ranking. but it's not plain sailing for Man City in Pot 1 either

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 takes place on Thursday, August 25 when teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester City, PSG, and Liverpool learn ...

The draw for the remainder of the 2022/23 Champions League knockout bracket (quarterfinals and semifinals) will take place on March 17, 2023. June 24, 2022 June 21, 2022 Benfica (Portugal) June 7, 2022 Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine) vs. PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) Rangers (Scotland) vs. Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) FK Bodo/Glimt (Norway) vs. Red Star Belgrade (Serbia) Maccabi Haifa (Israel) vs.

Europe's elite teams are soon set to discover their UEFA Champions League group-stage opponents. Premier League champions Manchester City, ...

Rangers are hoping to join Celtic in the draw by beating PSV Eindhoven in the second leg of their play-off match. Teams will be drawn into four pots of eight. Napoli (Italy) Sevilla (Spain) Juventus (Italy) Barcelona (Spain)

The 2022/23 UEFA Champions League group stage is set to take shape when the draw is held on Thursday, August 25. Real Madrid won the competition last season ...

May 9-10, 2023 7-15, 2023 14-22, 2023 In this case, the Netherlands and its reigning Eredivisie champion Ajax were elevated to Pot 1. They will be drawn into eight groups each comprised of four teams. Real Madrid won the competition last season after beating Liverpool 1-0 in the final.

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.

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.