Champions League draw

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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)

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

A powerhouse Group C highlights the group stage, which will be compressed into a two-month span due to the 2022 World Cup this fall.

18, the Champions League group stage will be played under a compressed schedule that will see all six matchdays being played within two months. Meanwhile, the general atmosphere of Group A is sure to entertain with the legendary fanbases of Ajax, Liverpool, Napoli and Rangers all present. However, since the 2022 World Cup will take place from Nov.

Re-live the draw of the 2022-23 Champions League group stage as all four of the English clubs (Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur) as ...

- - - - Rangers (SCO) - Benfica (POR) - Napoli (ITA) - Inter (ITA) - Leipzig (GER) - Sevilla (ESP) - Juventus (ITA) - Barcelona (ESP) - Chelsea (ENG) - Liverpool (ENG) - Porto (POR)

Manchester City will face Borussia Dortmund, from whom it bought the star striker Erling Haaland.

The group stage will run on a compressed schedule from Sept. [Big-spending Paris St.-Germain](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/sports/soccer/champions-league-psg-nasser.html), with Neymar, Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé, will continue its quest for a first Champions League title against Juventus, Benfica and Maccabi Haifa. Those teams will meet in the Champions League, in a group with Inter Milan and Viktoria Plzen. 2, covering nine weeks rather than the usual 13 or so because of As for the three remaining English teams, they all look to have good chances to advance. (The third-place teams drop into the second-tier Europa League; fourth-place teams are eliminated.)

Finally, all the groups have been drawn and we know who's playing whom in the Champions League. We go group-by-group to pick the favorites and more.

[Kylian Mbappe](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/231388/Kylian-Mbappé) or [Erling Haaland](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/253989/Erling-Haaland), and [Casemiro](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/173666/Casemiro) joined [Manchester United](/soccer/team?id=360), but they are still a formidable team that knows how to win this competition. [Ukraine](/soccer/team?id=457) while the country is at war with [Russia](/soccer/team?id=454), a situation that means Shakhtar will have to play their home games at Stadion Wojska Polskiego in Warsaw. The rest of the group is up for grabs, and Celtic, RB Leipzig and Shakhtar Donetsk will all have an opportunity to qualify. Both games will be emotional night given what is happening in Ukraine, but Shakhtar, which reached the last 16 in 2018, are not here to make up the numbers and will give Ancelotti's team a tough examination. FC Salzburg will embark upon their fourth consecutive group stage campaign and boast a forward line led by [Benjamin Sesko](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/289155/Benjamin-Sesko). [Real Madrid](/soccer/team?id=86) last time out, who have since signed defender [Antonio Rudiger](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/169438/Antonio-Rüdiger) on a free transfer. [Harry Kane](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/142200/Harry-Kane) and Son Heung-min -- who know what it takes to thrive in this competition. You can expect Liverpool to be back to their best once their injured ( [Diogo Jota](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/208133/Diogo-Jota), [Thiago](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/195354/Thiago), [Naby Keita](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/196567/Naby-Keita), [Joel Matip](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/134659/Joël-Matip) to name just four) and suspended players ( [Darwin Nunez](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/271788/Darwin-Núñez)) are back and once their defenders are willing to defend again. They've had a shocking start to the season, with three defeats in three Bundesliga games and a loss in the German Cup against a third-division side. Porto will play with intensity and with confidence and will be difficult to play against, basically the complete opposite of Bayer Leverkusen. They seem to still be searching for their identity, and as a result, their attacking game is still a work in progress. It won't be easy for Klopp's and Spalletti's teams, but I expect them to go through with Ajax in third, while Rangers will get points on the board but not enough to make it to the Europa League.

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)

Finally, all the groups have been drawn and we know who's playing whom in the Champions League. We go group-by-group to pick the favorites and more.

[Kylian Mbappe](https://www.espn.com.sg/soccer/player/_/id/231388/Kylian-Mbappé) or [Erling Haaland](https://www.espn.com.sg/soccer/player/_/id/253989/Erling-Haaland), and [Casemiro](https://www.espn.com.sg/soccer/player/_/id/173666/Casemiro) joined [Manchester United](/soccer/team?id=360), but they are still a formidable team that knows how to win this competition. [Ukraine](/soccer/team?id=457) while the country is at war with [Russia](/soccer/team?id=454), a situation that means Shakhtar will have to play their home games at Stadion Wojska Polskiego in Warsaw. The rest of the group is up for grabs, and Celtic, RB Leipzig and Shakhtar Donetsk will all have an opportunity to qualify. Both games will be emotional night given what is happening in Ukraine, but Shakhtar, which reached the last 16 in 2018, are not here to make up the numbers and will give Ancelotti's team a tough examination. FC Salzburg will embark upon their fourth consecutive group stage campaign and boast a forward line led by [Benjamin Sesko](https://www.espn.com.sg/soccer/player/_/id/289155/Benjamin-Sesko). [Real Madrid](/soccer/team?id=86) last time out, who have since signed defender [Antonio Rudiger](https://www.espn.com.sg/soccer/player/_/id/169438/Antonio-Rüdiger) on a free transfer. [Harry Kane](https://www.espn.com.sg/soccer/player/_/id/142200/Harry-Kane) and Son Heung-min -- who know what it takes to thrive in this competition. You can expect Liverpool to be back to their best once their injured ( [Diogo Jota](https://www.espn.com.sg/soccer/player/_/id/208133/Diogo-Jota), [Thiago](https://www.espn.com.sg/soccer/player/_/id/195354/Thiago), [Naby Keita](https://www.espn.com.sg/soccer/player/_/id/196567/Naby-Keita), [Joel Matip](https://www.espn.com.sg/soccer/player/_/id/134659/Joël-Matip) to name just four) and suspended players ( [Darwin Nunez](https://www.espn.com.sg/soccer/player/_/id/271788/Darwin-Núñez)) are back and once their defenders are willing to defend again. They've had a shocking start to the season, with three defeats in three Bundesliga games and a loss in the German Cup against a third-division side. Porto will play with intensity and with confidence and will be difficult to play against, basically the complete opposite of Bayer Leverkusen. They seem to still be searching for their identity, and as a result, their attacking game is still a work in progress. It won't be easy for Klopp's and Spalletti's teams, but I expect them to go through with Ajax in third, while Rangers will get points on the board but not enough to make it to the Europa League.

Real Madrid have been drawn in Group F for the UEFA Champions League 2022-23 while Barcelona are in Group C. Get full group stage draw and schedule.

The top-two in each group will then progress to the round of 16. First leg: April 11 and 12, 2023 Matchday 4: October 11 and 12, 2022

⦿ Group of Death - Group C comprising of Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Inter Milan and FC Viktoria Plzen is this season's Group of Death. ⦿ Europa League champion ...

Aleksander Ceferin on the stage: As announced before, former Italian coach Arrigo Sacchi wins the UEFA President’s award. He will be assisting with the draw. - ⦿ Awards: Sarina Weigman and Carlo Ancelotti win UEFA Coach of the Year awards.

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