UEFA Champions League/Europa League Group Stage Draws 29/30 August

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Thursday 29 @ 16:45 BST

Champions League Group Stage Draw​

Pot 1: Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Arsenal, FC Porto, Benfica

Pot 2: Atletico Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk, AC Milan, Schalke, Marseille, CSKA Moscow, Paris St-Germain, Juventus

Pot 3: Zenit St Petersburg, Manchester City, Ajax Amsterdam, Borussia Dortmund, FC Basel, Olympiakos, Galatasaray, Bayer Leverkusen

Pot 4: FC Copenhagen, Napoli, Anderlecht, Celtic, Steaua Bucharest, Viktoria Plzen, Real Sociedad, Austria Vienna​

Seeded teams Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea cannot face Manchester City in the group stages. No team can face another club from the same country in the group stages, but the English teams could be drawn against Celtic from pot four.

Where two sides from the same association qualify, they are paired to split their matches between Tuesday and Wednesday, so one club will always play at home on one day and the other will play away on the other day. In the case of associations with three representatives, only two teams are paired in terms of their fixtures; in the case of associations with four representatives, two pairings are made based on the TV audience.

To ensure sides from the same country play on separate days, the eight groups are distinguished by colour: Groups A–D red and Groups E–H blue. When a paired club is drawn, for example, into one of the red groups, the other paired club – once it is drawn – is automatically assigned to one of the four blue groups.

Teams from Pot 1 are provisionally placed in the first position within their groups, sides from Pot 2 provisionally take the second spot in their sections, and so on. Once the draw is completed, a computer draw determines the final position of the clubs within their group and therefore the order of the home and away matches.
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Coverage​

Sky Sports 2, Sky Sports News, EuroSport 2, UEFA.com​

Draw​

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Champions League Group Stage Dates​

Matchday 1 : 17/18 September
Matchday 2: 1/2 October
Matchday 3: 22/23 October
Matchday 4: 5/6 November
Matchday 5: 26/27 November
Matchday 6 : 10/11 December​

Full Fixture List​



Friday 30 @ 11:45 BST

Europa League Group Stage Draw​

The play-off winners, the ten losing teams from the UEFA Champions League play-offs and sides entering at this stage make up the 48 clubs that go into the group stage draw at the Grimaldi Forum.

The 48 teams are split into four seeding pots based on UEFA's coefficient system, with one from each drawn into the 12 groups. No side can meet another from the same association. Once the draw has been completed a computer draw will determine the final position of the clubs within their group and therefore the order of the home and away matches.
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Coverage​

Sky Sports 2, EuroSport 2, UEFA.com​
 
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Excellent 'group of death' potential with Napoli in pot 4. That's what we like to see.

Hopefully they won't faff about and it'll be finished in time for Pointless.
 
Fulax said:
Excellent 'group of death' potential with Napoli in pot 4. That's what we like to see.

Hopefully they won't faff about and it'll be finished in time for Pointless.
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Especially with City, Galatasary and Dortmund in pot 3 as well. Hopefully we get a couple of tough groups and not just one.
 
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