UEFA Champions/Europa League Group Stage Draw 27/28 August 2015

Cosimo · 20 Aug 2015 at 07:36

Champions League - 27th @ 16:45 BST

Draw

Ten play-off winners join the 22 automatic entrants in the group stage draw at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, where the 32 sides are split into four seeding pots and one from each is drawn into the eight groups. Seeds are based on UEFA's coefficient system and no team can meet another from the same association.

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.

Draw

Game Dates

15–16 September
29–30 September
20–21 October
3–4 November
24–25 November
8–9 December

Europa League - 28th @ 12:00 BST

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.

Teams/Pots

Liverpool, Tottenham

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2016/draws/index.html

Game Dates

17 September
1 October 2014
22 October
5 November
26 November
10 December

Coverage

BT Sport, Sky Sports, BBC Sport website, UEFA and Eurosport

Cosimo · 27 Aug 2015 at 16:46

Here we go!

Cosimo · 27 Aug 2015 at 16:55

NexusK said:
Sort of, it's 2 hours long

Last year the actual draw started around 17:15.

Cosimo · 27 Aug 2015 at 17:06

Finally time to play those balls.

Cosimo · 27 Aug 2015 at 17:17

Arsenal and Bayern!
Man U have PSV
Chelsea have Porto

Cosimo · 27 Aug 2015 at 17:20

City have Juve

Cosimo · 27 Aug 2015 at 17:27

So Porto and Dynamo Kyiv for us.

Cosimo · 27 Aug 2015 at 17:36

And a trip to Tel-Aviv for us!

Cosimo · 27 Aug 2015 at 17:39

Happy with that draw, some travel but not too hard.

Cosimo · 27 Aug 2015 at 17:41

Cosimo · 28 Aug 2015 at 08:10

Lord-Jaffa said:
To be fair the other teams in Chelsea's group probably think they have the easier English team as well

Especially when they see how far they have to travel (miles):

9,192 - Chelsea
5,894 - Arsenal
5,455 - Manchester United
4,856 - Manchester City