UEFA Champions/Europa League Group Stage Draw 30/31 August 2018

[Cosimo]

Champions League - 30th @ 17:00 BST

Draw

The teams will be split into four seeding pots. Pot 1 consists of the holders, the UEFA Europa League winners and the champions of the six highest-ranked nations. Pots 2 to 4 are determined by the club coefficient rankings.

No team can play a club from their own association, with the exact draw procedure to be confirmed before the ceremony.

Season Dates

18/19 September: Group stage, matchday one
2/3 October: Group stage, matchday two
23/24 October: Group stage, matchday three
6/7 November: Group stage, matchday four
27/28 November: Group stage, matchday five
11/12 December: Group stage, matchday six

17 December: Round of 16 draw
12/13/19/20 February: Round of 16, first leg
5/6/12/13 March: Round of 16, second leg
15 March: Quarter-final & semi-final draw
9/10 April: Quarter-finals, first leg
16/17 April: Quarter-finals, second leg
30 April/1 May: Semi-finals, first leg
7/8 May: Semi-finals, second leg

Saturday 1 June: Final – Estadio Metropolitano, Madrid


Europa League - 31st @ 12:00 BST

Draw

The 48 entrants are split into four seeding pots based on their club coefficients, with each of the eventual 12 groups to contain one team from each seeding tier.

Under a new system, club coefficients are determined either by the sum of all points won in the previous five years or by the association coefficient over the same period – whichever is higher.

No team can play a club from their own association, with the exact draw procedure confirmed before the ceremony.

Teams/Pots

Pot 1
Sevilla (ESP) coefficient 113.000*
Arsenal (ENG) 93.000
Chelsea (ENG) 82.000
Zenit (RUS) 78.000*
Bayer Leverkusen (GER) 66.000
Dynamo Kyiv (UKR) 62.000**
Beşiktaş (TUR) 57.000*
Salzburg (AUT) 55.500**
Olympiacos (GRE) 54.000*
Villarreal (ESP) 52.000
Anderlecht (BEL) 48.000
Lazio (ITA) 41.000

Pot 2
Sporting CP (POR) 40.000
Ludogorets (BUL) 37.000*
København (DEN) 34.000*
Marseille (FRA) 32.000
Celtic (SCO) 31.000*
PAOK (GRE) 29.500**
AC Milan (ITA) 28.000
Genk (BEL) 27.000*
Fenerbahçe (TUR) 23.500***
Krasnodar (RUS) 23.500
Astana (KAZ) 21.750*
Rapid Wien (AUT) 21.500*

Pot 3
Real Betis (ESP) 21.399
BATE Borisov (BLR) 20.500**
Qarabağ (AZE) 20.500*
Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) 17.500**
RB Leipzig (GER) 17.000*
Eintracht Frankfurt (GER) 14.285
Malmö (SWE) 14.000*
Spartak Moskva (RUS) 13.500***
Standard Liège (BEL) 12.500***
Zürich (SUI) 12.000
Bordeaux (FRA) 11.283*
Rennes (FRA) 11.283

Pot 4
Apollon (CYP) 10.000*
Rosenborg (NOR) 9.000*
Vorskla Poltava (UKR) 8.226
Slavia Praha (CZE) 7.500***
Akhisar Belediyespor (TUR) 7.160
Jablonec (CZE) 6.035
AEK Larnaca (CYP) 4.310*
Vidi (HUN) 4.250**
Rangers (SCO) 3.725*
Dudelange (LUX) 3.500*
Spartak Trnava (SVK) 3.500*
Sarpsborg (NOR) 3.485*

17 teams qualified automatically
* 21 teams advanced from the play-off round
** 6 teams defeated in UEFA Champions League play-off round
*** 4 teams defeated in UEFA Champions League third qualifying round league path

Season Dates

20 September: Group stage, matchday one
4 October: Group stage, matchday two
25 October: Group stage, matchday three
8 November: Group stage, matchday four
29 November: Group stage, matchday five
13 December: Group stage, matchday six

17 December: Round of 32 draw
14 February: Round of 32 first leg
21 February: Round of 32, second leg
22 February: Round of 16 draw
7 March: Round of 16, first leg
14 March: Round of 16, second leg
15 March: Quarter-final & semi-final draw
11 April: Quarter-finals, first leg
18 April: Quarter-finals, second leg
2 May: Semi-finals, first leg
9 May: Semi-finals, second leg

Wednesday 29 May: Final – Olympic Stadium, Baku

Coverage

BBC Football, UEFA.com
http://www.uefa.com/
BT Sport, Sky Sports, BBC Sport website, UEFA and Eurosport

 

[Cosimo]

Man City have Group F now for the rest.

 

[Cosimo]

Man U have Juve Group H
Man City have Shakhtar F
Spurs have Barcelona Group F

 

[Robbo]

Hoping for a tougher group, rather than the usual rubbish. Juventus a good start.

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Spurs in Barca’s group

 

[BaZ87]

So Liverpool will either be in group A, C or D. I'll take D please.

edit: C it is then.

 

[Robbo]

Tricky group for Liverpool too.

 

[BaZ87]

Barring a miracle we'd have always had a tricky group.

 

[wedrum]

as a liverpool fan i would rather we get a decent group.

 

[BaZ87]

City have ended with a very friendly group but Utd, Spurs and Liverpool have all got pretty much as difficult groups as possible. Still fancy all 4 sides to qualify.

 

[explicit4u]

Thats an epic group for Liverpool, pretty much a group of death (especially if you're RS Belgrade), can't see City struggling at all with theirs.

Group C: Paris St-Germain, Napoli, Liverpool, Red Star Belgrade
Group H: Juventus, Manchester United, Valencia, Young Boys
Group B: Barcelona, Tottenham, PSV Eindhoven, Inter Milan
Group F: Manchester City, Shakhtar Donetsk, Lyon, Hoffenheim

 

[BaZ87]

Thats an epic group for Liverpool, pretty much a group of death (especially if you're RS Belgrade), can't see City struggling at all with theirs.

As above, barring a miracle any group we got would have been much of a muchness. Other than Lokomotiv, all the pot 1 teams were fairly equal in difficulty. One of the Portugese sides would have been nicer from pot 2 but prefer Napoli to Shakhtar, Dortmund or Roma and as long as you avoided Inter, pot 4 was all the same too.

 

[Ree]

yay! we made it to the europa league all be it with 9 men and backs to the wall, nice goal by ejaria though.

 

[No1newts]

Brutal draw all around apart from City.

 

[Mark1989]

City have got a **** easy group :/

 

[drunkenmaster]

So group A and C are the interesting groups. Utd are.... You'd normally say easy group but when Mourinho teams get bad and with this team playing how they are I wouldn't directly rule out Valencia at this point. It really depends both if Valencia are having a good season or not and if Utd start playing some proper football.

Inter were much better last year but I can't see them being much threat to Spurs. Pool have the most difficult group by a mile, I'd probably put money on them going through but a bad performance against Napoli or PSG could see them going out.

 

[adidan]

This gets more and more like Eurovision every year.

BT has all the matches? That is good news.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Brutal draw all around apart from City.

Inter and PSV isn't even very hard. I'd be very surprised if Spurs didn't go through comfortably with Barca. UTd, it's only the Mourinho/decline thing that even rates as a potential problem. Valencia while decent enough are a completely different league to Juve/Utd/Spurs/etc. In a normal year without UTd playing how they have been it's an easy group. With Mourinho when his teams fall to pieces then there isn't a team out there that isn't a threat.

 

[The_One]

the big draw is tomorrow

 

[The Running Man]

Hoping for a tougher group, rather than the usual rubbish. Juventus a good start.

Yeah at least this way we get knocked out early doors and can focus on the league.