Time to check out the Champions League Group Stage draw which can can watch live in full further down the article by scrolling down.
Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Celtic and Rangers discover who will be their first opponents in the 2022/23 competition.
The group stage will be played over nine midweeks this season so the World Cup can be accommodated and the tournament takes the same format as always. Four English Premier League teams – Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham – went straight into the group stage along with Scottish champions Celtic, while Rangers booked their place by beating PSV Eindhoven in a qualifier.
One team from each pot goes into each group, but teams from the same country cannot be drawn together.
Pot 1: Real Madrid, Eintracht Frankfurt, Manchester City, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Paris St-Germain, Porto, Ajax.
Pot 2: Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, Leipzig, Tottenham.
Pot 3: Borussia Dortmund, Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk, Inter Milan, Napoli, Benfica, Sporting Lisbon, Bayer Leverkusen.
Pot 4: Rangers, Marseille, Copenhagen, Club Bruges, Celtic, Viktoria Plzen, Maccabi Haifa, Dinamo Zagreb.
UEFA has to fit the Champions League group stage into a smaller period of time because of the Qatar World Cup.
The group stage gets underway on the 6th of September and runs to the 2nd of November – a period of nine weeks (compared to 12 weeks normally).
Usually it runs until the second week of December – but the World Cup kicks off on 20 November.
There will only be 3 weeks without Champions League games between the groups starting and ending. Two of those land during the September international break – and the other in mid-October has a full round of midweek Premier League games.
The knockout stages will be later than usual with last-16 ties played over a month from the 14th of February to the 15th of March. The quarter-finals are in April and the semis in May.
The final is at Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Stadium on the 10th of June 2023. It was initially meant to be the venue for the 2020 final, and then the 2021 showpiece, but both finals were moved to Portugal because of Covid restrictions.
Matchday 1: September 6/7
Matchday 2: September 13/14
Matchday 3: October 4/5
Matchday 4: October 11/12
Matchday 5: October 25/26
Matchday 6: November 1/2
The round of 16 draw will take place on November 7 at 12pm CET in Nyon, Switzerland.
Right then, without further-ado, time for the Champions League group stage draw…
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE DRAW
Group A: Ajax, Liverpool, Napoli, Rangers
Group B: Porto, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Club Brugge
Group C: Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Viktoria Plzen
Group D: Frankfurt, Tottenham, Sporting, Marseille
Group E: AC Milan, Chelsea, Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb
Group F: Real Madrid, RB Leipzig, Shakhtar Donetsk, Celtic
Group G: Man City, Sevilla, Borussia Dortmund, Copenhagen
Group H: PSG, Juventus, Benfica, Maccabi Haifa
The 2022/23 Champions League final will take place on the 10th of June 2023 at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, which was the venue for Liverpool’s famous comeback victory over AC Milan in 2005.
Round of 16: February 14/15/21/22 & March 7/8/14/15, 2023
Quarter-finals: April 11/12 & 18/19, 2023
Semi-finals: May 9/10 & 16/17, 2023
Final: June 10, 2023 (Istanbul, Turkey)
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE RESULTS SO FAR
Preliminary round
Semi-finals
FCI Levadia Estonia 1–6 Iceland Víkingur Reykjavík
La Fiorita San Marino 1–2 Andorra Inter Club d’Escaldes
Final
Inter Club d’Escaldes Andorra 0–1 Iceland Víkingur Reykjavík
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Midtjylland | 2–2 (4–3 p) | AEK Larnaca | 1–1 | 1–1 (a.e.t.) |
Dynamo Kyiv | 2–1 | Fenerbahçe | 0–0 | 2–1 (a.e.t.) |
Third qualifying round
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
---|---|---|---|---|
Monaco | 3–4 | PSV Eindhoven | 1–1 | 2–3 (a.e.t.) |
Dynamo Kyiv | 3–1 | Sturm Graz | 1–0 | 2–1 (a.e.t.) |
Union Saint-Gilloise | 2–3 | Rangers | 2–0 | 0–3 |
Benfica | 7–2 | Midtjylland | 4–1 | 3–1 |
Play-off round
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
---|---|---|---|---|
Qarabağ | 1–2 | Viktoria Plzeň | 0–0 | 1–2 |
Bodø/Glimt | 2–4 | Dinamo Zagreb | 1–0 | 1–4 (a.e.t.) |
Maccabi Haifa | 5–4 | Red Star Belgrade | 3–2 | 2–2 |
Copenhagen | 2–1 | Trabzonspor | 2–1 | 0–0 |
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