Champions League

This year, there are six British teams in the draw after Rangers put in a monumental effort to dispatch Dutch side PSV Eindhoven. The usual suspects including ...

Madrid will be hoping to defend their crown but will face another tough journey to the top. Ajax and Benfica will be their biggest tests in this relatively favourable group. Their toughest test in this group will be Conte’s former side Inter, who have started their Serie A season with two wins out of two. Despite their problems, they should still have enough to finish top in this group. Messi, Neymar, Mbappe and co are desperate to win this trophy as the Parisians are yet to get their hands on the European crown. A relatively easy group for [Thomas Tuchel](https://www.sportbible.com/thomas-tuchel)’s side and they should qualify as winners with ease. Diego Simeone’s Atletico are masters of the dark arts and will back themselves to beat anyone. [Chelsea](https://www.sportbible.com/chelsea) take on Celtic. Sevilla have started the season poorly and will need to up their game if they are to qualify. Napoli and Marseille are expected to pose only a minor threat. Leipzig and Champions League regulars Shakhtar will be the two teams fighting for second place in the group. This year, there are six British teams in the draw after Rangers put in a monumental effort to dispatch Dutch side PSV Eindhoven.

Champions League draw 2022/23 live stream: How to watch online and on TV as Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham discover opponents.

The round of 16 is due to take place over two legs on 14/15/21/22 February and 7/8/14/15 March 2023. There will be six match days in order for all the group matches to be played out. - Ajax - Leverkusen - Juventus - Inter - Sevilla - Barcelona - Tottenham - Liverpool - Chelsea [Real Madrid](/topic/real-madrid) are the defending champions after [beating Liverpool in last season’s final](https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/liverpool-real-madrid-result-champions-league-b2089489.html) thanks to Vinicius Jr’s strike, but the Reds will be determined to go one better and show the resilience seen last time they rebounded from a final loss to Los Blancos, which saw [Jurgen Klopp’s side defeat Spurs for their sixth European crown](https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/tottenham-liverpool-result-champions-league-final-goals-score-watch-highlights-a8940136.html).

Today, on the day of the UEFA Champions League 2022/23 group stage draw, adidas has revealed the details of the official matchball it has designed for the ...

The new outer texture coating – consistent across all adidas UEFA Champions League official match balls – offers secure grip and complete control, while the thermally bonded seamless construction guarantees ultimate performance. Today, on the day of the UEFA Champions League 2022/23 group stage draw, adidas has revealed the details of the official matchball it has designed for the group stage of the men’s competition. adidas unveil official 2022/23 UEFA Champions League match ball

Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Celtic and Rangers will learn their opponents.

Celtic and Rangers are in the fourth pot. There is the possibility of some heavyweight groups. The other pots are based on how well teams have done in Europe over the past five seasons.

Ahead of the 2022-23 Champions League group-stage draw, GOAL ranks all 32 teams from most likely to lift the European Cup this season to least.

[Even if you don't know every word,](https://www.goal.com/en/news/champions-league-anthem-the-full-lyrics-for-footballs-most/12pnkyajpat5t11q3gtidrfak2) you definitely know the final two. In just a few weeks' time the Champions League anthem will be blaring out at stadiums around Europe. [the group-stage draw set to take place in Switzerland on Thursday.](https://www.goal.com/en/news/champions-league-2022-23-group-stage-draw-date-time-teams/blt576b8b8fd09f9bcc)

Tottenham will discover their Champions League group fate later today with the draw taking place in Istanbul at 5pm.

While, of course, there are never any straightforward games in the Champions League, Porto and Eintracht Frankfurt are perhaps the opposition Spurs will want to come up against from Pot 1. Frankfurt haven't got off to the best of starts this time around and have yet to win from their first three games after drawing two and losing one. Shakhtar finished bottom of their Champions League group last season, drawing two and losing four of their six fixtures. Tottenham will ideally want to avoid one of the big guns from Pot 1 in Thursday's draw. In terms of Pot 3, teams will not want to be drawn alongside Inter Milan. [Potentially coming up against one of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or PSG from Pot 1](https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/fixtures-results/chelsea-tottenham-champions-league-draw-24823250), there are also some very tricky teams in Pot 3 as Inter Milan, Napoli, and Borussia Dortmund find themselves in there.

For the first time in 15 there are two Scottish teams in the Champions League draw, joined by four English clubs. PARIS, FRANCE - MAY 28: Real Madrid lift ...

Ahead of the 2022-23 Champions League group-stage draw, GOAL ranks all 32 teams from most likely to lift the European Cup this season to least.

[Even if you don't know every word,](https://www.goal.com/en/news/champions-league-anthem-the-full-lyrics-for-footballs-most/12pnkyajpat5t11q3gtidrfak2) you definitely know the final two. In just a few weeks' time the Champions League anthem will be blaring out at stadiums around Europe. [the group-stage draw set to take place in Switzerland on Thursday.](https://www.goal.com/en/news/champions-league-2022-23-group-stage-draw-date-time-teams/blt576b8b8fd09f9bcc)

The 32 teams that qualified for the lucrative 2022/23 UEFA Champions League group stage are set to learn their opponents as the draw is conducted from ...

— [UEFA club coefficient list](https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/club/#/yr/2022), which is a ranking based on a mathematical formula taking into account each club's performance in domestic and continental competitions over the past five years. Club Brugge (44) Atletico Madrid (9) FC Copenhagen (41) Inter Milan (23) Shakhtar Donetsk (22) Dinamo Zagreb (34) RB Salzburg (21) Rangers (33) Liverpool (2) ET: We're six hours away from finding out if the following groups can become a reality.

The UEFA Champions League group stage draw is one of the must-watch events on the summer calendar with many of the top clubs in Europe learning their path ...

Benfica (Portugal) The teams that finish in first place in their group will be matched up against a group runner-up. 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. The first stage in which clubs from the same country can meet is in the quarter-finals. Teams with the highest coefficient ranking end up in Pot 2, while those with the lowest ranking are assigned to Pot 4. There are a total of 32 teams in the group stage, and the draw will split them up into eight groups of four.

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)

Live coverage of the UEFA Champions League group stage draw, with Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester City to discover their fates, with Celtic and ...

Hello, and welcome to football.london's live coverage of the Champions League group stage draw! They're behind only Man City, who have got 21% of the total. [Well, we ran a simulation to find out. [winners of the 2022/23 Champions League](https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/news/chelsea-tottenham-champions-league-odds-24850765). And you have to say, it would not be the worst result](https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/fixtures-results/tottenham-champions-league-group-draw-24842352). Hello, and welcome to football.london's live coverage of the UEFA Champions League group stage draw!

The pots have been confirmed for the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League group stage draw, which will be streamed live on UEFA.com from 18:00 CET on Thursday 25 ...

When a paired club is drawn, for example, in one of the red groups (A, B, C or D), the other paired club – once it has been drawn – will automatically be assigned to one of the four blue groups (E, F, G or H). Napoli (ITA) Juventus (ITA)

The 2023 UEFA Champions League final identity for Istanbul will be officially unveiled today at this season's group stage draw. The final design features ...

Produced by artist and illustrator Tolga Tarhan, who is a native of Istanbul, the 2023 Final identity is based upon an abstract depiction of the city at sunset. The 2023 UEFA Champions League final identity for Istanbul will be officially unveiled today at this season's group stage draw. The 2023 identity is part of a series of final designs crafted by an artist from the host city who has been assigned to create an artwork reflecting the artists' impression of the final city.

The list of sides qualified for the 2022-23 UEFA Champions League group stage is set at 32 and here is everything you need for the draw.

Champions League group stage draw Below is everything you need ahead of the UEFA Champions League draw for the group stage. The list of sides qualified for the 2022-23 UEFA Champions League group stage is set at 32 following the conclusion of the playoffs of Wednesday.

SCOTLAND will have two of its best sides in this year's Champions League after Rangers beat Dutch...

Both will face hard draws being the lowest ranked team. The Champions League draw will take place today, where Rangers will be in pot four alongside Celtic, and the likes of Marseille. [Champions League](https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/all-about/champions-league) group stages in Rangers and [Celtic](https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/all-about/celtic-fc) for the first time since 2007/8.

Celtic won the Scottish Premiership title last season to reach the Champions League group stages; Rangers beat PSV Eindhoven 3-2 on aggregate in the ...

"Both teams should be getting to the Champions League each year and hopefully this is now the springboard to even better [times]. The fans will enjoy the away trips to some fantastic places too I'm sure." “It is great to have two Scottish clubs back in the Champions League group stages in Rangers and Celtic for the first time since 2007/8 and it will be a real benefit to the country’s UEFA coefficient.” "Now all of the sudden, off the back of a few years of good results in Europe, the coefficient is higher and we see Celtic qualify automatically and Rangers have found a way to join them. "The excitement is there with the cream of Europe now coming to Glasgow to face Celtic and Rangers in what are certain to be sell-out stadiums. "I remember working the last time Celtic and Rangers were both in the group stages, one played Tuesday and the other Wednesday and it was just fantastic for the game here," said the Sky Sports pundit.

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)

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.)

All the English sides look a good bet to progress while Bayern Munich will provide a test of Barcelona's return to the elite.

Copenhagen are back in the group stage after a six-year hiatus. Those are not likely to arrive in the group stage though. Maccabi Haifa, in their first group-stage appearance for 13 years, are the lowest-ranked side in the competition. Juventus are desperate to return to former glories after finishing fourth in each of the past two seasons. For Barcelona, Bayern, who beat them twice in the group stage last season and inflicted an 8-2 defeat on them in the 2020 quarter-final, represent a useful test. Their success last season seemed less the result of any great plan than the finishing of Karim Benzema, the goalkeeping of Thibaut Courtois and an implacable self-belief. RB Salzburg reached the last 16 for the first time last season, but their existence remains Sisyphean, building a side and then selling their best talent: 10 players left this summer. Divock Origi and Charles De Ketelaere have arrived to bolster the attack, but the most significant transfer activity may be the departure of Franck Kessié. There’s been the usual summer flux at the Portuguese champions, with six players departing, among them Fábio Vieira to Arsenal, and four players arriving, but domestic form has so far been unaffected, with three wins out of three in the league. Sporting finished six points behind Porto last season and have already suffered a 3-0 defeat to them this season. With Erik ten Hag departed after five seasons that yielded a number of notable European results, Ajax are something of an unknown quantity under Alfred Schreuder, who managed Hoffenheim and was an assistant at Ajax and Barcelona before overseeing the end of last season at Club Brugge. Napoli, buoyed by the Georgian wonderkid Khvicha Kvaratskhelia , always represents a difficult trip, and the atmosphere at Rangers, back in the group stages after 12 years, is unlikely to be any less fervent.

Even when it still had Lionel Messi, Barcelona took an epic 8-2 beating from Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals two years ago.

That is because of the World Cup in Qatar, which starts Nov. Liverpool and Rangers will have a rare England-Scotland clash in the Champions League. The Champions League starts early this season on Sept. Inter Milan is another former champion in a group that boasts a combined 14 European Cup or Champions League titles. “This is a proper challenge," Liverpol coach Jürgen Klopp said. Shakhtar will play “home” games in Warsaw in neighboring Poland.

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

This season, though, is a little different, in that the six games of the group stage will be compressed into a nine-week spell (which itself is interrupted by ...

There were signs of improvement in the second half of last season, but there is pressure on Max Allegri to show that he is capable of restoring Juve to the sort of level it was at before he was edged out in an attempt to change the style of the squad. Defeat to Osasuna and then a draw at home to Valladolid was not the ideal start to the season in Spain, and that despite a summer in which the only player of real significance it lost was Diego Carlos. If there is a common theme, it has been a failure to take its chances, and without a significant arrival before the end of the window, it’s hard to see that changing. There had, perhaps, been a sense that City had to be controlling games to win them; Haaland may offer greater ruthlessness and the possibility of burgling goals when City is not playing well. Mané and Matthijs de Ligt have been signed, but the question is how to step up a level in big European games and, given the lack of challenge at home, that may not be easy. Brugge has a recent record of making life difficult for grandees in the group stage, but this feels like a season of transition. There are more unknowns in this group stage than there have been in a long time—although the underlying sense of more and more games that mean less and less remains. What usually happens is that he attempts to be more open, then it starts to go wrong and sometime in the winter he goes back to basics. The impact of a pulsating Ibrox is well attested, but progress to the group stage for the first time since 2011 was achieved via a canny and resilient performance away against PSV Eindhoven. Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold have not been at their formidable best and there is a sense of lethargy about the squad that suggests the hangover from missing out on the Premier League and Champions League titles last season lingers. This season, though, is a little different, in that the six games of the group stage will be compressed into a nine-week spell (which itself is interrupted by an international break) to be completed before the World Cup. But on the other, the group stage can be a slog, the disparity between the rich and the less well-off so stark, the qualifiers so predictable, that the pre-Christmas fixtures can feel like an exercise less in elite sport than in filling the TV schedules and making money.

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 Groups have been drawn and LFCTR are here to give you a summary of each group and side. First part is Group A, which Liverpool were ...

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Quick reunions for Erling Haaland and Robert Lewandowski, group stage returns for Celtic and Rangers, and a debut for Eintracht Frankfurt are among the key ...

Built to support Türkiye's bid to stage the 2008 Olympic Games, the venue opened in 2002 and is home to the Turkish national team. The Gers, who will take on Ajax, Liverpool and Napoli in Group A, were However, following the arrival of Sadio Mané from Liverpool, the German champions have not seemingly missed their No9 that badly: in their first four competitive games of the 2022/23 season, they have found the net 20 times. Another ex-Dortmund star striker was on the move this summer, with Robert Lewandowski leaving Bayern for Barcelona. The Cityzens have won four Premier League titles under Josep Guardiola (one more than the coach claimed at either Barcelona or Bayern) but European honours continue to elude them, defeat by Chelsea in the Certainly few teams in Europe will be quite as aware of what an on-song Haaland can do than BVB, for whom he scored 86 times in just 89 competitive games.

By using the latest edition of the Stats Perform club Power Rankings, we're able to determine which of the UEFA Champions League 2022-23 groups are the ...

The Spanish Giants are ranked fourth in the world overall in our rankings, and the next-highest team in their group, RB Leipzig, are down in 25th in the model. The Power Rankings machine has the Austrian champions as the 15th highest-ranked side in the world, just one spot above Spurs and ahead of the likes of Juventus, Napoli, Sevilla and even Milan themselves. Similarly, PSG are by far and away the strongest team in their group, and they’ll expect to qualify at a canter. Their power ranking score of 85.7 is the lowest in Group D, and actually the eighth lowest in the overall UCL draw. Celtic, winners of the European Cup in 1967, will be under immense pressure to get out of this draw, with them ranked as the lowest team in Group F. On the flip side, Tottenham’s Group D has the lowest average power ranking across the four teams of 89.3. Rangers are in the group stage for the first time in 12 years after overcoming PSV Eindhoven, and will be a huge test, particular at Ibrox. It’s a group that contains a fellow top ten team in Ajax (8th overall) and Napoli have started extremely well in Serie A this season. Spurs are actually the highest ranked side in this group (14th overall in the world) while Eintracht Frankfurt, who are the top seeded team, are actually ranked as the weakest. You’ve got to really feel for Viktoria Plzeň here, who are the models’ 62nd ranked team in the world being drawn in with the big boys. But the ‘Group of Death’™ looks like Group C. To add insult to injury, Viktoria Plzeň aren’t even the ‘weakest’ team in the draw overall.

The 2022-23 UEFA Champions League group stage is set. Which PL sides were handed a difficult group, and who had a little bit of luck on their side?

Group B Group A It is perhaps the most exciting day of every new season, with a handful of European giants now set to face off home and away.