UEFA confirms Champions League group stage draw pots for the upcoming season
UEFA reveals pot for Champions League draws. | Photo - Twitter |
In the wake of the completion of the Champions League play-off ties, UEFA has announced the pots for the 2022/23 Champions League group stage draw. The draw is set to take place on Thursday at 17:00 BST in Istanbul.
The reigning UCLchampions Real Madrid find themselves in Pot 1 with the likes ofEintracht Frankfurt,Manchester City,Paris Saint-Germain,AC Milan,Bayern Munich,Ajax, and Porto.
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The second pot will feature last year's finalists, Liverpool alongside some of the biggest clubs in Europe, including Liverpool, Barcelona,Sevilla,Juventus,Chelsea,Atletico Madrid,RB Leipzig, and Tottenham.
The third pot houses clubs likeBorussia Dortmund,RB Salzburg,Shakhtar Donetsk, Inter, Bayer Leverkusen, Napoli, Sporting CP, and Benfica.
While the fourth pot will see the likes ofClub Brugge,Celtic,Maccabi Haifa,Viktoria Plzen,Marseille,Rangers,FC Copenhagen, and Dinamo Zagreb.
The Champions League group stage matches are all set to go downon September 6th and will come to an end on November 2nd.
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The schedule of the tournament has been adjusted according to the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which is set to kick off later this year. The Champions League is slated to start early in September and will end 5 weeks ahead of schedule in early November.
The initial six rounds of the tournament will be played up until November before the footballing community will leap headfirst into a short hiatus prompted by the first World Cup being held outside the European summer. The Champions League final is all set to take place at Istanbul's Atatürk Olympic Stadium on June 10th.