Today's Champions League group stage draw
* Champions League group stage draw: 11pm today, August 31.
Six teams passed the play-off series to receive the final tickets to the group stage including: PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), Antwerp (Belgium), Copenhagen (Denmark), Braga (Portugal), Galatasaray (Turkey). Ky) and Young Boys (Switzerland).
According to UEFA rules, the champions of the top six leagues in the "national coefficient" - aggregated over the last five seasons - will be seeded first, along with the Champions League and Europa League winners. .
Group one for the Champions League group stage draw next season will have Man City (Premier League champion, Champions League), Sevilla (Europa League), Barca (La Liga), Bayern Munich (Bundesliga), PSG (Ligue 1) , Napoli (Serie A), and Benfica (Portuguese). But because Man City won both the Premier League and the Champions League, the remaining spot belonged to the Dutch champion - Feyenoord.
Meanwhile, the remaining clubs will be grouped based on "club coefficient" points, with each team's results in the last five European seasons taken into account. According to the rules, clubs from the same national federation will not be in the same group.
Group 1: Man City, Barca, Sevilla, Bayern, PSG, Napoli, Benfica, Feyenoord
Group 2: Real Madrid, Man Utd, Inter Milan, Dortmund, Atletico Madrid, RB Leipzig, Porto, Arsenal
Group 3: Shakhtar Donetsk, Salzburg, AC Milan, Braga, Lazio, Red Star Belgrade, Copenhagen, PSV
Group 4: Real Sociedad, Galatasaray, Celtic, Newcastle, Union Berlin, Lens, Young Boys, Antwerp
This grouping could create a group of death with Newcastle, Real Sociedad, Galatasaray from pot 4, AC Milan, Lazio in pot three, with two representatives from the other two seed groups. In particular, Man City and Inter Milan can reunite in the group stage, after the encounter in the final of the 2022-2023 season.
The Champions League group stage will take place from September 19 and end on December 13. The draw for the 1/8 round will take place on December 18, with the first legs taking place in February 2024, on the 13th, 14th and 20th, 21st, and the second leg taking place three weeks later.
After that, UEFA continued to draw draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals. The quarter-finals will play the first leg on April 9 and 10, with the return leg taking place a week later. The semi-finals will take place on April 30 and May 1, with the return leg taking place a week later.
The final match took place at Wembley Stadium in London, England on June 1.
From the 2024-2025 season, the number of teams participating in the Champions League will increase to 36, instead of 32 as in the current format, competing according to the "Swiss model" like chess and some electronic sports. The 36 teams participating in the tournament will be seeded based on past achievements.
According to this model, in the first round, the first team meets the 36th team, the second meets the 35th team. In the second round, the first round winners will meet, the draw teams meet, and the losing teams will meet each other. . Teams with higher scores will be more likely to collide with each other, creating more big battles.
After 10 rounds, the eight strongest teams will go straight to the 1/8 round. The next 16 teams will play a play-off to select the remaining eight teams in the 1/8 round. The teams from 17th to 24th will be relegated to the Europa League, while the last 12 teams will be eliminated.
