The lineup and seedings are confirmed for the UEFA Champions League group stage draw, streamed live from the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, in the UEFA.com DrawCentre from 17.45CET on Thursday.


• UEFA.com's coverage will begin from Monaco at 12.00CET.

• The draw ceremony will include the vote for and presentation of the 2013/14 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award for which Manuel Neuer, Arjen Robben and Cristiano Ronaldo are nominated.

• The 32 clubs, 22 of which qualified automatically and ten of whom won through from the play-offs, have been split into four seeding pots according to their coefficient.

• Each group will contain one team from each seeding pot. No club can play a side from their association among other restrictions: see the full draw procedure.

• The draw will also establish the groups for the second season of the UEFA Youth League.

How it works

The 32 qualifiers have been divided into four pots based on the Uefa coefficients, which are in turn decided by a mixture of the team's own performance in Europe over the past five seasons, as well as the strength of their country's league.

The Champions League group stage comprises eight pools of four teams: consequently, a team from each pot is drawn and placed into one of the eight groups available. This is done by pot and not "one at a time": that is to say, all the teams from pot one will be placed into a group, and then pot two, and so on down to the fourth and final pot.

There are some restrictions, though. Teams from the same national association cannot be drawn together, and even prior to that there will be two 'sets' of groups decided for the purpose of television rights. For example, the four teams from Spain cannot all be drawn in the same set.

Which Teams Have Qualified?
Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Benfica, Atletico Madrid, Porto, Schalke, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Shakhtar Donetsk, FC Basel, Zenit, Manchester City, Olympiacos, CSKA Moscow, Ajax, Liverpool, Sporting Lisbon, Galatasaray, Anderlecht, Roma, APOEL, BATE Borisov, NK Maribor, Monaco, Arsenal, Athletic Bilbao, Bayer Leverkusen, Malmo, Ludogorets.

Sources:
http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2015/draws/index.html
http://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/4074/champions-league/2014/08/28/5064651/champions-league-draw-arsenal-in-pot-1-roma-in-pot-4-as-real?ICID=HP_HN_1

Wow,another UEFA Champions league that would be filled with suspense and drama.

Well,as a die-hard Man Utd fan who has immaculately watched our two premier league matches will categorically say am impressed with how the team has played and I believe in the three-man-defence of Louis Van Gaal and I know its solid enough to withstand any team from Europe.


I look forward to finding out where my Great Man Utd would be grouped-in and am not scared of any team this season because the likes of Cleverly,Fletcher,Smalling,Welbeck and Ashley Young are all names to reckon with this year in the Champions League.






GGMU though

justi4jesu: .............Gunners for LIFE

Can you predict which teams Arsenal will grouped?

Chelsea all d way......^{Chelsea all d way......}Chelsea all d way......

Here we go again

cool tho.....i made front page op

Up Gunners!

Bring on any club/team my darling Barca is more than ready this season...no fear of poor keepers like when we had victor Valdez n pinto...now we have two n half world class goalkeepers...and some decent defenders...

ok

Q

What movie is on Africa Magic & Telemundo at 5:45pm for Man U fans?

Ok amu coming leme deal with this ewa goyi first

Waiting for the draws......

Chelsea all the way to glory

I see arsenal barca once again

Op, i thought its by 4:45pm? That was how i missed LVG's 1st press conference as manutd coach, i was following supersports(south african) time, forgetting its 1hr different

ichidodo: COOOOMMEEEEE OOONNN YOOOUUUU GUUUNNNEEERRRSSSSHHH!!!!!!!....i hope we avoid Real,Barca and that rubbish football club Abrahamovic bought.

English teams can't be in the same group at the preliminary stage

space booked.
make nobody come drag dis space with me o

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GUNNERS till ma last breath...

ichidodo: COOOOMMEEEEE OOONNN YOOOUUUU GUUUNNNEEERRRSSSSHHH!!!!!!!....i hope we avoid Real,Barca and that rubbish football club Abrahamovic bought.

madrid using spanish tax payers money to sign players what will you say about that

liverpool will be in a group of death.. likely scenario is realmadrid,dortmund,roma,monaco. u can replace madrid with bayern or barca. lfc is in pot 3

It's 4:45pm Nigerian time and not 5:45pm.

here we go again. i love this gamel

sipping zobo in ancticipation

Group E
Arsenal
Beryern munich
Juventus
Barcelona

:PGroup E
Arsenal
Beryern munich
Juventus
Barcelona

I didn't see Manchester United why? [b][/b]

kliq:

English teams can't be in the same group at the preliminary stage

Yeah you are right. Same thing with Spanish, French, Italian and so on..

tnx 4d info
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