The draw for the Champions League Group Stage takes place on Thursday in Monaco from 4.45pm (UK time).

How the draw works

The 32 clubs who feature in the draw are split into four pots of eight based on their UEFA coefficient scores. These are based on performance in European competitions over the last five years.

A total of eight groups of four teams will be drawn with one side from each seeding pot in each group. No side can be drawn against another from the same pot, nor can they play a team from their home country.

Where two sides from the same country have qualified, they will be paired to split their matches between Tuesday and Wednesday, so one club will always play at home on one day and the other will play away on the other day. In the case of countries with three representatives, only two teams have been paired in terms of their fixtures; in the case of countries with four representatives, two pairings have been made.

To ensure sides from the same country play on separate days, the eight groups will be distinguished by colour: Groups A-D will be red and Groups E-H blue. When a paired club is drawn, for example, into one of the red groups, the other paired club - once it has been drawn - will automatically be assigned to one of the four blue groups.

The order of home and away matches will be determined after the draw has taken place.

Pot One:
Barcelona
Manchester United
Chelsea
Bayern Munich
Arsenal
Real Madrid
FC Porto
Internazionale

Pot Two:
AC Milan
Lyon
Shakhtar Donetsk
Valencia
Benfica
Villarreal
CSKA Moscow
Marseille

Pot Three:
Zenit St. Petersburg
Ajax
Bayer Leverkusen
Olympiakos
Manchester City
Lille
FC Basel
BATE Borisov

Pot Four:
Borussia Dortmund
Napoli
Dinamo Zagreb
Apoel FC
Trabzonspor
Genk
Viktoria Plzen
Otelul Galati



Hmmmm i can't Just wait. . . .

Group A:

Barcelona
AC Milan
Man City
Borussia Dortmund


THANK YOU!

ritchboy:

Group A:

Barcelona
AC Milan
Man City
Borussia Dortmund


THANK YOU!

Haba - Na die be that oo . . even Barca as good as they seem. . .dem go hear wien!!!!!




GROUP F

Arsenal
Bemfica
Apeol FC
FC Basel

ritchboy:

Group A:

Barcelona
AC Milan
Man City
Borussia Dortmund


THANK YOU!

jump and pass haba u want kill person?

anyway Braca rules

http://www.concepts-photography.com/2011/08/its-don-jayz-again.html lol

Group A

Barcelona
Shakhtar Donetsk
Manchester City
Borussia Dortmund

Group B
Man Utd
Lyon
Bayer Leverkusen
Dinamo Zagreb

Group C
Chelsea
Ac Milan
Lille
Napoli

Group D
Bayern Munich
Valencia
Olympiakos
Apoel FC

Group E
Arsenal
Marseille
BATE Borisov
Otelul Galati

more later

mukina2:

Group A

Barcelona
Shakhtar Donetsk
Manchester City
Borussia Dortmund

Group B
Man Utd
Lyon
Bayer Leverkusen
Dinamo Zagreb

Group C
Chelsea
Ac Milan
Lille
Napoli

Group D
Bayern Munich
Valencia
Olympiakos
Apoel FC

Group E 
Arsenal
Marseille
BATE Borisov
Otelul Galati

more later

looking forward to see BD in CL,those guys will match Barca style for style,power for power if ur predi happens Mukina.
let the game begin.

Going by barca's pedigree and current status as defending champions, we would even top a group of port oners( e.g barca, madrid, man u, inter). So this una barca, man city, dortmund and shaktar pairing is kids stuff, a piece of cake. Barca, world's most hated club.

Yeah I agreed with you, I hate Barca too

wow, Go Arsenal!

Group F
Real Madrid
CSKA Moscow
Zenit St. Petersburg
Trabzonspor

Group G
FC Porto
Villareal
FC Basel
Genk

Group H
Inter Milan
Benfica
Ajax
Viktoria Plzen

there you have it

What is it about people that makes them hate GOOD things. Yeah, Barca would own a group of port oners in whatever configuration they come. Can't wait for the games to start.

^
actually mine is fantasy the real one will be out soon

I wish uefa could just cancel out seeding and barca, madrid, man u and inter would fall into group A.

ddippset:

I wish uefa could just cancel out seeding and barca, madrid, man u and inter would fall into group A.

^ will translate to a no contest situation after the group stages. Seeding definitely builds up the excitement as the competition progresses.

hope arsenal wont be punished with a tough draw today, seems nothing is going our way

follow it right here on goal.com

http://www.goal.com/en/live-update/362/champions-league-draw-live


its updates it self automatically every minutes in real time without reloading

and away we go,
draws starting

Hope we get a better group. Gunners 4 life!

slap1:

Hope we get a better group. Gunners 4 life!

co-sign

up bayern, Dortmund and Leverkusen

4:44 PM BST Clark Whitney says: “Dortmund were comfortably the best team in Germany last year, but will be done no favours by today's draw. Having missed out on European competition for most of the 2000s, the reigning Bundesliga champions have been seeded in Pot Four. Jurgen Klopp's young side nonetheless will relish their chance to compete with big-name teams, and in recent days the likes of Mats Hummels and Kevin Grosskreutz have welcomed the prospect of competing with teams like Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Manchester United.”

4:51 PM BST The Uefa presenters are out on the stage, but don’t expect the draw to begin in a hurry. We’ll no doubt see montage after montage of last season’s action in the Champions League. So in the meantime, let’s hear some more from our experts…

dont even know which team to prefer

puyol resemble persin grandma

4:55 PM BST
Greg Stobart says: “The Champions League is such an obsession for Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich that the Russian billionaire has hired and fired seven different manager since he bought the club in 2004. The latest coach is 33-year-old Andre Villas-Boas and he knows that he is expected to bring European glory to Stamford Bridge in the next few years. The Blues have an ageing squad and their quarter-final exit to Manchester United last season convinced the club of the need to make some big changes this summer. Villas-Boas will be looking to the Spanish pairing of Juan Mata and Fernando Torres to help Chelsea fire in the goals in this season's competition.”

5:01 PM BST
Clark Whitney says: “Seven years after their last entry into the Champions League, and a decade after losing to Real Madrid in the final, Bayer Leverkusen return to Europe's elite competition. Michael Ballack, who featured in the 2002 final, is back with the team, but Robin Dutt's squad is altogether different from that of years past. In fact, the new coach has made several squad changes since his appointment, meaning that B04 will be a bit of a wild card team. Like compatriots[b] Dortmund, the 2010-11 Bundesliga[/b] runners-up will likely have a difficult group; their progression will largely depend on how long it takes for [b]Dutt to find [/b]a winning formula for his team.”

5:06 PM BST Group B
Inter
5:05 PM BST Group A
Bayern Munich

5:04 PM BST Group E
Chelsea

5:04 PM BST Group D
Real Madrid

5:03 PM BST Group G
Porto

5:02 PM BST Group C
Manchester United

5:01 PM BST OK, the draw is about to start…

5:06 PM BST Group H
Barcelona

5:07 PM BST Group F
Arsenal

Arsenal v Maseille

Man u Vz Benfica 

5:12 PM BST Group D
Real Madrid
Lyon

5:13 PM BST Group C
Manchester United
Benfica

Madrid, Lyon

ManU, Benfica