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Hosts Pedro Pinto and Reshmin Chowdhury invited Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin connected to nan shape successful Monaco. Their first occupation is to grant Chelsea a typical plaque celebrating their accomplishment of winning each Uefa competition, culminating, of course, pinch their triumph successful nan Europa Conference League successful May.
The pots
We’ll commencement pinch nan easy bit. Four pots of 9 teams each, according to Uefa coefficient.
Pot 1
1. Paris Saint-Germain (FRA)
2. Real Madrid (ESP)
3. Manchester City (ENG)
4. Bayern Munich (GER)
5. Liverpool (ENG)
6. Inter (ITA)
7. Chelsea (ENG)
8. Borussia Dortmund (GER)
9. Barcelona (ESP)
Pot 2
10. Arsenal (ENG)
11. Bayer Leverkusen (GER)
12. Atlético Madrid (ESP)
13. Benfica (POR)
14. Atalanta (ITA)
15. Villarreal (ESP)
16. Juventus (ITA)
17. Eintracht Frankfurt (GER)
18. Club Brugge (BEL)
Pot 3
19. Tottenham (ENG)
20. PSV Eindhoven (NED)
21. Ajax (NED)
22. Napoli (ITA)
23. Sporting Clube de Portugal (POR)
24. Olympiakos (GRE)
25. Slavia Praha (CZE)
26. Bodø/Glimt (NOR)
27. Marseille (FRA)
Pot 4
28. Copenhagen (DEN)
29. Monaco (FRA)
30. Galatasaray (TUR)
31. Union Saint-Gilloise (BEL)
32. Qarabag (AZE)
33. Athletic Club (ESP)
34. Newcastle (ENG)
35. Pafos (CYP)
36. Kairat Almaty (KAZ)
Preamble
Well, well, well. Here we spell again. Three months aft Paris Saint-Germain lifted nan trophy successful Munich, nan Champions League originates to return style again for different season. Dignitaries of nan 36 qualified clubs are gathered astatine nan glitzy Grimaldi Forum successful Monaco to observe who their opponents will beryllium successful nan expanded convention phase, which made its debut past run to mostly affirmative reviews.
After Celtic and Rangers were dumped retired astatine nan playoff information this week, location will beryllium conscionable nan six British teams progressive – each of them English. They are Premier League champions Liverpool, Club World Cup winners Chelsea, Europa League conquerors Tottenham, Arsenal, Manchester City and Newcastle. Let’s conscionable opportunity Alexander Isak mightiness beryllium willing successful much than 1 team’s group of 8 fixtures.
While our friends astatine Uefa talk distant connected stage, I will endeavour to explicate nan process for nan tie successful layman’s position because, well, that’s nan only chance I’ve got. Let’s person your thoughts, reactions and predictions for nan Champions League this play – you tin email maine here.