Liverpool And Man City Draw Real In Champions League

Both Liverpool and Manchester City will look 15-time winners Real Madrid successful nan convention shape of nan Champions League, while Tottenham and Newcastle must some play holders Paris St-Germain.

The 36-team convention - introduced past play - will spot six Premier League teams successful action for nan first time, but they tin not look each different until nan knockout stages.

As good arsenic coming up against Trent Alexander-Arnold and Real astatine Anfield, six-time winners Liverpool look Atletico Madrid and beaten finalists Inter Milan successful their 8 games, pinch Pep Guardiola's City taking connected Napoli and Borussia Dortmund.

Chelsea look giants Barcelona and Bayern Munich while Arsenal besides play Harry Kane's Bayern and Inter.

Newcastle's return to nan title includes a travel to St James' Park for Barcelona, while Tottenham - who qualified by winning nan Europa League - play Dortmund and Monaco.

The first matches will beryllium played connected Tuesday, 16 September and nan past information of convention games taking spot connected 28 January 2026, pinch nonstop scheduling to travel successful nan coming days.

This season's last will beryllium held successful Budapest.

Liverpool: Real Madrid (home), Inter Milan (away), Atletico Madrid (home), Eintracht Frankfurt (away), PSV Eindhoven (home), Marseille (away), Qarabag (home) and Galatasaray (away).

Manchester City: Borussia Dortmund (home), Real Madrid (away), Bayer Leverkusen (home), Villarreal (away), Napoli (home), Bodo/Glimt (away), Galatasaray (home) and Monaco (away).

Chelsea: Barcelona (home), Bayern Munich (away), Benfica (home), Atalanta (away), Ajax (home), Napoli (away), Pafos (home) and Qarabag (away)

Arsenal: Bayern Munich (home), Inter Milan (away), Atletico Madrid (away), Club Brugge (home), Olympiacos (away), Slavia Prague (home), Kairat Almaty (away) and Athletic Bilbao (home).

Tottenham: Borussia Dortmund (home), Paris St-Germain (away), Villarreal (home), Eintracht Frankfurt (away), Slavia Prague (home), Bodo/Glimt (away) Copenhagen (home) and Monaco (away).

Newcastle: Barcelona (home), Paris St-Germain (away), Benfica (home), Bayer Leverkusen (away), PSV (home), Marseille (away), Athletic Bilbao (home) and Union SG (away).

Each of nan 36 teams plays 8 different teams - 4 astatine location and 4 distant - successful nan convention phase.

Teams who decorativeness successful nan apical 8 automatically suffice for nan past 16, while those placing ninth to 24th will compete successful a two-legged knockout play-off for nan chance to subordinate them.

Sides who decorativeness 25th aliases little will beryllium eliminated - and will not driblet into nan Europa League.

Last play Liverpool topped nan array pinch 21 points, while Arsenal and Aston Villa besides made nan apical eight.

Celtic, Newcastle and Manchester City progressed to nan play-off round, arsenic did 24th-placed Club Brugge pinch conscionable 11 points.

Watch highlights of each Champions League crippled from 22:00 connected Wednesday connected BBC iPlayer and nan BBC Sport website and app.

There will besides beryllium a Champions League Match of nan Day connected BBC One connected Wednesday, from 22:40 to 00:00.