The UEFA Champions League seedings for the group stage see last year's winners among the front-runners, while the Serie A outfit promise a 'group of death' from their lowly place in Pot 4
The Champions League Group Stage draw will take place at 17:45CET on Thursday August 28 2014, LIVE right here on Goal. Here we discover just who will face whom as Europe's premier club competition gets into full swing ...
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.
Pots
The Champions League Group Stage pots for 2014-15 are as follows:
Pot 1 Pot 2
Real Madrid Schalke
Barcelona Borussia Dortmund
Bayern Munich Juventus
Chelsea Paris Saint-Germain
Benfica Shakhtar Donetsk
Atletico Madrid FC Basel
Arsenal Zenit St Petersburg
Porto Manchester City
Pot 3 Pot 4
Bayer Leverkusen Anderlecht
Olympiakos Roma
CSKA Moscow Ludogorets
Ajax APOEL
Liverpool BATE
Sporting CP Maribor
Galatasaray Monaco
Athletic Bilbao Malmo
The draw kicks off at 17:45HRS on Thursday, 28th of August.
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