Holders Actual Madrid will face Liverpool away and host Borussia Dortmund in a repeat of final season’s ultimate within the league stage of the new-look Champions League, the draw for which came about on Thursday. Each group will play eight video games towards eight completely different opponents within the new format of Europe’s elite membership competitors, with all 36 golf equipment now pooled collectively into one league reasonably than cut up into teams. Madrid, who’ve signed France celebrity Kylian Mbappe since successful a record-extending fifteenth European Cup, will even notably play AC Milan at dwelling and can go to Atalanta.
Actual beat final season’s Europa League winners Atalanta within the UEFA Tremendous Cup in Warsaw earlier this month.
Liverpool, who’re again within the Champions League after a one-season absence, will even notably meet Milan and tackle event debutants Girona.
Nevertheless, supporters of the Anfield membership will maybe be most excited in regards to the prospect of internet hosting German champions Bayer Leverkusen, coached by former Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso.
Pep Guardiola’s Manchester Metropolis, winners of the competitors in 2023, will play at dwelling to Italian champions Inter Milan and go to each Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus.
Nevertheless, they have been additionally handed extra comfy opponents together with Membership Brugge, Sparta Prague and Slovan Bratislava, who’ve by no means performed within the trendy Champions League correct.
Different standout head-to-heads will embody Bayern Munich towards each PSG and Barcelona, and Arsenal towards Inter and Paris.
The variety of golf equipment within the Champions League has elevated from 32 previously, with the 36 contributors cut up into 4 seeded pots of 9 for the draw.
Each group faces two groups from every of the 4 pots, one at dwelling and one away. The primary matches can be performed on September 17, 18 and 19.
The 2 further matchdays within the new league part will happen in January, on the finish of which the highest eight golf equipment within the 36-team classification will advance on to the final 16.
These ranked between ninth and twenty fourth place will undergo to play a play-off spherical from which can emerge the remaining eight sides advancing to the final 16.
The underside 12 within the league part can be eradicated altogether, with no golf equipment parachuting down into the Europa League as previously.
The Europa League and third-tier Convention League, the attracts for which occur on Friday, will even now function 36 golf equipment, though the latter competitors will contain solely six matchdays within the league part.
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