This season’s Champions League can have a radically totally different really feel and rhythm with Europe’s premier membership competitors switching to a 36-team ‘Swiss Mannequin’.
It means 4 extra groups within the match and the top of the group stage, with all of the golf equipment enjoying in a single league. Every group can have eight fixtures earlier than the knockout levels, 4 house and 4 away, towards eight totally different opponents. Two from every of the 4 pots.
The highest eight on the finish of the league part can be straight by to the final 16, with these between ninth and twenty fourth going through a further two-legged play-off. For extra element on the format click on right here.
That is all you should know in regards to the draw which can form the primary part of the new-look competitors.
When is the Champions League draw?
The fixtures for the league part can be revealed on Thursday, August 29.
The place is the Champions League draw?
Will probably be staged in Monaco on the Grimaldi Discussion board.
How will the Champions League draw work?
Technically, it’s not actually a draw in any respect. Uefa say {that a} handbook draw would require almost 1,000 balls in additional than 36 bowls and take greater than 4 hours given the brand new format.
As an alternative, beginning with supposed strongest groups in Pot One, every of the 36 groups can be drawn manually from a bowl. A supercomputer will then allocate them their eight league-phase fixtures, which can be proven on a display for the viewers and tv viewers at house.
As soon as this has been accomplished for the 9 Pot One golf equipment, these in Pot Two will uncover their different six fixtures (their two video games towards Pot One opponents having already been revealed). And so forth.
The fixtures ought to take form fairly rapidly and the method must be comparatively speedy.
Which Premier League groups are within the draw?
Manchester Metropolis, Arsenal, Liverpool and Aston Villa.
Is there nation safety?
Golf equipment from the identical nation can not play one another within the league part and you may solely play two opponents from the identical nation. An exception might be made for the nation with 5 golf equipment within the competitors to keep away from impasse, which this season is Italy.
What may the 4 Champions League pots appear like?
It is a projection with the ultimate qualification play-offs rounds to be accomplished:
Pot One: Man Metropolis, Bayern Munich, Actual Madrid, PSG, Liverpool, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Barcelona
Pot Two: Bayer Leverkusen, Atletico Madrid, Atlanta, Juventus, Benfica, Arsenal, Membership Brugge, Shakhtar Donetsk, AC Milan
Pot Three: Feyenoord, Sporting CP, PSV, Lille*, PAOK*, Younger Boys*, Celtic, Galatasaray*, Union Saint-Gilloise*
Pot 4: Midtylland*, AS Monaco, Sparta Prague*, Aston Villa, Bologna, Girona, Stuttgart, Sturm Graz, Stade Brestois
*These golf equipment are favourites to progress from their play-offs, however they’re but to qualify
When are the Champions League league-phase video games?
The eight matchweeks are:
September 17-19October 1-2October 22-23November 5-6November 26-27December 10-11January 21-22January 29
When will followers know the order and dates of their fixtures?
Uefa say they are going to be confirmed on Saturday, August 31.
