The 2022/23 UEFA Champions League group stage is set to take shape when the draw is held on Thursday, August 25.

Real Madrid won the competition last season after beating Liverpool 1-0 in the final. The two powerhouses could potentially be drawn against one another in the group stage given they will be placed in different pots.

Following the qualifying rounds that occurred over the summer, the new Champions League campaign officially kicks off with the group stage draw which will see 26 automatic entrants joined by the six teams that emerged from qualifying.

Prior to the draw, the 32 clubs are allocated into four pots based on different UEFA rankings as explained below. They will be drawn into eight groups each comprised of four teams.

Champions League teams and pots for group stage draw

Pot 1 will consist of the defending Champions League (Real Madrid) and Europa League (Eintracht Frankfurt) title winners, plus the reigning league champions of each of the top six nations as ranked by UEFA country coefficient list.

Since Real Madrid are the Spanish league champions (a top-six nation) as well as defending UEFA Champions League holders, the Pot 1 spot reserved for the Spanish champions is assigned to the next best nation in the coefficient list. In this case, the Netherlands and its reigning Eredivisie champion Ajax were elevated to Pot 1.

As for Pots 2, 3, and 4, those are based on the UEFA club coefficient list, which is a mathematical formula to evaluate a specific club's performance in domestic and continental competitions over the past five years.

Each club's UEFA club coefficient ranking is included for Pots 2-4 below since club seeding in those pots is based on the coefficient ranking.

Pot 1
Real Madrid (ESP, Champions League holders)
Eintracht Frankfurt (GER, Europa League holders)
Manchester City (ENG)
AC Milan (ITA)
Bayern München (GER)
Paris Saint-Germain (FRA)
Porto (POR)
Ajax (NED)

Pot 2
Liverpool (ENG)
Chelsea (ENG)
Barcelona (ESP)
Juventus (ITA)
Atlético de Madrid (ESP)
Sevilla (ESP)
Leipzig (GER)
Tottenham Hotspur (ENG)

Pot 3
Borussia Dortmund (GER)
Salzburg (AUT)
Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)
Inter (ITA)
Napoli (ITA)
Benfica (POR)
Sporting CP (POR)
Bayer Leverkusen (GER)

Pot 4
Rangers (SCO)
Dinamo (CRO)
Marseille (FRA)
Copenhagen (DEN)
Club Brugge (BEL)
Celtic (SCO)
Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)
Maccabi Haifa (ISR)

Real Madrid to win the champions league again

princeSammyz:
Real Madrid to win the champions league again

Not a surprise at all. Every other team always slave to deliver to Real Madrid in the Champions League.

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I hope Man Utd get easy draw this time around

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Hoping EPL sides avoid big guns Real Madrid, Bayern Munich & PSG in the draw.

Help!
Help help
Why is Arsenal not on the list

E no concern me

Messi is winning it this year

bayern or psg for CL 2023

princeSammyz:
Real Madrid to win the champions league again

benzima dey old don't think so. if mpabbe come Madrid then Madrid would have collect it again

Ok

Damnnn niggar
Isoright....
Bring it on....I don miss champion's league sha

To all my real niggarz lets hold our beer and veg out in front of the TV as we sing

Ce sont les meilleures équipes
Es sind die allerbesten Mannschaften
The main event

Die Meister
Die Besten
Les grandes équipes
The champions

Une grande réunion
Eine grosse sportliche Veranstaltung
The main event

Die Meister
Die Besten
Les grandes équipes
The champions

Ils sont les meilleurs
Sie sind die Besten
These are the champions

Die Meister
Die Besten
Les grandes équipes
The champions

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Man Utd will be in the same group with arsenal and barcelona..

Ronaldo will be champions league highest goal scorer once again

This have I seen...........

Crazy bayern M vs Barca vs inter vs plezen V

Manchester United for the trophy..

Na you slap me now, dem no dey follow una play again.

Okay

Following.

This competition is actually in dire need of Arsenal Football Club.
May they find their way back and elevate the competition's prestige.

Hoping English team will win this seasons competition. Money on CITY ,LIVERPOOL AND MAYBE CHELSEA.

seunak2016:
bayern or psg for CL 2023

Should be one of this 2 plus city, PSG has a bigger chance.

madukaanaya:
Messi is winning it this year

Messi or PSG can't win the Champions League. The club is a cheap imitation of Real Madrid's Galacticos era of 2000 - 2006. In this case, it is a congregation of old, unmotivated people, some of whom have won it all in their best years. More importantly, the influence and power of Mbappe in the team will be its very death. Just because they are scoring goals now at the Uber Eats Ligue 1 now doesn't mean anything. About three weeks ago, Mbappe walked off an attack just because he wasn't passed to while Neymar went on to bag a hattrick in the match. In the same match, Mbappe rammed Messi with Messi turning at him in shock. Mbappe responded with his achievements with PSG after the game when fans felt Neymar was better.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXWfYLHXbZA

The bottom line is it is never in the DNA of PSG to win trophies, which is why a player as young as Mbappe is bigger than the club. Against a Real Madrid or Bayern Munich, PSG will crumble ten times over. They have quality players but never a team.

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