This season’s champions League draws will be conducted today as 32 teams drawn from different leagues across Europe will be grouped into 8 with four slugging it out per group.
The winner and the runners -up will proceed to the second round while the third placed team will graduate to the Europa league.
Pot 1
Since UEFA changed the criteria for seeding, champions of the highest-ranked European leagues are guaranteed to be in the main pot. Therefore, the Champions League winners and La Liga Real Madrid will be accompanied in pot 1 by Eintracht Frankfurt, the champions of the Europa League.
pot 2
Pots 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients.
In pot 2 includes, Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, RB Leipzig and Tottenham Hotspur.
Pot 3
RB Salzburg, Shaktar Donetsk, Benfica, Sporting Lisbon and Bayer Leverkusen are the other teams that make up pot 3.
Pot 4
The fourth – and yet to be concluded pot – will have the weakest teams, although it contains some tough teams like Marseille. The French side finished second in Ligue 1 last season.
Others in pot 4 include Club Brugge, Celtic, Viktoria Plzen, Maccabi Haifa and the three winners of the playoff rounds: Dinamo Zagreb-Bodo Glimt, PSV-Rangers and Trabzonspor-Copenhagen, yet to be decided.
