UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE DRAW POTS

The lineup and seedings are confirmed for the UEFA Champions League group stage draw at Monaco's Grimaldi Forum, to be streamed live in the UEFA.com DrawCentre from 17.45CET on Thursday and hosted by Peter Schmeichel and Melanie Winiger.

Pot 1: Barcelona, Chelsea, Bayern München, Juventus, Benfica, Paris, Zenit, PSV Eindhoven
Pot 2: Real Madrid, Atlético, Porto, Arsenal, Man. United, Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen, Man. City
Pot 3: Shakhtar Donetsk, Sevilla, Lyon, Dynamo Kyiv, Olympiacos, CSKA Moskva, Galatasaray, Roma
Pot 4: BATE Borisov, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Wolfsburg, Dinamo Zagreb, Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Gent, Malmö, Astana

There are 32 clubs: 22 qualified automatically, 10 won through from the play-offs.

There are four seeding pots. Pot 1 consists of the champions of the eight highest-ranked UEFA nations. Teams placed in Pots 2–4 according to coefficient. Each group will contain one team from each seeding pot.

No club can play a side from their association and no Russian team can play a club from Ukraine. The draw also apples to the UEFA Champions League route of the UEFA Youth League.