Champions League Groups

Last Modified Nov 2, 2021 10:18 GMT

The UEFA Champions League is an annual club football tournament which was established in 1955. It is one of the most prestigious tournament in club football and is contested by the top teams from all over Europe. The tournament was first named as the European Cup and after the 1991-1992 season it was renamed as The Champions League. The Champions League Groups for the 2018-19 season are as follows:

Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D
Atletico MadridFC BarcelonaParis Saint-GermainFC Porto
Borussia DortmundTottenham HotspurLiverpoolFC Schalke 04
Club BruggeInter MilanNapoliGalatasaray
AS MonacoPSV EindhovenRed Star BelgradeLokomotiv Moscow
Group EGroup FGroup GGroup H
Bayern MunichManchester CityReal MadridJuventus
AjaxLyonAS RomaManchester United
BenficaShakhtar DonetskPlzenValencia
AEK AthensHoffenheimCSKA MoscowYoung Boys

In its current format, The Champions League begins in early July with four knockout qualifying rounds and a playoff round. The 32 teams that qualify for the tournament are split into four seeded pots. The first pot comprises the UEFA Champions League winners, the UEFA Europa League winners and the domestic champions of the top six ranked associations in accordance with the access list. If either or both the titleholders are the domestic champions of one of the top six associations, the pot is completed with the champions of the next highest ranked associations. The other three pots are composed in accordance with the club coefficient rankings established at the beginning of the season. This is determined by the sum of all points won in the previous five years. In cases where clubs have identical five year coefficients, rankings are determined by coefficients in the recent season.

The draw will start with Pot 4, assigning each team from the pot into a group. This will eventually continue for Pot 3 then Pot 2 and Pot 1. No team can play a club from their own association and based on decisions taken by the UEFA Executive Committee, clubs from Russia and Ukraine must not be drawn in the same group due to the political unrest between the countries.

Moreover, the draw was controlled for teams from the same association in order to split the teams evenly into the two sets of four groups (A–D, E–H) for maximum television coverage. On each matchday, one set of four groups play their matches on Tuesday, while the other set of four groups play their matches on Wednesday, with the two sets of groups alternating between each matchday. The following pairings were announced by UEFA after the group stage teams were confirmed.

Real Madrid and Barcelona

Atletico Madrid and Valencia

Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund

Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur

Juventus and Inter Milan

Paris Saint Germain and Lyon

Lokomotiv Moscow and CSKA Moscow

Porto and Benfica

Manchester United and Liverpool

Napoli and Roma

Schalke and Hoffenheim

Ajax and PSV Eindhoven

If a paired club is drawn for example in groups A, B, C or D, the other paired club once drawn will automatically be assigned to one of the groups E, F, G or H.

Each club plays one home and one away match against each other club in its group. Three points are awarded for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat. The top two teams in each group will advance to the knockout stage, while the third placed team drops into The Europa League. The clubs that finish the group stage in fourth position are eliminated.

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