Champions League Draw Thur August 31st 17.00 PM GMT

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Can’t wait for this!

Pot 1:
Man City
Sevilla
Barcelona
Napoli
Bayern Munich
PSG
Benfica
Feynoord

Pot 2:
Real Madrid
Man Utd
Inter
Borussia Dortmund
Atletico Madrid
RB Leipzig
Porto
Arsenal

Pot 3:
Shakhtar Donetsk
Red Bull Salzburg
AC Milan
Lazio
Red Star Belgrade
Celtic
Real Sociedad
1 winner from league path

Pot 4:
Newcastle Utd
Union Berlin
Lens
4 winners from Champions path
1 winner from league path

League path:
Rangers v PSV
Braga v Panathinaikos

Champions path:
Royal Antwerp v AEK Athens
Ramie Częstochowa v Copenhagen
Maccabi Haifa v Young Boys
Molde v Galatasaray

Clrnc

Barcelona
Arsenal
Celtic
PSV

Will be fun

Don Pacifico

How on earth are Feyenoord in Pot 1!? Or Benfica for that matter...

JazzG

Champions go in Pot 1.

First time in a while looking forward to the CL draw!

Don Pacifico

JazzG for the Dutch league!? I knew weightings had changed more in favour of league position but that seems a bit bonkers to me given they're a lower quality league.

Shows how much attention I've paid to the Champions League...

Burnwinter

Nice that we've got scummy Barcelona in the group stage, as we'll dodge them in the knockouts. Not too much travelling either.

DiabyKungFu

Burnwinter Nice that we've got scummy Barcelona in the group stage, as we'll dodge them in the knockouts. Not too much travelling either.

Bro is living in the future.

Burnwinter

DiabyKungFu 😂 I didn't realise @Clrnc was just wishlisting a draw as I would never, ever do that.

goon

If we get Barcelona now we'll know Burns is in on the fix.

Big Willie

goon If we get Barcelona now we'll know Burns is in on the fix.

Or that he's unwittingly become Clrnc's puppet.

DiabyKungFu

Crazy how Kai Havertz just scored 7 goals in the Champions League final against FC Copenhagen. Just a shame that Ramsdale scored 10 own goals and we lost 12-7. I'm feeling optimistic about next year, though. We'll tear the Conference League apart. COYG!

Burnwinter

DiabyKungFu Oh yeah, and although I was sad to see him go and as you know I wouldn't have predicted it at all, I'm bound to admit you were proved absolutely right by Smith Rowe's transfer to Liverpool on deadline day.

Clrnc

Don Pacifico Dutch league quality is ok. Similar to Portuguese league.

I mean PSV just beat us last year and Ajax went to semis 4 years ago

invisibleman18

It's probably in the script that we face Kane, and we always play Bayern or Barcelona when we're in this in anyway so surely be one of them in the group stage.

invisibleman18

How are we as a high as pot 2 given we haven't been in it for so long and have no pedigree to speak of at Europa level either? Don't really follow how it works. I get that it's some sort of weighting given to the league but does the actual team's history in Europe not come into it? I haven't really paid any attention to CL other than watching the finals since we were last in it. I guess more weighting to the most recent season's league position makes more sense than how a team did years ago with different players etc.
Pleased we won't get a team from Pot 2 in our group of course as I'd imagined being in a group with both Bayern and Real Madrid or something like that expecting us to be in one of the lower pots.

Claudius

invisibleman18 Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs, juventus and Roma are all missing from the tournament. So that’s boosted us

TambourineMan

Feels very good to be back in the big time. The more meaningful games we play the better. Couldn't stand watching our reserves in the Europa over the last few years so it'll be nice to have our strongest team out twice a week most weeks this season. As a fan, can't ask for much more than that.

Hope we get Barca in the draw - quite like Clrnc's wishlist tbh. Hope we end up with something like that. An Italian team would be nice also (maybe Lazio?).

Asterix

Why the fark would you want Barca? Give me Feyenoord and Red Star all day. We're bound to get Bayern though, either in group stage or first round of knockouts - it's just how the Champions League works.

Claudius

We will get Bayern. Henry Kane penalty to top off the beating

Qwiss

Claudius was just thinking that yesterday too 😆

Kel Varnsen

It's so good being back in this tournament. Can't wait for the mid week evening matches!