Istanbul [Turkey]August 26 (ANI): The draw for the Champions League, the holy grail of football, was drawn in Turkey on August 25. Fans will get to see the best clubs in the world playing with some of the best matchups for the coveted trophy. leaves.
Hamit Altyntop (former Turkish football player) and Yaya Toure (a former Ivorian football player) drew from team pots to determine the teams in different groups.
This year’s Champions League draw has some pretty exciting draws.
Barcelona have been drawn against Bayern Munich in the 2022–23 Champions League group stages, meaning Robert Lewandowski will play against his former club, while Manchester City’s Erling Haaland will face his former club Borussia Dortmund.
Lewandowski left Bayern Munich in July to join Barcelona in a €50m deal, and the two clubs have been drawn into Group C together. Haaland left Borussia Dortmund in June for a €60 million deal to join Premier League side Manchester City.
This season’s Champions League group stage will be played over a shorter period of nine weeks instead of the usual 12 weeks, due to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar starting in November.
The knockout stages of the competition will begin on February 14, 2023, a year later than the trend in previous years.
On June 10, 2023, the final will take place at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul.
The following is a list of the different teams that will appear in the eight groups:
Group A – Ajax (Netherlands), Liverpool (England), Napoli (Italy), Rangers (Scotland).
Group B – FC Porto (Portugal), Atletico Madrid (Spain), Bayer Leverkusen (Germany), Club Brugge (Belgium).
Group C – Bayern Munich (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), Inter Milan (Italy), Viktoria Plze (Czech Republic).
Group D – Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany), Tottenham Hotspur (England), Sporting CP (Portugal), Marseille (France).
Group E – AC Milan (Italy), Chelsea (England), FC Salzburg (Austria), Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia).
Group F – Real Madrid (Spain), RB Leipzig (Germany), Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine), Celtic (Scotland).
Group G – Manchester City (England), Sevilla (Spain), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), FC Copenhagen (Denmark).
Group H – Paris Saint-Germain (France), Juventus (Italy), Benfica (Portugal), Maccabi Haifa (Israel). (ANI)
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