Who’s Who In The 2016/17 Champions League Group Stage Draw
The draw for the 2016/17 Champions League group stage will take place in Monaco, France at midday ET (9am PT) on Thursday.
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All eyes will be on the French principality tomorrow as each of the 32 teams qualified for the Champions League find out the names of their group stage opponents.
A predetermined ranking system will separate the entrants to the draw into four pots. Pot 1 consists of defending holders Real Madrid and the champions of the top seven-ranked European domestic leagues (Spain, England, Germany, Italy, Portugal, France, Russia).
Pot 1: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Leicester City, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Benfica, PSG, CSKA Moscow.
The names in the remaining three pots are determined using last season’s UEFA coefficients.
Pot 2: Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal, Manchester City, Sevilla, Porto, Napoli, Bayer Leverkusen.
Pot 3: FC Basel, Tottenham Hotspur, Dynamo Kiev, Lyon, PSV Eindhoven, Sporting CP, Club Brugge, Borussia Monchengladbach.
Pot 4: Celtic, AS Monaco, Besiktas, Legia Warsaw, Dinamo Zagreb, Ludogorets Razgrad, FC Copenhagen, Rostov.
Teams from the same association cannot meet each other in the group stage of the competition.