Champions League draw

The draw for the group stage of this season's UEFA Champions League takes place at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco at 5.00pm (UK time) on Thursday.
Twenty-two sides, including Arsenal, have qualified directly for the group stage and will be joined by the 10 play-off winners following the conclusion of those ties on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The strength of Arsenal's UEFA co-efficient means they will be seeded for the draw. The other clubs in pot one are Chelsea, Barcelona, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Porto and Milan.
Manchester City are in pot two but teams from the same national association cannot be drawn against each other in the group stage.

Scroll to the bottom of this page for details on the workings of Thursday's group stage draw.
The first table below shows the 22 teams guaranteed a place in the draw. The second table features the 10 play-off round fixtures concluding this week.

The winner of each will advance to the group stage.
Stay close to Arsenal.com for news and reaction from Thursday's draw plus fixture dates and ticket information.
GROUP STAGE DRAW: 22 QUALIFIED TEAMS
Arsenal Chelsea Barcelona
Manchester United Bayern Munich Real Madrid
Porto AC Milan Valencia
Benfica Zenit St. Petersburg Shakhtar Donetsk
Schalke Manchester City Olympiacos
Ajax Juventus Paris St-Germain
Galatasaray Borussia Dortmund Montpellier
Nordsjaelland    
PLAY-OFF FIXTURES
FC Basel v CFR Cluj
Helsingborgs v Celtic
BATE Borisov v Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
Limassol v Anderlecht
Dinamo Zagreb v Maribor
Braga v Udinese
Spartak Moscow v Fenerbahce
Malaga v Panathinaikos
Borussia Monchengladbach v Dynamo Kiev
Lille v FC Copenhagen
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW DETAILS
  • The 32 clubs who feature in the draw are split into four pots of eight based on their UEFA coefficient scores. These are based on performance in European competitions over the last five years.
  • A total of eight groups of four teams will be drawn with one side from each seeding pot in each group. No side can be drawn against another from the same pot, nor can they play a team from their home country.
  • Where two sides from the same country have qualified, they will be paired to split their matches between Tuesday and Wednesday, so one club will always play at home on one day and the other will play away on the other day. In the case of countries with three representatives, only two teams have been paired in terms of their fixtures; in the case of countries with four representatives, two pairings have been made.
  • To ensure sides from the same country play on separate days, the eight groups will be distinguished by colour: Groups A-D will be red and Groups E-H blue. When a paired club is drawn, for example, into one of the red groups, the other paired club - once it has been drawn - will automatically be assigned to one of the four blue groups.
  • The order of home and away matches will be determined after the draw has taken place

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