All you need to know: UEFA Champions League group stage draw

format

- The teams are divided into four pots.

- Pot 1: The holders, the UEFA Europa League winners, and the champions of the six top-ranked nations who didn't qualify by winning one of the two European club competitions in 2020/21.

- Pots 2, 3 & 4: determined by the club's UEFA coefficient ranking.

- No team can play another team from the same association, i.e. Paris Saint-Germain cannot be drawn in the same group as Lille.

- For associations with two representatives, the clubs are organised into groups so that they do not play their games on the same day. For associations with four teams, two groups of two are made based on television audiences.

QualifiED TEAMS

Pot 1 
Chelsea FC (ENG, UEFA Champions League holders)
Villarreal CF (ESP, UEFA Europa League winners)
FC Bayern Munich (GER)
Manchester City FC (ENG)
Club Atlético de Madrid (ESP)
FC Internazionale Milano (ITA)
Sporting CP (POR)
LOSC (FRA)

Pot 2
Real Madrid CF (ESP)
FC Barcelona (ESP)
Juventus (ITA)
Manchester United FC (ENG)
Paris Saint-Germain (FRA)
Liverpool FC (ENG)
Sevilla FC (ESP)
Borussia Dortmund (GER)

Pot 3
FC Porto (POR)
AFC Ajax (NED)
FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)
RB Leipzig (GER)
RB Salzburg (AUT)
SL Benfica (POR)
Atalanta BC (ITA)
FC Zenit (RUS)

Pot 4
Besiktas JK (TUR)
FC Dynamo Kiev (UKR)
Club Brugge (BEL)
BSC Young Boys (SUI)
AC Milan (ITA)
Malmö FF (SWE)
VfL Wolfsburg (GER)
FC Sheriff Tiraspol (MDA)

MATCHDAYS

Matchday 1: 14/15 September
Matchday 2: 28/29 September
Matchday 3: 19/20 October
Matchday 4: 2/3 November
Matchday 5: 23/24 November
Matchday 6: 7/8 December

UEFA AWARDS

At the draw, UEFA will also name the individual prize winners from the  2020/21 season. Kylian Mbappé is nominated for Best Forward.