UCL Draw users manual
The eagerly awaited draw for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League takes place tonight. PSG.fr takes you through what we can expect, step by step:
Rules:
- Teams are divided into four seeded pots.
- Pot 1 comprises the defending Champions League champion, the defending Europa League champion and the champions of the six top ranked UEFA nations not qualified via last season's competition titles. Paris Saint-Germain are in Pot 1.
- Pots 2, 3 and 4 are determined by the club's individual UEFA coefficients.
- No two clubs from the same national association can be drawn together in the same group. Paris Saint-Germain cannot be drawn in the same section as Marseille or Rennes.
Qualified:
Pot 1:
FC Bayern Munich (GER, UEFA Champions League winners)
Sevilla FC (ESP, UEFA Europa League winners)
Real Madrid CF (ESP)
Liverpool FC (ENG)
Juventus (ITA)
Paris Saint-Germain (FRA)
FC Zenit (RUS)
FC Porto (POR)
Pot 2:
FC Barcelona (ESP)
Club Atlético de Madrid (ESP)
Manchester City FC (ENG)
Manchester United FC (ENG)
FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)
Borussia Dortmund (GER)
Chelsea FC (ENG)
AFC Ajax (NED)
Pot 3:
Dynamo Kiev (UKR)
RB Leipzig (GER)
FC Internazionale Milan (ITA)
RB Salzburg (AUT)
Olympiacos FC (GRE)
SS Lazio (ITA)
Krasnodar (RUS)
Atalanta BC (ITA)
Pot 4:
FC Lokomotiv Moscow (RUS)
Olympique de Marseille (FRA)
Club Brugge (BEL)
VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach (GER)
Istanbul Basaksehir (TUR)
Midtjylland (DEN)
Stade Rennais FC (FRA)
Ferencváros (HUN)
Fixture dates:
Group stage:
20/10/2020-21/10/2020: Matchday 1
27/10/2020-28/10/2020: Matchday 2
03/11/2020-04/11/2020: Matchday 3
24/11/2020-25/11/2020: Matchday 4
01/12/2020-02/12/2020: Matchday 5
08/12/2020-09/12/2020: Matchday 6
Knockout stages:
14/12/2020: Last-16 draw
16/02/2021-17/03/2021: Last-16
19/03/2021: Quarter-final and semi-final draw
06/04/2021-14/04/2021: Quarter-finals
27/04/2021-05/05/2021: Semi-finals
29/05/2021: Final (Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadyumu, Istanbul, Turquie)
UEFA Awards:
This evening will also feature the UEFA Player of the Year awards ceremony for the 2019-20 season. Christiane Endler, Keylor Navas, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar Jr are all in the running for individual awards.