The draw for the league phase of the 2025-26 Champions League will take place on Thursday, 28 August in Monaco. It will start at 17:00 BST and will follow the same procedure as the 2024-25 campaign - the first season where the 36-team league phase format took place. The draw is made up of 27 teams that qualified via league positions, the winners of last season's Champions League and Europa League, and the seven teams that progressed out of qualifying. The teams are split into four pots based on their individual Uefa club coefficient ranking. Starting with pot one, each team will be drawn out individually. They will then be selected eight opponents via Uefa's automated software. A team will play eight games in total, including two teams from each pot - one home and one away. No group stage fixtures can be played against teams from the same country or no play more than two matches against teams from the another country, such as Italy. This procedure will continue until the fixtures for all 36 teams have been decided. The Champions League fixture list with match dates and kick-off times will be published no later than Saturday, 30 August.
Champions League 2025/26 draw: Pots Pot 1 Paris Saint-Germain Real Madrid Manchester City Bayern Munich Liverpool Inter Milan Chelsea Borussia Dortmund Barcelona Pot 2 Arsenal Bayer Leverkusen Atletico Madrid Atalanta Villarreal Juventus Eintracht Frankfurt Pot 3 PSV Eindhoven Ajax Napoli Sporting CP Olympiacos Slavia Prague Bodo/Glimt Marseille Pot 4 Monaco Galatasaray Union Saint-Gilloise Athletic Bilbao Newcastle Pafos Kairat
We will have 4 home and 4 away games. Two from each pot, one home and one away. For me H - 1. Inter Milan 2. Eintracht Frankfurt. 3. Ajax 4. Galatasaray A - 1. Real Madrid 2. Juventus 3. Sporting Lisbon 4. Athletic Bilbao
