NUFC have qualified for The Champions League 23/24

Group stage qualified teams so far:

England: Manchester City (1st), Arsenal (2nd), Newcastle United (3rd/4th)

Spain: Barcelona (1st), Atlético Madrid (2nd/3rd/4th), Real Madrid (2nd/3rd/4th)

Italy: Napoli (1st), Lazio (2nd/3rd/4th),

Germany: Borussia Dortmund (1st/2nd), Bayern Munich (1st/2nd), RB Leipzig (3rd) (4th)

France: Paris Saint-Germain (1st/2nd),

Portugal: Benfica (1st/2nd), Porto (1st/2nd)

Netherlands: Feyenoord (1st)

Austria: Red Bull Salzburg (1st)

Scotland: Celtic (1st)

Serbia: Red Star Belgrade (1st)







SCHEDULE:

Qualifying

Preliminary round: Draw: 13 June 2023, Games: 27 June 2023, 30 June 2023

First qualifying round: Draw: 20 June 2023, Games: 11–12 July 2023, 18–19 July 2023

Second qualifying round: Draw: 21 June 2023, Games: 25–26 July 2023, 1–2 August 2023

Third qualifying round: Draw: 24 July 2023, Games: 8–9 August 2023, 15 August 2023

Play-offs: Play-off round draw: 7 August 2023, Games: 22–23 August 2023 29–30 August 2023



Group stage

Draw: 31 August 2023
Matchday 1: 19–20 September 2023

Matchday 2: 3–4 October 2023

Matchday 3: 24–25 October 2023

Matchday 4: 7–8 November 2023

Matchday 5: 28–29 November 2023

Matchday 6: 12–13 December 2023



Knockout phase

Round of 16: Draw: 18 December 2023, Games: 13–14 & 20–21 February 2024, 5–6 & 12–13 March 2024

Quarter-finals: Draw: 15 March 2024, Games: 9–10 April 2024, 16–17 April 2024

Semi-finals: 30 April – 1 May 20247–8 May 2024

Final: 1 June 2024 at Wembley Stadium, London



POTS:

Pot 1: Manchester City, Europa League winner, Champions League winner, Barcelona, Napoli, Paris SG, Benfica

Pot 2: Real Madrid

Pot 3: Arsenal, Crvena Zvezda

Pot 4: Celtic, Newcastle United

 

How does the pot system work ?

 

You pay a dealer then roll it into a fat one mate.

 

Obvious really.

 

We’ve got more money. than anyone

 

Do Inter go pot one because City are in the final and league champs anyway so in the pot regardless?

Regardless San Siro is one stadium I'd love to go to. Even without a ticket I'd get out there to do the tour of the stadium if we were playing there!

 

How do the pots works

 

One team from each pot forms a group probably.

 

What happens once the 32 teams qualify?

The 32 teams are split into four different "pots," with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on the following principles:

• Pot 1 contains the Champions League titleholders, the Europa League titleholders and the champions of the top six associations based on their UEFA coefficients. If either the Champions League or Europa League titleholders were one of the champions of the top six associations, the champions of the association ranked seventh, and possibly eighth, are also seeded into Pot 1.

• Pots 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2018 UEFA club coefficients.

Then, a team is drawn from each pot until there are eight groups of four.

Our 2018 UEFA Club Coefficient is a standard English 15.261 which ranks us around 90, so unless there are a lot of low ranked teams in the last 32 we will be in Pot 4, which is actually good because it will mean at least 2 very strong teams in our group.

 

Any chance of a summary I'm at work

 

There are 4 pots teams are drawn from.

 

1 from each pot and so on ?

 

Yup.
Placement into the pots is based on rankings (highest ranked teams in pot 1 etc.).
Then 1 team pulled from each pot, to make up the 8 groups of 4 teams.

 

Just like world cup draws really.

 

As it currently stands re the pots.
Teams in pink TBC based on their final game / qualification.

 

Imagine us having Barca, Bayern Munich & Milan.

 

Imagine everyone else once we've Tottenham'd them all...