All eyes were on Monaco today waiting to see who will get who in the Champions League Group Stages. This is where it all starts for the 32 clubs that have qualified and all of them will be wanting it to end on May 25th at Wembley in the Champions League Final. The Champions League is where all the best players and teams get to show off their amazing talents and is considered the biggest prize in European football. Last year it was won by Chelsea FC after they triumphed against Bayern Munich in the final on penalties. Will they be able to go all the way and win it again, this time in their home town of London?
The rules are always the same for the Champions League draw. All 32 teams get put into four different pots. Seed A being considered the top clubs in Europe, to Seed D, who are considered the smaller clubs in the draw. One team from each pot will make up a group of 4 and then the top two teams will go through to the knockout stages, whilst the third placed team will drop to the Europa League. Teams from the same countries CANNOT be drawn in the same group as each other. Therefore, Arsenal (who are in pot 1), could not be drawn in the same group as Manchester City (who are in pot 2).
ALL GROUPS CAN BE SEEN BELOW!
Group A:
FC Porto
Dynamo Kiev
Paris Saint-Germain
Dinamo Zagreb
Group B:
ARSENAL FC
FC Schalke 04
Olympiacos
Montpellier
Group C:
AC Milan
Zenit St Petersburg
Anderlecht
Malaga
Group D:
Real Madrid
MANCHESTER CITY
AFC Ajax
Borussia Dortmund
Group E:
CHELSEA FC
Shakhter Donetsk
Juventus
Nordsjaelland
Group F:
Bayern Munich
Valencia
LOSC Lille
BATE Borisov
Group G:
FC Barcelona
SL Benfica
Spartak Moskva
CELTIC FC
Group H:
MANCHESTER UNITED
SC Braga
Galatasaray
CFR Cluj
Alex William Batt
