The redesigned UEFA Champions League draws on Thursday for its first stage draw, which will take place in 2025-2026.
Some shock eliminations, including those against Scottish powerhouses Glasgow Rangers and Celtic, and Turkish powerhouse Fenerbahce, came to an end on Wednesday.
Who will now advance to the playoffs or worse, elimination will be decided during the league phase.
The UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, is where Al Jazeera Sport is following Thursday’s draw.
Who was Paris Saint-Germain’s opponent in the Champions League last season?
PSG, the French giants, defeated Inter Milan 5-0 in the final of the previous season to claim the Champions League title.
Desire Doue’s two goals, as well as two goals, won him two awards.
Where did Real Madrid and Barcelona finish last in the Champions League?
Both domestically and internationally, Real had a difficult season. Arsenal sent the Madrid side to the quarterfinals.
Los Blancos lost their Spanish title to fierce rivals Barcelona, who were the defending Champions League champions.
Inter, who staged a late comeback in the second leg of their record-equalling semifinal, was widely anticipated to make it to the Catalan club’s Champions League semifinal appearance.
Are Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool expected to face off in the Champions League?
In this year’s competition, fellow English clubs Chelsea, the winners of the FIFA Club World Cup, and Tottenham, the winners of the Europa League, join the Premier League’s big three.
Liverpool, who won the 20th Premier League title without a record last year, will be all the rage. The Reds also won the Champions League’s league stage last year, but they were knocked out by PSG on penalties in the round 16.
PSG  ended Arsenal’s impressive run in the final four, while Real, a rival rival of their success, dumped Manchester City out of the playoffs.
How many teams will compete in the Champions League this year?
From the previous 32-team setup, the Champions League expanded to 36 clubs last season. This time around, the format and size are unchanged.
What format does the Champions League have this year?
The 36 qualified teams will play in a league phase, with each team playing eight games based on Thursday’s draw, as per the revamped schedule from the previous year.
In the first round of the competition, four seeded pots from nine clubs will be chosen to decide who will play whom.
The round of 16 will be decided by the top eight teams. To advance to the following round, the following 16 teams will play at home and away. The league’s top eight teams will be eliminated.
32 clubs in eight groups of four have been playing in the Champions League since 2003, with the top two teams from each section making it to the last 16.
What impact will the draw have?
Each club will have one home and one away teams competing in each pot.
No team will face a team from the same domestic league as them, and no team can compete against more than two other nations.
What are the Champions League draw’s pots?
Pot 1: Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Barcelona, Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, and Paris Saint-Germain.
Pot 2: Arsenal, Bayer Leverkusen, Atletico Madrid, Atletico, Villarreal, Juventus, Eintracht Frankfurt, Benfica, Club Brugge, and Atletico Madrid.
Tottenham Hotspur, PSV Eindhoven, Ajax, Napoli, Sporting CP, Olympiacos, Slavia Prague, Marseille, Bodo/Glimt, and Pot 3:
Pot 4: Monaco, Galatasaray, Union Saint-Gilloise, Athletic Club, Newcastle United, Pafos, Kairat Almaty, Copenhagen, Qarabag, and Monaco.
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In the group stage, how many games will be played?
The league phase will consist of 144 games total. What was the group stage prior to last season’s 96 games made up the total.
The drawing will be conducted in what way?
Instead of using the solely manual method that has been and continues to be used widely around the world, UEFA now uses a hybrid draw.
Working through the four seeding pots from top to bottom, each of the 36 teams is still being manually drawn. However, it now only takes a second per team for the drawing of their opponents, which is done digitally.
The software determines the opponents and the teams’ locations once they have been manually drawn, either at home or away.
What time will the Champions League group stage take place?
Matchday 1: September 16-17
Matchday 2: September 30-October 1
Matchday 3: October 21-22
Matchday 4: November 4-5
Matchday 5: November 25-26
Matchday 6: December 9-10
Matchday 7: January 20-21
Matchday 8: January 28
Will the league’s bottom eight advance to the Europa League?
No. Simply put, the league’s top 12 teams will be eliminated.
What is the UEFA Champions League’s prize money?
The Champions League’s league phase will receive $2.6 billion in funding for the participating clubs.
The Champions League champion will be compensated on a game-by-game basis along with all other teams.
More than 100 million euros ($116 million) can be claimed if the eventual champion wins all of their games throughout the competition.
The final total is difficult to determine, much like the FIFA Club World Cup, which UEFA has introduced through a number of other payments.
The total payments will be based on a club’s participation fees, performance bonuses, league phase ranking bonuses, knockout stage bonuses, and a value pillar, which combines payments made based on a club’s historical UEFA coefficient ranking and their share of the broadcast market.
Source: Aljazeera
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