Champions League

The pots for the 2022-23 Champions League group stage draw have been confirmed after Wednesday's qualifiers.

Matchday 5: Oct. Matchday 4: Oct. Matchday 3: Oct. As Real Madrid secured the league and UCL Double there is a vacant place among the top seeds and that goes to the champions of the [Eredivisie](/soccer/league/_/name/ned.1) -- Ajax. Matchday 2: Sept. Matchday 1: Sept.

The pots for the Champions League group-stage draw have now been finalised following Wednesday night's play-off ties. Rangers will join Celtic in Pot 4 ...

The last-16 ties will be played over a month from February 14 to March 15. [Real Madrid](https://metro.co.uk/tag/real-madrid/?ico=auto_link_sport_P3_LNK1) are in Pot 1, while last year’s beaten finalists Liverpool are in Pot 2 alongside [Chelsea](https://metro.co.uk/tag/chelsea/?ico=auto_link_sport_P3_LNK2) and Tottenham. POT 2

UEFA Europa League winners Eintracht Frankfurt are in Pot One along with German giants Bayern Munich while RB Leipzig are in Pot Two and Borussia Dortmund as ...

England's Premier League are one of three competitions boasting a quartet of sides with Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, and Tottenham Hotspur with Serie A represented by both Milan clubs, SSC Napoli and Juventus to La Liga's Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, and Sevilla. Pot 2: Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, RB Leipzig and Tottenham Hotspur. UEFA Europa League winners Eintracht Frankfurt are in Pot One along with German giants Bayern Munich while RB Leipzig are in Pot Two and Borussia Dortmund as well as Bayer Leverkusen occupy Pot Three.

Rangers returned to the Champions League group stage for the first time in 12 years with a 1-0 win at PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday.

"I was in tears on the pitch, it was just a moment of joy. "It's difficult to describe in words, it was a great team performance. But early in the second period of extra time Dinamo restored their advantage with a composed finish from the edge of the box by Josip Drmic and then made sure of victory with a goal on the break from Petar Bockaj.

Just 90 days on from Vinicius Junior's winner for Real Madrid against Liverpool in the Paris final, the Champions League proper is back once again with the ...

2021-22 saw the Bhoys take part in three different European competitions. They caused a scare for Bayern Munich in their last 16 tie, after they drew the first leg 1-1. They did claim a creditable 0-0 draw in the return leg at the Etihad but the damage had already been done. They then lost two of the their last three to end up in the familiar surrounds of the Europa League. The prodigal son is back from a torrid time in the Premier League and will hope to remind everyone of his class. Will he be the catalyst to restore past glories to Juve? That has also translated into the disappointing Champions League performances since they were runners-up in 2017. Ultimately, a lapse by Trent Alexander-Arnold allowed Vinicius to score the winner. Having won the first leg 1-0 thanks to Mbappe's stoppage time goal, they added to their advantage in the Bernabeu. Their return to the top European competition is long overdue. However, they always seem to achieve it and be competitive. The Germans enter the top seeds by virtue of winning last season's UEFA Europa League.

Real Madrid lifted the trophy for a record 14th time as Vinicius Junior scored the only goal of the game just before the hour mark, but the final was marred ...

The supporters helped us a lot in the last game. In the end I think we deserved to win this competition. Unsurprisingly, Carlo Ancelotti has been named as the Champions League's manager of the season. I had luck to come here last year and have a fantastic season. I am a record man. 'I can't believe it,' Ancelotti said after the final in May.

Spanish giants Real Madrid overcame Liverpool in last season's final, while Eintracht Frankfurt beat Rangers in the Europa League final on penalties to secure ...

AC Milan secured their first Serie A title in 11 years last season and cemented their place in the Champions League. The 26 automatic qualifiers will be joined by six play-off round winners. As a result, the Bundesliga will have five teams in Europe's elite competition for the first time. Sérgio Conceição's Porto side won the Liga Portugal title by six points last season. Benfica qualified with a 5-0 aggregate win over Dynamo Kyiv. However, as Eintracht Frankfurt won the Europa League last season - defeating Rangers in the final - they earned a place in the Champions League group stage this campaign.

Giovanni van Bronckhorst "couldn't be prouder" after Rangers overcame PSV to book their place in the...

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Here's all you need to know about when and where to follow the UEFA Champions League 2022-23 group stage draw.

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Ahead of the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League group stage draw on Thursday, Aug. 25, we dreamed up the ideal matchups for Groups A through H given the 32 teams ...

Atletico Madrid would consider themselves favourites in this group, but Napoli, Porto and Dinamo Zagreb won't be giving up any points easily. (Spurs progressed to the 2019 final at the expense of Ajax after Lucas Moura scored a 96th-minute winner.) Both clubs are looking sharp domestically so will no doubt deliver two unmissable group stage matches. Benfica is battle-tested at this level, while both Eintracht Frankfurt and Sevilla will be looking to show they can cope with the step up to the Champions League after showing they can win the Europa League in recent years. [UEFA club coefficient ranking](https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/club/#/yr/2022) with the exception of Pot 1. - Pot 2: Tottenham (England) Every possible fixture for this group is capable of delivering fireworks. Bayern and Juventus last faced off in the Champions League in 2016 when their Round of 16 tie was forced to extra time after both games ended 2-2. - Pot 2: Juventus (Italy) It's been over 20 years since AC Milan and Chelsea played a competitive match against one another so the time feels right to group them together. - Pot 2: Chelsea (England) It's impossible to resist not putting the two 2021/22 Champions League finalists together in the group stage. - Pot 2: Liverpool (England)

Liverpool's possible opponents in the 2022-23 Champions League group stage have now been confirmed. The Reds, finalists in three of the previous five ...

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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Rangers returned to the Champions League group stage for the first time in 12 years with a 1-0 win at PSV Eindhoven on ...

As a kid I always wanted to compete at this level and to be here is amazing," he added. "It's difficult to describe in words, it was a great team performance. But early in the second period of extra time Dinamo restored their advantage with a composed finish from the edge of the box by Josip Drmic and then made sure of victory with a goal on the break from Petar Bockaj.

Dinamo joined Rangers and Copenhagen, which also advanced through their playoffs to complete a group-stage lineup stacked with 14 former former champions who ...

Each team gets a basic fee of 15.6 million euros ($15.5 million), plus 2.8 million euros ($2.78 million) per win and 930,000 euros ($924,000) for each draw in the group stage. The Champions League is even more concentrated in western Europe – and not just because of the Russia ban. [these Champions League groups start early](https://apnews.com/article/covid-sports-health-soccer-middle-east-c3b5cb1fe407a31fde74f2c6f4da5e1a) on Sept. Liverpool is ranked highest of the 24 and Maccabi Haifa is lowest. The extra 930,000 euros ($924,000) left over from each drawn game is pooled and shared among teams who won games. [according to their place in a league table](https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/tenyears/) based on historical European titles and results in the past 10 years. The 32 teams from 15 different countries go into groups of four playing home-and-away round-robin games. The top two in each group advance to the knockout stage next year. 6 and end five weeks sooner than usual on Nov. There is no such upstart this season, though some in Scotland would argue Rangers should count as a first-timer. Maybe we will be lucky,” Shakhtar captain Taras Stepanenko said this week. Madrid has advanced every time.

A second-half goal from Antonio Colak a 1-0 win – and 3-2 aggregate victory –over PSV Eindhoven in their Champions League qualifier.

“You want to find opportunities to press them, and we found them,” said Van Bronckhorst. A pressurised Armando Obispo at full-back passed to a nervy Walter Benítez, the goalkeeper who had dropped a clanger in the first leg. When Tom Lawrence rattling the angle of post and crossbar in the 57th minute, it signalled Rangers a foothold. “We used it to be ready,” said Rangers’ manager afterwards of that warm welcome. PSV fans had swarmed all over Rangers’ team bus, a delayed start requested after scenes Van Bronckhorst said were “the worst I’ve seen as a player or manager”. PSV had been given the weekend off by the Dutch football association, such levity not given Rangers by the SFA.

Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Antonio Colak have reacted to Rangers securing their Champions League group stage return after 12 years away.

The UEFA Champions League group stage draw for the season 2022-2023 will take place in Istanbul, Türkiye on Thursday. Superstars Karim Benzema, Thibaut ...

The UEFA award ceremony will take place after the draw in Turkey. Here's all you need to know about the Champions League group stage draw and the upcoming UEFA awards. The UEFA Champions League group stage draw for the season 2022-2023 will take place in Istanbul, Türkiye on Thursday.

Pot 4: Marseille, Club Bruges, Celtic, Viktoria Plzen, Maccabi Haifa, Rangers, FC Copenhagen, Dinamo Zagreb or Bodo/Glimt. * Cannot be drawn against in group ...

Matchday 5: October 25/26 Rangers were among the sides to book their place in the draw, seeing off PSV Eindhoven. Matchday 4: October 11/12

UEFA structures the pots as follows: Pot 1 contains the reigning Champions League and Europa League winners (Real Madrid, Eintracht Frankfurt) and the domestic ...

Should Dortmund land Dest from Barcelona, as has been rumored this week, that would take Barça out of the running here and make a Chelsea/Juventus-Dortmund-Rangers trio in any group even more of a lure from a U.S. So any combination that features one of Chelsea, Barcelona and Juventus out of Pot 2 and then Dortmund and Rangers will surely catch the eye of USMNT staff, players and supporters alike in the coming weeks (since Frankfurt and Dortmund can’t be drawn together given they are both Bundesliga clubs, there’s no scenario in which all four clubs in a group features U.S. Sadio Mané has gotten off to a brilliant start with Bayern Munich, and two of his former clubs are involved in the competition. With Russian clubs barred from competition due to its nation’s invasion of Ukraine, the past stipulation that kept Russian clubs and Ukrainian clubs apart in the group stage is no longer in play. A Bayern-Liverpool-Inter/Napoli-Marseille group also offers a similar effect—four clubs in Europe’s top five leagues all with the talent to reach the knockout stage. The remaining pots are set in club coefficient order (a formula that takes into account the results of each club in UEFA competitions based on performances over the last five seasons), which limits the potential for true groups of death but does offer some intriguing possibilities.

The Blues and Spurs both finished inside the top four of the Premier League last season and secured a Champions League spot as a result.

Napoli (ITA) Juventus (ITA) Chelsea (ENG) Liverpool (ENG) [Thomas Tuchel](https://www.football.london/all-about/thomas-tuchel)'s team exited the Champions League at the quarter-final stage last season after losing to Real Madrid, while [Antonio Conte](https://www.football.london/all-about/antonio-conte)'s Spurs side were eliminated from the Europa Conference League after UEFA ruled their postponed fixture against Rennes would be deemed as a forfeit. The 2022/23 Champions League group stage draw will take place on 25 August in Istanbul, Turkey.

Derek Clark calculates what Rangers can expect to earn after qualifying for the Champions League group stage.

Prize money, of course, is also up for grabs with clubs rewarded for wins and draws in the group stage. Matchday income is the fourth way of making money through European nights with the atmosphere at Ibrox world renowned. Rangers will be paid a guaranteed €15.64m (£13.2) for merely qualifying for the group stages. The other half would be based on how many matches each side plays in the competition – so if both sides are eliminated after six matches they’d get an equal share. Another major factor in European revenue is TV money paid to clubs competing. Incentive-based bonuses for qualification into the knock-out rounds is also available with a huge €9.6m (£8.08m) paid to clubs qualifying for the Champions League round of 16. A win in the Champions League is worth €2.8m (£2.36m) and a draw seeing clubs paid €930k (£783k). What we know is that Scotland is included in the market pool for the whole UK, with BT Sport holding exclusive rights to the matches. Given that Rangers have advanced past PSV then a payment between £960,000 and £3.8m will be received. [Seville](https://www.rangersreview.co.uk/interviews/20155794.rangers-supporting-msp-attended-seville-final-feels-a-tragedy-might-occurred/) last term, but the club sit 66th in the 10-year table due to not competing in Europe for five of those years incorporated. Of that money, 50 per cent would be divided between Rangers and Celtic – 55 per cent for the champions and 45 per cent for the runners-up. [Night of heroes instant reaction as Gers return to the Champions League](https://www.rangersreview.co.uk/opinion/20743890.rangers-night-heroes-instant-reaction-return-champions-league/)

Liverpool are in Pot Two for the Champions League group stage draw, meaning they will avoid the likes of Barcelona, Juventus and Atletico Madrid. But there are ...

Pot Three also has a number of teams who could take up the challenge of facing Liverpool and none will likely be more challenging than Inter Milan. Liverpool may well want to face Real Madrid from Pot One for revenge from last year's final and other matches against the likes of AC Milan and Bayern Munich would also be blockbuster ties. But arguably the team Liverpool will want most from Pot One will be Porto given their incredible record against them.

Rangers returned to the Champions League group stage for the first time in 12 years with a 1-0 win at PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday while Dinamo Zagreb also ...

As a kid I always wanted to compete at this level and to be here is amazing," he added. "It's difficult to describe in words, it was a great team performance. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

Real Madrid, Liverpool, Bayern, PSG... We take a look at when and where the UEFA Champions League group stage draw will take place.

The Champions League 2022-23 group stage draw will take place on Thursday 25 August 2022. The draw will see 32 teams split into eight groups of four. Istanbul is the location for proceedings.

With the UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds out of the way, there are only a couple of weeks left before the 2022/23 group stage gets underway.

[Who will win the 2022/23 Champions League? The Champions League group stage typically included a December round of matches in years past, but that was moved up due to the World Cup schedule. 14, and so the final Champions League group matches will fit that timeline with the sixth and final matchday coming on Nov. 6-7 as all six rounds of group stage games will be completed before the break for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The qualifying rounds are complete and we have the 32-team field for the 2022/23 Champions League group stage. September has always been the traditional start date for the Champions League group stage matches and it will be the same this time around.

Ahead of the 2022-23 Champions League group-stage draw, GOAL ranks all 32 teams from most likely to lift the European Cup this season to least.

[Even if you don't know every word,](https://www.goal.com/en/news/champions-league-anthem-the-full-lyrics-for-footballs-most/12pnkyajpat5t11q3gtidrfak2) you definitely know the final two. In just a few weeks' time the Champions League anthem will be blaring out at stadiums around Europe. [the group-stage draw set to take place in Switzerland on Thursday.](https://www.goal.com/en/news/champions-league-2022-23-group-stage-draw-date-time-teams/blt576b8b8fd09f9bcc)