Kworld Trend / Champions League group stage draw 2023-24 – Today, Thursday, European clubs are awaiting the draw for the group stage of the European Champions League in its new version for the 2023-2024 season, which is being conducted by the European Football Association “UEFA” in Monaco.
Champions League group stage draw 2023-24
The draw for the group stage of the European Champions League 2024 will take place at exactly seven o’clock in the evening today, Thursday, August 31, to be broadcast on the “beIN Sports NEWS” channel, and the European Union will transmit the draw through its official channel on “YouTube”.
Manchester City is the holder of the title of the last edition of the European Champions League, for the first time in its history, after its victory over its Italian counterpart, Inter Milan, with a clean goal, in the final match that brought the two teams together, at the “Ataturk Olympic Stadium”, in Istanbul, Turkey . While Real Madrid is the most crowned club with “ears”, after winning the title 14 previous times.
UEFA Champions League draw.
The most prominent teams participating in the Champions League are as follows:
- Manchester City, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Manchester United – England
- Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Real Sociedad and Seville – Spain
- Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig, and Union Berlin – Germany
- Napoli, Milan, Inter Milan, Lazio – Italy
- Paris Saint-Germain and Lens – France
UEFA Champions League draw
The European Union divides the clubs participating in the group stage of the Champions League into 4 classifications, and it is forbidden in the group stage that two teams from the same country be present in one group.
The 32 teams are divided into eight groups of four. In the draw, the teams will be classified into four pots, each of eight teams, based on the following:
-Pot One contains the holders of the Champions League and Europa League, and the champions of the top six associations based on the 2021–22 UEFA classification. Since Manchester City (2022–23 Premier League champion) won the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, the seventh UEFA champion is (Netherlands), which is the Feyenoord team that will enter the first pot.
Pots 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining qualifying teams, based on the classification, and two teams from the same association cannot be present in one group. The draw will witness the participation of German Union Berlin for the first time in the group stage.
