This Thursday, August 31, the draw for the group stage of the Champions League will take place. With the elimination of OM from the preliminary rounds of the competition, there will only be two French clubs in the running this year, namely PSG and RC Lens. This year, the 32 clubs qualified for the 2023-2024 Champions League will be divided into four hats of eight teams. The last edition in this style before the change from next season when a new formula organized by Alexander Ceferin’s UEFA will see the light of day.
Like every year of course, hat 1 is made up of the champions of the major championships as well as the winner of the Europa League. The teams are divided into four groups. Pot 1 is made up of the defending champion, the UEFA Europa League winners and the champions of the six top-ranked nations. Pots 2 to 4 are determined by the classification by coefficient of the clubs. In the case of associations with two representatives, the clubs are paired in order to distribute their matches between Tuesdays and Wednesdays., explains UEFA. We thus find FC Barcelona, PSG, Manchester City, Naples, Bayern Munich, Sevilla FC or even Feyenoord and Benfica in hat 1. As for several years now, hat 2 will be just as high with the presence of teams like Real Madrid, Arsenal, Inter Milan or Manchester United to name a few.
The distribution of pots for the draw for the group stage of the Champions League 2023/24:
Hat 1
- Barcelona (Spain)
- Manchester City (England)
- Napoli (Italy)
- Bayern Munich (Germany)
- PSG (France)
- Benfica (Portugal)
- FC Sevilla (Spain)
- Feyenoord Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Hat 2
- Real Madrid (Spain)
- Manchester United (England)
- Borussia Dortmund (Germany)
- Atletico Madrid (Spain)
- RB Leipzig (Germany)
- Oporto (Portugal)
- Arsenal (England)
- Inter Milan (Italy)
Hat 3
- Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)
- RB Salzburg (Austria)
- AC Milan (Italy)
- SC Braga (Portugal)
- SS Lazio (Italy)
- Red Star of Belgrade (Serbia)
- Glasgow Rangers (Scotland) or PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)
- FC Copenhagen (Denmark) or Young Boys Bern (Switzerland) if Racow qualifies
Hat 4
- Real Sociedad (Spain)
- Galatasaray (Türkiye)
- Celtic Glasgow (Scotland)
- Newcastle United (England)
- Union Berlin (Germany)
- RC Lens (France)
- Royal Antwerp (Belgium) or AEK Athens (Greece)
- Young Boys of Bern (Switzerland) if Copenhagen qualifies or Rakow (Poland)
Time and location of the 2023-24 Champions League draw:
It is in Monaco, France, that the draw for the group stages of the Champions League 2023-2024 will take place this Thursday, August 31 at 6 p.m. Last season, the draw took place in Istanbul, the venue for the final of the previous edition. As a reminder, this year, the final will take place in England, again, in the legendary Wembley Stadium in London.
On which channel and by which means to watch the Champions League draw?
This year again, the draw, which will be broadcast worldwide, will be followed live on the UEFA website. Or more simply on Canal+Foot, beIN Sports 1 and RMC Sport 1 which share television broadcasting in France.
