It was already the big school year for the AS Monaco players on Saturday at Turbie. Caio Henrique, Aleksandr Golovin, Folarin Balogun and others carried out physical tests while waiting for their first training session under the orders of Hansi Flick. Two XXL recruits will discover their new teammates! Ansu Fati and Paul Pogba both spent their medical visit and “the Pioche” even signed his two -year contract with ASM.
Third in Ligue 1 behind PSG and OM, the rock club is directly qualified for the Champions League and will therefore not go through qualifications like the OGC Nice (in the 3rd qualifying round). The Monegasques will begin their exercise with the reception of Le Havre, the weekend of August 17, before two “European” shocks against LOSC and Strasbourg. They will be fixed in C1 on August 28 during the draw for the league phase.
Of the 36 participants of the first phase of the LDC, already 29 clubs are known and Olympique de Marseille and AS Monaco, respectively in hats 3 and 4, can expect very heavy. Four hats of nine teams are made up of the UEFA coefficient and, as a reminder, each participant will challenge two teams of their hat for a total of eight different meetings.
OM and Monaco facing very heavy
Marseillais and Monegasques will avoid PSG in the head of the heads but are likely to face two Cadors of the Old Continent. Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayern, Liverpool, Inter, Chelsea, Dortmund and FC Barcelona complete the first hat. In the second pot, it will be necessary to avoid Arsenal, Leverkusen, AtlĂ©tico, Atalanta, Villarreal and Juventus, where five years evolved in all. With up to two opponents of the same country possible …
The last two hats of the Champions League 2025-2026 offer major opponents who could clearly relegate OM and ASM outside the Top 8 (qualifying directly for the knockout stages). Tottenham, Ajax, Napoli and Sporting are in hat 3, Galatasaray, Athletic Bilbao and Newcastle are already placed in the 4. While waiting for the big pieces from the C1 qualifications.
