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Champions League draw pots: Where are Man Utd, City, Liverpool and Spurs placed?
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE draw pots - Where are Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham seeded?
Champions League will be open this season says pundit
Clubs will be split into four seeding pots for the Champions League draw.
Pot 1 consists of the Champions League holders, the Europa League winners and the champions of the six highest-ranked nations.
As Premier League champions, Manchester City will enter Pot 1 with the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and Bayern Munich.
Pots 2 to 4 are determined by the club coefficient ranking and is where Manchester United, Tottenham and Liverpool, last season's finalists, will be placed.
Champions League draw pots - Who is where?
The draw is made up of 32 clubs, 26 of whom are direct entrants while six qualify through the play-offs.
Pot 1
Real Madrid (holders)
Atletico Madrid (Europa League winners)
Barcelona
Bayern Munich
Manchester City
Juventus
Paris Saint-Germain
Lokomotiv Moscow
Pot 2
Borussia Dortmund
Porto
Manchester United
Shakhtar Donetsk
Benfica
Napoli
Tottenham Hotspur
Roma
Pot 3
Liverpool
Schalke
Lyon
Monaco
Ajax
CSKA Moscow
Valencia
PSV Eindhoven
Pot 4
Viktoria Plzen
Club Brugge
Galatasaray
Young Boys
Inter
Hoffenheim
Red Star Belgrade
AEK Athens
When is the Champions League group stage draw?
The draw for the group stages takes place at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
The ceremony begins at 6pm (BST) on Thursday, August 30.
Once the draw is made, the first round of fixtures are due to be played on September 18/19.
This year’s final will be played at Atletico Madrid’s home ground, Wanda Metropolitano.