Champions League draw teams: What clubs are in the UEFA Champions League 2018/19?
THE DRAW for this season’s Champions League group stage takes place in Monaco today at 6pm local time (5pm BST), but which clubs are in the UEFA Champions League this year?
The 32 qualifying teams are preparing to see who they will face as they are to be drawn into eight groups of four teams.
Teams in each group will play each other - three games at home and three away - with the winners and runners-up of each group progressing to a knockout stage in the spring.
At that stage - known as the last-16 stage - fixtures will be played over two legs and the tournament will whittle down to a final in Madrid next May.
Last year’s winners Real Madrid could potentially face second-place Liverpool depending on this evening’s draw.
However, after losing top player Cristiano Ronaldo and manager Zinedine Zidane last year’s champions are only sixth favourite to win again this season.
Which clubs are in the UEFA Champions League 2018/19?
There are four pots of eight and they are as follows:
Pot 1:
Real Madrid (ESP),
Atletico Madrid (ESP),
Barcelona (ESP),
Bayern Munich (GER),
Manchester City (ENG),
Juventus (ITA),
Paris Saint-Germain (FRA),
Lokomotiv Moscow (RUS)
Real Madrid won the Champions League last year (Image: GETTY)
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Pot 3:
Liverpool (ENG),
PSV Eindhoven (NED),
Schalke 04 (GER),
Lyon (FRA),
Monaco (FRA),
Ajax (NED),
CSKA Moscow (RUS),
Valencia (ESP)
Last year winners Real Madrid are only sixth favourites this year (Image: GETTY)
Pot 4:
Club Brugge (BEL),
Galatasaray (TUR),
Young Boys (SUI),
Inter Milan (ITA),
Hoffenheim (GER),
AEK Athens (GRE),
Red Star Belgrade (SRB),
Viktoria Plzen (CZE)
To watch the draw take place you can stream the excitement on UEFA’s website or tune in to BT Sport from 4.30pm.