Thursday’s live Champions League organisation theatre draw: all we need to know

When and where is a draw?

The 2018/19 UEFA Champions League organisation theatre pull rite starts during 18:00CET on Thursday 30 August. It takes place during a Grimaldi Forum in Monaco and will be streamed live on UEFA.com.

How does a pull work?

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New UEFA Champions League format explained

• The 26 teams given approach entrance to a organisation theatre underneath a new foe system will be assimilated by a 6 winners of a play-off ties played on 21/22 and 28/29 August.

• The teams will be separate into 4 seeding pots. Pot 1 consists of a holders, a UEFA Europa League winners and a champions of a 6 highest-ranked nations. Pots 2 to 4 are dynamic by the bar fellow rankings.

• No organisation can play a bar from their possess association, with a accurate pull procession to be reliable before a ceremony.

• The pull also establishes a groups for a UEFA Champions League trail of a UEFA Youth League.

Who is concerned in a draw?

ESP: Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia
ENG: Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool
GER: Bayern München, Borussia Dortmund, Schalke, Hoffenheim
ITA: Juventus, Napoli, Roma, Internazionale Milano
FRA: Paris Saint-Germain, Lyon, Monaco
RUS: Lokomotiv Moskva, CSKA Moskva
POR: Porto
UKR: Shakhtar Donetsk
TUR: Galatasaray
BEL: Club Brugge
CZE: Viktoria Plzeň

Plus 6 play-off winners

Who are in that group?

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Pot 1
Real Madrid (holders)
Atlético Madrid (UEFA Europa League winners)
Barcelona
Bayern München
Manchester City
Juventus
Paris Saint-Germain
Lokomotiv Moskva

Pot 2
Borussia Dortmund 89.000
Porto 86.000
Manchester United 82.000
Shakhtar Donetsk 81.000
Napoli 78.000
Tottenham Hotspur 67.000
Roma 64.000

Pot 3
Schalke 62.000
Lyon 59.500
Monaco 57.000
CSKA Moskva 45.000

Pot 4
Club Brugge 29.500
Galatasaray 29.500
Internazionale Milano 16.000
Hoffenheim 14.285

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TBD
Liverpool 62.000
Valencia 36.000
Viktoria Plzeň 33.000
6 play-off winners

Clubs’ coefficients are dynamic possibly by a sum of all points won in a prior 5 years or by a organisation fellow over a same duration – whichever is aloft (under a new complement introduced for 2018/19 onwards).

UEFA awards

The following endowment winners will also be announced during a pull ceremony:

• UEFA Men’s Player of a Year
• UEFA Women’s Player of a Year
• Goalkeeper of a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League season
• Defender of a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League season
• Midfielder of a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League season
• Forward of a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League season

Season calendar

18/19 September: Group stage, matchday one
2/3 October: Group stage, matchday two
23/24 October: Group stage, matchday three
6/7 November: Group stage, matchday four
27/28 November: Group stage, matchday five
11/12 December: Group stage, matchday six

17 December: Round of 16 draw
12/13/19/20 February: Round of 16, initial leg
5/6/12/13 March: Round of 16, second leg
15 March: Quarter-final semi-final draw
9/10 April: Quarter-finals, initial leg
16/17 April: Quarter-finals, second leg
30 April/1 May: Semi-finals, initial leg
7/8 May: Semi-finals, second leg

Saturday 1 June: Final – Estadio Metropolitano, Madrid