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Chelsea helps BVB: The pots for the Champions League draw

With the Champions League triumph, Chelsea also did Borussia Dortmund a favor. The pots for the Champions League draw 2021/22 at a glance.

2020/21 was the final destination for Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League quarter-finals. And 2021/22?

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On August 26th (6 p.m., LIVE! At kicker) the group stage of the new Champions League season will be drawn. And although the qualification will only be completed with the play-off second legs the day before, some details about the four pots are already known.

The FC Bayern As German champions, it belongs to the first pot reserved for the defending champions in the Champions and Europa League as well as the titleholders of the six strongest associations according to the UEFA ranking. If the Champions or Europa League winner is also a national champion, the champion of the next best association moves up, this year the Russian.

Borussia Dortmund has been certain of being in the second pot since the Champions League final. Because Chelsea defeated Manchester City, they moved into the first pot for the English champions. In the event of a defeat, the Blues would have pushed BVB out of the second pot.

But now is RB Leipzig As in the previous year, the only Bundesliga team in the third pot and has to reckon with a difficult Champions League group again. It could be even harder VfL Wolfsburg catch, who celebrates his premier class comeback after six years in 2021/22 and will end up in the fourth pot regardless of the course of the qualification.

The pots for the Champions League draw 2021/22 according to the current status:

POT 1: FC Chelsea, FC Villarreal, Manchester City, Atletico Madrid, FC Bayern, Inter Milan, Lille OSC, Sporting Lisbon

POT 2: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Juventus Turin, Paris St. Germain, Manchester United, FC Liverpool, FC Sevilla, Borussia Dortmund

POT 3: FC Porto, Ajax Amsterdam, RB Leipzig, Atalanta Bergamo, Zenit St. Petersburg (+ three other teams)

POT 4: AC Milan, VfL Wolfsburg (+ six more teams)

Certainly qualified, but assignment still unclear: Besiktas Istanbul, Dynamo Kiev, Club Bruges

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