31/08/2023
Act. a las 18:16
CEST
The best club competition in the world. After a lot of previous knockout phasesall ready to know the groups of the UEFA Champions League 2023/24. The draw has 32 teams: 26 teams with direct access to the group stage and the six winners of the play-off qualifiers.
Pot 1 is formed by the champion, the winner of the UEFA Europa League and the champions of the six highest-ranked countries. Pots 2 to 4 are determined by the ranking of club coefficients.
RECOVER HEGEMONY
FC Barcelona, which started in the last edition from Pot 2, returns to 1 as the top seed after winning the 2022/23 League. Xavi’s team, after linking two consecutive appearances without making it past the group stage, will seek to improve their image and reach great heights in a competition that they have not won since 2015.
In SPORT we will continue from the previous one and with all the reactions the draw from Monaco.
UPDATE 18:26
MANCHESTER CITY, TO GROUP G
18:25
FEYENOORD-GRUPO E
Feyenoord, top seed in Group E.
18:24
BENFICA-GROUP D
Benfica, direct to Group D.
18:24
NAPLES-GROUP C
Napoli, the top seed in Group C.
18:23
SEVILLE-GROUP B
Sevilla goes to Group B.
18:23
BAYERN-GROUP A
Start the matter. Bayern Munich goes to Group A.
18:20
FORMAT
Now explaining Marchetti (yes, the one who looks like Ranieri and has been in the draws for more years than Matusalem) and his UEFA teammate. How the drums work, television theme, clubs in the same country, etc.
18:18
NEW CHAMPIONS FORMAT
They announce something that was already known. That the next edition of the Champions League will have a new format, with more clubs and more qualifiers. This starts now.
18:15
JOE COLE
Joe Cole: “It’s even romantic, especially for the English players. We know Wembley very well. We are prepared for the draw, I expect favorable draws for the English teams”
18:14
ABIDAL
Éric: “Good afternoon. It was a great moment to win that Champions League. It wasn’t easy to do it. The Champions League is always special. The setting was incredible, Wembley”
18:13
ENTER ABIDAL AND COLE
They now present the two special guests for this raffle. Éric Abidal and Joe Cole will be the innocent hands in Monaco.
18:12
LITTLE WORD
Txiki Beguiristain, City’s football director, speaks: “It was incredible, the players, how they enjoyed that moment. It wasn’t easy to get there, we tried for many years. It was the culmination of a project”
18:10
Tribute to the great stars of the Champions League and their cities and countries of origin. Rio de Janeiro with Vinicius, Leao with Almada, Kamada in Japan, de Bruyne in Belgium. The big stars of this Champions League.
18:07
Filled, as usual, with old glories, the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
18:04
SPECIAL ANTHEM
The Champions League anthem on piano and saxophone playing at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco prior to the start of the draw.
18:00
START THE GIVEAWAY!
Start the mess in Monaco! The 2023/24 Champions League draw begins…
17:58
THE FANS OF THE REAL, DELIVERED
Almost 400 fans have gathered at the Reale Arena to follow a historic draw for Real Sociedad. 10 years without playing the Champions League. Those of Imanol Alguacil earned it by hand.
17:57
DRAW SIMULATION
At SPORT we have proposed a mock draw for you to ‘play’ a bit and get over your nerves before the lucky little balls.
MAKE YOUR DRAW SIMULATION
17:50
INNOCENT HANDS
By the way, the innocent hands (yes, those of the supposed hot balls) in the draw that starts at nothing will be Éric Abidal (ex Barça, Olympique de Lyon…) and Ashley Cole (ex Chelsea, Arsenal…). We’ll see if good Éric brings luck to Barça. Let’s not forget that he was sports director with Bartomeu.
17:48
INDIVIDUAL TROPHIES
Going back to the individual awards. In addition to Aitana Bonmatí, who is assumed to win the best player trophy, Erling Haaland (best player), Pep Guardiola (best coach) and Jonatan Giráldez (best women’s coach) aim to win the award.
17:39
THE ANTHEM
Soon, the anthem and the group stage of a Champions League that started with the first qualifying round on July 11 will begin to roll. From fields as ‘random’ as Urartu in Armenia to stadiums like Old Trafford, the Allianz Arena, the Bernabéu, San Siro. The magic of this competition.
17:35
WHICH WOULD BE THE EASIEST GROUP?
And also fantasizing. Perhaps the most affordable group that could touch Barça could be Porto FC, Antwerp and Copenhagen.
17:25
SAUDI TEAMS IN CHAMPIONS?
And in the midst of all the rise of Saudi football and the big stars who have decided to go there before sweet contracts, the big question. Can a team from that country end up participating in the Champions League? for now, BANG.
17:11
AITANA, LEADING
And the draw will also leave us the individual UEFA awards from last year. Aitana Bonmatí will take the best player award. Speechless what he did last season. And then with the World Cup MVP…
17:08
IMAGE WASH
Barça will seek an image wash, improve the poor performance in the Champions League of the last two seasons. It comes from not passing the group stage in any of them. Last year they were third after Bayern and Inter; the previous year, after Bayern and Benfica. A priori, the group should be more benevolent than that of 2022/23 this time.
17:03
FCB REPRESENTATIVES
FC Barcelona will be represented in Monaco by manager Joan Soler, by Bojan Krkic and by Ludovic Giuly, formerly of Barça and Monaco.
17:01
There are the little balls that will pass sentence in just over an hour…
16:58
THE BUMPS
Let’s start by reviewing the four drums for this afternoon’s draw. From 18:00 the show starts in Monaco.
Barcelona, Seville, Manchester City (England), Naples (Italy), Bayern (Germany), Benfica (Portugal) and Feyenoord (Netherlands).
Real MadridManchester United, Inter Milan (Italy), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Atletico Madrid, RB Leipzig (Germany), Porto (Portugal) and Arsenal (England). Shakhtar (Ukraine), Red Bull Salzburg (Austria), Milan (Italy), Braga (Portugal), Lazio (Italy), Red Star (Serbia), Copenhagen (Denmark) and PSV (Netherlands).
Real society, Galatasaray (TUR). Antwerp (BÉL), Young Boys (SUI), Celtic (ESC), Newcastle (ENG), Union Berlin (ALE), Lens (FRA). 16:51
Good afternoon and welcome to the live monitoring of everything that the draw for the group stage of the Champions League can offer.
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