UEFA Champions League draw; when and where to see it

The most important club tournament in the World is almost here. The previous phases are playing and there are few places left for the 32 teams that will fight to win the ‘Orejona’. The big teams in Europe have strenghtened very well and the fight for the championship will be very interesting.

There are 12 teams that will face each other next week to define the qualifiers for the Champions League groups. The matches will be Young Boys vs Maccabi Haifa, Galatasaray vs Molde, Panathinaikos vs Braga, Copenhagen vs Rakow Czestochowa, PSV Eindhoven vs Rangers and AEK Athens vs Royal Antwerp. Those games will be played next Tuesday and Wednesday.

The draw will be on Thursday, August 31st at the ‘Grimaldi Forum’ in Monaco. In the United States it will be at 7 am in the East, 6 am in the Center and 4 am in the Pacific. You can see the draw online in the UEFA website, or you can see it on TV in ESPN or Star +.

The group stage will begin on September 19th and the favorite teams to win it are; the current champion, Manchester City, the biggest winner ever, Real Madrid and also the big European clubs that are always present and whose main objective is to win the Champions League, like Barcelona, Liverpool, Bayern Münich, Manchester United and Arsenal. The final will be on june 1st at Wembley Stadium.

What are the possible matches between big teams in the group stage?

The best teams in pot one are Manchester City, Barcelona, Bayern Münich, PSG, Napoli and the current Europa League's champion, Sevilla. The best teams in the pot two are Real Madrid, Manchester United, Inter Milan, Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund and Atlético Madrid. So, we can see very interesting matches in the group stage. Just to remember that two teams from the same country can't be in the same group.