It’s all hot! Champions League draw: Los Blancos clash with the Reds, PSG duel with Man City
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) held the draw for the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League in Monaco.
The 2024/25 UEFA Champions League season has a new competition system after increasing the number of teams to 36, using a league system that uses the combined score table for all teams. All teams will have to compete in 8 matches, divided into 4 home matches and 4 away matches, but will face different opponents in each match.
In the draw, teams will be divided into four pots of nine teams each, with defending champions Real Madrid in Pot 1, along with the eight clubs with the highest coefficients, and so on, down to Pot 4.
The draw will select one team, then a computer program will be used to calculate the opponents for all 8 matches, starting from Pot 1 to Pot 4, which has the limitation that teams from the same country will not meet in this round and will meet no more than 2 teams from other countries (for example, teams from England will not meet more than 2 teams from Spain, etc.)
The interesting draw, especially for Pot 1, shows that the defending champions. “The Whites” Real Madrid, will face a tough task at home as they host last year’s finalists, “The Yellow Tigers” Borussia Dortmund, “The Red and Black Devils” AC Milan, Red Bull Salzburg, and “The White Horses” Stuttgart. Meanwhile, their away games will include visiting Anfield for “The Reds” Liverpool, Atalanta, last season’s UEFA Europa League champions, Lille, and Brest from France.
Meanwhile, the “Sky Blues” Manchester City, the Premier League champions, have an equally tough task as they host the “Big Snakes” Inter Milan. The Serie A champions, Club Brugge, a โปรโมชั่น ufabet team from Belgium, Feyenoord and Sparta Prague. In their away games. They will visit Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, Sporting Lisbon and Slovan Bratislava.
As for the “Reds” Liverpool, in addition to playing at home against Real Madrid. They will also have to face Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen, Lille and Bologna. In away games, they will have to visit RB Leipzig, AC Milan, PSV Eindhoven and Girona.
Another team that will face a tough task is PSG, who will host Manchester City. As well as Atletico Madrid, PSV and Girona. In away games, they will visit Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Red Bull Salzburg and Stuttgart.
In the league competition, the top 8 teams will immediately enter the last 16. The 9th to 24th teams will have to play a playoff to find the 8 teams. That will enter the last 16. The 25th to 36th teams will be eliminated.