MONACO: The draw for the Champions League group stage take place in Monte Carlo this afternoon in coordination with the European federation’s player of the year awards. A revised UEFA seeding system has been used to sort the qualified clubs into the following pots:

Pot 1

Barcelona
Chelsea
Bayern Munich
Juventus
Benfica
Paris St Germain
Zenit St Petersburg
PSV Eindhoven

Pot 2

Real Madrid
Atletico Madrid
FC Porto
Arsenal
Manchester United
Valencia
Bayer Leverkusen
Manchester City

Pot 3
Shakhtar Donetsk
Sevilla
Lyon
Dynamo Kiev
Olympiacos
CSKA Moscow
Galatasaray
Roma

Pot 4
BATE Borisov
Borussia Monchengladbach
Wolfsburg
Dinamo Zagreb
Maccabi Tel-Aviv
Gent
Malmo
Astana

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