Istanbul, Turkey.
Thirty-two aspirants, who will be divided into eight groups of four, begin the journey of the sixty-seventh edition of the Champions League with final destination at the Krestovski Stadium in St. Petersburg, and the configuration will be established in the Istanbul draw.
SCHEDULE AND WHERE TO SEE
The draw will take place this Thursday 26 August from 10.00 in the morning, Honduras time (18.00 in Spain).
In our country, as well as in Central America, the draw for the group stage of the Champions League will be broadcast by ESPN and Star +. In addition, UEFA’s own channel will broadcast it via its website, at UEFA.com.
You can also follow all the details of the event at LAPRENSA.HN.
CLASSIFIED
I-six of the teams already got the pass directly for the competition and six got in the preliminary qualifiers, to complete the lineup of participants who will make up the group stage.
The top two from each quartet will advance to the round of 16 qualifiers, round trip. The winners will advance to the quarter-finals, then to the semi-finals and, finally, the single-match final with the aim of storming the continental throne that Chelsea won last year by winning the final in the Manchester City.
Spanish football will be the most represented in the competition. Five Laliga clubs are part of the Champions League. At four by classification, Atlético Madrid, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla joined Villarreal as champions of the Europa League 2020-2021.
England, with Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea; Italy, with Inter, Milan, Atalanta and Juventus, and Germany, with Bayern, Leipzig, Dortmund and Wolfsburg, have four representatives. Portugal 3: Sporting Lisbon, Porto and Benfica, and France with Lille and Paris Saint Germain and Ukraine, with Dynamo Kiev and Shakhtar Donetsk, two.
DRAWING OPERATION
For the configuration of the group phase of the participants will be distributed in four drums. In the first, the series leaders, there will be the reigning Champions League champion, the Europa League winner and the champions of the top six leagues.
From the second drum to the chamber will be determined by the best coefficient of the clubs. Thus, the number two will have three Spanish teams, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla.
Among the conditions of the draw UEFA states that no team can play against another of its own federation and the first two in each group will advance to the round of 16.
The third in each group will advance to the last 16 of the Europa League.
The group stage of the Champions League will start the week of 14 and 15 September and end on 7 and 8 December.
THIS IS HOW THE PUMPS ARE CONFORMED:
Bomb 1: Chelsea (ING), Manchester City (ING), Inter Milan (ITA), Bayern Munich (ALE), Lille (FRA), Sporting de Portugal (PER), Atlético de Madrid (ESP) and Villarreal (ESP).
Bombo 2: Real Madrid (ESP), Barcelona (ESP), Sevilla (ESP), Juventus (ITA), Paris Saint Germain (FRA), Manchester United (ING), Liverpool (ING) and Borussia Dortmund (ALE).
Bomb 3: Porto, (PER), Ajax (NED), Leipzig (ALE), Benfica (PER), Atalanta (ITA), Zenit Saint Petersburg (RUS), Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) and Salzburg (AUT)
Bomb 4: Witches (BEL), Young Boys (SUI), AC Milan (ITA), Malmö (SWE), Wolfsburg (ALE), Dynamo Kiev (UKR), Besiktas (TUR) and Sheriff (MOL).