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Summary

  • Manchester City drawn with Porto, Olympiakos and Marseille in Group C

  • Liverpool drawn with Ajax, Atalanta & Midtjylland in Group D

  • Chelsea drawn with Sevilla, Krasnodar and Rennes in Group E

  • Manchester United drawn with PSG, RB Leipzig & Istanbul Basaksehir in Group F

  • Messi's Barcelona in same group as Ronaldo's Juventus

  • Uefa awards also to be handed out

  1. The draw (... stream) beginspublished at 16:03 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

    Right the draw is starting now in theory. But that just means there's some chat going on.

    There aren't representatives of the teams in Geneva this time because of, you know, the thing.

  2. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 16:01 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

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    Osezua_Speaks: So Ronaldo and Messi might be drawn together in the group stage for the very first time?

    Yep!

  3. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 16:00 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

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    Give us Munich, PSG and Madrid and knock us out early. Can't cope with another "classic" quarter-final which sees us dramatically knocked out

    Daniel, City fan

  4. Who will teams will want to draw?published at 15:56 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

    Simon Gleave, head of sports analysis, Nielsen's Gracenote: "Porto and Zenit are clearly the teams to draw from pot one as their Euro Club Index rankings put them a good distance behind the other clubs in the highest seeded pot.

    "Ajax are the weakest link of pot two despite their 2019 Champions semi-final appearance. They are not at the level of the elite teams from Spain, England and Germany who make up the majority of the second seeds. Compared to most of the second seeds, Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk would also be a decent draw.

    "Dynamo Kiev and Krasnodar would be the best draws from the third seeds. Higher seeded clubs will be hoping to avoid RB Leipzig, Internationale and Atalanta.

    "Borussia Monchengladbach are clearly the strongest team in the bottom group of seeds. Both Istanbul Basaksehir and Ferencvaros are a good deal weaker than the remainder of the clubs seeded in the final draw pot."

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    Get Involvedpublished at 15:54 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

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    Bim Padaliya MD: Liverpool Barcelona Lazio Club Bruges Liverpool new and old boys reunions

    Ryan Whelan: can see it being Bayern Utd Inter and Marseille finally give Woodward a kick that he needs to get some transfers in

    Ian Dunn: After 13 years away from the Champions League. I'm hopeful Lazio can avoid Liverpool, Manchester United or Bayern Munich

  6. Awards, get your awardspublished at 15:53 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

    They are announcing a load of Uefa awards during this draw. Here are the awards and the nominees. We'll let you know who wins each one...

    Men's Player of the Year: De Bruyne, Lewandowski, Neuer

    Women's Player of the Year: Bronze, Harder, Renard

    Men's Coach of the Year: Flick, Klopp, Nagelsmann

    Women's Coach of the Year: Cortés, Lerch, Vasseur

    Goalkeeper of the Season: Navas, Neuer, Oblak

    Defender of the Season: Alaba, Davies, Kimmich

    Midfielder of the Season: De Bruyne, Müller, Thiago

    Forward of the Season: Lewandowski, Mbappé, Neymar

    Women's Goalkeeper of the Season: Bouhaddi, Endler, Paños

    Women's Defender of the Season: Bronze, Goessling, Renard

    Women's Midfielder of the Season: Gunnarsdóttir, Marozsán, Popp

    Women's Forward of the Season: Cascarino, Harder, Miedema

    Europa League Player of the Season: Banega, Bruno Fernandes, Lukaku

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    Get Involvedpublished at 15:49 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

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    Rodney McCain: As a United fan, only Bayern hold fear for me; they are a level above everyone else at the moment. Beyond them, we are capable of giving anyone a tough game.

    Francesca Gunn: If United could avoid Bayern in the groups that would be nice

  8. Quiz timepublished at 15:49 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

    Can you name all 93 sides to have appeared in the Champions League group stages on at least two occasions?

    Have a crack here.

  9. Who's in it?published at 15:42 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

    Pot one: Bayern Munich, Sevilla, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Juventus, Paris St-Germain, Zenit St Petersburg, Porto.

    Pot two: Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Manchester City, Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea, Ajax.

    Pot three: Dynamo Kiev, Red Bull Salzburg, RB Leipzig, Inter Milan, Olympiakos, Lazio, Krasnodar, Atalanta.

    Pot four: Lokomotiv Moscow, Marseille, Club Bruges, Borussia Monchengladbach, Istanbul Basaksehir, Midtjylland, Rennes, Ferencvaros.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 15:39 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

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    Who would you like to see drawn together in one group? If you support a team in this draw, who do you want to avoid?

    Text or tweet in your thoughts.

  11. Who could the English teams draw?published at 15:36 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

    Liverpool are in pot one and Chelsea and the Manchester clubs are in pot two.

    Liverpool could get a relatively easy draw like Ajax, Krasnodar and Ferencvaros.

    Or they could get Barcelona, Inter Milan and Borussia Monchengladbach.

    Manchester City, United or Chelsea could get Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and Marseille.

    Or they could get Porto, Krasnodar and Ferencvaros.

  12. Postpublished at 15:33 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

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    Just 39 days have passed since Bayern Munich beat Paris St-Germain in the Champions League final - but it's time for the draw for this season's group stage.

    In theory it starts at 16:00 BST but I've done enough of these to know they won't be drawing any teams at that time.

  13. Postpublished at 15:33 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

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  14. It's that time againpublished at 15:01 British Summer Time 1 October 2020

    Ce sont les meilleures équipesSie sind die allerbesten MannschaftenThe main eventDie MeisterDie BestenLes grandes équipesThe championsUne grande réunionEine große sportliche VeranstaltungThe main eventIls sont les meilleursSie sind die BestenThese are the championsDie MeisterDie BestenLes grandes équipesThe champions

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