The 2020/21 UEFA Champions League group stage draw takes place from 17:00 CET (4:00 WAT) on Thursday 1 October at the RTS studios in Geneva. It will be streamed live on UEFA.com.

The Champions League group stage draw has been moved from Athens and will now be a behind-closed-doors event at UEFA's headquarters in Switzerland.

European football's governing body confirmed the news on Tuesday, saying to stage the event in the Greek capital would "violate public health restrictions and constraints regarding indoor events" in the country.

Who is involved in the draw?

ESP (4): Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla
ENG (4): Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea
ITA (4): Juventus, Internazionale Milano, Atalanta, Lazio
GER (4): Bayern, Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Borussia Mönchengladbach
FRA (3): Paris Saint-Germain, Marseille, Rennes
RUS (3): Zenit, Lokomotiv Moskva, Krasnodar*
UKR (2): Shakhtar Donetsk, Dynamo Kyiv*
POR (1): Porto
BEL (1): Club Brugge
NED (1): Ajax
AUT (1): Salzburg*
TUR (1): İstanbul Başakşehir
DEN (1): Midtjylland*
GRE (1): Olympiacos*
HUN (1): Ferencváros*

https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0261-106335962c10-b277239a781a-1000--thursday-s-group-stage-draw-and-awards/

Draw procedure

The 26 teams given direct entry to the group stage will be joined by the six winners of the play-off ties.
The teams will be split into four seeding pots. Pot 1 consists of the holders, the UEFA Europa League winners and the champions of the six highest-ranked nations who did not qualify via one of the 2019/20 titles . Pots 2 to 4 are determined by the club coefficient rankings.
No team can play a club from their own association, with the exact draw procedure to be confirmed before the ceremony.
In the case of associations with two representatives, clubs have been paired in order to split their matches between Tuesday and Wednesday. In the case of associations with four representatives, two pairings have been made. These pairings were based on TV audiences.

Which clubs are paired?

To ensure that paired clubs from the same country play on separate days where possible, the eight groups will be distinguished by colour: Groups A to D will be red and Groups E to H will be blue. When a paired club is drawn, for example, in one of the red groups (A, B, C or D), the other paired club – once it has been drawn – will automatically be assigned to one of the four blue groups (E, F, G or H). The pairings are as follows:

A Bayern & Dortmund
B Sevilla & Atlético de Madrid
C Real Madrid & Barcelona
D Liverpool & Man. United
E Juventus & Inter
F Paris & Marseille
G Zenit & Lokomotiv
H Man. City & Chelsea
I Shakhtar & Dynamo Kyiv
J RB Leipzig & Mönchengladbach
K Lazio & Atalanta

A sudden death to Messi and Barcelona will be to have them paired against Bayern. I am envisaging a Real Madrid/Manchester City grouping, Atalanta/Olympiacos and Club Brugge.

Barcelona against Bayern Munich, Juventus, Liverpool, and PSG might make Messi retire faster than expected.

Ronaldo vs Messi in the group stage will make the world stand still for 180 minutes home and away.

Manure will definitely disgrace English teams in this campaign. UCL is not EPL where referees will be awarding penalties like groundnut.

I see Manchester United spilling to Thursday night football if they are paired with Inter in pot 3 and either Bayern, Sevilla, Juventus, PSG and Zenit from pot 1.

My prediction

Group Whatever

Juventus

shaktar Donetsk

Krasnodar

Rennes

My man must win UCL with Juventus, signed and sealed

pls if ur club never win champions league, no need to be excited cos una no go still win

this one is wishing for easy teams so juve can go far.

Suspect33:
My prediction
Group Whatever
Juventus
shaktar Donetsk
Krasnodar
Rennes
My man must win UCL with Juventus, signed and sealed

Maxcollins042:

This one entered sha!

CosmicPhoenix:

this one is wishing for easy teams so juve can go far.

and what team do you support

when Bayern and atanlata are in the same group with Barcelona. messi be like

:this two is wishing for breeze squads so juve can go far. and what league do you support

Where is Arsenal


Up Man U

In addy to Bayern

GGMU.
Pls don't give us teams like .
Fc Bayern
Juventus
Barcar
Inter
Atlanta
Dortmund.

We solely depend on Bruno Penaldez to win crucial matches at the moment.

B

Can't wait for it, 20th of this month

Alabi, i can't wait to reap the fruit of my labour from you this time

Man utd VS barca

pls I need beyern Munich, Barca, PSG and Juventus as the "Group of Death"

A

We can't wait

Glory Glory Manchester United..

I also want Liverpool, City and Chelsea to also get favourable draw.

Ucl should come back to England.

That Pot 2 na die but.......Klopp can make us dream again



#WeMarchOn.

#YNWA

can you give Chelsea bayern again please ?

Give barca bayern.. I want to see more of these typa pics