The draw for the league stage of the Champions League competition for the 2024-2025 season was drawn today, Thursday, in the Gre Maldi Forum hall in the Principality of Monaco, and it resulted in strong and anticipated confrontations.
Lottery results:
Manchester City will face Inter, Paris Saint-Germain, Club Brugge, Juventus, Feyenoord, Sporting, Sparta Prague and Slovan Bratislava in the league stage
Barcelona will face Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Atalanta, Benfica, Young Boys, Red Star, Brest and Monaco in the league stage
Real Madrid will face Borussia Dortmund, Liverpool, Milan, Atalanta, Salzburg, Lille, Stuttgart and Brest in the league stage
Paris Saint-Germain will face Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal, PSV Eindhoven, Salzburg, Girona and Stuttgart in the league stage.
Liverpool will face Real Madrid, Leipzig, Bayer Leverkusen, Milan, Lille, PSV Eindhoven, Bologna and Girona in the league stage.
Juventus will face Manchester City, Leipzig, Benfica, Club Brugge, PSV Eindhoven, Lille, Stuttgart and Aston Villa.
Bayern Munich will face Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona, Benfica, Shakhtar Donetsk, Dinamo Zagreb, Feyenoord, Slovan Bratislava and Aston Villa
The 36 teams participating in the Champions League for the 2024-2025 season
First level:
Real Madrid - Manchester City - Bayern Munich - Paris Saint-Germain - Liverpool - Inter - Borussia Dortmund - Leipzig - Barcelona.
Second level:
Bayer Leverkusen - Atletico Madrid - Atalanta - Juventus - Benfica - Arsenal - Club Brugge - Shakhtar Donetsk - Milan.
The third level:
Feyenoord - Sporting Lisbon - PSV Eindhoven - Dinamo Zagreb - Salzburg - Young Boys - Celtic - Red Star - Lille.
Level Four:
Monaco - Sparta Prague - Aston Villa - Bologna - Girona - Stuttgart - Brest - Sturm Graz - Slovan Bratislava.
The 36 teams were divided into four levels. Each team plays eight matches against eight different teams: it faces two different teams from each level, with one match at home and the other away.
All 36 teams, from those in Level 1 to Level 4, will see their balls drawn randomly from the pot, before the identities of their opponents are revealed in real time.
No team can face a competitor belonging to the same league (same country), nor can it face more than two teams from the same country. For example, Paris Saint-Germain cannot face Monaco, nor can it face three teams from the English Premier League.
The schedule of group stage matches in each competition will be available on Saturday, August 31.