Draw of the Champions League 2025/2026: equipment, battery, format, what time and how to see live

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The 2025/2026 Champions League will be unofficially starting this Thursday, while in the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, in France, the raffle of the competition is carried out.

The path to “Orejona” will be identical to last year. First there will be a league phase with 36 teams that will play eight games each. The clubs which are found from 1st to 8th place will pass to the final of 16, while those located between the 9th and the 24 will play a key to direct elimination to determine the eight passengers who will accompany the first classified. From there, the usual format: the eighth, the rooms and the semi-finals will play round trip, while the grand final will be as always in the neutral stadium, in a single match.

The 71st edition of the Champions League will start on July 8 and will end on Saturday May 30, 2026, with the grand final of Puskás Arena in Budapest, in Hungary.

The 36 classified teams will be divided into four bombs according to their UEFA coefficient, a statistical number that the mother of European football develops on the basis of the results of the clubs (there is also a coefficient of leagues) in the Champions League, in the Europa League and in the Conference League in the past five years.

Each threshing media will have nine participants. Paris Saint-Germain, to be the current champion, will be the bombo 1 chief, the only one who was already pre-established weeks ago. The rest of the drums ended up being defined this Tuesday and Wednesday, with the classifying qualifiers (Bodø / Glimt, Kairat Almath, Copenhagen, Qarabag, Pafos, Benfica and Brujas accessed the league phase).

The raffle will start with bombing 1, extract “a physical ball before automated software – used last year – select eight rivals for each team”, according to the UEFA website.

These eight rivals will be determined on the basis of a series of principles:

The draw will also determine the locality. Each team will be local in four games and visitors in four others. When determining the two rival clubs of the same media threshing, there will always be one that will be played at home and another visit.

Bombo 1: PSG, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayern, Liverpool, Inter, Chelsea, Dortmund, Barcelona.

Bombo 2: Arsenal, Leverkusen, Atlético de Madrid, Benfica, Atalanta, Villarreal, Juventus, Eintracht, Bruges.

Bombo 3: Tottenham, PSV, Ajax, Naples, Sporting Lisboa, Olympiac, Slavia Praga, Bodø / Glimt, Marsella.

Bombo 4: Colpenhaue, Mónaco, Union, Union SG, Athletic, Newcastle, Paphos, Ancient, Qragag.

An example: Real Madrid will not be able to play against Barcelona, ​​Atlético Madrid, Villarreal or Athletic Bilbao in the league because they are of the same federation. Likewise, if the raffle determines that he must face Manchester City and Liverpool of Bombo 1, he will not be able to face Arsenal, Tottenham or Newcastle, because you can only play a maximum of two rivals of the same federation.

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