The Champions League draw is scheduled to be held on Thursday evening in Istanbul, the city where the Champions League final will be held in June.
The teams are allocated into four pots. Pot 1 will consist of the Champions League winners, the Europa League winners and the champions of the next six highest-ranked countries in the UEFA coefficients. Meanwhile, the rest of the pots will be determined by the club coefficient ranking.
The reason why Eintracht Frankfurt are in Pot 1
According to these criteria, Pot 1 will include Europa League champions Eintracht Frankfurt, but not Barcelona or Atletico Madrid, who will be placed in Pot 2 since they didn’t win either European competition last year, nor did they top the LaLiga Santander table.
Teams in Pot 1 of the Champions League draw
Real Madrid (Champions League winners)
Eintracht Frankfurt (Europa League winners)
Manchester City (Premier League champions)
AC Milan (Serie A champions)
Bayern Munich (Bundesliga champions)
Paris Saint-Germain (Ligue 1 champions)
Porto (Primeira Liga champions)
Ajax (Eredivisie champions)
Teams in Pot 2 of the Champions League draw
Liverpool
Chelsea
Barcelona
Juventus
Atletico Madrid
Sevilla
RB Leipzig
Tottenham Hotspur
Teams in Pot 3 of the Champions League draw
Borussia Dortmund
RB Salzburg
Shakhtar Donetsk
Inter
Napoli
Benfica
Sporting CP
Bayer Leverkusen
Teams in Pot 4 of the Champions League draw
Rangers
Dinamo Zagreb
Marseille
FC Copenhagen
Club Brugge
Celtic
Viktoria Plzen
Maccabi Haifa
What time is the Champions League group stage draw?
The Champions League 2022/23 group stage draw is scheduled to start at the following time in these different time zones:
UK: 17:00 BST
USA: 12:00 ET
Spain: 18:00 CEST
Turkey: 19:00 TRT
Australia: 02:00 AEST
New Zealand: 04:00 NZST
