Real Madrid to face Liverpool, PSG face Barcelona in Champions League draw

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The gully for the league signifier of the UEFA Champions League was made successful Monaco connected Friday with PSG handed a pugnacious defence.

Published On 28 Aug 2025

Champions League holders Paris Saint-Germain volition play Bayern Munich and Barcelona successful this season’s league signifier and grounds 15-times winners Real Madrid volition look Manchester City and Liverpool.

PSG’s easiest opponents, successful theory, successful the league signifier volition beryllium fixtures against England’s Newcastle United and Spain’s Athletic Bilbao.

Tottenham, the Europa League champion, besides volition play PSG successful a repetition of their Super Cup game 2 weeks ago. PSG’s eight-game docket is completed by Bayer Leverkusen, Atalanta and Sporting Lisbon.

Real Madrid besides got a challenging draw, including a travel acold eastbound to play Kairat Almaty of Kazakhstan – 6,420 kilometres (4,000 miles) from the Spanish capital.

Madrid got 2 English opponents from the cookware of highest-ranked teams, hosting Manchester City, which it bushed successful the knockout playoffs past season, and a instrumentality to Liverpool aft losing 2-0 astatine Anfield successful the league signifier past year.

Madrid besides volition look Juventus successful a repetition of its 2017 last win, and 2 French opponents, Marseille and Monaco – wherever superstar guardant Kylian Mbappe started his career.

Paris Saint-Germain manager Luis Enrique lifts the trophy arsenic helium celebrates with his players aft winning the Champions League

Liverpool fans volition welcome Trent Alexander-Arnold backmost to Anfield with Madrid, and person distant trips to the vibrant stadiums of Inter Milan, Eintracht Frankfurt, Marseille and Galatasaray.

Bayern Munich volition person rematches of 2 caller finals – astatine location to FIFA Club World Cup winners Chelsea wherever the German champion mislaid the 2012 rubric crippled connected location turf, and distant to PSG, which it bushed successful the 2020 final. Bayern besides volition spell to Cyprus to look Pafos.

Manchester City volition question northbound of the Arctic Circle to look Bodo/Glimt of Norway, and big erstwhile instrumentality favourite Kevin De Bruyne with his caller nine Napoli.

Inter Milan, which lost 2 of the past 3 finals, volition big the apical 2 teams successful the Premier League past season, Liverpool and Arsenal. Inter bushed Arsenal astatine the San Siro past season.

Kairat besides volition big Club Brugge, Olympiakos and Pafos. The squad besides indispensable question 4 clip zones westbound to play astatine Arsenal and Sporting Lisbon.

Bodo/Glimt besides volition big Juventus, Tottenham and Monaco.

Qarabag successful Azerbaijan is different long-haul travel eastbound to Baku for Chelsea, Eintracht, Ajax and Copenhagen.

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This is the 2nd play of the league signifier format with 36 teams playing 8 antithetic opponents connected a weighted docket done January, and ranked successful a single-standings table.

Four newcomers to the main signifier of the Champions League are: Bodo/Glimt, Kairat Almaty, Russian-owned Pafos and Belgian champion Union Saint-Gilloise.

Games successful Bodo and Almaty signifier to beryllium the longest-ever trips for visiting teams, and their location games successful January among the coldest successful contention history. Bodo plays connected a heated artificial turf field.

The computerised gully gave each squad 2 opponents drawn from each of the 4 seeding pots. Teams are seeded based connected their ranking implicit 5 seasons of results successful UEFA competitions.

Retired large Zlatan Ibrahimovic picked each squad retired of its gully cookware and erstwhile Ballon d’Or victor Kaka pushed a fastener to uncover the slate of opponents.

Games commencement connected September 16, and the last league signifier matchday is January 28. On that Wednesday evening, each 36 teams play successful 18 games kicking disconnected astatine the aforesaid time.

The apical 8 teams successful the last standings beforehand to the circular of 16 successful March. Joining them volition beryllium winners of 8 knockout playoffs, featuring teams ranked ninth to 24th, scheduled successful February. The bottommost 12 teams are eliminated.