Every club in the Champions League 2024/25, from the usual suspects to the ones who have never been there before
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On Friday August 29, UEFA will make their first Champions League draw under the new 'Swiss model' system that comes into effect for the new campaign.
The Champions League group stage has been done away with as we know it, but there is still a draw to be made to determine which sides will play one another.
Each competing side will play eight games in what is now known as the league phase (showing UEFA's trademark knack for linguistic clumsiness: we're all going to have to say 'Champions League league phase' now, are we, repeating the words 'league' like idiots?). The results all count towards a single league table that will determine which sides will go through to the next round of the competition.
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Champions League pots 2024/25: Who's qualified and which pot are they in?
The pots for the 2024/25 Champions League league phase draw are as follows:
Red Bull Salzburg's place in the Champions League is still to be decided (Image credit: JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)
Those belong to the winners of the three other play-off games - we've not been able to include them more precisely, because which pot they go into depends on who goes through.
The games in question are:
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Midtjylland v Slovan Bratislava
Bodo/Glimt v Red Star Belgrade
Dynamo Kyiv v Red Bull Salzburg
The qualifying side with the lowest coefficient will go into pot 4, with the others going into pot 3.
How does the Champions League draw work?
All 36 teams will be drawn manually using physical balls and then allocated eight opponents automatically by a computer, including will games will be at home and which away.
In the league phase, teams cannot face other sides from the same country, and nobody will play more than two games against sides from any one particular country - so for instance, Liverpool could not face Arsenal, Manchester City or Aston Villa, and would only be able to face a maximum of two of the four Spanish teams.
Steven Chicken has been working as a football writer since 2009, taking in stints with Football365 and the Huddersfield Examiner. Steven still covers Huddersfield Town home and away for his own publication, WeAreTerriers.com. Steven is a two-time nominee for Regional Journalist of the Year at the prestigious British Sports Journalism Awards, making the shortlist in 2020 and 2023.
