JAKARTA - The group stage of the 2022/2023 European Champions League will begin next month. The following is the draw schedule for the most prestigious competition group in Europe.
According to the schedule for the draw for the group stage for the 2022/2023 European Champions League, it will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday, August 25 at 23.00 WIB.
The contestant team is definitely waiting for the results to find out which team will be their opponent later. A total of 29 teams have automatically entered the draw.
This season the Champions League takes the same format as usual. Last season's top four teams in the Premier League, Spain and Italy, went straight to the group stage.
Then there are the top eight seeds who are champions of each of Europe's top leagues and champions of European club competitions. These teams will occupy Pot 1 at the time of the draw.
The eight seeded teams are Real Madrid, Eintracht Frankfurt, Manchester City, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Paris St-Germain, Porto and Ajax.
Meanwhile, the other pots will be decided after the last three qualifiers this morning. The remaining three tickets will be won by PSV vs Rangers, Dinamo Zagreb vs Bodo/Glimt, and Trabzonspor vs Copenhagen.
European football parent (UEFA) adjusted the group stage of the European Champions League to a shorter period of time due to the 2022 World Cup Qatar.
Group stage matches start on September 6 and run until November 2. The period was shortened to nine weeks compared to the usual 12 weeks.
Usually, the group stage matches last until the second week of December. However, the World Cup starts on November 20 and will end on December 18.
The round of 16 matches will be played for a month from February 14 to March 15. The quarter-finals will take place in April and the semifinals in May, then progress to the final at Istanbul's Ataturk Olympic Stadium on 10 June 2023.
The following 29 teams have qualified:
Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Sevilla, Inter Milan, Juventus, Milan, Napoli, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, Leipzig, Leverkusen, Marseille, Paris Saint -Germain, Porto, Sporting Lisbon, Benfica, Ajax, Club Bruges, Salzburg, Celtic, Shakhtar Donetsk, Viktoria Plzen and Maccabi Haifa.
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