(CNN Spanish) — The Champions League, the most important football tournament on the planet at club level, will begin in a couple of weeks, but from now on you can feel the euphoria of the competition because the time has come to find out how the groups of the first will be composed phase.
The Champions League group draw 2022/2023 will take place this Thursday, August 25. Its importance lies in the fact that, through this mechanism, we will know what the duels of the first phase will be, if there will be any ‘group of death’ and we will even be able to glimpse the matches of the round of 16.
32 teams participate in said draw: 26 classified directly and 6 more through the play-offs. Three of these last six places were defined this Tuesday and the other three this Wednesday.
The 32 teams will be distributed in four pots, from where their place in one of the eight groups of the Champions League will be determined. In the end, each group (ranging from A to H) will have four teams to complete the 32, although in this first phase clubs from the same federation cannot be together.
The 32 teams in the 2022/2023 Champions League group draw
Bomb 1
- Real Madrid (Spain)
- Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany)
- Manchester City (Inglaterra)
- AC Milan (Italia)
- Bayern Munich (Germany)
- Paris Saint Germain (France)
- Porto, Portugal)
- Ajax (Netherlands)
Bomb 2
- Liverpool (Inglaterra)
- Chelsea (England)
- Barcelona, Spain)
- Juventus (Italy)
- Atletico Madrid (Spain)
- Sevilla Spain)
- RB Leipzig (Alemania)
- Tottenham Hotspur (England)
Bomb 3
- Borussia Dortmund (Germany)
- Salzburg (Austria)
- Shakhtar Donetsk (Ucrania)
- Inter Milan (Italy)
- Naples (Italy)
- Benfica (Portugal)
- Sporting Lisbon (Portugal)
- Bayer Leverkusen (Germany)
Bomb 4
- Marseille (France)
- Bruges (Belgium)
- Celtic (Scotland)
- Maccabi Haifa (Israel)
- Viktoria Plzeň (Czech Republic)
- Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia)
- Rangers (Scotland)
What time is the draw and how to watch it?
The Champions League draw will take place this Thursday at the following times:
- 12 p.m. in Miami
- 11 a.m. in Mexico City
- 11 a.m. in Bogota
- 1 p.m. in Argentina
- 18:00 in Spain
You can also follow the draw live on the internet and television:
- For the first option, everyone can opt for the UEFA website because the draw will be broadcast live there, or by HBO Max if you live in Mexico or Brazil.
- As for television, in Argentina and Colombia, everything related to the Champions League can be followed by ESPN. In Spain, it can be seen through the Movistar Liga de Campeones channel.
- To find out where the Champions League will be seen in other countries, click here.
We only have to prepare for the start of the tournament. Remember that the first day of the group stage will take place on September 6 and 7; meanwhile, the last journey, the sixth, will take place on November 1 and 2. Then follow the round of 16 draw end of November 7. A very tight schedule: all of the above will be ready just two weeks before the start of the Qatar World Cup 2022which will see its opening match on November 20.
