The Champions League draw in Monaco begins with a hammer for FC Bayern: Club world champion FC Chelsea and defending champion Paris St. Germain are opponents in the league.
Ex -superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic immediately pulled the German record champion as the first club from the glass bowl – sports director Max Eberl accepted the well -known opponents in the spectator area with a smug smile. The other opponents also have it all: FC Arsenal and Benfica Lisbon will not be a sure -fire success.
BVB against Inter, City and Juventus
Grandiose football evenings are also on the plan for Borussia Dortmund: Inter Milan, Manchester City, Juventus Turin and the Tottenham Hotspurs are among the opponents. Eintracht Frankfurt welcomes FC Liverpool, Bayer Leverkusen definitely has duels with FC Barcelona and Paris St. Germain in front of the chest.
Honor for FC Chelsea
Right at the beginning of the event, Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin paid tribute to Chelsea FC, who became club world champion in the summer. With this, the Premier League club completed the feat of winning all six big titles at the club level-last year it was the Conference League, in 2021 the club had won the Champions League under Thomas Tuchel.
As a reigning club world champion, Chelsea is also in pot 1 at the Auslung in Monaco – together with defending champion Paris St. Germain, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Inter Milan, FC Liverpool, Manchester City, Bavaria Munich and Borussia Dortmund.
Leverkusen and Frankfurt in pot 2
The difference in today’s draw: This time, each top team gets two opponents from pot 1, which are also sorted in pot 1. The other two German representatives Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt are in pot 2.
As before, all 36 clubs in the league (from September 16) will have four home and four away games. The best eight teams come directly to the round of 16, the teams from nine to 24 games in Playoffs from the other eight participants for the KO round.
The final will increase on May 30, 2026 in the Puskas Arena in Budapest. The kick -off is already at 6 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. – the UEFA wants to become more child and family -friendly.