FC Barcelona will start as seed and will avoid, among others, Manchester City, PSG and Bayern Munich
The draw for the group stage will take place on Thursday, August 31, and the first match will be played on September 19-20.
He FC Barcelona He already practically knows his potential opponents in the 2023-24 Champions League group stage, the last to be played in the current format. The competition starts on Tuesday 27 in Iceland with the preliminary round dispute between four teams (Atlètic Club d’Escaldes, Buducnost Podgorica, Breidablik and Tre Penne) and the final will be held at London’s Wembley Stadium on June 1, 2024.
The Barcelona team, champion of the League 2022-23, will start as head of series and will avoid the champions of England (Manchester City, also current champion of the Champions League), Italy (Naples), Germany (Bayern Munich), France (PSG), Portugal (Benfica) and Netherlands (Feyenoord). It will also avoid the Europa League champion, the Sevillewhom he cannot face either because he is from the same federation.
For the Catalan team to avoid the Bayern Munich It is good news given that, in the last two editions, the Bavarian team has been a nightmare for FC Barcelona. In the 2021-22 Champions League, along with Benficathey sent him to the Europa League and, in the last edition, 2022-23, now together with inter milanhe revived the bitter experience of elimination.
In bass drum 2 the FC Barcelona Yes, it can come across a bone, although it will avoid the real Madrid and to Athletic because they belong to the same federation. The six rivals that the Barça team can face will have their difficulty: Manchester United and Arsenal (England), Borussia Dortmund and Leipzig (Germany), inter milan (Italy) and Porto (Portugal).
more rivals
In pot 3 the confirmed rivals are the Shakhtar Donetsk, Salzburg, Milan, Lazio and Red Star. The three remaining rivals will leave the previous phase, but the ones with the best coefficient are the Dinamo Zagreb, Glasgow Rangers and Sporting Braga.
Finally, in pot 4, there are also five confirmed rivals, although Barça will not be able to face one of them because they are the Real societyfrom his own federation. Thus, the Celtic, Newcastle, Union Berlin and Lens They appear as potential opponents, who will be joined by three other teams from the previous rounds. Those with the best coefficient are Copenhagen, Young Boys and Galatasarayalthough all of them must first confirm their participation on the pitch.
The group stage will be drawn on Thursday August 31 and the competition, in this round, will begin on September 19 and 20. The last day of the league has been scheduled for December 12 and 13. The Champions League will take a breather and will not return until mid-February 2024 (round of 16).
This is how the drums have remained
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Manchester City, Seville, FC BarcelonaNapoli, Bayern Munich, PSG, Benfica and Feyenoord.
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Real Madrid, Manchester United, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Atlético Madrid, Leipzig, Porto and Arsenal.
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Shakhtar Donetsk, Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb
Glasgow Rangers
Milan, Sporting Braga, Lazio and Red Star
Kick 4Copenhagen, Young Boys, Royal Society, Galatasaray, Celtic, Newcastle, Union Berlin and LensTeams that must pass the preliminary phase (they will enter different rounds) to be able to be in the draw on August 31.
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