Key occasions
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The schedule. This yr’s group stage is being squeezed right into a nine-week window, versus the same old three months. The issues we do for Qatar. The primary matchday is on Tuesday 6 September, the ultimate one on Wednesday 2 November. Listed below are the dates on your diary …
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Matchday 1: September 6 and seven
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Matchday 2: September 13 and 14
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Matchday 3: October 4 and 5
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Matchday 4: October 11 and 12
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Matchday 5: October 25 and 26
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Matchday 6: November 1 and a pair of
… then after everybody’s run themselves into the bottom on the World Cup, the competitors resumes later than regular. Right here’s how the remainder of it pans out:
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Spherical of 16: February 14 and 15; March 7 and eight
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Spherical of 16: February 21 and 22; March 14 and 15
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Quarter finals: April 11 and 12; April 18 and 19
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Semi-finals: Might 9 and 10; Might 16 and 17
Then the ultimate on Saturday 10 June 2023, on the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. As an ideal man as soon as questioned after pondering the mechanics of an unnecessarily sophisticated draw: who’s that gonna be?
Preamble
The draw for the group stage of the 2022-23 Champions League takes place on the Ataturk stadium in Istanbul this night. The seeded pots seem like this …
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Pot 1: Actual Madrid, Eintracht Frankfurt, Manchester Metropolis, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint Germain, Porto, Ajax
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Pot 2: Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, RB Leipzig, Tottenham
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Pot 3: Borussia Dortmund, Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk, Internazionale, Napoli, Benfica, Sporting Lisbon, Bayer Leverkusen
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Pot 4: Rangers, Marseille, Copenhagen, Bruges, Celtic, Viktoria Plzen, Maccabi Haifa, Dinamo Zagreb
… and the same old guidelines apply. Groups from Pot 1 can be drawn into Teams A to H, then groups from the subsequent three Pots in flip are plucked from the bowls of future. When a group from Pots 2, 3 and 4 are picked, a pc instantly dumps them into the primary out there group, taking restrictions under consideration. These being: two groups from the identical nation can’t face one another, whereas sure pairings from the identical nation should play on completely different nights for TV functions. Don’t ask, life’s too brief, that’s why the pc’s going to take care of it.
The draw is scheduled to start at 7pm in Istanbul, which is 5pm BST. It received’t, in fact, there can be a spirit-sapping quantity of pomp, pish, faff and filler earlier than anybody deigns to get right down to enterprise. However as quickly as these rattling balls are plucked, pulled aside, the paper inside them unspooled, the names on the paper learn out, and the groups assigned to teams, you’ll be the primary to know. It’s on!
