{"id":101391,"date":"2025-08-28T05:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101391\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:19:10","slug":"champions-league-draw-2025-who-liverpool-can-play-with-36-teams-confirmed-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101391\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League draw 2025: Who Liverpool can play with 36 teams confirmed – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool will be among the favourites to win the Champions League<\/a> this season \u2013 here\u2019s all you need to know ahead of Thursday\u2019s league phase draw.<\/p>\n

The Reds returned to Europe\u2019s top competition last season, following a year away, but were knocked out in the last 16 by eventual winners PSG.<\/p>\n

Arne Slot<\/a>\u2018s side will be hoping for a better Champions League<\/a> showing in 2025\/26, as they look to win the competition for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n

This season will again see the expanded 36-team tournament take place, including the new-look league phase replacing the old group stage.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

That means all 36 sides play in one league phase with eight matches apiece, before the traditional knockout stage takes place.<\/p>\n

In 2024\/25, Liverpool won all of their first seven league games, losing the last one away to PSV Eindhoven in a dead rubber.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s all you need to know about the Champions League<\/a> draw, including who the Reds could be drawn against.<\/p>\n

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When is the draw?<\/p>\n

\"Champions<\/p>\n

The Champions League<\/a> draw takes place in Monaco from 5pm (BST) on Thursday.<\/p>\n

It will be broadcast live on UEFA.com, as well as YouTube and TNT Sports.<\/p>\n

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Who could Liverpool play?<\/p>\n

\"NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE,<\/p>\n

Liverpool are in Pot 1 and will be drawn against two teams from each of the following pots:<\/p>\n

Pot 1: PSG, Real Madrid<\/a>, Man City<\/a>, Bayern Munich<\/a>, Liverpool, Inter Milan, Chelsea<\/a>, Dortmund, Barcelona<\/a><\/p>\n

Pot 2: Arsenal<\/a>, Bayer Leverkusen<\/a>, Atletico Madrid, Benfica, Atalanta, Villarreal, Juventus, Eintracht Frankfurt, Club Brugge<\/p>\n

Pot 3: Tottenham<\/a>, PSV Eindhoven, Ajax, Napoli, Sporting CP, Olympiakos, Slavia Prague, Bodo\/Glimt, Marseille<\/p>\n

Pot 4: Copenhagen, Monaco, Galatasaray, Union SG, Qarabag, Athletic Club, Newcastle<\/a>, Pafos, Kairat<\/p>\n

Liverpool will play four of their games at home and the other four away, but will play none of their league phase opponents twice.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Reds cannot play teams from the Premier League<\/a> at this stage, ruling out Arsenal<\/a>, Man City<\/a>, Chelsea<\/a> and Newcastle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Each club can play a maximum of two sides from the same association, so Liverpool could NOT be drawn against Real Madrid<\/a>, Barcelona<\/a> and Villarreal, for example.<\/p>\n

\"LONDON,<\/p>\n

The top eight teams will go straight into the last 16, while those from ninth to 24th place will face a one-legged playoff against one of the other sides.<\/p>\n

The victors from those 16 playoffs will then face off in eight two-legged playoffs in February, looking to make it into the knockout stage with the top eight.<\/p>\n

The last 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals will be two-legged, as per usual, with the final taking place in Budapest on May 30, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Champions League key dates<\/p>\n

\"NYON,<\/p>\n

Fixtures will be confirmed no later than this Saturday, but here are the key dates to look out for:<\/p>\n

League draw \u2013 August 28
\nMatchday 1: September 16-18
\nMatchday 2: September 30-October 1
\nMatchday 3: October 21\/22
\nMatchday 4: November 4\/5
\nMatchday 5: November 25\/26
\nMatchday 6: December 9\/10
\nMatchday 7: January 20\/21
\nMatchday 8: January 28
\nPlay-off draw \u2013 January 30
\nKnockout play-offs: February 17\/18 and 24\/25
\nLast 16\/quarter-final\/semi-final draw \u2013 February 27
\nLast 16: March 10\/11 and 17\/18
\nQuarter-final: April 7\/8 and 14\/\/15
\nSemi-final: April 28\/29 and May 5\/6
\nFinal: May 30 (Budapest)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool will be among the favourites to win the Champions League this season \u2013 here\u2019s all you need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,7886,85],"class_list":["post-101391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}