{"id":96398,"date":"2025-08-27T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96398\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:34:08","slug":"who-can-tottenham-face-in-champions-league-dream-and-nightmare-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96398\/","title":{"rendered":"Who can Tottenham face in Champions League? Dream and nightmare draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tottenham<\/p>\n

The Europa League winners are back at the table after two and a half seasons away, and face the new League Phase for the first time.<\/p>\n

Spurs do not yet know in which pot they will be placed for Thursday\u2019s draw was the sit on the threshold between Pot 2 and Pot 3, but plenty of tricky ties await in any scenario.<\/p>\n

The draw takes place on Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 5pm BST and much of it will be automated due to the sheer number of fixtures to be organised.<\/p>\n

New Spurs boss Thomas Frank may have enjoyed a perfect start to his tenure in the Premier League, but is braced for a first exposure to Champions League football.<\/p>\n

Which pot are Tottenham in for the Champions League draw?<\/p>\n

Tottenham will be placed in Pot 2 or Pot 3, with their final placing to be confirmed following the conclusion of the play-off round on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Who can Tottenham face in the Champions League draw?<\/p>\n

The ceremony will produce eight opponents for every team, two from each pot. That means Tottenham will play two of the top-ranked clubs.<\/p>\n

They cannot play a team from their own country (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle or Manchester City) at this stage and can only play a maximum of two teams from a different association.<\/p>\n

Pot 1: PSG, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Barcelona<\/p>\n

Pot 2: Bayer Leverkusen, Atletico Madrid, Atalanta, Villarreal, Juventus, Eintracht Frankfurt<\/p>\n

Pot 3: PSV, Ajax, Napoli, Sporting, Olympiacos, Slavia Prague, Bodo\/Glimt, Marseille<\/p>\n

Pot 4: Monaco, Galatasaray, Union Saint-Gilloise, Athletic Club, Pafos, Kairat<\/p>\n

Dream scenario for Tottenham<\/p>\n

Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Villarreal, Frankfurt, PSV, Slavia Prague, Pafos, Kairat<\/p>\n

Nightmare scenario for Tottenham<\/p>\n

PSG, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Napoli, Marseille, Monaco, Galatasaray<\/p>\n

Champions League group-stage matchdays<\/p>\n

The exact make-up of each week in terms of kick-off times and match dates will be provided by UEFA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Matchday 1: September 16-17, 2025<\/p>\n

Matchday 2: September 30-October 1, 2025<\/p>\n

Matchday 3: October 21-22, 2025<\/p>\n

Matchday 4: November 4-5, 2025<\/p>\n

Matchday 5: November 25-26, 2025<\/p>\n

Matchday 6: December 9-10, 2025<\/p>\n

Matchday 7: January 20-21, 2026<\/p>\n

Matchday 8: January 28, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Europa League winners are back at the table after two and a half seasons away, and face…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46919,59,101,2335,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-96398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-champions-league-draw","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uefa","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}