{"id":113001,"date":"2025-08-27T05:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113001\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T05:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:11:07","slug":"who-can-chelsea-fc-face-in-champions-league-dream-and-nightmare-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113001\/","title":{"rendered":"Who can Chelsea FC face in Champions League? Dream and nightmare draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chelsea<\/p>\n

The previous group stage of eight groups consisting of four teams each has been ditched in favour of a new league format.<\/p>\n

As a result, all 36 teams will be separated into four pots and two will be drawn from each. They will face eight different opponents, playing four matches at home and four away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

The play-off ties across Tuesday and Wednesday will decide the remaining qualifiers and complete the subsequent pots before Enzo Maresca<\/a>\u2019s discovers the size of the task he faces this season.<\/p>\n

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

Chelsea have been placed in Pot 1, despite their current coefficient which has them sat 14th in UEFA<\/a>\u2019s rankings for European teams.<\/p>\n

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

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

They cannot play a team from their own country (Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham, 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 Chelsea<\/p>\n

Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Leverkusen, Sporting, Slavia Prague, USG, Kairat.<\/p>\n

Nightmare scenario for Chelsea<\/p>\n

Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, TBC, Napoli, Marseille, Galatasaray, TBC.<\/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.<\/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 previous group stage of eight groups consisting of four teams each has been ditched in favour of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[73742,8362,403,99,2639],"class_list":["post-113001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-champions-league-draw","tag-enzo-maresca","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-uefa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}