Champions League Spurs Pot 3, Leicester Pot 1, Arsenal Pot 2

The group stages for the UEFA Champions League will be drawn on 25th August for the group stage matches.

Group Stage Dates

Week 1 13/14th Sept
Week 2 27/28th Sept
Week 3 18/19th Oct
Week 4 1/2nd Nov
Week 5 22/23rd Nov
Week 6 6/7th Dec

Below it is assumed that the seeded teams of the 4th qualifying round qualify for the group stages.The pots are chosen from the UEFA coefficient for each team and also takes into account of league winners.

Leicester City as champions go into Pot A as will the Champions League winners. If Manchester City and Porto win their play-off games then they will go into Pot B.

Tottenham will most likely be in Pot C and will have two fixture against either Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Benfica, PSG, CSKA Moscow, Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid (Champions League winners in this pot.

Assuming Porto and Manchester City make it through qualifying we are then likely to have two fixtures against either Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid (Champions League runners-up in this group), Borussia Dortmund, Sevilla, Porto, Napoli or Bayer Leverkusen.

As it stands at the moment if the favourites go through each stage we could also then be drawn with PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon, Viktoria Pizen, Club Brugge, FC Salzburg, Celtic, APOEL Nicosia and Besiktas.The stars indicate teams in the qualifying stages and show which qualifying round they are in.

Leicester City will be drawn against either the Champions League runners-up, Borussia Dortmund, Sevilla, Porto (if win play-off), Napoli or Bayer Leverkusen from Pot B.

Champions League Pots

Pot A

CL-TH (Real/Atlético)    Esp

FC Barcelona             Esp

Leicester City           Eng

Bayern Münich            Ger

Juventus                 Ita

Benfica                  Por

Paris Saint-Germain      Fra

CSKA Moscow              Rus

Pot B

Real/Atlético            Esp

Borussia Dortmund        Ger

Arsenal                  Eng

Manchester City *4       Eng

Sevilla (EL-TH)          Esp

FC Porto *4              Por

Napoli                   Ita

Bayer Leverkusen         Ger

Pot C

FC Basel                 Sui

Shakhtar Donetsk *3      Ukr

Tottenham Hotspur        Eng

Olympiakos Piraeus *3    Gre

Dinamo Kiev              Ukr

Olympique Lyon           Fra

Villarreal *4            Esp

Ajax *3                  Ned

Pot D

PSV Eindhoven            Ned

Sporting CP Lisbon       Por

Viktoria Plzen *3        Cze

Club Brugge              Bel

FC Salzburg **           Aut

Celtic **                Sco

APOEL Nicosia **         Cyp

Besiktas                 Tur

While we can't finalise who we might play at this stage, we can speculate who we could be drawn against from the top two groups.

Who do you want? Do you want the glamour ties? Do you want the perceived easier games?

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