Champions League Draw Today at 17:00 (BST)

[Mac 10 †]

A total of five British clubs will be involved when the draw for the Champions League group stages takes place on Thursday at 17:00 BST.

Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Celtic are all among the 32 clubs in the draw.

Hearts missed out on joining them when they lost their qualifier with AEK Athens on Wednesday.

United, Liverpool and Arsenal are amongst the top seeds in pot one, while Celtic and Chelsea are in pot two.

It means Premiership champions Chelsea will find themselves in the same group as Barcelona, who knocked them out of last year's competition, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Inter Milan or Valencia.

The draw will be missing Juventus for the first time in seven years after the Italian giants were banned from the Champions League for their role in the Italian match-fixing scandal.

However, AC Milan, who were also banned but then reinstated on appeal, will compete after coming through their qualifying rounds.

Arsenal, Liverpool and Valencia also came through qualifying to secure spots in the pot containing the top seeds.

The 32 entrants, who are divided into the four pots depending on their current European ranking, will be split into eight groups of four.

Each group will contain one team from each of the four pots.

The draw for the group stages will take place in Monaco.



Clubs in the Champions League group stages:


Pot One
AC Milan
Barcelona
Real Madrid
Inter Milan
LIVERPOOL
ARSENAL
MANCHESTER UNITED
Valencia

Pot Two
Lyon
Porto
PSV Eindhoven
Bayern Munich
CHELSEA
Roma
CELTIC
Lille

Pot Three
Sporting Lisbon
Benfica
Bordeaux
Steaua Bucharest
Werder Bremen
Olympiakos
CSKA Moscow
AEK Athens

Pot Four
Anderlecht
Dynamo Kiev
Levski Sofia
Shakhtar Donetsk
Hamburg
Galatasaray
Spartak Moscow
FC Copenhagen

[Mac 10 †]

Group A
BARCELONA
Chelsea
Werder Bremen
Levski Sofia


Group B
INTER MILAN
Bayern Munich
Sporting Lisbon
Spartak Moscow


Group C
LIVERPOOL
PSV Eindhoven
Bordeaux
Galatasaray


Group D
VALENCIA
Roma
Olympiakos
Shakhtar Donetsk


Group E
REAL MADRID
Lyon
Steaua Bucharest
Dynamo Kiev


Group F
MANCHESTER UNITED
Celtic
Benfica
FC Copenhagen


Group G
ARSENAL
Porto
CSKA Moscow
Hamburg


Group H
AC MILAN
Lille
AEK Athens
Anderlecht

[wcsoldier]

Damn , Barcelona and Chelsea, Lyon and Madrid in the same group once again... can't wait 

[TheDeli]

Some tough draws there & the potential of some cracking ties

What was the odds of Barca & Chelsea playing each other again 

Celtic fans should be quite happy  got a decent chance to qualify from their group

Teams to go through IMO

Group A - Barca & Chelsea - Bremen 3rd

Group B - Inter & Bayern - Spartak 3rd

Group C - Liverpool & Bordeauv - PSV 3rd

Group D - Valencia & Roma - Shakhtar 3rd

Group E - Real & Lyon - Kiev 3rd

Group F - Man Utd & Benfica - Celtic 3rd

Group G - Arsenal & Hamburg - Porto 3rd

Group H - AC Milan & Lille - AEK 3rd

[Mac 10 †]

We were one ball away from getting madrid.  i wanted to go there!

[Mac 10 †]

Group F - Man Utd & Benfica - Celtic 3rd   -   not a surprising prediction from yourself

Group G - Arsenal & Hamburg - Porto 3rd   -   surprising, the 4th seed to go thru?  dunno bout that

[wcsoldier]

Lille and Lyon gonna advance imo.. Bordeaux got a tough group though

[Meho]

Damn , Barcelona and Chelsea, Lyon and Madrid in the same group once again... can't wait 

Other than that boring groups.

[Boo-Yaa †]

Group F
MANCHESTER UNITED
Celtic
Benfica
FC Copenhagen

Not that bad... i think celtic have a good chance

[TheDeli]

Group F - Man Utd & Benfica - Celtic 3rd   -   not a surprising prediction from yourself

Group G - Arsenal & Hamburg - Porto 3rd   -   surprising, the 4th seed to go thru?  dunno bout that

Didn't think that predicting Celtiic to come 3rd would be a shock 

I rate Hamburg highly think that they are a very good team - Van Der Vaart has been playing well and if it wasn't for inexperince then they could have done even better in the Bundesliga last season, losing Khalid Boulahrouz is a blow for them but if they can sign Joris Mathijsen they will be doing well

I was hoping that Hamburg would have been in Celtics group from a selfish point of view as they were IMO the best of the 4th seeds 

How do you think that you'll get on Mac?

[KURUPTION-81]

Pretty happy with United's group the games against Celtic should be great.

[Mac 10 †]

Pretty happy with United's group the games against Celtic should be great.

Yeah I'm looking forward to playing Man Utd with something at stake for the 1st time in a while!

Still deciding whether we will make the trip down or not.

I'm prolly more likely to go to Lisbon, maybe Copenhagen.

[TheDeli]

Pretty happy with United's group the games against Celtic should be great.

Yeah I'm looking forward to playing Man Utd with something at stake for the 1st time in a while!

Still deciding whether we will make the trip down or not.

I'm prolly more likely to go to Lisbon, maybe Copenhagen.

I'll be hoping that the score between Man Utd & Celtic is along the lines of the pre-season friendly this season 

If you go to Copenhagen you'll enjoy it there - went a couple of years ago when we played them and it was a great time

The only bad thing about Copenhagen was the price of the food & drinks  most expensive i've had on an away trip for a drink or two 

[Intriago33]

Group G looks the most entertaining to me.

[Javier]

Werder Bremen looks pretty strong, I think they can take 2nd while leaving out Chelsea