Champions League Group Draw (Guide and Liveblog)
By: Rob | August 26th, 2009
So the final Champions League qualifiers are through, and we have our final line up for the Champions League draw taking place tomorrow at 4pm GMT. Which is late enough that everyone can enjoy it. So right here, I shall be covering it live, and you are more than welcome to join me.
So here is your print out and then cut out and keep and then lose guide to the draw tomorrow. Who’s seeded (not Real Madrid) who’s going to get a tough group, and so on.
Basically teams from the same pot, and same nation can’t be drawn together. So everyone from pot 1 will be drawn out into a group of their own, then will be joined from a team each from pot 2, and three and so on. Except for “excitement” they’ll probably start with Pot 4.
Ok the teams in each pot.
Pot 1 – Barcelona, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Milan, Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Sevilla
Pot 2 – Lyon, Inter, Real Madrid, CSKA Moscow, FC Porto, AZ, Juventus, and Rangers
Pot 3 – Olympiacos, Marseille, Dynamo Kiev, Stuttgart, Fiorentina, Atlético Madrid, Bordeaux and Besiktas,
Pot 4 – Wolfsburg, Standard, Maccabi Haifa, Zurich, Rubin Kazan, Unirea Urzicini, APOEL and Debrecen
So obviously each group will get one team from each pot, which leaves open plenty of opportunity for groups of death. Certainly pots 2 and 3 have some teams that the big boys will really want to avoid. I’m excited. Which leaves me with one thing. Here’s the Liveblog. See you tomorrow.
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How the hell are CSKA Moscow, AZ and Rangers seeded ahead of Marseille, Fiorentina, Bordeaux and Stuttgart. Whichever pot 1 teams get CSKA, AZ and Rangers have walkovers in the group stage.
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that has to be the scariest pot 2 i have ever seen, with madrid, inter, and juve all in there
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@Shane, not sure about the other 2, but since rangers made the uefa cup final a couple years back, that really helped their score
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Those seedings are ridiculous in so many ways. First of all, how is AC Milan in group 1 but Inter in group 2? Thats just stupid. Last year Inter won the scudetto and was knocked out of the CL by finalists Man United, while AC Milan came in 3rd? in Serie A and got knocked out of the Uefa Cup by Bremen. What the hell? And of course everyone knows Sevilla are better than Real Madrid. I mean its not like Sevilla weren’t in the Champions League last season and came in third in La Liga to Madrid’s second or anything. And Sevilla are also better than Lyon and Juventus? Interesting. Also, how did Atleti, Marseille, Bordeaux and Fiorentina end up below teams like AZ Alkmaar and CSKA Moscow? The Bordeaux below AZ thing really bothers me. Now Eredivisie>Ligue 1??? I think this is just a ploy by Michel Platini and Co. to increase TV revenue by putting big teams in the same group for a more “exciting” group stage. Rant over.
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It’s all about European play, it has nothing to do with domestic form. CSKA won the UEFA Cup a few years ago, and Rangers made the final in ‘08. Going deep into the UEFA Cup gets you more points than going out in the last 16 of Champions League.
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That’s all true. I was ranting against the system, knowing full well that under the system it is correct. However, the idea of the coefficients is stupid considering that teams can drastically change over the course of 5 season, going from being a champions League finalist to finishing 16th in the League (Monaco). The seeding should be based on the performance domestically and on the continent in the previous season.
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You can really see Man Utd getting Real Madrid in there can’t you…
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im kinda doubtful that bayern munich is better than some of the teams in lower pots. theres no doubt at all when i say that milan and sevilla have no right to be in pot 1
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