How to Watch the Champions League Group Stage Draw: TV Channel, Live Stream

How to watch the Champions League group stage draw.

Author:
Daniel Rapaport
Publish date:
Aug 23, 2017

The 32-team field for the Champions League is set after 10 teams booked their spot by winning a final-round qualifying tie. Liverpool, Napoli, Celtic, Sevilla, Maribor, Olympiakos, Sporting Lisbon, CSKA Moscow, Qarabag and APOEL played their way into the competition and join 22 automatic qualifiers for Europe's premier club competition.

The 32 teams are drawn into four pots and will be separated into eight four-team groups. Each group will contain one team from each of the four pots.

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The first round of group stage matches will take place on Sept. 12 and 13. The top two finishers in each group qualify for the knockout stage, which begins on Feb. 13. The final, which will be played at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, is on May 26.