The draw was made in Monaco on Thursday evening and Chelsea, as champions of England, were one of the top-seeded teams. We were grouped with the team from the Spanish capital from Pot 2, the Rome side from Pot 3 and Qarabag from Azerbaijan from the lowest seeds in Pot 4.



The dates for the games are as follows:

Tuesday 12 September

Qarabag

Stamford Bridge



Wednesday 27 September

Atletico Madrid

Away



Wednesday 18 October

Roma

Stamford Bridge



Tuesday 31 October

Roma

Away

Wednesday 22 November

Qarabag

Away

Tuesday 5 December

Atletico Madrid

Stamford Bridge



We last played Atletico Madrid in the 2014 Champions League semi-final having previously met them in the group stages in 2009. They moved into a new stadium this year having finished third in La Liga last season, and have former Blues Fernando Torres and Filipe Luis in their squad.

We played Roma in the 2008/09 group stage. They qualified for this season’s Champions League as Italian runners-up with Antonio Rudiger in their side prior to his summer move to Chelsea.

Qarabag, the Azerbaijan champions, are new to this stage of the competition. They qualified by defeating Copenhagen on away goals in the play-off round last night. They currently play in their capital city Baku.



The draw in full:

Group A

Benfica

Manchester United

Basel

CSKA Moscow

Group B

Bayern Munich

Paris Saint-Germain

Anderlecht

Celtic

Group C

Chelsea

Atletico Madrid

Roma

Qarabag

Group D

Juventus

Barcelona

Olympiacos

Sporting Lisbon

Group E

Spartak Moscow

Sevilla

Liverpool

Maribor

Group F

Shakhtar Donetsk

Manchester City

Napoli

Feyenoord

Group G

Monaco

Porto

Besiktas

Leipzig

Group H

Real Madrid

Borussia Dortmund

Tottenham Hotspur

APOEL Nicosia



Our Under-19s will face the same opposition teams in the UEFA Youth League. Our Academy are two-time winners of the competition.

Earlier in the day, the Chelsea first team were drawn against Nottingham Forest at home in the Carabao Cup, the new name for the League Cup.