SPOILER ALERT: Barcelona will win the Champions League, Chelsea are England's best hope... and Arsenal will edge Dortmund in the 'group of death'



Let’s just call it off now. As the Champions League group stages kick off on Tuesday night, the results have already been decided.

Barcelona will lift the trophy in Lisbon in May, while England’s hopes rest on Chelsea.

Manchester United, with David Moyes taking charge of his first group stage game against Bayer Leverkusen, only have a six per cent chance of winning the tournament, with local rivals City ahead of them on seven per cent.

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Winners: Lionel Messi (right) and Neymar will swoop the Champions League, like in 2011 (below)

Barcelona's players celebrate with the trophy at the end of the UEFA Champions League final football match FC Barcelona vs. Manchester United, on May 28, 2011

THE TOP SIX

Club

Chance of winning

Barcelona 21.30% Bayern Munich 18.90% Real Madrid 16.70% Chelsea 8.90% Manchester City 7.20% Manchester United 6.40%

BSports, part of Bloomberg, have unveiled their predictions for the Champions League this season, using a mathematics and data-driven algorithm to predict the results of Champions League matches.

They take into account recent and historic performances of each club, transfer activity and the result of the recent Group Stage draw.

Based on this analysis, the rankings were set, and the tournament was simulated 10,000 times to determine the probabilities associated with each team’s chances to qualify for the Round of 16, to win their group and to win the overall tournament.

More of the same: Chelsea, with Andre Schurrle (left) and Fernando Torres, are England's best hope

Celebration: But Wayne Rooney (left) and Manchester United are behind rivals City and Chelsea

On the ball: Manuel Pellegrini has a 7.20% chance of winning the Champions League with City

ARSENAL'S GROUP OF DEATH

Club

Chance of qualifying

Arsenal 62.60% Borussia Dortmund 60.90% Napoli 40.70% Marseille 35.80%

So, despite last season’s semi-final, the number crunching found that Barcelona were more likely to win the tournament than Bayern, who are the second-most likely.

Chelsea are the club from these shores most likely to claim the trophy, with an 8.9 per cent chance of repeating the club’s feat in 2012.

Arsenal fans worried about the ‘group of death’ with Borussia Dortmund, Napoli and Marseille should rest easy.

The predictions back them to edge the group over the German side, with a 62 per cent chance of reaching the last 16, although the Gunners have just 1.80 per cent odds to lift the trophy.



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However, Celtic fans can expect Europa League football, with the predictions backing them to finish third in their own group of death - below Barcelona and AC Milan but just above Ajax, with the Glasgow club having a minute 0.1 per cent chance of emulating the 1967 'Lisbon Lions.'



And while Spain seem by far the most likely to take the trophy - with a 40.8 per cent chance, mainly thanks to Barca leading the way and Real Madrid’s 16.7 per cent odds - fans with their eye on last season’s tournament are in for a shock.

Depite the all-German final between Bayern and Dortmund, Bundesliga sides are 3.5 per cent less likely to win the tournament than their English counterparts.