The UEFA Champions League group stage draw takes place on Thursday at 18:00CEST and will be streamed live in our DrawCentre.

Which teams are in which pots?

Pot 1 consists of the holders (Real Madrid) and the champions of the top-seven ranked nations at the end of 2014/15 (when the 2016/17 access list was set).



Pot 1: Real Madrid (ESP, holders), Barcelona (ESP), Leicester City (ENG), Bayern München (GER), Juventus (ITA), Benfica (POR), Paris Saint-Germain (FRA), CSKA Moskva (RUS)

The remaining three pots are decided by each team's UEFA club coefficient as of the end of last season.

2015/16 runners-up Atlético are in Pot 2 ©AFP/Getty Images

Pot 2: Atlético Madrid (ESP), Borussia Dortmund (GER), Arsenal (ENG), Manchester City (ENG), Sevilla (ESP), Porto (POR), Napoli (ITA), Bayer Leverkusen (GER)

Pot 3: Basel (SUI), Tottenham Hotspur (ENG), Dynamo Kyiv (UKR), Lyon (FRA), PSV Eindhoven (NED), Sporting CP (POR), Club Brugge (BEL), Mönchengladbach (GER)

Pot 4: Celtic (SCO), Monaco (FRA), Beşiktaş (TUR), Legia Warszawa (POL), Dinamo Zagreb (CRO), Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL), København (DEN), Rostov (RUS)

Draw notes

No team can play a club from their own association, with the exact draw procedure to be confirmed before the ceremony.

Following a decision by the UEFA Executive Committee, Ukrainian and Russian teams cannot be drawn against each other.

The draw also establishes the groups for the UEFA Champions League path of the UEFA Youth League.

The draw ceremony includes the vote for and presentation of the 2015/16 UEFA Best Player in Europe Awards for men and women.

National Stadium of Wales ©Getty Images

Road to Cardiff



When are the draws?

25/08/16: Group stage

12/12/16: Round of 16

17/03/17: Quarter-finals

21/04/17: Semi-finals



When are the matches?

13–14/09/16: Group stage, matchday one

27–28/09/16: Group stage, matchday two

18–19/10/16: Group stage, matchday three

01–02/11/16: Group stage, matchday four

22–23/11/16: Group stage, matchday five

06–07/12/16: Group stage, matchday six

14–15/02/17 and 21–22/02/17: Round of 16, first leg

07–08/03/17 and 14–15/03/17: Round of 16, second leg

11–12/04/17: Quarter-finals, first leg

18–19/04/17: Quarter-finals, second leg

02–03/05/17: Semi-finals, first leg

09–10/05/17: Semi-finals, second leg

03/06/17: Final (National Stadium of Wales, Cardiff)