Champions League - 2023/24 - Leipzig, FK Crvena Zvezda, Young Boys

[City & Blue Brazil]

Pot 3 may be stronger than pot 4, at least on paper. Would love to get one of the Milan’s in the group.

Is this the last rendition of the CL as know it before the absurd revamp?

It is at which point I suspect many people will drop out of cup scheme.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Get the shit in the final at Wembley but realistically they won’t get out of there group,so that’s a non starter.

 

[Stephen230]

Pot 3 may be stronger than pot 4, at least on paper. Would love to get one of the Milan’s in the group.

Is this the last rendition of the CL as know it before the absurd revamp?

Yes from ‘24/‘25 there will be an additional 4 teams and the group stage will be one big group where you play eight different teams, four home four away.

 

[ROBSH34]

Starts a week tonight with a couple of qualifying matches.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Inter
Salzburg
Real Sociedad

…please?!

 

[ShorehamCitizen]

Yes from ‘24/‘25 there will be an additional 4 teams and the group stage will be one big group where you play eight different teams, four home four away.

Sounds like that pointless International Champions Cup pre-season rubbish.

 

[Champions Again Ole Ole]

Anyone for galatasary and a trip back to Istanbul? No, didn't think so

 

[Impeccable One]

We could do worse than drawing Inter out of pot 2 actually, as we avoid Milan or Lazio in pot 3 then.

That sir is some 3 dimensional level thinking, excellent.

I was thinking Porto is the easiest but that has f’all benefit to pot 3.

 

[Inca Roads Bert]

El City
Bayern
il Milan
la Real

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Well, celebrations are officially over (will go on for a while for me personally), Premier League fixtures out on Thursday so time to look at next seasons Champions League.

Pots as it currently stands (6 teams to qualify, this assumes highest co-efficient teams get through qualifying)

Pot1
City
Sevilla
Barcelona
Napoli
Bayern
PSG
Benfica
Feyenoord

Pot 2
Real Madrid
United
Inter
Dortmund
Atletico
RB Leipzig
Porto
Arsenal

Pot 3
Shakhtar
RB Salzburg
Dinamo Zagreb
Rangers
AC Milan
Braga
Lazio
Red Star Belgrade

Pot 4
Copenhagen
Young Boys
Real Sociedad
Galatasaray
Celtic
Newcastle
Union Berlin
RC Lens

Key Dates:
Group Stage Draw - 31st August
MD1 - 19/20 September
MD2 - 3/4 October
MD3 - 24/25 October
MD4 - 7/8 November
MD5 - 28/29 November
MD6 - 12/13 December
Round of 16 1st Leg - 13/14/20/21 February
Round of 16 2nd Leg - 5/6/12/13 March
Quarter Final 1st Leg - 9/10 April
Quarter Final 2nd Leg - 16/17 April
Semi Final 1st Leg - 30 April / 1 May
Semi Final 2nd Leg - 7/8 May
Final 1st June at Wembley.

How the fuck are Arsenal in pot 2? They haven't qualified for the CL since 2016/17 and yet they get in and are immediately handed a leg up. The whole seeding system is a sham. If you're from a 'big' league, you always get favourable treatment.