CL League Phase Draw 2025/26 | Fixtures (pg 32)

[Ctidpaul]

Another BS rule introduced ?..from next season you cant draw the same team/venue in consecutive seasons ....
Yet under paragraph 16.03 of the UEFA Champions League regulations, the two clubs cannot face each other in next year's league phase edition of the competition.
The regulation stipulates: "In accordance with paragraph 16.03 of the UEFA Champions League regulations, the UEFA Club Competitions Committee has determined an additional condition that may be applicable to the UEFA Champions League draw for the 2026/27 season, deciding that any individual fixture between the same two teams may not be repeated in the same competition with the same home team for consecutive seasons.

So it’s not a random draw then

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Super league in all but name, lets be honest

 

[citizen_maine]

Super league in all but name, lets be honest

That means we won't need one then

 

[TinFoilHat]

So it’s not a random draw then

Real Madrid at home next season...

 

[East Level 2]

Super league in all but name, lets be honest

I'd settle for that, given the current participants.

 

[.db.]

So it’s not a random draw then

It’s never been intended to be random. There are loads of permeations and regulations that mean it can’t possibly be random.

It’s just varied rather than random.

 

[Father Paul]

So it’s not a random draw then

Who ever maintained it was to be random?
Too many insertions and conditions to prevent that. For me the new format is a vast improvement on what went before and has added a greater degree of jepordy into the qualification stage.