Barcelona will likely be in Pot 1 of seeds for the league section draw of the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League, and for the second successive season it is as a result of Roma missed out on the ultimate day.
Final season, Roma would have been within the Champions League had Atalanta completed in fifth place in Serie A, however they completed high 4. This season, Juventus secured fourth place on the ultimate day, once more consigning Roma to the UEFA Europa League.
The Champions League holders and the eight golf equipment with the perfect efficiency in Europe over the previous 5 seasons get a spot in Pot 1. Roma are ranked ninth, with Barcelona in tenth. As Roma missed out, Barcelona transfer as much as Pot 1.
Manchester Metropolis additionally confirmed their place in Pot 1 with a 2-0 win at Fulham, making certain they’d end third within the Premier League.
Chelsea, who play Actual Betis within the UEFA Convention League closing on Wednesday, may also be in Pot 1 after they gained 1-0 at Nottingham Forest on the ultimate day.
Nonetheless, with every group being drawn in opposition to two golf equipment from the 4 pots to create eight fixtures, the seeding of the pots now has restricted relevance — the groups in Pot 1 usually are not prevented from taking part in one another.
As this new system throws up so many options, nearly all of the draw is accomplished by a pc. A group will likely be drawn from Pot 1 in conventional fashion, after which the method of choosing that membership’s opponents will likely be carried out routinely.
The highest eight go straight by way of to the spherical of 16, positions eight to 24 play in a two-legged knockout playoff spherical and people positioned twenty fifth to thirty sixth are eradicated. There is no such thing as a longer any dropdown into the Europa League.
The draw for the group stage takes place on Thursday, Aug. 28.
POT 1
Actual Madrid
Manchester Metropolis
Bayern Munich
Liverpool
Paris Saint-Germain
Internazionale
Chelsea
Borussia Dortmund
Barcelona
POT 2
Arsenal
Bayer Leverkusen
Atlético Madrid
Benfica (should come by way of qualifying)
Atalanta
Villarreal
Juventus
Eintracht Frankfurt
Membership Brugge (should come by way of qualifying)
Rangers (should come by way of qualifying)
Shakhtar Donetsk (should come by way of qualifying)
Pots 3 and 4 will rely upon which golf equipment come by way of qualifying, with Tottenham Hotspur shifting as much as Pot 2 if Benfica and/or Membership Brugge fail to make it to the league section. PSV Eindhoven are the one different membership who can transfer up from Pot 3 to Pot 2.
Ajax Amsterdam, Napoli, Sporting CP, Olympiacos, Slavia Prague and Marseille are sure to be in Pot 3.
Pot 4 is the doubtless vacation spot for Celtic, AS Monaco, Athletic Membership and Newcastle United.
