Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will renew their rivalry.
Liverpool will face Ajax, Atalanta and Midtjylland at Champions League level, where Barcelona will face Juventus after Thursday’s draw in Geneva.
The Premier League champions, who have won the European Cup six times, were in the top 8 most sensitive seed and entered Group D.
Europe’s heavyweights, Barca, 8-2 through eventual champion Bayern Munich in last season’s singles semi-finals, have been tied for Juve in Group G, in which Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will renew their rivalry. Also in this organization are Dynamo Kyiv and Ferencvaros. Hungaria.
Manchester City tied for Porto, Olympiacos and Marseille in Group C.
Manchester United are in Group H, where they will face last season’s runner-up Paris St Germain as RB Leipzig and Istanbul Basaksehir.
In Group E, Chelsea placed alongside Europa League winners Sevilla, Krasnodar and Rennes Bayern’s starters are in Group A with Atletico Madrid, Salzburg and Lokomotiv Moscow.
Group B will see Real Madrid, a record holder of thirteen European Cup titles, take on Inter Milan, Shakhtar Donetsk and Borussia Monchengladbach.
Zenit St. Petersburg is the most sensible in Group F, where Borussia Dortmund, Lazio and Club Bruges will be measured.
Champions League opening matches will be played on October 20 and 21, and the calendar will be shown on Friday night.
The 2021 Champions League final will be held at Istanbul’s Ataturk Stadium on 29 May.
At the ceremony, Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne was named the men’s midfielder of the season in the Champions League.
“It’s nice. In the Champions League, you play against the most productive players in the world and I need to compete with them,” the Belgian foreigner said in a broadcast on the UEFA website.
More in this section
In hand. . .
© Irish Examiner Ltd, Linn Dubh, Assumption Road, Blackpool, Cork Engraved in Ireland: 523712.