GENEVA (AP) – The 32 elite Champions League groups drawn Thursday will come with 12 former winners and 4 newcomers to the biggest football club stage in Europe.
The six titles of defending champion Bayern Munich are among the 47 titles of this year’s formation for the 66th edition of the European Cup or Champions League. Real Madrid leads with thirteen titles.
Three of the 4 beginners, Krasnodar, Istanbul Baak-ehir and Midtjylland, have formed through recent mergers and have a younger combined age than the festival itself.
The other newcomer, Rennes, dates back to its history in 1901, but has never finished third in the French championship until last season.
A total of 15 countries are represented with Ferencvaros, giving Hungary access in 25 years.
The top ranked groups of the 8 groups are champions of the Champions League and Europa League – Bayern and Seville, respectively – plus the league winners of the top-ranked countries. Germain, Zenit St. Petersburg and Porto.
This is that Juventus and Cristiano Ronaldo can be drawn in a 4-entity organization with Barcelona and second seed Lionel Messi.
Here’s a look at the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League, which begins a month after the same season in a delayed season due to the coronavirus pandemic:
SOWING THE TEAMS
UEFA jackpot rankings for boats 2 to 4 are ranked according to the effects of the Champions League and Europa League over the past five years.
Leipzig and Atalanta came out of well four with the lowest ranking last season, both got into the 16 and are now in well 3.
Italians who have rarely been in the Champions League since 2015 (Inter Milan, Atalanta and Lazio) are in the bass drums 3.
The team with the lowest ranking, the 135th, Ferencvaros, is also from the country with the lowest ranking, the 33rd Hungary. It is the only organization-level team to have completed 4 qualifying rounds that began in mid-August.
DRAWING RULES
No team from the same country can be part of the same organization, which means that an organization can be made up of organizations from the 4 best-ranked leagues in Europe, so it can only be Real Madrid, Manchester City, Inter Milan and Borussia Monchengladbach.
UEFA wants the Russian and Ukrainian groups to be separated for security reasons. The rule has been in force since 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean region to Ukraine and the separatist confrontation broke out in eastern Ukraine.
Since then, Shakhtar Donetsk has not played at home at Donbass Arena. Shakhtar played his home games at the organization level in Kharkiv last season.
CORONAVIRUS EFFECT
All qualifying rounds were played in enthusiastic stadiums due to the pandemic.
UEFA hopes that some teams, with the approval of local public authorities, will allow spectators to attend the start of matches on 20 October.
Some games can be played in unbiased countries if infection rates increase as winter approaches.
UEFA said last week that the match schedule could drag on from 9 December to 28 January to play all postponed matches due to virus cases or limits.
$2. 3 BILLION PRICE FUND
In a general season, the 32 groups would be in line with a percentage of UEFA’s 1. 95 billion euros ($2. 3 billion).
This amount corresponds to the percentage of Champions League clubs with total revenue of $3. 25 billion ($3. 8 billion) from the streaming and advertising sales of UEFA club competitions.
However, this at the festival played on the punctuality schedule of the coronavirus pandemic. Last season’s praise fund lost 575 million euros ($670 million) to reimburse broadcasters for interruptions and minimize play-off matches.
The winner of Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Stadium on 29 May can expect to earn at least UEFA 120 million euros ($140 million).
The 32 clubs will have to pay a base payment of € 15. 25 million ($ 17. 8 million) or more depending on match effects, national broadcast rights holdings and a valuation of their old record. in UEFA competitions.
START TIME
The rite of the UEFA draw begins at five o’clock in the afternoon (15. 00 GMT) at the Geneva television studios.
Typical August occasion overdue in warm and humid Monaco, the plan for this late season due to a pandemic changed to pass to Athens on October 1 near Nyon.
UEFA will also award annual awards to men’s and women’s european football players and coaches last season.
SWEEPSTAKES BOATS
Hat 1: Bayern Munich (Germany), Seville (Spain), Real Madrid (Spain), Liverpool (England), Juventus (Italy), Paris Saint-Germain (France), Zenit St. Petersburg (Russia), Porto (Portugal) .
Hat 2: Barcelona (Spain), Atletico Madrid (Spain), Manchester City (England), Manchester United (England), Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Chelsea (England), Ajax (Netherlands).
Hat 3: Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine), Salzburg (Austria), Leipzig (Germany), Inter Milan (Italy), Olympiakos (Greece), Lazio (Italy), Krasnodar (Russia), Atalanta (Italy).
Hat 4: Lokomotiv Moscow (Russia), Marseille (France), Club Brugge (Belgium), Borussia Monchengladbach (Germany), Istanbul Baak-ehir (Turkey), Midtjylland (Denmark), Rennes (France), Ferencvaros (Hungary).
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