On Thursday evening, August 28, 2025, the league draw ceremony was held at the Champions League in the “Grimaldi Foreome” hall in Monaco, and the results resulted in exciting confrontations and expected clashes between the senior continent.
Details of the league stage in the Champions League
The lottery produced a huge schedule of 144 games to take place over eight rounds between September 2025 and January 2026, where each team will play 8 games (4 at home and 4 outside its stadium). According to the new system, those with the first eight ranks will qualify directly to the round of 16, while the teams from the ninth to the twenty -fourth are attached to the other qualified.
Why was the draw for English clubs easy?
The lot was very positive for Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool and Chelsea, as it was classified by “OPTA Power Rankings” statistics among the eight easiest championship schedules. Arsenal, led by Mikel Artita, was the largest beneficiary after he was placed in the third easiest group, as he will face less powerful teams such as Olympiacos, Slavia Prague and Kiraat Al Kazakhi, with 474 globally.
As for Tottenham, confrontations will take place against Borussia Dortmund, Villarreal, Eintracht Frankfurt and Bodo Glimt, all of which are classified at medium levels. Liverpool will collide with balanced teams such as Eintracht Frankfurt, Marseille, Qara Bagh, and Galata Saray. On the other hand, Chelsea meets with Ajax, Qara Bagh, and the Cypriot Pavos, who participates for the first time in its history.
Who is the greater beneficiary of the presence of kirat?
The Opta analysis revealed that the ease of the Arsenal group is mainly due to the presence of the Kerarat team, the weak Awati, as excluding its matches from the accounts transports “artillery” from third to fifteenth in the list of the easiest tables. This means that the teams that will face Kiraat appear to appear most, given that the victory over it is almost guaranteed, which gives it three points that may represent 20% of the qualification balance towards the round of 16.
Bayern and Saint -Germain in the most difficult situation
On the other hand, some major teams suffered from the difficulty of the lottery, led by Bayern Munich and Paris Saint -Germain.
Bayern will collide with strong teams, most notably Chelsea, Arsenal, Sporting Lisbon, and Union San Gillois, who is 32 globally.
As for Paris Saint -Germain, it will be in a fiery confrontation with Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham, Newcastle United and Atletic Bilbao, making his journey more complicated from the beginning.
Among the English clubs, Newcastle came in the most difficult half, where he ranked fifth in terms of the difficulty of the matches after being placed with Barcelona, Paris Saint -Germain, Bayer Leverkusen, Benfica, Union Saint Gilwais and Athletic Bilbao.
