FC Porto, Sporting and Benfica are part of the draw for this Thursday’s Football Champions League group stage, with the national champions in pot 1 and the rivals from Lisbon in 3, without avoiding a top seed.
For the second consecutive year, Portugal will be represented by three clubs in the Champions League, after the direct classification of the dragons and lions, with the first two places in the I League, and the eagles, after beating Midtjylland and Dinamo kyiv. .
In the draw scheduled for Istanbul, Turkey, the city that will host the final of the competition, on June 10, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. (Lisbon time), FC Porto appears among the eight members of the first potWeather Sporting and Benfica appear in the third.
In this way, FC Porto will avoid Manchester City, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, Ajax, Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt, all possible rivals in green and white and red.
Rivals for all Portuguese clubs, including Liverpool, Chelsea, FC Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, Leipzig and Tottenham, will emerge from the second pot, as well as from the fourth, which theoretically has more accessible rivals, such as Rangers, Dinamo Zagreb , Maccabi Haifa, Marseille, Copenhagen, Club Brugge, Celtic and Viktoria Plzen.
The six matches of the group stage will be played over a period of eight weeks between September 6 and November 2 because the 2022 World Cup will take place in Qatar between November 20 and 18.
Composition of the pots for the draw for the 2022/23 edition of the Football Champions League:
- Boat 1:
Real Madrid (Spa)
Eintracht Frankfurt (Beer)
Manchester City (English)
AC Milan (Ita)
Bayern Munich (Beer)
Paris Saint-Germain (France)
FC PORTO (BY)
Ajax (Vacation)
- Boat 2:
Liverpool (English)
Chelsea (English)
FC Barcelona (Spa)
Juventus (Italy)
Atletico Madrid (Spain)
Seville (Spa)
Leipzig (beer)
Tottenham (English)
- Pot 3:
Borussia Dortmund (Ale)
Salzburg (Australia)
Shakhtar Donetsk (beer)
Inter Milan (ITA)
Naples (Ita)
BÉNFICA (BY)
SPORTY (BY)
Bayer Leverkusen (Beer)
- Pot 4:
Ranger (Esc)
Dinamo Zagreb (Cro)
Maccabi Haifa (Isr)
Marseille (France)
Copenhagen (Din)
Club Brugge (Belgium)
Celtic (Esc)
Viktoria Plzen (Che)
Source: Observadora
