🥇 2022/23 UEFA Champions League Draw and Award Night

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 4:24pm

The 2022/23 UEFA Champions League group stage draw will take place today, August 25. The draw ceremony is being held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Twenty-six teams qualified automatically for the Champions League group stage via their 2021/22 league position, while six further teams booked their places via the play-offs.

The POTS

Pot 1: Ajax, Bayern Munich, Eintracht Frankfurt, Man City, AC Milan, PSG, Porto, Real Madrid
Pot 2: Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Juventus, Liverpool, RB Leipzig, Sevilla, Tottenham
Pot 3: Benfica, Borussia Dortmund, Inter Milan, Bayer Leverkusen, Napoli, Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sporting
Pot 4: Celtic, Club Brugge, Copenhagen, Maccabi Haifa, Marseille, Viktoria Plzen, Rangers, Dinamo Zagreb

This is a thread for this season’s UEFA Champions League Draw. Join the discussion and share your views.

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:02pm

The 2022-23 Champions League group stage is set

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:04pm

Sarina Wiegman is named UEFA Women’s Coach of the Year

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:05pm

Sarina Wiegman is the only manager in European Championship history to win a senior tournament with two different nations.

2017: WWWWW:trophy:
2022: WWWWW:trophy:

UEFA Women’s Coach of the Year.

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:06pm

Carlo Ancelotti is the UEFA Men’s Coach of the Year

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:07pm

◉ First manager to win a league title in each of Europe’s top five divisions

◉ First manager to win four Champions League finals

◉ First manager to win four UEFA Super Cup finals

Carlo Ancelotti is the UEFA Men’s Coach of the Year.

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:09pm

0 - Liverpool have never previously faced Rangers in a competitive match. The Reds’ only previous European Cup/Champions League meeting with a Scottish opponent was in the 1980-81 last 16, beating Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen 5-0 on aggregate en route to winning the title. First.

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:15pm

3 - Each of the last three European meetings between Chelsea and Milan have been drawn, with their last coming in the 1999-00 Champions League first group stage. Throwback.

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:16pm

Alexia Putellas is the UEFA Women’s Player of the Year

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:24pm

Karim Benzema is the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year

Magnifique

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:25pm

Alexia Putellas’ 2021/22 season by numbers:

◎ 42 goals
◎ 21 assists
◎ Ballon d’Or
◎ UCL Golden Boot
◎ The Best Women’s Player
◉ UEFA Women’s Player of the Year

Another award for Alexia.

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:27pm

Karim Benzema’s 2021/22 season for club & country:

◎ 50 goals
◎ 16 assists
◎ LaLiga
◎ Supercopa
◎ Nations League
◎ Champions League
◎ UCL Player of the Season
◎ UCL Golden Boot
◎ Pichichi Trophy
◉ UEFA Men’s Player of the Year

King Karim.

Goodness · August 25, 2022, 5:28pm

8 - Man City have won each of their last eight Champions League home games against German opponents; those eight games have seen a combined 39 goals, with the Citizens scoring 30 and conceding nine. Expectant.