The new season is upon us and the draws to determine who
would make the group stages of the 2015/2016 UEFA champions league g
roup
stages have been completed.
UEFA seeds the teams in this manner:
League route
Seeded: Manchester United (ENG), Valencia (ESP), Bayer Leverkusen (GER), Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR), Sporting CP (POR)
Unseeded: CSKA Moskva (RUS), Lazio (ITA), Club Brugge (BEL), AS Monaco (FRA), Rapid Wien (AUT)
Champions route
Seeded: FC Basel (SUI), Celtic (SCO), APOEL (CYP), BATE Borisov (BLR), Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)
Unseeded: Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR), Partizan (SRB), Malmö (SWE), Skënderbeu (ALB), Astana (KAZ).
Due to the restriction in Russian and Ukrainian clubs meeting, Shakhtar cannot be drawn against CSKA Moskva.
The draws in full:
FC Astana vs Apoel FC
KS Skendrebu vs NSK Dinamo
Celtic FC vs Malmo FF
FC Basel vs Maccabi Tel-Aviv
FC Bate Borisov vs FK Partizan
SS Lazio vs Bayern Leverkusen
Manchester United vs Club Brugge
Sporting vs CSKA Moscow
Rapid Wien vs Shakter Donesk
Valencia vs AS Monaco
Ties will be played on 18/19 and 25/26 August, the ten winners joining the 22 clubs automatically qualified for the group stage.
The teams already in the group stages include: Barcelona (holders),
Bayern München, Chelsea, Benfica, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, Zenit,
PSV Eindhoven, Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid, FC Porto, Arsenal,
Manchester City, Sevilla, Olympique Lyonnais, Dynamo Kyiv, Olympiacos,
Galatasaray, AS Roma, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Wolfsburg, KAA Gent.
Meanwhile in the Europa league, UEFA seeded the teams in this manner:
Seedings (seeds in bold)
Group 1
1 Athletic Club (ESP)
2 Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)
3 Steaua Bucureşti (ROU)
4 Legia Warszawa (POL)
5 Belenenses (POR)
6 Rosenborg (NOR)
7 Zorya Luhank (UKR)
8 Žilina (SVK)
9 Vojvodina (SRB)
10 Altach (AUT)
Group 2
1 Ajax (NED)
2 PAOK (GRE)
3 Young Boys (SUI)
4 Standard Liège (BEL)
5 Saint-Étienne (FRA)
6 Qarabağ (AZE)
7 Molde (NOR)
8 Jablonec (CZE)
9 Brøndby (DEN)
10 Milsami Orhei (MDA)
Group 3
1 Rubin Kazan (RUS)
2 FC Salzburg (AUT)
3 Fenerbahçe (TUR)
4 Girondins de Bordeaux (FRA)
5 Lech Poznań (POL)
6 Slovan Liberec (CZE)
7 Hajduk Split (CRO)
8 Atromitos (GRE)
9 Dinamo Minsk (BLR)
10 Videoton (HUN)
11 Rabotnicki (MLD)
12 Kairat Almaty (KAZ)
Group 4
1 Borussia Dortmund (GER)
2 AZ Alkmaar (NED)
3 Sparta Praha (CZE)
4 Panathinaikos (GRE)
5 Southampton (ENG)
6 FC Krasnodar (RUS)
7 HJK Helsinki (FIN)
8 FC Thun (SUI)
9 Astra Giurgiu (ROU)
10 Midtjylland (DEN)
11 Odds BK (NOR)
12 Qäbälä (AZE)
Ties will be played on 20th and 27th of August with the 22 winners
going into the group stage draw in Monaco on 28 August along with 16
automatic entrants and the ten teams defeated in the UEFA Champions
League play-off draw.
The automatic entrants into the group stages are: Schalke 04 (GER),
Napoli (ITA), Tottenham Hotspur (ENG), Villarreal (ESP), Olympique de
Marseille (FRA), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (UKR), Braga (POR), Fiorentina
(ITA) , Anderlecht (BEL), Liverpool (ENG), Beşiktaş (TUR), Lokomotiv
Moskva (RUS), Augsburg (GER), Asteras Tripolis (GRE), FC Groningen
(NED), Sion (SUI).
The draws in full:
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