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Manchester City will discover their Champions League opponents on Thursday when the League Phase draw takes place.
Manchester City will be among the top seeds when the Champions League draw takes place this evening.
City, winners in 2023, will be in pot one for the League Phase draw which begins at 5pm on Thursday. The Blues were knocked out in the Play-Off round last season by Real Madrid but they had reached at least the quarter-finals in the seven years prior to that and so retain a high UEFA Co-efficient ranking, which is what the pots are based on.
Pep Guardiola's side will play eight matches in the new-look format, which was introduced last year. That will include four home fixtures and four away against two teams from each pot.
But clubs cannot play sides from their own domestic leagues, meaning City will avoid Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Newcastle United and Tottenham, while clubs can only play a maximum of two matches against teams from the same country. For example, City cannot play all of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.
City are joined in pot one by fellow Premier League sides Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea meaning they will play two of PSG, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona in the league phase.
Pot two contains Arsenal, Bayer Leverkusen, Benfica, Atletico Madrid, Atalanta. Villarreal, Juventus, Eintracht Frankfurt, Club Brugge
Pot three includes Tottenham, Dutch pair PSV and Ajax, Napoli, Sporting Lisbon, Olympiacos, Slavia Prague, Marseille, Bodo Glimt
Newcastle are in pot four with Monaco, Galatasaray, Union Saint-Gilloise, Athletic Bilbao, Pafos, Kairat, Copenhagen and Qarabag
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