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Matt Verri

Champions League group stage draw LIVE! Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester City and Liverpool learn fate

Champions League draw - LIVE!

With less than two weeks until the Champions League group stage gets underway, the 32 teams in the hat found out their opponents. All six group-stage matches will be played in the space of two months, before European football takes a break ahead of the World Cup.

Manchester City and Liverpool are the two favourites for this season’s competition, with Pep Guardiola in particular desperate to finally win the competition with City, while Chelsea have a strong record under Thomas Tuchel and Tottenham return to Europe’s top table. There is plenty of Scottish interest too, with Rangers and Celtic featuring in the group stage together for the first time since the 2007/08 season.

Defending champions Real Madrid will always be confident of continental success, and PSG will hope their star-studded frontline can at last inspire the club to a first Champions League title.

A: Ajax, Liverpool, Napoli, Rangers

B: Porto, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Club Brugges

C: Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Viktoria Plzen

D: Eintracht Frankfurt, Tottenham Hotspur, Sporting Lisbon, Marseille

E: AC Milan, Chelsea, Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb

F: Real Madrid, RB Leipzig, Shakhtar Donetsk, Celtic

G: Manchester City, Sevilla, Borussia Dortmund, Copenhagen

H: Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, Benfica, Maccabi Haifa

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