Bayern to play Barcelona in Champions League group stage, Man City to meet Dortmund
Bayern Munich and Barcelona will play each other in the Champions League group stage. Erling Haaland will face his former club Borussia Dortmund. Manchester City will meet Borrusia Dortmund in Group G. The draw for the group stages was made in Turkey on Thursday. Bayern beat Barcelona 8-2 in a one-off quarter-final in Lisbon in 2020.
Liverpool will play Ajax, Napoli and Rangers in Group A. Real Madrid will face Celtic, RB Leipzig and Shakhtar Donetsk in the Group F. It is the third season running in which Real and Shaktar have been placed in same group. The war in Ukraine continues to rage. Rangers were demoted to the Scottish fourth tier in 2012.
Bayern will play Barcelona in Champions League group stage. PSG will meet Juventus, Benfica, Maccabi Haifa and AC Milan in Group H. Chelsea will take on ACMilan, Tottenham Hotspur will face Eintracht Frankfurt, Sporting Lisbon and Marseille in the Group D. Porto and Atletico Madrid meet for the second season running in a group with Bayer Leverkusen and Club Brugge. The first round of games will be played on September 6 and 7.
