GROUP B: Benfica, Napoli, Dynamo Kiev, Besiktas.
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The East Midlands stands to benefit from Leicester City’s European adventure after the club found out its Champions League opponents, says the region’s airport.
GROUP A: Paris St Germain, Arsenal, Basel, Ludogorets.
Defending champions Madrid will face Borussia Dortmund in Group F, with Cristiano Ronaldo returning to his first club to face Sporting and Legia Warsaw completing their list of first-round opponents.
Bayern Munich has been in the semifinals in the recent years while Atletico is a big club and has reached the final twice in the last two years.
Points will be yielded for past European titles yet weighted towards later achievement in the Champions league and Europa League.
After leaving the Nou Camp, the former Spain midfielder took charge of German side Bayern Munich and lost to his former side in the 2014-15 Champions League semi-finals.
Manchester City – now under the guidance of manager Pep Guardiola – were that club from the Premier League as they overcame Steaua Bucuresti 6-0 on aggregate.
“However, we will monitor this issue and these changes very closely and pledge to continue to fight to protect the best interests of Scottish football in the wider European and global context”.
Group C: Barcelona, Man. City, Borussia Monchengladbach, Celtic.
Bayern, now under triple Champions League victor Carlo Ancelotti, will have a quick chance to avenge last season’s semifinal defeat by Atletico Madrid after it was paired together in Group D along with PSV Eindhoven and group stage debutants Rostov.
It was just such a failure to protect a Champions League play-off lead against Malmo past year that ensured that – in the eyes of the Hoops support – Ronny Deila was a dead man walking for the rest of the season.
From the 2018 season, a Champions League groups slot will be guaranteed to the previous season’s Europa League victor.
As such, it grants an extra place to Serie A (or whomever is within that top four at the time) and means that half of the group stage allocations are taken up by that block of 16.
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“With the history of all the clubs we could have been drawn against, it was always going to be an interesting draw”, said Foxes director of football Jon Rudkin.
