UEFA Champions League 2012-13 Group Stage Draw

[matfcb]

Updated pots for CL group stage draw:

Pot 1
FC Barcelona
Manchester United
Chelsea
Bayern Munich
Real Madrid
Porto
Internazionale

Pot 2
Milan
Lyon
Shakhtar Donetsk
Valencia
Benfica
Villarreal
CSKA Moscow
Marseille

Pot 3
Zenit St. Petersburg
Ajax
Bayer Leverkusen
Olympiacos
Manchester City
Lille
Basel
BATE Borisov

Pot 4
Borussia Dortmund
Napoli
Dinamo Zagreb
APOEL
Trabzonspor
Genk
Viktoria Plzeň
Oţelul Galaţi

The draw is on 25th August 2011 at 17:45 CET.

[IndoCulé]

Napoli is on pot 4? How bizzare. I thought they qualified automatically...

I'd love to see us face Dortmund, Zagreb / Genk.
No more Rubin Kazan please. They are a nightmare to Barca.

[Magus]

Any team from pot 4 with the condition of not travelling to a refrigerator(like Rubin)

And I wanna see all 4 spanish teams in the First Knockout Round, but can't bet on Villareal or Valencia.

[LeeRomeno]

pretty cool if we have a death group this year (not for us though):
Milan
Villareal
Manchester City
Dortmund

would be cool to see.
I think the rules state that teams from same country are in different groups right?
Id like to see:
Barca, Marseille, Olympiacos, APOEL for example for an easy group.

[Magus]

Rubin is out. Lyon won with 4-2 on agg. Fener is also out. Uefa kicked them due to suspicion on arranged games. Bursaspor(more likely), Liverpool(due to its coefficient) or a team that was eliminated in this qualifying round(also, the best coefficient wins) will take their place.
Let's see Arsenal.

[dee08fcb]

trabzonspor replace fener

http://www.uefa.com/uefa/footballfirst/ ... ons+league

[Magus]

Arsenal qualifies. Also Bate Borisov, Benfica, Viktoria Plzen and Lyon as I've previously stated.

[matfcb]

My dream group: FC Barcelona, Benfica, Basel, Viktoria Plzeň
Group of death: FC Barcelona, Milan, Manchester City, Borussia Dortmund

[IndoCulé]

Group of death: FC Barcelona, Milan, Manchester City, Borussia Dortmund

Very unlikely we will get this group.

I personally would like to avoid Man City on the group stage. They are pretty strong team and made a good start in EPL.

[conorcasey]

I would like to have arsenal in our group if they're not pot 1. I never get tired of kicking their butt lol

[Magus]

I want Otelul in our group so I can go to Bucharest and see the match
Otelul is very, very weak. Messi can become the CL Top Goalscorer after only 1 match against them.

[pabz]

I want Otelul in our group so I can go to Bucharest and see the match
Otelul is very, very weak. Messi can become the CL Top Goalscorer after only 1 match against them.

That be great..How far you from Bucharest are you Mags?

[Magus]

pffft... 3h by car, 250Km... piece of cake :)))

[IndoCulé]

Can anyone be kind enough to provide me the time in GMT for the draw? UEFA.com only gave 17:45 CET, I believe that's US Central Eastern Time?

[Magus]

it's... NOW