Group Stage: September 6-7 through November 1-2.It could also lead to a few more surprise results during the group stages. Given the break for the 2022 World Cup in November, the six group matchdays will be condensed into an eight-week span which will only add to the degree of difficulty. There's an added wrinkle to this season's tournament format. That will whittle down the original field of 32 clubs to a group of 16 who will keep their trophy dreams alive. The first juncture of the competition where that will be possible is the quarter-final stage.Įach group will play a round-robin format, with each side facing the other three opponents home and away.Īt the conclusion of those six group matches, only the top two finishers in each group will advance to the knockout stage. No teams from the same nation were allowed to be drawn together at this stage. How does the Champions League group stage work? Champions League groups 2022/23Įach of the eight groups consist of four teams pulled from four different pots with the lower ranked teams spread across Pot 3 and Pot 4. It should be an emotional return for him to his adoring fans at Signal Iduna Park. Also, Erling Haaland will get a reunion with Borussia Dortmund after becoming a world star with the German side. Juventus winger Angel Di Maria will go up against his former club PSG, though he left that club on different terms than Lewandowski. After a contentious move to Barcelona over the summer with not-so-friendly words exchanged, Robert Lewandowski gets to take out his frustrations against Bayern Munich and show why he felt it was the right move. Those two groups also stand out for players facing their ex-clubs. Group H also won't be so easy with PSG, Juventus and Benfica the favorites to advance, and Maccabi Haifa likely bringing up the rear. There are a couple of candidates for the so-called 'Group of Death' with Group C featuring Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Inter Milan along with Czech side Viktoria Plzen. That path is now clear after the group-stage draw was held on Thursday, August 25 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Any team with designs on winning the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League needs to start by getting out of the group stage first.
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