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The league phase draw for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League took place at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on 29 August 2024, 18:00 CEST. [12] [13] The 36 teams were divided into four pots of nine teams each based on their UEFA club coefficient, except for the Champions League title holders, who were automatically placed as the top seed in pot 1.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the competition's all-time top scorer with 140 goals. The UEFA Champions League, known until 1992 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or colloquially as the European Cup, is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955. Originally a straight knockout competition open only to champion clubs ...
As a result, certain sets of teams, such as the top two from the league phase, cannot meet until the final. The structure of each side of the bracket can be summarised as follows, with the exact pairings of the play-offs and round of 16 determined by a draw: [ note 2 ]
Holders Manchester City are joined by Manchester United, Arsenal, Newcastle and Celtic in the group stage of the Champions League
Schedule for 2023–24 UEFA Champions League Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg Qualifying Preliminary round 13 June 2023 27 June 2023 (semi-finals) 30 June 2023 (final) First qualifying round 20 June 2023 11–12 July 2023 18–19 July 2023 Second qualifying round 21 June 2023 25–26 July 2023 1–2 August 2023 Third qualifying round
The 2024–25 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round began on 9 July and ended on 28 August 2024. [1]A total of 52 teams competed in the qualifying system, which included the qualifying phase and the play-off round, with 42 teams in the Champions Path and 10 teams in the League Path.
Cristiano Ronaldo made 183 UEFA Champions League appearances, the most in the competition. Since the rebranding of the European Champion Clubs' Cup to UEFA Champions League in 1992 at the start of the 1992–93 season, a total of 50 players have managed to make at least 100 appearances in the competition. [1]
Celtic also won their secondary domestic cup competition, the Scottish League Cup, in the 1966–67 season and it is the only European club historically that was able to achieve four major titles in one season (UEFA Champions League, top national league, the main domestic cup competition, and the second domestic cup championship; This does not ...