Real Madrid, holding the title, inherited the Germans of the RB Leipzig, the Ukrainians from the Chakhtar Donetsk and the Celtic Glasgow Scottish.
Le Monde
During the draw for the group phase of the Champions League, carried out Thursday, August 25 in Istanbul, Olympique de Marseille was relatively spared by inheriting the Germans of the Eintracht Frankfurt, the English of Tottenham and Portuguese of Sporting Portugal in group D.
Paris-Saint-Germain, protected by its seeded status, appears in a group largely within its reach, the hen H being composed of Juventus Turin, Benfica Lisbon and the Maccabi Haïfa.
Real Madrid, holding the title, will meet the Germans of the RB Leipzig, the Ukrainians of the Chakhtar Donetsk and the Celtic Glasgow Scotties in the F. group of Madrid, he will play against FC Porto, the Bayer Leverkusen and FC Bruges.
FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich will compete in the shock of group C with Inter Milan and FC Viktoria Plzen. It will be the return to Bavaria of Star striker Robert Lewandowski, just a few weeks after his transfer to Catalonia from Bayern.
Among the duels to follow, the confrontation between AC Milan and Chelsea will be one of the great moments of the group phase, in Pool E. But the two stables seem much superior to FC Salzburg and Dinamo Zagreb, other group teams.
In group A, Ajax Amsterdam will face Liverpool, Naples and the Glasgow Rangers while, in Poule G, will play Manchester City, FC Seville, Borussia Dortmund and FC Copenhagen.
Group A: Ajax Amsterdam, Liverpool, Naples and Glasgow Rangers.
Group B: FC Porto, Atlético de Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen and FC Bruges.
Group C: Bayern Munich, FC Barcelona, Inter Milan and FC Viktoria Plzen.
Group D: Eintracht Frankfurt, Tottenham Hotspur, Sporting Portugal and Olympique de Marseille.
Group E: AC Milan, Chelsea, RB Salzburg and Dinamo Zagreb.
Group F: Real Madrid, RB Leipzig, Chakhtar Donetsk and Celtic Glasgow.
Group G: Manchester City, FC Seville, Borussia Dortmund and FC Copenhagen
Group H: Paris-Saint-Germain, Juventus Turin, Benfica and Maccabi Haïfa