Champions League draw: Real Madrid faces two strong rivals; Barcelona plays Juventus, Bayern meets Paris

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　　At 0:00 on August 25th, Beijing time (18:00 on the 24th, Monaco local time), the UEFA Champions League group stage draw and the UEFA Best Player in Europe award ceremony were held at the Grimaldi Conference Center in Monte Carlo. Real Madrid, Dortmund, and Tottenham are in the same group ； Barcelona drew Juventus ； Paris is in the same group as Bayern. 　　The specific draw results are as follows: Group A: Benfica, Manchester United, Basel, CSKA Moscow. Group B: Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, Anderlecht, Celtic. Group C: Chelsea, Atlético Madrid, Roma, Karabakh. Group D: Juventus, Barcelona, Olympiacos, Sporting CP. Group E: Spartak Moscow, Sevilla, Liverpool, Maribor. Group F: Shakhtar Donetsk, Manchester City, Napoli, Feyenoord. Group G: Monaco, Porto, Besiktas, RB Leipzig. Group H: Real Madrid, Dortmund, Tottenham Hotspur, Panathinaikos. The UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds will conclude this week, determining the 10 teams that will advance to the group stage; these teams will join the 22 teams that qualified directly for the competition in this draw. For the first time, 5 teams from the Premier League have made it through, while 4 teams are from La Liga. In Serie A, 3 teams are participating in the Champions League knockout stages for the first time since the 2013-14 season; in the Bundesliga, only 3 teams remain after Hoffenheim was eliminated. The defending champions and the champions of the top 7 UEFA leagues enter Tier 1 directly, while the other clubs are divided into 3 tiers based on their UEFA competition points from the past 5 seasons. During the drawing, one team is selected from each group to form a group, resulting in a total of 8 groups; teams from the same league cannot be in the same group. 　　The first round of the group stage will take place on September 12/13, followed by five further rounds on September 26/27, October 17/18, October 31/November 1, November 21/22, and December 5/6. The top two teams in the group advance to the round of 16 knockout stage, where they will take part in the draw for that stage on December 11 in Nyon. The team that finishes third in the group advances to the Round of 32 of the League Cup. The final will be held on May 26 next year at the Olympic **Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine.