Champions League 2026-27 league phase draw: Arsenal to play Real Madrid, Manchester City face PSG and Barça – live
Uefa draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET) Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky Takes us back to the Champions League final in 2011, David. “2011 was an amazing year for me and the club!” That’s more like it! Ceferin awkwardly exits the stage after a slightly stilted chat with Henry. The former Arsenal man is sticking around to help with the draw and David Villa is joining him! Continue reading...
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- The Guardian
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- England / United Kingdom
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- 27 Aug 2026, 17:16 UTC
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- John Ashdown
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- Champions League
Uefa draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET) Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky Takes us back to the Champions League final in 2011, David. “2011 was an amazing year for me and the club!” That’s more like it! Ceferin awkwardly exits the stage after a slightly stilted chat with Henry. The former Arsenal man is sticking around to help with the draw and David Villa is joining him! Continue reading...
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Champions League 2026-27 league phase draw: Arsenal to play Real Madrid, Manchester City face PSG and Barça – live
Uefa draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET) Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky Takes us back to the Champions League final in 2011, David. “2011 was an amazing year for me and the club!” That’s more like it! Ceferin awkwardly exits the stage after a slightly stilted chat with Henry. The former Arsenal man is sticking around to help with the draw and David Villa is joining him! Continue reading...
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Champions League 2026-27 league phase draw: Arsenal to play Real Madrid, Manchester City face PSG and Barça – live
Uefa draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET) Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky Takes us back to the Champions League final in 2011, David. “2011 was an amazing year for me and the club!” That’s more like it! Ceferin awkwardly exits the stage after a slightly stilted chat with Henry. The former Arsenal man is sticking around to help with the draw and David Villa is joining him! Continue reading...
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Champions League 2026-27 league phase draw: Arsenal to play Real Madrid, Manchester City face PSG and Barça – live
Uefa draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET) Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky Takes us back to the Champions League final in 2011, David. “2011 was an amazing year for me and the club!” That’s more like it! Ceferin awkwardly exits the stage after a slightly stilted chat with Henry. The former Arsenal man is sticking around to help with the draw and David Villa is joining him! Continue reading...
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Champions League 2026-27 league phase draw: Arsenal to play Real Madrid, and Manchester City face PSG and Barça – live
Uefa draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET) Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky Takes us back to the Champions League final in 2011, David. “2011 was an amazing year for me and the club!” That’s more like it! Ceferin awkwardly exits the stage after a slightly stilted chat with Henry. The former Arsenal man is sticking around to help with the draw and David Villa is joining him! Continue reading...
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Uefa Champions League 2026-27: league phase draw – live
Draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET) Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky Takes us back to the Champions League final in 2011, David. “2011 was an amazing year for me and the club!” That’s more like it! Ceferin awkwardly exits the stage after a slightly stilted chat with Henry. The former Arsenal man is sticking around to help with the draw and David Villa is joining him! Continue reading...
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Uefa Champions League 2026-27: league phase draw – live
Draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET) Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky The next award – the Uefa President’s Award – seems to be basically for whoever Uefa feels like giving an award to. It was Zlatan Ibrahimovic last year, it’s Thierry Henry this time. Alexi Lalas in 2027? Ceferin dishes out a new award – the Respect Award – for fair play to Marquinhos, for his actions in the aftermath of PSG’s win over
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Uefa Champions League 2026-27: league phase draw – live
Draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET) Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky What’s the dream draw here for the Premier League teams? Inter and Atlético from pot one perhaps? Club Brugge and Betis from two, Lille and Feyenoord from three? Lask and Viking from four? And the nightmare? PSG, Barcelona, Dortmund, Sporting, Napoli, Galatasaray, Como, Lens maybe? To be fair, the pots do seem to be well structured – s
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Uefa Champions League 2026-27: league phase draw – live
Draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET) Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky The draw is pretty straightforward. Each team is allocated eight opponents, with four home games and four away games. Two opponents are taken from each seeding pot and teams cannot meet a team from their own country. Then we have the matches, played between September and January. Goals are scored, hearts are broken, stuff happens. When
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Uefa Champions League 2026-27: league phase draw – live
Draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET) Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky Hello all and welcome to live coverage of the league phase draw for this season’s Champions League. The 36 teams – 36! – will discover their various opponents, home and away and there are sure to be some mouthwatering ties thrown up. It’ll be the third edition of the Champions League in the One Big Group format, which seemed unwieldy a
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