{"id":28206,"date":"2025-08-28T07:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/28206\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:14:07","slug":"who-can-liverpool-fc-face-in-champions-league-draw-today-dream-and-nightmare-scenario-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/28206\/","title":{"rendered":"Who can Liverpool FC face in Champions League draw today? Dream and nightmare scenario revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Premier League title win few expected has raised hopes of a stunning seventh European triumph, bolstered further by a summer spending spree of close to \u00a3300million.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds were knocked out by eventual winners Paris Saint-Germain last season in the quarter-final stage, and could come face to face with the holder in the draw.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/tottenham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>The draw takes place today, Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 5pm BST and much of it will be automated due to the sheer number of fixtures to be organised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which pot are Liverpool in for the Champions League draw?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool will be placed in Pot 1 as they have the fourth-highest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/uefa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UEFA<\/a> coefficient.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who can Liverpool face in the Champions League draw?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will produce eight opponents for every team, two from each pot. That means Tottenham will play two of the top-ranked clubs.<\/p>\n<p>They cannot play a team from their own country (Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Newcastle or Manchester City) at this stage and can only play a maximum of two teams from a different association.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot 1:<\/strong> PSG, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Barcelona<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot 2:<\/strong> Bayer Leverkusen, Atletico Madrid, Benfica, Atalanta, Villarreal, Juventus, Eintracht Frankfurt, Club Brugge<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot 3:<\/strong> PSV, Ajax, Napoli, Sporting, Olympiacos, Slavia Prague, Bodo\/Glimt, Marseille<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot 4:<\/strong> Copenhagen, Monaco, Galatasaray, Union Saint-Gilloise, Qarabag, Athletic Club, Pafos, Kairat<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dream scenario for Liverpool <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Frankfurt, Club Brugge, Olympiacos, Bodo\/Glimt, Athletic Club, Pafos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nightmare scenario for Liverpool <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PSG, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Napoli, Marseille, Galatasaray, Qarabag.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Champions League group-stage matchdays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exact make-up of each week in terms of kick-off times and match dates will be provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/uefa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UEFA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matchday 1<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>September 16-17, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matchday 2<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> September 30-October 1<strong>, <\/strong>2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matchday 3<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>October 21-22, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matchday 4<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>November 4-5, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matchday 5<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>November 25-26, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matchday 6<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>December 9-10, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matchday 7<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>January 20-21, 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matchday 8<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>January 28, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Premier League title win few expected has raised hopes of a stunning seventh European triumph, bolstered further&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[22766,18,19,17,132,19413],"class_list":{"0":"post-28206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-champions-league-draw","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uefa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}