{"id":659801,"date":"2026-08-27T20:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/659801\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:02:18","slug":"champions-league-draw-liverpool-fc-handed-curtis-jones-reunion-and-atletico-madrid-test-in-league-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/659801\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League draw: Liverpool FC handed Curtis Jones reunion and Atletico Madrid test in league phase"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Curtis Jones is set to face his former club in the Champions League<\/p>\n

Getty<\/p>\n

Andoni Iraola\u2019s side have also been handed favourable home fixtures against Porto, Villarreal and Lens, though face a tough trip to Turkey to face a Fenerbahce side that features many former Premier League players including Romelu Lukaku, N\u2019Golo Kante, Nathan Ake and Ederson.<\/p>\n

Liverpool also have away games in Belgium and Austria to face Club Brugge and LASK, who produced a stunning comeback in the play-offs to eliminate Celtic, respectively.<\/p>\n

Liverpool Champions League fixtures in full:<\/p>\n

Champions League league phase matchdays<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exact make-up of each week in terms of kick-off times and match dates will be provided by UEFA.<\/p>\n

Matchday 1: <\/strong>September 8-10, 2026<\/p>\n

Matchday 2: <\/strong>October 13\/14, 2026<\/p>\n

Matchday 3: <\/strong>October 20\/21, 2026<\/p>\n

Matchday 4: <\/strong>November 3\/4, 2026<\/p>\n

Matchday 5: <\/strong>November 24\/25, 2026<\/p>\n

Matchday 6: <\/strong>December 8\/9, 2026<\/p>\n

Matchday 7:<\/strong> January 19\/20, 2026<\/p>\n

Matchday 8: <\/strong>January 27, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curtis Jones is set to face his former club in the Champions League Getty Andoni Iraola\u2019s side have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[28691,9,10,8822,18,13,14,6,19,15942,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-659801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-curtis-jones","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-inter-milan","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117169262569373655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659801","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=659801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}