{"id":377706,"date":"2025-08-27T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377706\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:23:11","slug":"who-can-tottenham-face-in-champions-league-dream-and-nightmare-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377706\/","title":{"rendered":"Who can Tottenham face in Champions League? Dream and nightmare draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/newsletter_tottenham_embed_desktop.png\" alt=\"Tottenham Hotspurs Football Newsletter\" width=\"158px\" height=\"158px\" class=\"sc-fbFiXs buKFXK\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Europa League winners are back at the table after two and a half seasons away, and face the new League Ph<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/arsenal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ase for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs do not yet know in which pot they will be placed for Thursday\u2019s draw was the sit on the threshold between Pot 2 and Pot 3, but plenty of tricky ties await in any scenario.<\/p>\n<p>The draw takes place on 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>New Spurs boss Thomas Frank may have enjoyed a perfect start to his tenure in the Premier League, but is braced for a first exposure to Champions League football.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which pot are Tottenham in for the Champions League draw?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tottenham will be placed in Pot 2 or Pot 3, with their final placing to be confirmed following the conclusion of the play-off round on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who can Tottenham 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, Liverpool, 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, Atalanta, Villarreal, Juventus, Eintracht Frankfurt<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot 3:<\/strong> PSV, Ajax, Napoli, Sporting, Olympiacos, Slavia Prague, Bodo\/Glimt, Marseille<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot 4:<\/strong> Monaco, Galatasaray, Union Saint-Gilloise, Athletic Club, Pafos, Kairat<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dream scenario for Tottenham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Villarreal, Frankfurt, PSV, Slavia Prague, Pafos, Kairat<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nightmare scenario for Tottenham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PSG, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Napoli, Marseille, Monaco, Galatasaray<\/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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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":"The Europa League winners are back at the table after two and a half seasons away, and face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[131324,79,6536,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-377706","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-sports","10":"tag-uefa","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115100949301399530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}