Paris: Chelsea holders and their rivals among European elites will find their opponents in the UEFA Champions League this season when the group’s lottery was made in Istanbul at 1600 GMT.
Turkish Metropolis has missed the host competition in each of the last two seasons, with restrictions relating to the pandemic who saw the game moved at the last minute to Portugal in a row.
Therefore Chelsea beat Manchester City in Porto in May and they were both English football who had flexed their financial muscles on the market during the summer would be a favorite throughout the season.
“Nobody wants to rest.
I want the next one, the next title,” Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel after winning the trophy.
City Chelsea and Pep Guardiola are both in the first pan of seeds to draw, in a ceremony that will also see UEFA giving prizes for the best players last season from the short list of three Jorghinho, N’Golo Kante and Kevin de Bruyne, all of which appeared in the final May .
Also in the first pot of seeds is Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich, Sporting Lisbon, Lille and last season’s European League winners, Villarreal.
As always there are many big names in the second pot, including Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Juventus, Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain, which will attract more attention after adding Lionel Messi to their star-studded squad.
Other famous names that display the lottery are Ajax, Benfica and AC Milan, who appeared in the European elite club competition for the first time since 2013/14 after the second in Serie last season.
Champions League Group Stadium will begin on September 14 and 15, with the final held all will plan in Saint Petersburg on May 28 next year.
Lottery for the European League group stage and the new Europa Europa Conference League will take place on Friday, also in Istanbul.
The two competitions were far more profitable, but while European football was generally beaten by the economic impact of Covid-19, anyone who continued to lift the Champions League will pocket a large amount of money.
UEFA, which registered the loss of around 531 million euros ($ 623.4 million) in the 2019/20 campaign from Pandemi, has compiled a total pot of more than two billion euros for this season.
Winners will have a prize of money up to 85 million euros, and that before extra is taken into account: The club gets more money based on their UEFA coefficients, up to a maximum of 36 million euros in the case of Munich’s top ranking Bayern.
In addition, 300 million other euros are distributed based on television market weight of each country.
This is a system that gives a rich and strong appreciation and who has helped make it practically impossible for clubs outside the biggest countries to win the trophy.
The last team to lift the European Cup who did not play in England, Germany, Spain or Italy was Porto in 2004.
Maybe it would change this year, although it didn’t expect Zenit Saint Petersburg to be named their own champions.
Instead PSG is definitely the best placed to challenge Chelsea or City, with a finalist Club – Beeen Qatar in 2020 – after adding Messi with the aim of express to get the Champions League for the first time.
“I have said many times my dream is to win another Champions League and I think I was in an ideal place to have that opportunity and to do it,” Messi said after arriving in the capital of France.