Champions League Group Stage Draw

By: Daryl | August 28th, 2008

It’s the draw for the Champions League groups stages today, featuring all the big teams like Man Utd, Real Madrid, AS Roma and, er, FC BATE Borisov.

We have a LiveBlog of the draw for you on Champions League Offside so head over there now to see who’s going to be playing who this season.

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Here are those groups, lovingly cut and pasted from Rob’s LiveBlog:

Group A
Chelsea
Roma
Bordeaux
Cluj

Group B
Inter
Werder Bremen
panathinaikos
Anorthosis Famagusta

Group C
Barcelona
Sporting Lisbon
FC Basel
Shaktar

Group D
Liverpool
PSV
Marseille
Atletico Madrid

Group E
Manchester United
Villareal
Celtic
Aalborg

Group F
Lyon
Bayern
Steaua
Fiorentina

Group G
Arsenal
Porto
Fenerbahce
Dinamo Kiev

Group H
Real Madrid
Juventus
Zenit St Petersburg
BATE

Hard to pick a real group of death, though I’d say Group D – Liverpool, PSV, Marseille, Atletico Madrid – comes closest just because they got the best team from Pot IV in Atletico Madrid. Potentially any of those teams could go through.

And BATE were always going to be up against it, but at least they’ll get to visit the Bernabéu and the Stadio Olimpico.

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areallaticfromthesouth

Any Cluj 1907 fans around - or do they come out once the Sun goes down?
Michel-Olivier

Group D is group of death
Laurie

And poor Bordeaux, with Chelsea AND Roma. What a reward for doing well last year.
Laurie

Group F is not exactly an easy one either. That would be Lyon's group.
Sam

Or a fan of Marseille. Oh, right, that's me.
john

I'd say group D looks like the toughest all around. Which has to be a bit discouraging if you're a fan of the Atleti.