Champions League 2014/15

[stokeriño]

Maribor!

That's a staggeringly good group for Chelsea.

And City get Roma.

[Lineker]

Man City in a group with both Bayern and Roma. Ouch.

[stokeriño]

Quoting myself just to bring it through to the new page:

Going to try and keep the results of the draw updated here...

Group A

Atletico Madrid

Juventus

Olympiacos

Malmo

Group B

Real Madrid

Basel

LIVERPOOL

Ludogrets

Group C

Benfica

Zenit St. Petersburg

Bayer Leverkusen

Monaco

Group D

ARSENAL

Borussia Dortmund

Galatasaray

Anderlecht

Group E

Bayern Munich

MANCHESTER CITY

CSKA Moscow

Roma

Group F

Barcelona

Paris Saint-Germain

Ajax

APOEL Nicosia

Group G

CHELSEA

Schalke

Sporting Lisbon

Maribor

Group H

Porto

Shakhtar Donetsk

Athletic Bilbao

BATE Borisov

[Szumi]

I like this draw for Liverpool. It could've been better, but it could've been a lot worse. Basel are no joke, but I got to feel confident we should advance to the Knockout Round.

[Jimmy]

Bet Hughes is happy.

[EddieG]

We get the defender who's a super goalie?

[stokeriño]

Liverpool shouldn't really have a problem qualifying from that group (albeit in 2nd).

Neither should Arsenal but maybe they'll make it unnecessarily hard for themselves again.

City will be entertaining as they always are in Europe.

[Kaney]

Yeah, apart from Dortmund (again) I'm quite happy with that. We should beat them as we were the better team last time round but as Stoke said, we like to make it tough.

I'd love for us to finish first and not get a hard draw in the knockout stages (again). I don't want to play Bayern anymore

[Dan]

[Gazz]

Anything less than five wins for Chelsea should be considered an abject failure.

[Cheeky Hughes]

Bet Hughes is happy.

We'll smash it!

The Europa League, that is.

[Baddar]

City will get 2nd.

[Cheeky Hughes]

It'll really come down to who can beat the other over two matches between City and Roma and whatever we can nick off Bayern. Although saying that, we did beat them 3-2 in Germany last time around so anything can happen.

[DavidMarrio]

If you can not get beat in Rome or Russia you stand a very good chance.

[Baddar]

A Liverpool supporting friend just posted on Facebook - "missed the draw, which group are Man Utd in?"

Because lol, we didn't qualify.

The reply was pretty sharp though, from a guy I don't know - "The one with Blackburn, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City".

[Lineker]

bantz

[Tigerstyle]

That draw could've been a lot worse for us, qualifying in second won't be so bad considering how strong so many of the groups are.

Neither City or Arsenal have particularly easy groups

[Nerf]

Group C and Group H

[Baddar]

So, there are proposals from UEFA to change the seeding system for the Group stage from next season.

Anyone know what these proposals are?

[stokeriño]

So, there are proposals from UEFA to change the seeding system for the Group stage from next season.

Anyone know what these proposals are?

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/30778/9446534/domestic-winners-to-benefit-as-uefa-plans-change-to-champions-league-seeding-system

That the top 8 seeds (Pot 1) would be the CL winners and the champions of the top 7 ranked leagues.

Otherwise known as 'Manchester City's dream come true'.