Barcelona sneak into Pot 1 for UCL draw once more

Barcelona can be in Pot 1 of seeds for the league section draw of the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League, and for the second one successive season it is because Roma neglected out at the ultimate day.

Last season, Roma would had been within the Champions League had Atalanta completed in 5th position in Serie A, however they completed best 4. This season, Juventus secured fourth position at the ultimate day, once more consigning Roma to the UEFA Europa League.

The Champions League holders and the 8 golf equipment with the most productive efficiency in Europe over the last 5 seasons get a spot in Pot 1. Roma are ranked 9th, with Barcelona in 10th. As Roma neglected out, Barcelona transfer as much as Pot 1.

Manchester City additionally showed their position in Pot 1 with a 2-0 win at Fulham, making sure they’d end 3rd within the Premier League.

Chelsea, who play Real Betis within the UEFA Conference League ultimate on Wednesday, can be in Pot 1 when they received 1-0 at Nottingham Forest at the ultimate day.

However, with each and every group being drawn in opposition to two golf equipment from the 4 pots to create 8 fixtures, the seeding of the pots now has restricted relevance — the groups in Pot 1 aren’t averted from taking part in each and every different.

As this new gadget throws up such a lot of choices, nearly all of the draw is done by way of a pc. A group can be drawn from Pot 1 in conventional taste, after which the method of deciding on that membership’s warring parties can be carried out mechanically.

The best 8 cross directly via to the spherical of 16, positions 8 to 24 play in a two-legged knockout playoff spherical and the ones positioned 25th to 36th are eradicated. There is not any dropdown into the Europa League.

The draw for the crowd degree takes position on Thursday, Aug. 28.

POT 1

Real Madrid
Manchester City
Bayern Munich
Liverpool
Paris Saint-Germain
Internazionale
Chelsea
Borussia Dortmund
Barcelona

POT 2

Arsenal
Bayer Leverkusen
Atlético Madrid
Benfica (will have to come via qualifying)
Atalanta
Villarreal
Juventus
Eintracht Frankfurt
Club Brugge (will have to come via qualifying)
Rangers (will have to come via qualifying)
Shakhtar Donetsk (will have to come via qualifying)

Pots 3 and 4 will rely on which golf equipment come via qualifying, with Tottenham Hotspur shifting as much as Pot 2 if Benfica and/or Club Brugge fail to make it to the league section. PSV Eindhoven are the one different membership who can transfer up from Pot 3 to Pot 2.

Ajax Amsterdam, Napoli, Sporting CP, Olympiacos, Slavia Prague and Marseille are positive to be in Pot 3.

Pot 4 is the most probably vacation spot for Celtic, AS Monaco, Athletic Club and Newcastle United.