Champions League 2026/27-now with added Super Cup & possible CONMEBOL Challenge?

[cdbearsfan]

Sturm Graz didn't move up a round, they just confirmed that they will be seeded in the round they have already qualified for. Sporting moved to league stage, Olympiacos and Bodø moved up a round. Will update, think we are just waiting on Albania to finish their league now.

[cdbearsfan]

First qualifying round

Ararat Armenia (Arm)
Atert Bissen (Lux)

Third qualifying round

League Path

Bodø/Glimt (Nor)
Olympiacos (Gre)

League Phase

Liverpool (Eng)
Roma (Ita)
Como (Ita)
Sporting (Por)

Updates above. Full details in OP.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Olympiacos must love us.

[eye digress]

Brilliant. Does that mean Liverplop has to play an awkward, hiding-to-nothing playoff in the middle of August?

[eye digress]

Brilliant. Does that mean Liverplop has to play an awkward, hiding-to-nothing playoff in the middle of August?

Ah edit, it seems not, sadly.

[cdbearsfan]

The only English team that has to play a playoff round is Brighton, in the Conference League.

[trinityoap]

There won't be many Villa fans at the Super Cup. We shall all be at our northern or Scottish estates for the start of the grouse shooting season.

[Hookeysmith]

Super Cup final being advertised as
Wednesday 12th August in Salzberg, Austria

Versus PSG (hopefully) or The Red / White Wimbledon WWF team

[Brazilian Villain]

There won't be many Villa fans at the Super Cup. We shall all be at our northern or Scottish estates for the start of the grouse shooting season.

Even our manager wears tweed nowadays.

[SaddVillan]

Champions League. Current pot projections. We're in Pot 2.
We can't play English teams in the League phase.
2 teams from each Pot. 4 games at home,4 away

Pot 1
Bayern Munich           But not Arsenal, Liverpool or ManC
Real Madrid
Paris Saint Germain
Inter Milan
Barcelona
Atlético Madrid

Pot 2
Borussia Dortmund          But not ManU
Roma
Sporting CP
Porto
Club Brugge
Real Betis
PSV Eindhoven

Pot 3
Feyenoord
Lille
Olympique Lyon
Bodø/Glimt
Napoli
RB Leipzig
Villarreal
Shakhtar Donetsk
Galatasaray

Pot 4
Red Star Belgrade
Dinamo Zagreb
Celtic
Slavia Prague
Slovan Bratislava
Stuttgart
Lech Poznań
Como
Lens

AC Milan, Juventus, Chelsea, Bayer Leverkusen and Benfica are among big names missing.

Diary dates - League phase draw - Aug 27th

Matchday 1: September 8, 9 and 10
Matchday 2: September 16 and 17
Matchday 3: October 20 and 21
Matchday 4: November 3 and 4
Matchday 5: November 24 and 25
Matchday 6: December 8 and 9
Matchday 7: January 19 and 20
Matchday 8: January 27

[Richard]

Would love to get one of those Pot 1 Spanish teams at home.

[cdbearsfan]

Real Madrid, two of Dortmund, Porto or PSV and Red Star, please. Hopefully get eight teams we have never played before but at the very least eight teams we haven't played recently, unlike this season's shite draw (still, worked out okay in the end).

[Richard]

Real Madrid, two of Dortmund, Porto or PSV and Red Star, please. Hopefully get eight teams we have never played before but at the very least eight teams we haven't played recently, unlike this season's shite draw (still, worked out okay in the end).

And Im sure Unai would love to get Villarreal from pot 3!

[Meanwood Villa]

As someone who pores over these things once we've qualified, I think I've spotted a glitch in the CL qualifying rounds. Polish champions (Lech Poznan) and runners-up (Gornik Zabzre) both join in the second qualifying round. If they both win their first tie, get in the third qualifying round but then lose that tie, Gornik end up automatically in the EL league phase while Lech end up in the EL playoff round and potentially the Conference League. Doesn't seem right to me.

[Meanwood Villa]

Also, and I can't say this enough, those projected pots are horseshit because it includes guesses on who is getting through the qualifying rounds. Although I accept it makes marginally more sense for CL when 29 out of 36 teams are already known.