Champions League draw details

The draw for the league stage of the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League will be made tonight in Monaco at 5pm BST.

After edging out Belgium’s Standard Liege in the 3rd qualifying round, Liverpool find themselves in ‘˜Pot One’ amongst the top seeds and fellow Premier League clubs Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.

As well as avoiding the other three English teams, Liverpool cannot be drawn in the same group as Barcelona, Lyon, Inter Milan or Real Madrid.

However, ‘˜Pot Two’ holds some difficult opposition with the likes of Bayern Munich, PSV Eindhoven, Villarreal, Roma, Juventus and Porto in there.

The four pots are as follows:

Pot one
Manchester Utd
Chelsea
Liverpool
Barcelona
Arsenal
Lyon
Inter Milan
Real Madrid

Pot two
Bayern Munich
PSV Eindhoven
Villarreal
AS Roma
FC Porto
Werder Bremen
Sporting Lisbon
Juventus

Pot three
Marseille
Zenit St Petersburg
Steaua Bucharest
Panathinaikos
Bordeaux
Celtic
Basel
Fenerbahce

Pot four
Shakhtar Donetsk
Fiorentina
Atletico Madrid
Dynamo Kiev
CFR Cluj
Aalborg
Anorthosis Famagusta
Bate Borisov