Champions League Draw In Full: Arsenal Faces PSG And Liverpool Plays Real Madrid

Arsenal will take on European giants PSG and Inter Milan in the brand new league phase of the Champions League.

The Gunners are set to compete against Shakhtar Donetsk, Atalanta Dinamo Zagreb, Sporting CP, Monaco, and Girona in the new league stage, featuring a total of eight matches for each team.

Liverpool is set to host Real Madrid in an exciting match at Anfield and will play RB Leipzig in an away fixture. Additionally, they will welcome Bayer Leverkusen at home and visit the San Siro to take on AC Milan.

Manchester City face PSG and Juventus away from home as well as Inter Milan at the Etihad in their most eye-catching matches.

Aston Villa will host the renowned German club Bayern Munich in an a-profile match at Villa Park and will also welcome Juventus and Scottish champions Celtic. Unai Emery’s team is set to make the trip to RB Leipzig as well.

Each team will play four games at home and four games away for a total of eight fixtures, two more than under the previous format. These eight encounters will be with eight different opponents.

The full match dates and times for the league phase, which starts on 17 September and ends on 29 January, will be released on Saturday.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Gianluigi Buffon, who were both honored with individual awards earlier, participated in the draw held in Monaco on Thursday night.

This new era of the Champions League will see four more teams compete in the new league phase. Instead of 32 competing sides being divided into eight groups of four, all 36 teams in this year’s Champions League will form a single league.

The top eight sides in the league after the competition’s first phase will progress directly to the last-16.

Teams placed ninth to 24th will have to negotiate a play-off round, while teams that finish 25th or lower will be eliminated from all European competition.

The full draw for England teams:

Manchester City: Inter Milan (H), PSG (A), Club Brugge (H), Juventus (A), Feyenoord (H), Sporting CP (A), Sparta Prague (H), Slovan Bratislava (A)

Liverpool: Real Madrid (H), RB Leipzig (A), Bayer Leverkusen (H), AC Milan (A), Lille (H), PSV (A), Bologna (H), Girona (A)

Arsenal: PSG (H), Inter Mian (A), Shakhtar Donestk (H), Atalanta (A), Dinamo Zagreb (H), Sporting CP (A), Monaco (H), Girona (A)

Aston Villa: Bayern Munich (H), RB Leipzig (A), Juventus (H), Club Brugge (A), Celtic (H), Young Boys (A), Bologna (H), Monaco (A)