Champions League draw LIVE: Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal learn fate as UEFA make change
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liveThe Champions League main draw takes place today (Image: Getty)
All six English teams competing in this year's Champions League will very soon discover their fate this evening when the competition's league phase draw is completed.
English champions Liverpool are one of three Premier League clubs in pot one, alongside Manchester City and Chelsea.
Arsenal find themselves in pot two for the draw, while Tottenham Hotspur are in pot three and Newcastle United, after a one-year hiatus from the competition, will be drawn from pot four.
The league phase gets underway in September and runs until January, with each qualified side to be drawn against eight different opponents.
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It's the second year of the revised Champions League format, with UEFA having ditched the previous group stage set-up in 2024.
The 36 competing teams will make up a league table, with the top eight automatically progressing to the round of 16, with the next best 16 teams entering a play-off.
Express Sport brings you the latest updates from the Champions League draw below...
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4 mins ago16:56Charlie Malam
Ceremony about to start
We're less than five minutes away from the ceremony getting underway from Monaco.
As is usual with UEFA draws, we'll have some build-up, VTs and special guests on stage before the draw actually begins.
14 mins ago16:46Charlie Malam
Who the Chelsea players want to play
Talking of Chelsea...
As you can see below, most of Enzo Maresca's players want to face Real Madrid at the Bernabeu or Barcelona at the Nou Camp in this season's league phase.
PSG have also been named by Robert Sanchez and Joao Pedro, though, following a solid start to their Premier League campaign.
24 mins ago16:36Charlie Malam
Chelsea to receive award
Chelsea will be honoured with a new reward at this evening's draw - one which has been created just for them.
The Blues have won the Conference League and Club World Cup in 2025.
And that means they completed the set of winning every major UEFA competition having previously won the Champions League, Europa League and the Cup Winners' Cup.
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin will hand them a new award to commemorate the feat.
Chelsea won the Conference League in May (Image: Getty)
33 mins ago16:27Charlie Malam
The Champions League favourites
Who's being backed to win the Champions League this year?
Well given how they blew away Liverpool, Aston Villa, Arsenal and Inter Milan last season, again it's PSG.
BoyleSports have Liverpool as second favourites in their Champions League odds, though, despite being knocked out in the round of 16 last season.
Arsenal are priced just outside of Real Madrid but remain another of the clubs well possible of glory in Budapest next May.
Champions League 2025/26 winner odds
PSG - 5/1
Liverpool - 6/1
Barcelona - 7/1
Real Madrid - 7/1
Arsenal - 8/1
Manchester City - 9/1
Bayern Munich - 10/1
Chelsea - 12/1
Napoli - 25/1
Newcastle United - 25/1
Atletico Madrid - 25/1
Inter Milan - 25/1
Tottenham Hotspur - 40/1
Juventus - 40/1
Bayer Leverkusen - 50/1
PSG are the favourites to win the Champions League (Image: Getty)
45 mins ago16:15Charlie Malam
How the draw works
In case you forgot, this is the second year in which the draw takes a league phase format instead of group stages.
That means all 36 teams into one single league table.
Instead of playing three teams twice, home and away, to determine the two teams to advance into the knockouts, every club now plays eight different opponents - four home and four away.
The top eight in the table automatically advance to the round of 16, their eight opponents will come from the teams who finish 9th to 24th.
Those teams will take each other on in a playoff round to determine who advances to the last 16.
The teams 25th to 36th are all automatically eliminated.
53 mins ago16:07Charlie Malam
Who's in the draw?
The Champions League draw will officially begin at 5pm UK time.
So who's in it?
Doesn't it come around fast?
The Champions League draw is set to take place this evening, as the six English clubs discover who their opponents will be.
Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United will all be hoping for deep runs in the tournament.
They'll discover their fate when the league phase draw takes place.
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