The draws for the league stages of all three UEFA club competitions will take place in Monaco on August 28 and 29.
All three competitions will continue to follow the expanded 36-team format of the 2024-25 season.
The 36 teams will be split into four pots on the basis of individual coefficient rankings.
The drawing process for the UEFA Champions League will see a single team drawn from pot 1 before an automated software assigns that team eight opponents, two from each pot. This process will repeat until all teams have been assigned eight fixtures.
The software will assign opponents such that each team is assigned one match home and away from each pot. It will also ensure that a team is not drawn against another side from its own association, and is not drawn against more than two sides from the same association.
The UEFA Champions League draw takes place on August 28. Meanwhile, the UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Conference League draws will take place within the same ceremony on August 29. The software for these draws will generate all fixtures together, as opposed to the team-by-team process used in the UEFA Champions League draw.
Match dates and kick-off timings for the competitions will be confirmed by August 31.
All three competition holders, Paris Saint-Germain, Tottenham Hotspur, and Chelsea, are involved in the UEFA Champions League draw.
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