When and where is the draw? The draw begins at 13:00CET on Friday 31 August at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. It will be streamed live on UEFA.com alongside text updates.
Who is involved in the draw and what are the pots?
Pot 1 Sevilla (ESP) coefficient 113.000* Arsenal (ENG) 93.000 Chelsea (ENG) 82.000 Zenit (RUS) 78.000* Bayer Leverkusen (GER) 66.000 Dynamo Kyiv (UKR) 62.000** Beşiktaş (TUR) 57.000* Salzburg (AUT) 55.500** Olympiacos (GRE) 54.000* Villarreal (ESP) 52.000 Anderlecht (BEL) 48.000 Lazio (ITA) 41.000
Pot 2 Sporting CP (POR) 40.000 Ludogorets (BUL) 37.000* K?benhavn (DEN) 34.000* Marseille (FRA) 32.000 Celtic (SCO) 31.000* PAOK (GRE) 29.500** AC Milan (ITA) 28.000 Genk (BEL) 27.000* Fenerbahçe (TUR) 23.500*** Krasnodar (RUS) 23.500 Astana (KAZ) 21.750* Rapid Wien (AUT) 21.500*
Pot 3 Real Betis (ESP) 21.399 BATE Borisov (BLR) 20.500** Qarabağ (AZE) 20.500* Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) 17.500** RB Leipzig (GER) 17.000* Eintracht Frankfurt (GER) 14.285 Malmö (SWE) 14.000* Spartak Moskva (RUS) 13.500*** Standard Liège (BEL) 12.500*** Zürich (SUI) 12.000 Bordeaux (FRA) 11.283* Rennes (FRA) 11.283
The 48 entrants have been split into four seeding pots based on their club coefficients, with each of the eventual 12 groups to contain one team from each seeding tier.
Under a new system, club coefficients are determined either by the sum of all points won in the previous five years or by the association coefficient over the same period – whichever is higher.
No team can play a club from their own association, with the exact draw procedure confirmed before the ceremony.
When are the group stage games? 20 September: Group stage, matchday one 4 October: Group stage, matchday two 25 October: Group stage, matchday three 8 November: Group stage, matchday four 29 November: Group stage, matchday five 13 December: Group stage, matchday six
17 December: Round of 32 draw 14 February: Round of 32 first leg 21 February: Round of 32, second leg 22 February: Round of 16 draw 7 March: Round of 16, first leg 14 March: Round of 16, second leg 15 March: Quarter-final & semi-final draw 11 April: Quarter-finals, first leg 18 April: Quarter-finals, second leg 2 May: Semi-finals, first leg 9 May: Semi-finals, second leg