CELTIC will discover their Champions League opponents when the draw is made in Monaco this evening.
This season’s tournament has a new format with the group stages scrapped for a ‘League Phase’ in which 36 clubs will compete.
Sides will no longer play three teams home and away in a group and will now take on eight different teams with four home games and four away games.
In order to determine fixtures, clubs will be placed into four seeding pots, with each team then drawn to play two opponents from each of these pots. They will play one match against a team from each pot at home and one away.
The all-star ballot is scheduled for a 5pm commencement at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco and will be broadcast live on TNT Sports or streamed via Discovery+. You can tune in to watch the draw on UEFA.com, with the TNT Sports YouTube channel and Amazon Prime also available.
Dates and kick-off times for Celtic’s eight league phase matches will be announced in due course.
The eight matchdays are scheduled for the following dates:
Matchday 1: September 17/18/19
Matchday 2: October 1/2
Matchday 3: October 22/23
Matchday 4: November 5/6
Matchday 5: November 26/27
Matchday 6: December 10/11
Matchday 7: January 21/22 2025
Matchday 8: January 29
Knockout round play-offs: February 11/12 and 18/19
Round of 16: March 4/5 and 11/12
Quarter-finals: April 8/9 and 15/16
Semi-finals: April 29/30 and May 6/7
Final: May 31, Munich
Celtic have already been confirmed to be in pot 3.
Pot 1: Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Leipzig, Barcelona;
Pot 2: Bayer Leverkusen, Atletico Madrid, Atalanta, Juventus, Benfica, Arsenal, Club Brugge, Shakhtar Donetsk, AC Milan;
Pot 3: Feyenoord, Sporting Lisbon, PSV Eindhoven, Dinamo Zagreb, Salzburg, Lille, Red Star Belgrade, Young Boys, CELTIC;
Pot 4: Slovan Bratislava, Monaco, Sparta Prague, Aston Villa, Bologna, Girona, Stuttgart, Sturm Graz, Brest.
The top eight teams in the league table will advance to the last-16, while the sides who finish between 9th and 24th will have another chance of advancing via a two-legged play-off which will be seeded, with teams from 9th to 16th drawn against teams from 17th to 24th.
Sides who finish 25th or lower in the table or who fail to progress past the play-offs will drop out of the competition and there will be no parachute in to the Europa League.
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