UEFA Champions League crew stage contrivance: Dwell movement, birth time, TV channel, the supreme contrivance to glance, pots and more

The UEFA Champions League 32-personnel crew stage field is now space for the 2021-22 season. But ahead of motion can kick off in September, the 32 teams must be positioned into eight teams right via Thursday’s contrivance in Turkey. 

The contrivance will air are living on CBS Sports activities HQ and CBS Sports activities Community, and we’ll be offering prognosis of the contrivance on CBSSports.com. Every UEFA Champions League match this season will be on hand on Paramount+.

Ahead of the contrivance, here is all the things you include to dangle:

Recommendations to glance

• Date: Thursday, August 26 | Time: 12 p.m. ET
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey 
• Dwell movement: CBS Sports activities HQ | TV channel: CBS Sports activities Community

Who is inspiring?

Twenty-six teams already licensed for the crew stage thanks to their success from a season ago. Six additional teams include booked their spots this week in the UCL play-offs. Right here they are, including the Champions League winners Chelsea and Europa League winners Villarreal, with three spots up for grabs Wednesday.

• England: Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool
• Spain: Honest Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Villarreal and Sevilla
• Germany: Bayern Munich, RB Leipzig, Borussia Dortmund and Wolfsburg
• Italy: Inter Milan, AC Milan, Juventus and Atalanta
• Portugal: Sporting Lisbon, Benfica and Porto
• France: PSG and Lille
• Netherlands: Ajax
  
  
• Turkey: Besiktas
• Russia: Zenit
• Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk
• Belgium: Club Brugge
• Switzerland: Young Boys
• Sweden: Malmo
• Austria: RB Salzburg
• Moldova: Sheriff

What ideas are there for the contrivance?

There’ll be four seeding pots, with the first one consisting of the six top likely-ranked league champions and the winners of UCL and EL. Pots 2 to 4 will make certain by technique of the club coefficient rankings. 

When forming the teams, no personnel can play another from its maintain affiliation in the crew stage, which contrivance two teams from England, as an illustration, can’t be in the identical crew. There are in most cases varied restrictions, such as teams from Ukraine and Russia no longer being grouped together due to the longstanding political and military tensions stemming from the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula. 

What are the pots?

They include got yet to be launched. 

Be pleased matchdays been determined for the crew stage?

• Matchday 1: Sept. 14-15
• Matchday 2: Sept. 28-29
• Matchday 3: Oct. 19-20
• Matchday 4: Nov. 2-3
• Matchday 5: Nov. 23-24
  
  
• Matchday 6: Dec. 7-8