Champions League draw live: Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea to discover league phase opponents | OneFootball

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The draw for the league phase of the 2025/26 Champions League takes places in Monaco this evening, with Premier League clubs eager to find out their opponents for the second edition of the competition’s new league phase.

England’s top flight has six representatives in Europe’s top cup competition this year, with Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea having finished in the top four last season before Newcastle took a place from fifth thanks to England’s co-efficient ranking.

And it was Tottenham who completed the line-up with a victory in the all-English Europa League final, with each club now waiting to see their home and away fixtures across the opening eight games of the competition.

Top European clubs including Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and holders PSG will also be part of the draw, with the first round of fixtures taking place on 16/17 September.

Abysmal Rangers hit for six as Scots crash out of Champions League

Russell Martin's tenure at Rangers FC continues on its disastrous downward spiral with a humiliating Champions League play-off defeat to Club Brugge in Belgium, 6-0 on the night and 9-1 on aggregate.

The Light Blues faced a monumental task after losing 3-1 in the first leg at Ibrox and were a goal down after just five minutes from a Nicolo Tresoldi header before Gers right-back Max Aarons was shown a straight red card three minutes later for hauling back Christos Tzolis.

As the 10-man Govan side spectacularly capitulated, goals from captain Hans Vanaken, Joaquin Seys -twice - and Aleksandar Stankovic had the home side five up at the break.

Chris Wilson28 August 2025 15:30