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Champions League draw as it happened: Major European fixtures confirmed

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Champions League draw LIVE
Champions League draw LIVEVALERY HACHE / AFP
The draw for the 'league phase' of the 2024/25 Champions League was completed this evening - with Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Aston Villa and Celtic all featuring in the competition.

The draw for the 'league phase' of the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League pulled up some interesting fixtures for all clubs, with the new format of the competition allowing for a wider range of matches between the top sides in Europe.

Manchester City will have both PSG and Inter Milan as part of their eight games, while Liverpool host Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen.

Arsenal were handed a fairly tough set of fixtures - matching City with ties against PSG and Inter - while the Gunners will also go head-to-head with Sporting and Shakhtar.

Scottish champions Celtic were handed a hard draw featuring the likes of Borussia Dortmund, Leipzig and Atalanta - as well as Aston Villa.

The Villains, meanwhile, will face Bayern Munich and Juventus on top of clashes against Leipzig and Monaco, among others.

Champions League draw as it happened

18:06 BST - That's the 2024/25 Champions League 'league phase' draw complete! Some huge clashes to come over the next few months - fixture dates won't be confirmed until Saturday, so the lists you see here won't be the order of matches for every side.

18:04 BST - Lastly, here are all of Aston Villa's opponents for this year's Champions League:

Bayern Munich (H)

Leipzig (A)

Juventus (H)

Club Brugge (A)

Celtic (H)

Young Boys (A)

Bologna (H)

Monaco (A)

17:58 BST - Here is every team Celtic will face in the 2024/25 Champions League:

Leipzig (H)

Dortmund (A)

Club Brugge (H)

Atalanta (A)

Young Boys (H)

GNK Dinamo (A)

Slovan Bratislava (H)

Aston Villa (A)

17:48 BST - Another mammoth clash confirmed for Villa, who will travel to Juventus! As they are in pot four, it will be a little while until all their fixtures are confirmed.

17:47 BST - All eight of Arsenal's matches are now confirmed:

PSG (H)

Inter (A)

Shakhtar (H)

Atalanta (A)

GNK Dinamo (H)

Sporting (A)

Monaco (H)

Girona (A)

17:40 BST - The teams from pot two are about to be drawn, including Arsenal who are already confirmed to be facing both Inter and PSG.

17:38 BST - Time for Liverpool's fixtures in full now:

Real Madrid (H)

Leipzig (A)

Bayer Leverkusen (H)

AC Milan (A)

Lille (H)

PSV (A)

Bologna (H)

Girona (A)

17:37 BST - A couple of major games already confirmed for Liverpool, who will face Leipzig and Real Madrid in the league phase.

17:33 BST - Another big couple of fixtures for one of the English sides - Aston Villa will host Bayern Munich in this year's competition and travel away to Leipzig.

17:32 BST - Inter Milan have just been drawn; one of their opponents will be Arsenal at home!

17:30 BST - First up is Manchester City! They will face:

Inter (H)

PSG (A)

Club Brugge (H)

Juventus (A)

Feyenoord (H)

Sporting (A)

Sparta Prague (H)

Slovan Bratislava (A)

17:25 BST - Right, all the formalities are over and it's time for the draw in just a few moments!

With the new format, one team will be physically drawn from a pot, and then computer software will randomly assign two eligible teams from each pot - sounds a little confusing but will hopefully become clearer once the draw is underway.

17:17 BST - We start things off with awards for both Gianluigi Buffon and Cristiano Ronaldo for their achievements in football - awarded by UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin

17:04 BST - The legends are out in full force for this evening's event!

17:02 BST - Here we go, then! The Champions League anthem has just been sung and proceedings are about to begin.

16:51 BST - It's almost time for the draw; it's a bit of a new format for everyone but we'll bring updates throughout for all the English sides as well as any other huge fixtures.

16:33 BST - The draw is due to begin in around 30 minutes, with Manchester City and Liverpool in pot one, Arsenal in pot two and Aston Villa in pot four - while Celtic are in pot three.

Here's a reminder of each pot in full:

16:00 BST - Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the 2024/25 Champions League draw! It's a new style for all of us, so here's what we know so far:

There's a new format for this year's competition, with one big league table replacing the group stages as clubs play eight games rather than the original six.

Teams will be drawn from four pots of nine sides each, with each club facing two opponents from each pot.

Two clubs from the same country can't face each other and a club can only be drawn against a maximum of two teams from one nation.

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