Champions League draw live: Group-stage fixtures for English clubs to be revealed

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The draw is made up of 32 teams, of which 26 automatic qualifiers and the remaining six are the play-offs round winners from this week's ties that took place on Tuesday, August 23, and Wednesday, August 24, and are split into four pots of eight teams. 

Pot 1 contains the 2021-22  Champions League and Europa League winners, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2021 UEFA country coefficients.

The remaining teams are placed into Pots 2, 3 and 4 based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients. 

A team from each pot is then drawn into eight groups of four teams, although teams from the same nation cannot be placed together

All understood? 

A quick reminder that six British clubs are in the hat for tonight's draw 

Pot 1:  Real Madrid, Eintracht Frankfurt, Manchester City, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, Porto, Ajax

Pot 2:  Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, Leipzig, Tottenham Hotspur

Pot 3:  Borussia Dortmund, Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk, Inter, Napoli, Benfica, Sporting CP, Bayer Leverkusen

Pot 4:  Rangers, Dinamo, Marseille, Copenhagen, Club Brugge, Celtic, Viktoria Plzen, Maccabi Haifa

To our live coverage of the Champions League group-stage draw for the 2022/23 campaign.

It was 89 days ago that Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1-0 at the Stade de France to lift their 14th European Cup and the continent's best will once again be out to stop the Champions League specialists from going all the way. 

To do that they will have to navigate the group stage and today the six British teams will find out who they will face come