When is the Champions League draw? Celtic and Rangers pots and potential group-stage opponents

By Wednesday night, we will know all the teams involved in the 2022/23 Champions League group stages.

The final play-off ties are being played this week, with Rangers among the 12 teams looking to make it into the promised land of Europe’s premier competition.

Real Madrid won the tournament last year and are among a number of star-studded teams waiting to find out who they will face, starting next month.

Scottish champions Celtic are also in the group stages for the first time since the 2017/18 campaign.

There will be 32 teams in total, split into eight groups of four.

The draw is scheduled for Thursday, August 26 in Istanbul, Turkey. The ceremony begins at 5pm BST.

Pot one is already determined and will consist of the following teams: Real Madrid, Eintracht Frankfurt, Manchester City, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, PSG, Porto, Ajax.

Until the play-off round is complete, the other three pots cannot be confirmed.

The other teams in the Champions League are: Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, RB Leipzig, Tottenham Hotspur, Borussia Dortmund, Red Bull Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk, Inter Milan, Napoli, Sporting CP, Bayer Leverkusen, Marseille, Club Brugge, Celtic, Benfica or Dynamo Kiev, Crvena Zvezda or Maccabi Haifa, Viktoria Plzen or Qarabag, Dinamo Zagreb or Bodo/Glimt, PSV or Rangers and Trabzonspor or FC Copenhagen.

Celtic are guaranteed to be in pot four given that they have the lowest coefficient of the teams already in the group stages (33.000).

Rangers’ coefficient is higher than Celtic’s (50.250) due to reaching the Europa League final last season and sustained European runs over the past few years. If they knock out PSV on Wednesday, then Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s men could be in pot 3,