Uefa has updated its club coefficients, which gives an early indication about how the teams will be seeded for next season’s Champions League draw. Based on these rankings, it looks like we could once again see a couple of group of death scenarios.
Pot I
- Real Madrid
- FC Barcelona
- Bayern Munich
- Chelsea
- Benfica
- Atletico Madrid
- *Arsenal
- *FC Porto
Pot II
- Schalke
- Borussia Dortmund
- Juventus
- Paris Saint-Germain
- Shakhtar Donetsk
- Basel
- *Zenit St. Petersburg
- Manchester City
Pot III
- *Bayer Leverkusen
- Olympiakos
- CSKA Moscow
- Ajax
- *Napoli
- Liverpool
- Sporting Lisbon
- Galatasaray
Pot IV
- Anderlecht
- *Salzburg
- Roma
- *Steaua Bucarest
- *Celtic
- *BATE Borisov
- *TBA
- AS Monaco
* means need to qualify through qualifying stages.
As it stands, next year could see a loaded group Bayern Munich, PSG, Liverpool and Roma. Napoli and Liverpool are difficult third seeds, while Serie A runners-up Roma and big-spending AS Monaco are teams that most of the big names will want to avoid.