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Dates announced for Champions League group games
Thu, 28 Aug 2014
The Champions League draw has grouped Chelsea with Schalke, Sporting
Lisbon and Maribor.
The schedule for the games is as follows:
Wednesday 17 September - Chelsea v Schalke
Tuesday 30 September - Sporting Lisbon v Chelsea
Tuesday 21 October - Chelsea v Maribor
Wednesday 5 November - Maribor v Chelsea
Tuesday 25 November - Schalke v Chelsea
Wednesday 10 December - Chelsea v Sporting Lisbon
Ticket details to follow.
Monaco hosted the proceedings on Thursday afternoon with the Blues among
the eight top-seeded clubs.
German side Schalke, whom we faced in last season's group stage, were in
Pot 2 containing the next eight teams ranked by UEFA coefficient, with
Sporting coming out of Pot 3 and Maribor from Slovenia from the last eight
clubs drawn.
While Schalke are familiar opponents, with Chelsea recording two 3-0 wins
against them last season and a 2-0 home win and a 0-0 draw in
Gelsenkirchen back in the group stage in 2007, we have not played a
competitive game against Sporting Lisbon previously. They came second in
the Portuguese league last season, their first top-two finish since 2009.
Maribor are also new to us. The team from Slovenia's second largest city,
and conquerors of Celtic in a qualifier this week, are in the group stage
for the second time in their history.
The full draw is:
Group A
Atletico Madrid
Juventus
Olympiacos
Malmo
Group B
Real Madrid
Basel
Liverpool
Ludogorets Razgrad
Group C
Benfica
Zenit St Petersburg
Bayer Leverkusen
Monaco
Group D
Arsenal
Borussia Dortmund
Galatasaray
Anderlecht
Group E
Bayern Munich
Manchester City
CSKA Moscow
Roma
Group F
Barcelona
Paris St-Germain
Ajax
APOEL
Group G
Chelsea
Schalke
Sporting Lisbon
Maribor
Group H
Porto
Shakhtar Donetsk
Athletic Bilbao
BATE Borisov
The group games will be mirrored in the UEFA Youth League which begins its
second season and is for Under-19 teams.