The draw for the new Champions League season is today, PSG's mission for a hat-trick is ahead

PSG are showing great strength in the new era of the UEFA Champions League. The French club has won the title in the first two seasons since the introduction of the new 36-team structure. This time, Luis Enrique's team is looking forward to taking the field to become champions for the third time in a row. The first step of that campaign begins today with the draw for the league stage.

The draw for the league stage of the Champions League will be held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco at 10 pm Bangladesh time. Like the previous two seasons, there will be no separate groups this time either. In the league stage, each team will play against eight different teams - four matches at home and four at the opponent's field.

The 36 teams will be divided into four pots based on UEFA's co-efficient ranking. During the draw, each team will get two opponents from each pot.

In the draw process, the name of a team will first be manually drawn from the first pot. Then, special software will determine the eight opponents of that team and which matches will be at home and which will be away. The opponents of the remaining teams in the first pot will also be determined in the same way.

Then the draw for the second, third and fourth pot teams will be completed. However, some rules must be followed in the entire process. Two clubs from the same country cannot play against each other. In addition, a team can face a maximum of two clubs from the same country.

Based on the results of the domestic league, 29 teams have directly qualified for the league stage. The remaining seven teams have passed the qualifying round. The last stage of the play-offs also ended last night. With this, the list of 36 teams in the league stage has been completed.

29 teams that have directly qualified for the league stage

England: Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Aston Villa, Liverpool.

Spain: Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Villarreal, Atletico Madrid, Real Betis.

Italy: Inter Milan, Napoli, Roma, Como.

Germany: Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Leipzig, Stuttgart.

France: PSG, Lens, Lille.

Portugal: Porto, Sporting CP.

Netherlands: PSV, Feyenoord.

Belgium: Brugge.

Turkey: Galatasaray.

Ukraine: Shakhtar.

Czech Republic: Slavia Prague.

Teams from the play-offs

Sabah (Azerbaijan), Bodo/Glimt (Norway), LASK (Austria), AEK Athens (Greece) or Levski Sofia (Bulgaria), Viking (Norway) or Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia), Celje (Slovenia) or Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia) and Lyon (France) or Fenerbahce (Turkey).

After today's draw, it will be clear which opponents the big teams in Europe, including PSG, will face on their way to retaining the Champions League title.