Potential League Phase opponents | UEFA Champions League

The line-up for the 2025/26 UEFA Champions League is complete - so here is a look at who we could face in the League Phase.

With qualifying for European football's elite club competition now finalised, we know the 36 teams which will complete in the League Phase's 'mini' league - and we can begin to see who we could possibly face ahead of this evening's draw!

The draw

Today, in Monaco, we will learn the eight teams we will face in the League Phase of this year's Champions League.

In the the draw, the 36 teams will be split into four pots with placing determined by the individual team's UEFA coefficient ranking - Pot One with the nine highest ranked teams, Pot Four with the nine lowest ranked teams.

We have been assigned to Pot Three and go in as the highest ranked side in the pot.

We will be drawn eight opponents, two from each pot with each pot providing one team as a home opponent and the other as an away opponent.

We cannot be drawn against an English side at this stage, nor will be drawn against more than two sides from the same association - so, we will face a maximum of two Spanish opponents or two Italian opponents, for example.

Who could we face

With six English sides in the Champions League for the first time, we can only face eight of 30 teams in the draw.

We will face two from each of the following four pots

New opponents

There are eight teams we could face competitively for the first time in our history in this year's Champions League.

They are Italian sides Napoli and Atalanta, Spanish teams Villarreal and Athletic Club, Danish outfit Copenhagen, Belgium's Union Saint-Gilloise, Cyprus' Pafos and Kazakhstan's Kairat.