Title: 2022–23 UEFA Champions League Content: The 2022–23 UEFA Champions League will be the 68th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final will be played at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. The stadium was originally appointed to host the 2020 UEFA Champions League Final, but both this, and the 2021 final which had been eventually re-allocated to the Atatürk, were moved due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The winner of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League group stage, and also earn the right to play against the winner of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup. Real Madrid are the defending champions, having won a record fourteenth title in the previous edition. ==Association team allocation== A total of 78 teams from 53 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Russia, who are banned from participating due to 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association: *Associations 1–4 each have four teams qualify. *Associations 5–6 each have three teams qualify. *Associations 7–15 (except Russia) each have two teams qualify. *Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify. *The winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League and 2021–22 UEFA Europa League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league. ===Association ranking=== For the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21. Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below: * – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders  ==Qualifying rounds== ===Preliminary round=== ===First qualifying round=== ===Second qualifying round=== ===Third qualifying round=== ==Play-off round== ==Group stage== The draw for the group stage will be held on 25 August 2022. The 32 teams will be drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams are seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on the following principles: *Pot 1 contain the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2021 UEFA country coefficients. Since the Champions League titleholders, Real Madrid, are also the champions of Association 2 (Spain), the champions of Association 7 (Netherlands), Ajax, will also be seeded into Pot 1. *Pots 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2022 UEFA club coefficients. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group. Eintracht Frankfurt will make their debut appearance in the group stage after winning Europa League. This season is also the first in which five German clubs will play in the group stage. Pot 1 * Real Madrid CC: 124.000 * Eintracht Frankfurt CC: 61.000 * Manchester City CC: 134.000 * Milan CC: 38.000 * Bayern Munich CC: 138.000 * Paris Saint-Germain CC: 112.000 * Porto CC: 80.000 * Ajax CC: 82.500 Pot 2 * Liverpool CC: 134.000 * Chelsea CC: 123.000 * Barcelona CC: 114.000 * Juventus CC: 107.000 * Atlético Madrid CC: 105.000 * Sevilla CC: 91.000 * RB Leipzig CC: 83.000 * Tottenham Hotspur CC: 83.000 Pot 3 * Borussia Dortmund CC: 78.000 * Red Bull Salzburg CC: 71.000 * Shakhtar Donetsk CC: 71.000 * Inter Milan CC: 67.000 * Napoli CC: 66.000 * Sporting CP CC: 55.500 * Bayer Leverkusen CC: 53.000 Pot 3 or 4 * Marseille CC: 44.000 * 2 winners from the play-off round (League Path) * 4 winners from the play-off round (Champions Path) Pot 4 * Club Brugge CC: 38.500 * Celtic CC: 33.000