2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage

The 2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage is set to begin on 18 September and end on 12 December 2018. A total of 32 teams will compete in the group stage to decide the 16 places in the knockout stage of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League.

Teams
Below are the teams (with their 2018 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their seeding pot. They include:
26 teams which enter in this stage
4 Champions Path winners of the play-off round
2 League Path winners of the play-off round

Key to coloursGroup winners and runners-up advance to round of 16Third-placed teams enter Europa League round of 32All other teams are eliminated

+Pot 1 (by association rank)TeamTH Real Madrid162.000EL Atlético Madrid140.0001 Barcelona132.0002 Bayern Munich135.0003 Manchester City100.0004 Juventus126.0005 Paris Saint-Germain109.0006 Lokomotiv Moscow22.500+Pot 2Team Borussia Dortmund89.000 Porto86.000 Manchester United82.000 Shakhtar Donetsk81.000 Benfica80.000 Napoli78.000 Tottenham Hotspur67.000 Roma64.000+Pot 3Team Liverpool62.000 Schalke 0462.000 Lyon59.500 Monaco57.000 Ajax53.500 CSKA Moscow45.000 PSV Eindhoven36.000 Valencia36.000+Pot 4Team Viktoria Plzeň33.000 Club Brugge29.500 Galatasaray29.500 Young Boys20.500 Internazionale16.000 1899 Hoffenheim14.285 Red Star Belgrade10.750 AEK Athens10.000

Notes

 Format
In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up go to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams enter the Europa League round of 32.

Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01):
Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Away goals scored in all group matches;
Wins in all group matches;
Away wins in all group matches;
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA club coefficient.

Groups
The group stage matches will be played from 18–19 September, 2–3 October, 23–24 October, 6–7 November, 27–28 November, up to 11–12 December 2018. The scheduled kickoff times are 21:00 CEST/CET, with two matches on each Tuesday and Wednesday scheduled for 18:55 CEST/CET.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Notes

References

Other websites
UEFA Champions League (official website)

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