Tonight and tomorrow night, the Champions League group stage picture will be completed as the seven playoff return legs take place.
With all eyes in Greece on the AEK-Levski Sofia match on Wednesday, three other games are taking place today. Celtic and Bodø/Glimt hold huge advantages in their respective series following their first-leg victories over LASK Linz and Nijmegen, while the Sabah-Hapoel Be’er Sheva matchup remains wide open following the Israelis’ 2-1 win in the first leg.
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Wednesday’s matches are all up for grabs, as they all ended in draws last week.
The schedule and scores from the first matches:
Tuesday, Aug.
25, 8:45 p.m. Sabah vs. Hapoel Be’er Sheva (1-2) COSMOTE Sport 4
10:00 p.m. LASK Linz vs. Celtic (0-3) COSMOTE Sport 3
10:00 PM Bodø/Glimt vs. Nijmegen (3-1) COSMOTE Sport 2
Wednesday, August
26, 10:00 p.m. AEK vs. Levski Sofia (0-0)
10:00 p.m. Viking vs. Dinamo Zagreb (2-2)
10:00 PM Lyon vs. Fenerbahçe (1-1)
10:00 PM Celje vs. Slovan Bratislava (1-1)
How the Pot
Groups Are Determined On Thursday afternoon (7:00 p.m.), the draw for the Champions League group stage will take place, and AEK, if it qualifies, will be in Pot 4. They will play against eight different teams—two from each pot—with one home game and one away game.
The 29 teams that have already secured their spots in the League Phase:
Pot 1
Bayern Munich (Germany)
Real Madrid (Spain)
Paris Saint-Germain (France)
Liverpool (England)
, Inter (Italy)
, Manchester City (England)
, Arsenal (England)
, Barcelona (Spain)
, Atlético Madrid (Spain)
Pot 2
Borussia Dortmund (Germany)
Roma (Italy)
Sporting Lisbon (Portugal)
Aston Villa (England)
Porto (Portugal)
Manchester United (England)
Club Brugge (Belgium)
Real Betis (Spain)
PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Pot 3
Feyenoord (Netherlands) 71,000
Lille (France) 68,750
Napoli (Italy) 63,000
Leipzig (Germany) 61,000
Villarreal (Spain) 59,000
Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) 56,250
Galatasaray (Turkey) 53,500
Pot 4
Slavia Prague (Czech Republic) 44,000
Stuttgart (Germany) 27,500
Como (Italy) 19,989
Lens (France) 16,699
The coefficient for teams that did not qualify: Lyon 65,750, Bodø/Glimt 64,000, Dinamo Zagreb 46,500, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 46,500, Celtic 44,000, Slovan Bratislava 36,000, AEK 24,000, Celje 23,000, LASK Linz 21,000, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 14,000, Nijmegen 13,585, Levski Sofia 11,000, Sabah 8,421, Viking 8,247
*photo source: AP
