2018–19_UEFA_Champions_League_group_stage

2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage

Football tournament

The 2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage began on 18 September and ended on 12 December 2018.^[1] A total of 32 teams competed in the group stage to decide the 16 places in the knockout phase of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League.^[2]

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 30 August 2018, 18:00 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.^[3]

The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on the following principles (Regulations Article 13.06):^[2]

Pot 1 contained the Champions League title holders, the Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2017 UEFA country coefficients.^[4] If either the Champions League or Europa League title holders were one of the champions of the top six associations, the champions of the association ranked seventh (and possibly eighth) were also seeded into Pot 1.
Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2018 UEFA club coefficients.^[5]

On 17 July 2014, the UEFA emergency panel ruled that Ukrainian and Russian clubs would not be drawn against each other "until further notice" due to the political unrest between the countries.^[6]

Moreover, the draw was controlled for teams from the same association in order to split the teams evenly into the two sets of four groups (A–D, E–H) for maximum television coverage. On each matchday, one set of four groups played their matches on Tuesday, while the other set of four groups played their matches on Wednesday, with the two sets of groups alternating between each matchday. The following pairings were announced by UEFA after the group stage teams were confirmed:^[3]^[7]

Spain: Real Madrid and Barcelona, Atlético Madrid and Valencia
Germany: Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, Schalke 04 and 1899 Hoffenheim
England: Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Liverpool
Italy: Juventus and Inter Milan, Napoli and Roma
France: Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon
Russia: Lokomotiv Moscow and CSKA Moscow
Portugal: Porto and Benfica
Netherlands: PSV Eindhoven and Ajax

The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public, with the following match sequence (Regulations Article 16.02):^[2]

Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g. Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.

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There were scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city (e.g. Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid) in general were not scheduled to play at home on the same matchday (to avoid them playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control), and teams from "winter countries" (e.g. Russia) were not scheduled to play at home on the last matchday (due to cold weather).

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[cnote_TH] TH Champions League title holders, automatically placed into Pot 1 as top seed.

[cnote_EL] EL Europa League title holders, automatically placed into Pot 1 as second top seed.

[cnote_CP] CP Winners of play-off round (Champions Path).

[cnote_LP] LP Winners of play-off round (League Path).

[table_hth_DOR0.74455222661819-10] Head-to-head goal difference: Borussia Dortmund +2, Atlético Madrid –2.

[table_hth_TOT0.29095537275586-17] Head-to-head away goals: Tottenham Hotspur 1, Inter Milan 0.

[table_hth_LIV0.075529380270992-20] Goals in all group matches: Liverpool 9, Napoli 7.

[table_hth_PLZ0.43325681958034-31] Head-to-head points: Viktoria Plzeň 4, CSKA Moscow 1.

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CEST (UTC+2) for dates up to 27 October 2018 (matchdays 1–3), and CET (UTC+1) for dates thereafter (matchdays 4–6).

[Tottenham_Hotspur-19] [N 2]
Tottenham Hotspur played their home matches at Wembley Stadium, London, due to delays with the construction of their new stadium Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London.^[15]

[Shakhtar_Donetsk-27] [N 3]
Shakhtar Donetsk played their first two home matches at Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, instead of their regular stadium Donbass Arena, Donetsk, due to the war conditions in Eastern Ukraine.

[Lyon-29] [N 4]
The Lyon v Shakhtar Donetsk match was played behind closed doors as UEFA punishment for crowd disorder at Lyon matches during the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League.^[22]

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Shakhtar Donetsk played this match at NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv, instead of their temporary stadium Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, due to martial law being declared in parts of Ukraine.

[CSKA_Moscow-33] [N 6]
CSKA Moscow played their home matches at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, instead of their regular stadium VEB Arena, Moscow.^[23]

[MUvVAL_delayed-35] [N 7]
The Manchester United v Valencia match, originally scheduled for 21:00 CEST, was delayed to 21:05 CEST due to late team arrival caused by heavy traffic.^[24]

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Matchday	Dates	Matches
Matchday 1	18–19 September 2018	2 v 3, 4 v 1
Matchday 2	2–3 October 2018	1 v 2, 3 v 4
Matchday 3	23–24 October 2018	3 v 1, 2 v 4
Matchday 4	6–7 November 2018	1 v 3, 4 v 2
Matchday 5	27–28 November 2018	3 v 2, 1 v 4
Matchday 6	11–12 December 2018	2 v 1, 4 v 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	DOR	ATM	BRU	MON
1	Borussia Dortmund	6	4	1	1	10	2	+8	13^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Advance to knockout phase	—	4–0	0–0	3–0
2	Atlético Madrid	6	4	1	1	9	6	+3	13^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Advance to knockout phase	2–0	—	3–1	2–0
3	Club Brugge	6	1	3	2	6	5	+1	6	Transfer to Europa League	0–1	0–0	—	1–1
4	Monaco	6	0	1	5	2	14	−12	1		0–2	1–2	0–4	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	BAR	TOT	INT	PSV
1	Barcelona	6	4	2	0	14	5	+9	14	Advance to knockout phase	—	1–1	2–0	4–0
2	Tottenham Hotspur	6	2	2	2	9	10	−1	8^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Advance to knockout phase	2–4	—	1–0	2–1
3	Inter Milan	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Transfer to Europa League	1–1	2–1	—	1–1
4	PSV Eindhoven	6	0	2	4	6	13	−7	2		1–2	2–2	1–2	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	PAR	LIV	NAP	ZVE
1	Paris Saint-Germain	6	3	2	1	17	9	+8	11	Advance to knockout phase	—	2–1	2–2	6–1
2	Liverpool	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2	9^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Advance to knockout phase	3–2	—	1–0	4–0
3	Napoli	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Transfer to Europa League	1–1	1–0	—	3–1
4	Red Star Belgrade	6	1	1	4	5	17	−12	4		1–4	2–0	0–0	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	POR	SCH	GAL	LOM
1	Porto	6	5	1	0	15	6	+9	16	Advance to knockout phase	—	3–1	1–0	4–1
2	Schalke 04	6	3	2	1	6	4	+2	11	Advance to knockout phase	1–1	—	2–0	1–0
3	Galatasaray	6	1	1	4	5	8	−3	4	Transfer to Europa League	2–3	0–0	—	3–0
4	Lokomotiv Moscow	6	1	0	5	4	12	−8	3		1–3	0–1	2–0	—

2018–19_UEFA_Champions_League_group_stage

2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage

Draw

Teams

Format

Tiebreakers

Groups

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Notes

References

External links

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	BAY	AJX	BEN	AEK
1	Bayern Munich	6	4	2	0	15	5	+10	14	Advance to knockout phase	—	1–1	5–1	2–0
2	Ajax	6	3	3	0	11	5	+6	12	Advance to knockout phase	3–3	—	1–0	3–0
3	Benfica	6	2	1	3	6	11	−5	7	Transfer to Europa League	0–2	1–1	—	1–0
4	AEK Athens	6	0	0	6	2	13	−11	0		0–2	0–2	2–3	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MC	LYO	SHK	HOF
1	Manchester City	6	4	1	1	16	6	+10	13	Advance to knockout phase	—	1–2	6–0	2–1
2	Lyon	6	1	5	0	12	11	+1	8	Advance to knockout phase	2–2	—	2–2	2–2
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	3	2	8	16	−8	6	Transfer to Europa League	0–3	1–1	—	2–2
4	1899 Hoffenheim	6	0	3	3	11	14	−3	3		1–2	3–3	2–3	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	RMA	ROM	PLZ	CSKA
1	Real Madrid	6	4	0	2	12	5	+7	12	Advance to knockout phase	—	3–0	2–1	0–3
2	Roma	6	3	0	3	11	8	+3	9	Advance to knockout phase	0–2	—	5–0	3–0
3	Viktoria Plzeň	6	2	1	3	7	16	−9	7^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Transfer to Europa League	0–5	2–1	—	2–2
4	CSKA Moscow	6	2	1	3	8	9	−1	7^{[lower-alpha 1]}		1–0	1–2	1–2	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	JUV	MU	VAL	YB
1	Juventus	6	4	0	2	9	4	+5	12	Advance to knockout phase	—	1–2	1–0	3–0
2	Manchester United	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10	Advance to knockout phase	0–1	—	0–0	1–0
3	Valencia	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8	Transfer to Europa League	0–2	2–1	—	3–1
4	Young Boys	6	1	1	4	4	12	−8	4		2–1	0–3	1–1	—

Key to colours
Group winners and runners-up advanced to round of 16
Third-placed teams entered Europa League round of 32