Official: Champions League Group Stage Draw

[Ollie 4,400]

FULL DRAW

Group A - Bayern Munich, Juventus, Bordeaux, Maccabi Haifa

Group B - Manchester United, CSKA, Besiktas, Wolfsberg

Group C - AC milan, Real Madrid, Marseille, Zurich

Group D - Chelsea, Porto, Atletico Madrid, Apoel Nicosia

Group E - Liverpool, Lyon, Fiorentina, Debreceni

Group F - Barcelona, Inter, Dynamo Kyiv, Rubin Kazan

Group G - Sevilla, Rangers, Stuttgart, Unirea Urziceni

Group H - Arsenal, AZ, Olympiakos, Standard Liege

Edited August 27, 2009 by OllieCFC

[Kez 2,727]

Decent draw I reckon Athletico will be difficult though.

[diskoviolente 425]

Atletico will be the toughest match then.

Alrite, let´s do it !

[Ollie 4,400]

It will be tough but they are nice games really and only 1 is fairly far from home but they might enjoy in it Cyprus lol.

Man Utd have to go to Russia and Turkey and Wolfsberg are a bloody good team, they wont enjoy that group.

Liverpool go to Fiorentina and play Lyon, again not easy and they wont fancy going away to Debreceni

Arsenal i think have it quite tough, we saw how good Standard looked against both scouse teams and AZ won the Durch league by a mile last season. Then they have a dodgy trip to Greece which is never easy.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Potentially difficult draw for us, confident we can progress though.

[Ollie 4,400]

We will progress because its finally gonna be our year. Can't wait to go to the home games now, really wanna go to the lot.

[Kez 2,727]

Haha i want to go to the APOEL game

[Mart 29]

Hardest draw of all the English teams. Might try and make the trip out for Atletico away, anyone up for it? :woo:

[Badboy 1,526]

Aguero

[Steve 10,227]

Decent draw. Positive we will get through pretty easily.

[ZanSnake 1,211]

Aguero actually coming to the bridge, yes!!

Well as a Athletico player, but next season....

[Rubber bullets 1,183]

If Athletico get knocked out in the group stages, then I think we could have a good chance of signing Aguero in January

[ZanSnake 1,211]

The return of Nuno Morais whose seeking revenge, muhahahaha!!

[ZanSnake 1,211]

Chelsea chiefexecutive Peter Kenyon was satisfied with the draw for the UEFAChampions League group phase after landing games against Porto,Atletico Madrid and APOEL Nicosia.

Last season's semi-finalists and 2008 runners-up werethe top seeds in Group D and avoided being paired alongside the likesof former manager Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan side, Real Madrid and Juventus.

Kenyon was not getting carried away by the draw, but expects Blues boss Carlo Ancelotti to be pleased with the outcome.

"We'restarting again and we're always looking to go one step further, whichmeans we've got to get through this stage," Kenyon told Sky Sports News.

"We have to be generally pleased with the draw. There's no easy games and no easy groups.

"Overall, there's not too much travel and I guess we've managed to avoid one of the big ones."

History

Chelsea faced Porto in 2004/05 and 2006/07, and have close ties with the club with Ricardo Carvalho, Paulo Ferreira, Jose Bosingwa and Deco all having played for the Portuguese giants.

Kenyon added: "We've played them before and Porto players have been an important part of Chelsea's history.

"I think we know them all, but Porto probably better than most."

With the transfer deadline approaching next Tuesday, Kenyon also confirmed there are no plans to add to the signings of Yuri Zhirkov,Daniel Sturridge and Ross Turnbull.

"I think at this stage probably not," replied Kenyon when asked about possible new signings.

"We concentrated very much on re-signing the players we wanted and that's been really successful.

"We've had a great start to the season and Carlo, before he joined us, was very happy with the squad.

"We'vestrengthened that with Zhirkov and we're very happy with the squad.We've had a good start and we all believe this year we can go one stepfurther."

Source: SkySports

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

Just booked my flights and hotel to Madrid! Cannot wait!!!