Liverpool, Juventus and Chelsea are candidates to face Real Madrid
The roadmap for the new UEFA Champions League season has been revealed today
Mohamed Salah may find himself facing Courtois again if Liverpool fall into one group with Real.
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Real Madrid, the Spanish champions of the Champions League, and the rest of the European elite clubs learn today about the roadmap for the new season of the most important competition, when the draw for the group stage for the 2022-2023 season is held in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
The final match of the most important continental championship at the club level will be held in Istanbul in particular on June 10 of next year at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium, which is the scene of the historic match between Liverpool and AC Milan, where the first won on penalties after being left behind by three goals in the first half in the 2005 edition.
Istanbul was supposed to host the final in 2020 and then 2021, but on both occasions, UEFA moved the match to Portugal due to restrictions related to the Corona pandemic.
Thus, Real Madrid strengthened its record in terms of the number of titles (14 times), double the number of times that crowned the next most successful club in the tournament, which is AC Milan.
Real started his continental season by defeating European champions Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 to win the European Super Cup.
Real Madrid will be in the first pot along with the champions of the six top-ranked leagues that did not qualify by winning the 2021-2022 titles, which are: Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Milan, Italy, Paris Saint-Germain, Porto, and Ajax, in addition to European League champion Eintracht Frankfurt. (European League).
As for Liverpool, it will be in the second pot, which means the possibility of renewing the date with Real Madrid in a replay of the final, along with Tottenham and Chelsea of England, Barcelona of Spain and Juventus of Italy.
Russian clubs will not participate due to the ban imposed on them due to the invasion of Ukraine, but the latter will be represented by one club, Shakhtar Donetsk.
Given that the Qatar World Cup will be held in the winter season, the group stage program will be compressed, with the six stages taking place over a period of two months, starting from the sixth of September.
The European Union allocated a financial prize for the winner of the competition title of up to 90 million euros.
In addition, there will be an additional share of TV rights.
It is expected that Real Madrid's crowning of the European titles will translate into the nomination of Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and French top scorer Karim Benzema, along with Manchester City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne, for the award for the best player in Europe for last season, on the sidelines of the draw.
Italian Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid), Spanish Pep Guardiola (Manchester City) and German Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool) will compete for the best coach award.
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One million euros, the prize allocated to the winner of the Champions League next season.
Karim Benzema is the most prominent candidate for the award for the best player in the last European season.
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