The Champions League draw resulted in a fiery rivalry between Real Madrid - the defending champion - and Liverpool, and a clash between Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain.
The European Football Association (UEFA) headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, hosted the Champions League final prize draw for the 2022-2023 season
And in a repeat of last season's edition, Real Madrid faces its counterpart Liverpool in a retaliatory confrontation for the companions of the Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, who will search for a victory over the Royal Club after losing to him in the Champions League final in the 2018 and 2022 editions, and exiting the quarter-finals of the 2021 edition.
Real Madrid won the Champions League last season with a 1-0 victory over Liverpool.
Real Madrid also knocked out the Liverpool team from the quarter-finals of the 2020-2021 edition, after beating it 3-1 on aggregate.
Early final between Bayern and Saint-Germain
Paris Saint-Germain has been playing head-to-head with Bayern Munich in recent years in the continental competition, so the Bavarian team won the 2020 final with a clean goal in the combined tournament that was held in Portugal due to the repercussions of the Corona virus pandemic, and Saint-Germain avenged its loss in the following season, stripping the Bavarian team of His title in the quarter-finals.
Saint-Germain was seeking to win its first title in the continental competition to become the second French team after Marseille in 1993 to obtain this honor. It came second in its group at the last gasp because of Benfica's Portuguese goal, which he scored in stoppage time to win over the Israeli Maccabi 6-1 and outperform The French capital team scored a goal difference, while Bayern Munich achieved the full mark.
Our opponent in the #UEFA Champions League final is @FCBayern!
🏆#UCLdraw pic.twitter.com/zVUOzUtd4n
- Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_arab) November 7, 2022
An easy job for Manchester City
Manchester City - one of the most prominent candidates to win the title - will be on a date with German Leipzig, in a confrontation that seems settled for the team of Spanish coach Pep Guardiola, who seems to be the biggest beneficiary of the results of today's draw.
Guardiola will benefit from the exit of at least two major teams from this role, after the Madrid-Liverpool and Bayern-Saint-Germain matches, to make the way open for him to achieve the dream of crowning the title that he has been chasing since his arrival in Manchester in 2016.
🚨 Manchester City faces RB Leipzig in the Champions League final 💪# City pic.twitter.com/9Jkqx1DeY4
- Manchester City (@Cityarabia) November 7, 2022
In other matches, Napoli, who is making a great start at home and continental, faces Eintracht Frankfurt, the German champion of the European League (European League) last season.
Milan - crowned with 7 titles in the tournament - will meet with Tottenham Hotspur, and German Borussia Dortmund, the 1997 champion, will be with Chelsea, the holders of the title in 2021.
In the last match, Benfica will meet with Club Brugge of Belgium.
The complete program of the Champions League quarter-final matches
RB Leipzig - Manchester City, England
Club Brugge, Belgium - Benfica, Portugal
Liverpool, England - Real Madrid, Spain
AC Milan - Tottenham Hotspur
Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany - Napoli, Italy
Germany's Borussia Dortmund - England's Chelsea
Inter Milan, Italy - Porto, Portugal
Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich, Germany
The date of the Champions League final matches
The matches will take place on February 14, 15, 21 and 22, and the return on March 7, 8, 14 and 15.
The automated teams receive the first leg on their field and travel to face the opponent in the return match.
After canceling the rule of calculating the goal away from the ground with two goals in all competitions belonging to the European Union (UEFA) since last season, the matches that will end in a tie in the total of the home and away matches will witness the establishment of two additional games, and if there is a need to decide the winner, the two teams will play penalty kicks.