Champions League 2025/26 - Round of 16 - Barcelona

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[Sima]

Looking forward to us getting the worst combination of fixtures imaginable.

 

 

Edited August 26, 2025 by Sima

[ramirez]

It's a shit show contrived to produce as many fixtures as possible, highly confident we finish outside the bottom 8.  

[jack j]

How does it work? How many teams from each pot will we face? I know its 4 home and 4 away obviously 

[Keegans Export]

 

Current state of play with the qualifiers. Brugge & Bodo nailed on you would assume. 

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Just now, jack j said:

How does it work? How many teams from each pot will we face? I know its 4 home and 4 away obviously 

You face 2 teams from each pot, 1 at home and 1 away.

[jack j]

6 minutes ago, 54 said:

You face 2 teams from each pot, 1 at home and 1 away.

Real Madrid A
Bayern H
Atletico H
Juventus A
Napoli H
Marseille A
Galatasaraay A
Bilbao H

[SteV]

8 minutes ago, jack j said:

Real Madrid A
Bayern H
Atletico H
Juventus A
Napoli H
Marseille A
Galatasaraay A
Bilbao H

Think you can only get a maximum of two teams from the same country.

[Sibierski]

Thought because there’s 6 sides, that we have to face an English side to balance it out? 
 

Or an English side is guaranteed to meet another English side. Either way, if it happens we have to be at home.

[Colos Short and Curlies]

Pafos away would be lovely for the dedicated away fan contingent. 

[Jewel]

Hope Kairat Almaty knock Celtic out.

 

Be funny for whoever draws them, having to travel to a city that is further away than Kabul and Islamabad.

[NSG]

Would love Real Madrid away, like. 

[Moose]

We had our fair share of glamour ties last time. This year I want it to be as easy as possible. Outside of the Pot 1 teams, I can't see many teams who I wouldn't fancy our chances against.

 

Inter

Barca

Brugge 

Frankfurt

Bodo Glimt

Slavia 

Pafos

Qarabag

 

We can have our glamour ties in the latter stages.

[Displayname]

I just want someone we haven't met before. Don't think the draw can be too hard for us no matter what anyways.

[Kilcline]

49 minutes ago, Sibierski said:

Thought because there’s 6 sides, that we have to face an English side to balance it out? 
 

Or an English side is guaranteed to meet another English side. Either way, if it happens we have to be at home.

I think that was just if Man U won the Europa League + Arsenal got to the CL final then the other 5 English teams would have all been in pot 1, so we'd have had to play one of them if there was a "deadlock" in the draw. Don't think that should be an issue now. 

[gazza ladra]

Last time I wanted the Group of Death. Just like I wanted Liverpool instead if Spurs in the LC final.

 

I don't give a crap about that now. Easiest path possible.

[Keegans Export]

There's nobody outside of Pot 1 I wouldn't back us to beat at home. 

 

Two wins from Pot 4, win the home games against Pots 2 & 3 a point at home against Pot 1 gets us a play-off at least. 

[gazza ladra]

Real Madrid A
Inter H
Club Brugge H
Benfica A
Ajax H
Slavia Praha A
Athletic Bilbao A
FC Copenhagen H

 

Soft enough.  Plus a trip to Bernabéu 

[Stifler]

1 hour ago, Jewel said:

Hope Kairat Almaty knock Celtic out.

 

Be funny for whoever draws them, having to travel to a city that is further away than Kabul and Islamabad.

It will be us, 3 days before the derby.

[Kanj]

Lads will they also put up who we play home and away on the 28th too? 

[Kilcline]

3 minutes ago, Kanj said:

Lads will they also put up who we play home and away on the 28th too? 

Yeah, we'll know who we're playing, but not the sequence or the specific dates probably until the weekend 

[Kanj]

3 minutes ago, Kilcline said:

Yeah, we'll know who we're playing, but not the sequence or the specific dates probably until the weekend 

ok, just trying to book some travel. Cheers mate. 

[Famous Nick]

funny thing this time it will be maybe Howe's brother and maybe some cousin or Tindall's wife to attend as Newcastle delegates as still no CEO, DoF...

last time this was our team at the draw:

[Guest]

Should be Shearer and Jimmy Nail this time.

[mouldy_uk]

1 minute ago, Foxy Ruel said:

Should be Shearer and Jimmy Nail this time.

Ant and Dec busy?