European draws: The Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League draws as they happened

We're live! And here's what we're playing for…

So who's in what draw? Here's how it's looking for the Champions League

Seeded teams: Napoli, Porto, Bayern Munich, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Benfica

Unseeded teams: Liverpool, Club Brugge, Inter Milan, Eintracht Frankfurt, AC Milan, RB Leipzig, Borussia Dortmund, Paris Saint-Germain

So things are a little different for the Europa League and Europa Conference League.

Arsenal and West Ham United will not be learning their fates today. There is a Round of 32 in both competitions, featuring the dropouts of the competition above playing the teams that dropped into each tournament.

Both the Gunners and the Hammers will learn their next opponents in the next draw, scheduled for February 24. You guys can just sit back and relax for now. 

Europa League group winners, who are already through to the Europa League Round of 16: Arsenal, Fenerbahce, Real Betis, Union Saint-Gilloise, Real Sociedad, Feyenoord, Freiburg, Ferencvaros

Champions League dropouts to be drawn into the Round of 32: Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, Barcelona, Sporting, Red Bull Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sevilla, Juventus

Europa League runners-up, who will be drawn against a Champions League dropout in the Round of 32: PSV Eindhoven, Rennes, Roma, Union Berlin, Manchester United, Midtjylland, Nantes, Monaco

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Want to watch the draw, by the way?

You can! Watch it live on BT Sport or on YouTube below…

Giorgio Marchetti has arrived to oversee proceedings

Bayern Munich became the first team to have a THIRD perfect group stage campaign this season

Marchetti has given a shoutout to Die Roten who managed yet another 6-0-0 despite having Inter and Barça in their group.

Hamit Altintop is back to help with the draw.

Altintop assisted the group stage, too. 

Draw presenter Pedro Pinto showing us all exactly what we're here for…

We're almost ready to begin. Just as a reminder, clubs CANNOT draw an opponent from the same country OR the same group. 

Here we go!

RB Leipzig are first out.

RB Leipzig will play Manchester City

Next up… Club Brugge

Club Brugge will play Benfica

Next out of the bowl, it's Liverpool

Liverpool's road to Istanbul continues with a tie against Real Madrid

It's a rematch of the 2022 final!

AC Milan are next up

AC Milan will play Tottenham Hotspur

Eintracht Frankfurt, now

Eintracht Frankfurt will play Napoli

Borussia Dortmund are next

Dortmund have been drawn against Chelsea

Inter Milan next

Inter Milan will play Porto

Paris Saint-Germain are the last runner-up… and they'll play Bayern Munich

The draw in full:

RB Leipzig vs Manchester City
Club Brugge vs Benfica
Liverpool vs Real Madrid
AC Milan vs Tottenham Hotspur
Eintracht Frankfurt vs Napoli
Borussia Dortmund vs Chelsea
Inter Milan vs Porto
Paris Saint-Germain vs Bayern Munich

What a draw. Some absolute corkers in there.

Of course, the big news is that 2022's final will see a match-up between champions Real Madrid and Liverpool. Jurgen Klopp's side have lost to Los Blancos three times, all in all, twice in finals. 

Bayern Munich vs. PSG also promises to be one hell of a game, as two of the most dominant clubs of their respective countries come up against one another. The question will be whether PSG can end their knockout hoodoo at long last at the hands of one of Europe's most consistent sides.

Jude Bellingham is getting to play at another English ground, as Dortmund head to Chelsea. A tough test for Graham Potter's men, while Manchester City also draw German opposition in RB Leipzig. 

The remaining English side, Tottenham, will see Antonio Conte return to the San Siro for the first time since leaving Inter, as Spurs take on AC Milan. 

The first legs will be played on February 14 and 15 with the second legs just a week later on February 21 and 22.

Liverpool fans are no strangers to Madrid, of course, as Matt Ladson reminds us…

Let's not forget either that the one season that Klopp's Liverpool didn't get knocked out by a team from Madrid, they won the final… in Madrid

Current Premier League clubs that Jude Bellingham has faced…

– Manchester City
– Leeds United
– Fulham
Pending:
– Chelsea

Fair to say he's met two of those in different atmospheres and circumstances to the other two.

Antonio Conte has a poor Champions League knockout record – but that might be about to change

The Tottenham manager has won just the one Champions League knockout tie in his time as a manager. That was against Celtic, back when he was the Juventus boss. 

Lucky that he's returning somewhere he knows very well. And AC Milan are only team that Conte has 10 wins against in the dugout. 

Conte has played Milan 14 times in his career and only lost once, giving him the psychological edge at the very least. This could be a good opportunity to progress…

Manchester City are facing one of three men to score a hat-trick against Pep Guardiola

Players to have scored hat-tricks against clubs managed by Pep Guardiola: 

– Lionel Messi (of course)
– Jamie Vardy, in a 4-2 win in Pep's first season at the Etihad, where City struggled to win second balls and weren't quite the finished product
– Jamie Vardy, again, in that 5-2 win in September 2020, the last match before City went and paid big money for Ruben Dias before walking the league and Dias becoming a sensation for them
– Christopher Nkunku in a 6-3 loss in the Champions League group stage last season

Will Leipzig conjure up something similarly stunning this time?

Let's now turn our attention to the Europa League knockout draw.

Europa League group winners, who are already through to the Europa League Round of 16: Arsenal, Fenerbahce, Real Betis, Union Saint-Gilloise, Real Sociedad, Feyenoord, Freiburg, Ferencvaros

Champions League dropouts to be drawn into the Round of 32: Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, Barcelona, Sporting, Red Bull Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sevilla, Juventus

Europa League runners-up, who will be drawn against a Champions League dropout in the Round of 32: PSV Eindhoven, Rennes, Roma, Union Berlin, Manchester United, Midtjylland, Nantes, Monaco

Arsenal fans, you can sit tight – this doesn't concern you today (in the nicest way possible)

Live coverage for the Europa League draw can be watched on BT Sport's YouTube channel

And we're live!

So Manchester United fans, who are you hoping you get?

Here are the options… Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, Barcelona, Sporting, Red Bull Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sevilla, Juventus

Giorgio Marchetti re-joins the stage for the draw.

Zoltan Gera is here for the draw once more.

Like Hamit Altintop, Gera assisted with the group stage draw.

Zoltan Gera says that Ferencvaros has a "big dream" to win the Europa League. 

Quite the ask, given some of sides involved…

Here we go!

Barcelona are first out of the bowl

Barcelona will play Manchester United

Oh, boy.

The worst possible draw for United?

Now, Juventus. They're not playing games here.

Juventus are drawn against Nantes

Sporting are next out of the hat

Sporting will play Midtjylland

Shakhtar Donetsk, now.

Shakhtar face Rennes

Ajax next up.

Ajax will play Union Berlin

Bayer Leverkusen are next out of Zoltan Gera's grasp

Leverkusen will play Monaco in the next round

Now Sevilla out of the bowl

Sevilla are set to face PSV Eindhoven

Red Bull Salzburg out last – and they will play Roma

The draw in full: 

Barcelona vs Manchester United
Juventus vs Nantes
Sporting vs Midtjylland
Shakhtar Donetsk vs Rennes
Ajax vs Union Berlin
Bayer Leverkusen vs Monaco
Sevilla vs PSV
Red Bull Salzburg vs Roma

OK, so one tie stands out above all others in the next round of the Europa League.

Manchester United are set to face Barcelona in the last-32 in what's already being dubbed as the Frenkie de Jong derby. What a pair of games that'll be. 

Of course, younger United fans have unhappy memories of playing Barcelona in European competition…

But it's worth reminding those whippersnappers that United actually beat Barça in the final of the 1991 Cup Winners Cup…

Elsewhere in the Europa League draw…

In Bayer Leverkusen vs Monaco, we have two noughties Champions League finalists against one another

Both sides stunned Europe in getting to a final in the 2000s against all odds and very nearly went all the way: Leverkusen in 2002, Monaco two years later. But neither side could keep up the momentum.

Leverkusen and Monaco have fallen on hard times and risen again – now they face off against one another. And looking through at Hlozek, Hudson-Odoi, Diaby, Schick and Wirtz on one side, with Ben Yedder, Boadu, Embolo, Minamino and Volland on the another, neither side is short of attacking thrust.

Sevilla vs PSV should be a good'un, too. 

Arsenal fans are happy that they topped their group and avoided all this drama, to be fair. 

Red Bull Salzburg vs Roma is perhaps the other standout at this stage of the competition.

Jose Mourinho's Roma won the Europa Conference League last year, of course, with Red Bull Salzburg one of the most exciting sides in Europe for up-and-coming talent. Certainly an older style of play coming up against a modern press…

Just to get you a little more excited for the Champions League, our quiz of the day looks at some of competition's biggest records…

So… for our final draw of the day…

Clubs already through to the Europa Conference League last-16: Istanbul Basaksehir, West Ham United, Villarreal, Nice, AZ Alkmaar, Djurgardens, Sivasspor, Slovan Bratislava

Clubs who finished second in their Europa Conference League group and will play a Europa League dropout in the Round of 32: Fiorentina, Anderlecht, Lech Poznan, Partizan, Dnipro-1, Gent, Cluj, Basel

Club who finished third in the Europa League group stage, who will play a second-placed Conference League side in the Round of 32: Bodo/Glimt, AEK Larnaca, Ludogorets Razgrad, Braga, Sheriff Tiraspol, Lazio, Qarabag, Trabzonspor

That's right, Hammers fans. Put your trotters up and relax. You don't have to worry about drawing anyone until February.

Aaaaand we're live from Nyom once more!

Here are the balls…

So each of these sides… Fiorentina, Anderlecht, Lech Poznan, Partizan, Dnipro-1, Gent, Cluj, Basel

Will face one of these… Bodo/Glimt, AEK Larnaca, Ludogorets Razgrad, Braga, Sheriff Tiraspol, Lazio, Qarabag, Trabzonspor

Giorgio Marchetti makes his way to the stage for the third time today with the sigh of a man who's never had to think about AEK Larnaca before now

Vladimir Smicer is here to conduct the draw.

Big Vlad obviously has European heritage as a Champions League winner with Liverpool in 2005, while the final is taking place in Prague – and Smicer is Czech.

A reminder, as if you need it, that at this stage of the draw, clubs cannot face opposition of the same country.

We're very almost ready to begin. Let's go!

First out of the hat… Qarabag

Qarabag will play Gent

Trabzonspor out next

Trabzonspor play Basel

Lazio up next, now. 

Lazio play Cluj

Bodo/Glimt are next out of the bowl

It's Bodo/Glimt vs Lech Poznan

Braga out next.

Braga are set to play Fiorentina

AEK Larnaca are the next team that Smicer draws

AEK Larnaca will play against Dnipro-1

Now Sheriff have been pulled out of the hat

Sheriff Tiraspol will play Partizan

That leaves Ludogorets vs Anderlecht as the last tie

The draw in full: 

Qarabag vs Gent
Trabzonspor vs Basel
Lazio vs Cluj
Bodo/Glimt vs Lech Poznan
Braga vs Fiorentina
AEK Larnaca vs Dnipro-1
Sheriff Tiraspol vs Partizan
Ludogorets vs Anderlecht

So we now know all three competitions' next rounds

A reminder, by the way, that UEFA competitions are included in Football Manager 2023 – and that today is your last chance to get money off of the new game…

If you can possibly think this far ahead, the three finals are scheduled in very touristy cities this time around

Europa League: May 31 in Budapest, Hungary
Europa Conference League: June 7 in Prague, Czech Republic
Champions League: June 10 in Istanbul, Turkey

Will Liverpool be under new ownership by the time the Champions League knockouts roll around?

With Real Madrid up next for the Reds, Jurgen Klopp is facing a bogey team

Some of the more intriguing on-field battles across the European draws…

Haaland vs Gvardiol (RB Leipzig vs Manchester City)
Benzema vs Van Dijk (Liverpool vs Real Madrid)
Kane vs Tomori (AC Milan vs Tottenham Hotspur)
Osimhen vs Ndicka (Eintracht Frankfurt vs Napoli)
Mount vs Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund vs Chelsea)
Mbappe vs De Ligt (Paris Saint-Germain vs Bayern Munich)
Lewandowski vs Martinez (Barcelona vs Manchester United)
Blas vs Pogba (Nantes vs Juventus)
Gouiri vs Matvienko (Shakhtar vs Rennes)
Wirtz vs Camara (Bayer Leverkusen vs Monaco)
Nianzou vs Gakpo (Sevilla vs PSV)
Sesko vs Smalling (Roma vs Red Bull Salzburg)
Horta vs Dodo (Braga vs Fiorentina)

The challenge has been laid down by Carra…

Further bad news for United fans following today's tricky draw

We'll leave it there.

Thanks for joining us!