How does the Champions League league-phase draw work?

36 clubs are seeded into 4 pots by UEFA club coefficient. Each club is drawn against two opponents from every pot, one at home and one away, never a club from its own association and at most two clubs from any single association. Certain pairings decided by UEFA are excluded.

What do the draw difficulty verdicts mean?

We rank the average opponent strength of your draw against thousands of simulated draws for the same lineup. Dream draw = easier than 90% of possible draws, Kind = 10-30%, Balanced = 30-70%, Tough = 70-90%, Nightmare = harder than 90%.

Champions League Draw Simulator 2026/27

Q: Is the Champions League draw simulator free?

Yes. The first draw needs nothing; to keep drawing, see the opponent probabilities and share your draw we ask for an email address once.

Q: Are the opponent probabilities exact?

No, they are simulated over thousands of draws of the exact lineup. Exact values under UEFA's procedure cannot be computed in closed form for a 36-club draw, so each figure carries a small margin and shifts slightly between runs.

Pick your club and simulate the UEFA Champions League league-phase draw exactly the way UEFA's draw software does it. Every simulated draw respects the official draw rules, you can flip the play-off ties that are still open, watch the opponents come out one by one, see how likely each opponent is, get a verdict on how hard your draw is, and share it as an image or a link. Free - no account needed.

How the Champions League draw works

36 clubs, seeded into 4 pots by UEFA club coefficient (title holder in Pot 1);
each club is drawn against two opponents from every pot - one at home, one away (8 matches in total);
never an opponent from your own association;
at most two opponents from any single association;
pairings UEFA keeps apart are excluded (Armenia-Azerbaijan, Kosovo-Serbia, Kosovo-Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine-Belarus, Gibraltar-Spain);
opponents are drawn club by club, pot by pot, only among options that keep the whole draw completable - the same principle UEFA's software uses.

Champions League draw pots 2026/27 (projected)

The 36 clubs in the UEFA Champions League league phase, seeded into 4 pots by UEFA club coefficient (the title holder is placed in Pot 1). Until the play-off round is finished this is our projection: qualified clubs plus, for every open play-off tie, the side our simulation favours.

Pot 1

Paris Saint-Germain (France, coefficient 132.000)
Bayern München (Germany, coefficient 147.500)
Real Madrid (Spain, coefficient 144.500)
Liverpool (England, coefficient 130.000)
Internazionale (Italy, coefficient 127.000)
Manchester City (England, coefficient 125.500)
Arsenal (England, coefficient 119.000)
FC Barcelona (Spain, coefficient 113.250)
Atlético Madrid (Spain, coefficient 104.750)

Pot 2

Borussia Dortmund (Germany, coefficient 100.750)
AS Roma (Italy, coefficient 97.750)
Sporting CP (Portugal, coefficient 84.000)
Aston Villa (England, coefficient 83.000)
FC Porto (Portugal, coefficient 80.750)
Manchester United (England, coefficient 76.500)
Club Brugge (Belgium, coefficient 75.250)
Real Betis (Spain, coefficient 74.500)
PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands, coefficient 71.250)

Pot 3

Feyenoord (Netherlands, coefficient 71.000)
Lille OSC (France, coefficient 68.750)
Bodø/Glimt (Norway, coefficient 64.000)
Napoli (Italy, coefficient 63.000)
RB Leipzig (Germany, coefficient 61.000)
Villarreal (Spain, coefficient 59.000)
Fenerbahçe (Turkey, coefficient 57.750)
Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine, coefficient 56.250)
Galatasaray (Turkey, coefficient 53.500)

Pot 4

Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia, coefficient 46.500)
Celtic (Scotland, coefficient 44.000)
Slavia Praha (Czech Republic, coefficient 44.000)
Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia, coefficient 36.000)
VfB Stuttgart (Germany, coefficient 27.500)
AEK Athens (Greece, coefficient 24.000)
Como (Italy, coefficient 19.989)
RC Lens (France, coefficient 16.699)
Sabah FK (Azerbaijan, coefficient 6.000)

Play-off ties still open

These clubs are not yet certain of their league phase; the simulator lets you pick either side:

Levski Sofia v AEK Athens (UCL play-off)
Celtic v LASK (UCL play-off)
Dinamo Zagreb v Viking (UCL play-off)
Slovan Bratislava v NK Celje (UCL play-off)
Hapoel Beer-Sheva v Sabah FK (UCL play-off)
Fenerbahçe v Olympique Lyon (UCL play-off)
NEC Nijmegen v Bodø/Glimt (UCL play-off)

How hard is your draw? Our verdict

For every draw we compute the average strength (Elo) of the opponents and rank it against thousands of simulated draws for the same lineup. The percentile tells you what share of possible draws are easier than yours, and the verdict follows from it:

Dream draw - easier than 90% of possible draws
Kind draw - 10-30%
Balanced draw - 30-70%
Tough draw - 70-90%
Nightmare draw - harder than 90% of possible draws

Frequently asked questions

Is the Champions League draw simulator free?

Yes. Your first draw needs nothing at all; to keep drawing, see the opponent probabilities and download or share your draw we ask for an email address once.

Who can my club draw in the Champions League?

Any club from another association, two from every pot (one home, one away), with at most two opponents from the same country. The simulator shows the probability of facing each club, based on thousands of simulated draws of the exact lineup.

Are the probabilities exact?

No - they are simulated. Exact values under UEFA's procedure cannot be computed in closed form for a 36-club draw, so we run thousands of draws; each figure carries a small margin (about ±2 percentage points at 2,000 draws) and shifts slightly between runs.

What happens after the real draw?

Once UEFA has made the official draw the page shows the real fixtures next to the simulation, so you can see how your club's actual draw compares with what it could have been.

Also try: Europa League draw simulator · Conference League draw simulator · UEFA qualifier projections and seeding pots

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