UEFA Champions League Group-Stage Draw: Atletico Get Juve, Legend, Mamlo; Defending Champs Get Liverpool, Basel, Ludogorets; Monaco Joined By Benfica, Zenit, Leverkusen; Gunners Get Dortmund, Anderlecht, Galatasaray; It's Citizens, Roma, Horses For Bayern; Barca Draw Ajax, PSG, APOEL; Sporting Draw Chelsea, Royal Blues, Maribor; Donetsk, BATE, Athletic Bilbao For Dragons

The draw for the UEFA Champions League's group stage took place on Thursday in Monaco.

Read it and weep.

GROUP A:

Atletico Madrid (Spain)

Juventus (Italy)

Olympiacos (Greece)

Malmo FF (Sweden)



GROUP B:

Real Madrid (Spain; defending champions)

FC Basel (Switzerland)

Liverpool (England)

Ludogorets Razgrad (Bulgaria)



GROUP C:

SL Benfica (Portugal)

Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russia)

Bayer Leverkusen (Germany)

AS Monaco (France)



GROUP D:

Arsenal (England)

Borussia Dortmund (Germany)

Galatasaray (Turkey)

RSC Anderlecht (Belgium)



GROUP E:

Bayern Munich (Germany)

Manchester City (England)

CSKA Moscow (Russia)

AS Roma (Italy)



GROUP F:

FC Barcelona (Spain)

Paris Saint-Germain (France)

Ajax Amsterdam (Netherlands)

APOEL FC (Cyprus)



GROUP G:

Chelsea (England)

FC Schalke 04 (Germany)

Sporting CP (Portugal)

NK Maribor (Slovenia)



GROUP H:

FC Porto (Portugal)

Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)

Athletic Bilbao (Spain)

FC BATE Borisov (Belarus)


Action begins on September 16, with each team in each group playing twice against each of the other three teams in its group.  The top two teams in each group would advance to the knockout stage of the Champions League while each of the eight third-place teams would join the Europa League's knockout stage.