Originally Posted by
Forest Green Bluebird
There will be seeding based on a performance coefficient:
UEFA will create four pots of nine teams, almost certainly based upon the five-year club coefficient.
Each team will play a selection of 8 teams (four home, four away) from each pool to create a fixture list of roughly equal strength.
The teams in Pot 1 will draw two other clubs from Pot 1, two from Pot 2, two from pot 3 and another two from Pot 4.
Teams from the same association cannot play each other.
So it looks as though the strongest clubs will only play two other similarly ranked clubs.
Every team will play two other teams from each pot.
If Man City drew Bayern Munich & Real Madrid from pot 1 then one fixture would be home and the other away.