Champions League draw in full: Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool and Tottenham find out their European fates
THE Champions League has returned for another epic season as Real Madrid look to defend their title.
And England’s four representatives have discovered their fates in Thursday’s draw in Istanbul.
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This season’s group stage will be packed into just nine weeks ahead of the winter World Cup.
Teams usually get 12 weeks to complete all six matches.
The first games will be played on September 6th.
And the group stage runs all the way until November 2 – just 18 days before kick-off in Qatar.
There will then be a lengthy gap before the knockout stages start.
The last-16 ties run from February 14 to March 15.
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The quarters will be played in April, with the semis in May.
And this season’s final will take place on June 10 at Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Turkey.