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Champions League draw

- London: Group stage draw in full: Group A: Group B: Group C: Group D: Group E: Group F: Group G: Group H: - BBC Sports Feedback: oseab@fijisun.com.fj

Holders Liverpool will face Napoli, Salzburg and Genk in the Champions’ League group stage this season.

Premier League champions Manchester City were drawn alongside Shakhtar Donetsk, Dinamo Zagreb and Atalanta.

Last year’s runners-up Tottenham are in a group with five-time European Cup winners Bayern Munich, plus Olympiakos and Red Star Belgrade. Chelsea must negotiate a group including 2019 semi-finalists Ajax, Valencia and Lille.

European heavyweigh­ts Paris StGermain and Real Madrid were drawn together in Group A while former winners Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and Inter Milan will all meet in Group F.

This year’s group stage begins on September 17 while the final is on May 30 at the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul. Liverpool met Napoli in the group stage of last year’s competitio­n, winning at home and losing the away tie in Italy, before going on to win the tournament for a sixth time. “Napoli are obviously a very experience­d side and their coach Carlo Ancelotti has won the competitio­n,” said manager Jurgen Klopp.

“I will need now to have another, closer look at Genk and Salzburg, but I already know they are very young, very exciting and very fresh, so it will be interestin­g, 100%.”

It will be the third year in a row Manchester City, who lost in the quarter-final to Spurs last season, will face Shakhtar in the group stage. “Zagreb and Atalanta are new opponents for us, but both teams play really good football and I think you will see some great games in this group,” City director of football Txiki Begiristai­n said.

Tottenham reached the European Cup final for the first time last season and forward Son Heung-min said they must “remember and learn from” the campaign. “Bayern will be special because they are one of the biggest teams in Europe, you’re always excited to play in this competitio­n against these teams,” the South Korea internatio­nal added.

Paris St-Germain, Real Madrid, Club Bruges, Galatasara­y

Bayern Munich, Tottenham, Olympiakos, Red Star Belgrade

Manchester City, Shakhtar Donetsk, Dinamo Zagreb, Atalanta

Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Lokomotiv Moscow Liverpool, Napoli, Salzburg, Genk

Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund, Inter Milan, Slavia Prague Zenit St Petersburg, Benfica, Lyon, RB Leipzig, Chelsea, Ajax, Valencia, Lille

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp

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