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Champions League draw today: Who can we play?

Related Topics: UEFA Champions League

Thanks to our superb performance in the Premier League, we will enter the Champions League for the 20th time in our history next season.

It is set to be a very different competition to the one we have been used to over the past couple of decades, with a new format and an expansion to 36 teams that needs getting to grips with.

Below we explain how that works, and try to work out which teams we could be pitted against when the action gets underway again in September.

How does the new format work?

To admit more clubs into the competition, UEFA have scrapped the traditional eight groups of four approach that supporters have become accustomed to.