{"id":16925,"date":"2020-10-02T11:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T06:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16925"},"modified":"2020-10-02T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T06:22:38","slug":"football-2020-21-champions-league-groups-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16925","title":{"rendered":"Football: 2020\/21 Champions League groups unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s top-flight international football contest, UEFA Champions League&#8217;s groups have been revealed after Thursday&#8217;s draws in Switzerland&#8217;s Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to previous seasons, 32 teams will compete in eight groups in the 2020-21 season.<\/p>\n<p>In Group G, a long-awaited matchup will be at football fans&#8217; service as Juventus with Cristiano Ronaldo tied with Lionel Messi&#8217;s Barcelona, Ukraine&#8217;s Dynamo Kiev and Hungary&#8217;s Ferencvaros.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All groups in 2020-21 Champions League<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group A: Bayern Munich (Germany), Atletico Madrid (Spain), Salzburg (Austria), Lokomotiv Moscow (Russia)<\/p>\n<p>Group B: Real Madrid (Spain), Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine), Inter Milan (Italy), Borussia Monchengladbach (Germany)<\/p>\n<p>Group C: Porto (Portugal), Manchester City (England), Olympiacos (Greece), Olympique Marseille (France)<\/p>\n<p>Group D: Liverpool (England), Ajax (Netherlands), Atalanta (Italy), Midtjylland (Denmark)<\/p>\n<p>Group E: Sevilla (Spain), Chelsea (England), Krasnodar (Russia), Rennes (France)<\/p>\n<p>Group F: Zenit (Russia), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Lazio (Italy), Club Brugge (Belgium)<\/p>\n<p>Group G: Juventus (Italy), Barcelona (Spain), Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine), Ferencvaros (Hungary)<\/p>\n<p>Group H: Paris Saint-Germain (France), Manchester United (England), RB Leipzig (Germany), Medipol Basaksehir (Turkey)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Format<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The group matches will start on Oct. 20-21 as each team will play six games with the home and away format. The group phase in the Champions League will end on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p>The group winners and runners-up will advance to the Champions League&#8217;s knockout stage, the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>The draws for the last 16 will be held on Dec. 14.<\/p>\n<p>The third-place teams in the groups will march to the second-tier UEFA Europa League once the Champions League group stage ends in December.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 Champions League final will be held on May 29 in Istanbul&#8217;s Ataturk Olympic Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA Europe&#8217;s top-flight international football contest, UEFA Champions League&#8217;s groups have been revealed after Thursday&#8217;s draws in Switzerland&#8217;s Geneva. Similar to previous seasons, 32 teams will compete in eight groups in the 2020-21 season. In Group G, a long-awaited matchup will be at football fans&#8217; service as Juventus with Cristiano Ronaldo tied with Lionel Messi&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16926,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16925\/revisions\/16926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}