Champions League Draw Don Land! Who Go Shine This Season?

Monaco, Monaco – Na so Champions League draw don jomolify! As we dey enter 2025-26 season, all eyes dey on dis prestigious football competition wey don already start to dey cook like jollof rice. Dis year, 36 teams go dey tussle for chance to sabi who go fit carry the trophy come May 30, 2026, for Budapest, Hungary. Everyone dey wahala their paddy in anticipation of wetin go happen next.

The draw for di league phase go start on August 28 at 5 p.m. BST (12 p.m. ET) inside one posh venue wey dem call Grimaldi Forum for Monaco. If you no fit waka go Monaco, no wahala. You fit catch di gist live for UEFA.com or stream am for TNT Sports and Paramount+ for UK and US respectively. (No be joke, make sure say your internet no go disgrace you o!)

As usual, di draw format dey follow pattern wey dem change last season. Instead of eight groups of four teams, dem don bring dis new ‘Swiss Model’ wey no be small thing. Dis time, pot dey four with nine teams inside each pot, and dem go use coefficient based on previous performances to arrange dem. Paris Saint-Germain, wey be reigning champions, go be first team wey dey draw, dem dey no dey seed am like others.

Now e don reach time to run down how di league phase go work! Every team go face two opponents from each pot, plus two opponents from their own pot, totaling eight matches. Dem go split di matches evenly between home and away, but no team fit play against another team from di same country. So, forget say Liverpool go face Arsenal or Real Madrid go see Barcelona – dat one no go fit happen.

Na so di automated draw dey work now – dem go pull team from di ‘hat’ and press button wey go show di eight opponents immediately. Talk about no wasting time, right? Di bottom twelve teams wey no fit make am will no fit enter European games until next season, so dem go dey check wetin dem fit do to come back strong.

Dis season, di league phase go start from September 16, 2025, go reach January 28, 2026. Di knockout stage go begin after dat, once di top eight teams don qualify for di round of 16.

So, shine your eyes, because we dey see as history dey repeat itself for Champions League! Wil una favorite club make am? Time go tell, but one thing we sabi be say, football no go dull!