In addition, 10 teams have reached the main stage of the Champions League through the play-offs.

Among them, giants such as Bayern Munich and Napoli also qualified for the Champions League through the Champions League qualification play-offs to advance to the top 32 of this season's UEFA Champions League.

In the early hours of this morning, UEFA officially announced that because last season's Turkish Super League champion Fenerbahce was under investigation for match-fixing, he was disqualified from the Turkish Football Association, and UEFA announced that it would be replaced by the third-place Trabzonspor in the round of 32 draw.

At this point, the top 32 of the new season's UEFA Champions League can be regarded as the dust has settled, and the top 32 of the new season's Champions League are from 17 European countries or regions.

In the new season, there are four teams in Serie A and La Liga, three teams in the Premier League, Bundesliga and Ligue 1, two teams each in Russia and Portugal, and one team from 11 countries or regions.

According to UEFA's club points, the 32 teams are divided into four brackets.

The eight teams seeded this time are Barcelona, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Napoli, Porto, Inter Milan and Juventus.

In terms of the top 32 brackets, the top three teams in Serie A, the two giants in La Liga, Bayern Munich, Porto, and Manchester United are seeded, of which Barcelona is the winner of the Champions League last season and is listed as the seeded team.

The strength of the Barcelona team is very strong, and among the teams in the first tier, there are seven teams that have won the Champions League, of which only Napoli has not won the Champions League, which is also an embarrassing situation for the Napoli team.

The teams in Pot 2 are AC Milan, Lyon, Valencia, Benfica, Shakhtar Donetsk, Atletico Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain and CSKA Moscow.

The teams in this second tier are not weak, and the Rossoneri are very good, they have won the Champions League many times, and their strength is outstanding.

Among them, Lyon, Valencia, Benfica and other teams are not easy to mess with, and these teams are also strong contenders for the right to qualify from each group.

The teams in the third tier are Manchester City and Leipzig, as well as Ajax, Zenit St. Petersburg, Olympiacos, Lille, Basel and Borisov.

Among these teams, Inter Milan from Serie A should not be underestimated, although they have not participated in the Champions League for many years, but they have spent a lot of money in the transfer market, as well as their large number of reinforcements, their strength is super strong, it can be said that they can compete for the top spot in the group, if anyone is in a group with Inter Milan, this will definitely become a group of death.

In addition to the Manchester City team, there are also Leipzig, Ajax, Zenit St. Petersburg and other teams in this third bracket, and these teams are also capable of attacking the right to qualify from the group.

Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund, Premier League runners-up Arsenal, Sagona Budinamo, Atlético Greekens, Trabzonspor Sport, Genke, Galatasaray and Vitoria Plzen are placed in Pot 4.

The strength of the Bundesliga champion Dortmont in this fourth tier team is very strong, they can win the Bundesliga championship, and they can kill the giant Bayern Munich, which shows that their strength is super strong, and this score in the fourth tier is simply used to create the group of death.

There is also Arsenal, the third runner-up from the Premier League, their strength is also very strong, there are a lot of demons in their team, and even their strength has the ability to impact the Premier League championship, this team is also a bone that has always been difficult to gnaw, and this team is obviously also a team that creates the group of death.

Of course, in addition to these two teams, the other teams in the fourth tier are weaker, and there is almost no hope of qualifying from the group, they are all here to accompany the prince to study.

At this time, the head coaches and staff of each team, leading their players to the Grimaldi Convention Center, are all waiting for the draw for the group stage of the Champions League.

This time, in addition to the draw, it is natural that the best players from last season's UEFA Champions League will be awarded.

The best players in each position from last season have not yet been selected, but there are three nominees in each position, and they are all here today, waiting for the judgment of fate, and they are all looking forward to winning the award.

Jiang Chen is here today because he is the captain of the Napoli team, and he was also nominated for the best striker in the last UEFA Champions League and the best player in the UEFA Champions League last season, and he is competing for both awards.

The candidates nominated for the best striker in the Champions League with Jiang Chen are Messi from Barcelona and Bale from Real Madrid.

And Jiang Chen was nominated for the best player in the UEFA Champions League, Messi from Barcelona and Bale from Real Madrid.

Jiang Chen was the top scorer in the UEFA Champions League last season, and his number of goals far exceeded that of Messi, who ranked second, and Jiang Chen still had some advantages in the competition for the best striker in the UEFA Champions League.

However, he also had a big disadvantage, as Napoli did not reach the last four of last season's UEFA Champions League, where they were eliminated by eventual champions Barcelona in the quarter-finals.

Although Messi is much behind Jiang Chen in terms of goals, the Barcelona team led by Messi went to the end and became the champion of the UEFA Champions League last season, which is Messi's biggest advantage.

Compared to these two, Bale is at a disadvantage on both sides, Bale has scored fewer goals than both, and Real Madrid's results are not better than these two.

Therefore, in the predictions of media reporters, Bale is completely a make-up number, which should be the competition between Messi and Jiang Chen.

And some people think that in fact, these two awards have basically been decided, and Messi and Jiang Chen will each win one award.

Jiang Chen is more suitable to win the best striker award in the UEFA Champions League, while Messi is more suitable to win the best player in the UEFA Champions League.

This UEFA Champions League best player, in fact, is called the European Best Player Award, which is the previous European Ballon d'Or, that is, European Footballer of the Year.

Because the European Footballer of the Year and the World Footballer of the Year have long been merged, in order to increase the prestige of UEFA, UEFA and the European Sports Media Union have established a new European Ballon d'Or, that is, the European Best Player Award.

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