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A small month after the final of the "final 8" lost by PSG against Bayern Münich, the Champions League restarts this Thursday with the draw of the groups.
The three French clubs qualified for this new edition are PSG, Rennes and Olympique de Marseille.
The three French clubs were designated as the first three of the last season of Ligue 1 after the premature end of the French championship due to the health crisis.
> Follow the draw live:
4:50 p.m.
Fifteen countries represented this year.
England, Germany, Italy and Spain qualify four clubs, against three for France and Russia.
Ukraine follows with two clubs.
Portugal, Holland, Austria, Greece, Belgium, Denmark, Turkey and Hungary have all qualified a club.
4:45 p.m.
What is the composition of the four hats?
The first hat is made up of the winners of the different championships.
The other teams are divided according to their UEFA index.
Hat 1:
Bayern Munich (winner of the Champions League and German champion) - Sevilla FC (winner of the Europa League) - FC Porto (Portuguese champion) - Juventus Turin (Italian champion) - Liverpool (champion of the 'England) - PSG (champion of France) - Real Madrid (champion of Spain) - Zenith Saint-Petersburg champion of Russia).
Hat 2:
FC Barcelona - Atlético de Madrid - Manchester City - Manchester United - Chakhtior Donetsk - Borussia Dortmund - Chelsea - Ajax Amsterdam
Hat 3:
Dynamo Kiev - RB Salzburg - RB Leipzig - Inter Milan - Olympiakos Piraeus - Lazio Rome - FC Krasnodar - Atalanta Bergamo
Hat 4:
Lokomotiv Moscow - Olympique de Marseille - Club Bruges - Borussia Mönchengladbach - Istanbul Basaksehir - Midtjyland - Rennes - Ferencvaros
4:40 p.m.
32 clubs will compete for the big-eared trophy.
They will be divided into 8 hens.
To proceed to the draw, all the qualified clubs were divided into four hats, in order to balance the level of each group as much as possible.
PSG is part of the first hat.
Rennes and Marseille appear in the last.
4.30 p.m.
Hello and welcome.
You will be able to follow in this direct, from 5 pm, the drawing of lots for the Champions League.