When and where is the draw?The draw begins at 13:00CET on Friday 31 August at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. It will be streamed live on UEFA.com alongside text updates. Who is involved in the draw and what are the pots? Arsenal and Chelsea are among the contenders©Getty ImagesUEFA.com - News
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Champions League group stage draw: Pot 1
Real Madrid (ESP) UEFA coefficient ranking (end of 2017/18): 1How they qualified: UEFA Champions League winnersBest European Cup performance: winners x13 (most recently 2017/18)In a nutshell: Champions for three seasons running but, curiously, an unknown entity now that Zinédine Zidane has been replaced by Julen Lopetegui and Cristiano Ronaldo is in Turin. How will Lopetegui cope? Who will fill Ronaldo's 450-goal void? Will Madrid's European dominance continue or has the bubble burst?Atlético Madrid (ESP)UEFA coefficient ranking (end of 2017/1... UEFA.com - News
Cristiano Ronaldo wins UEFA.com Goal of the Season vote
Cristiano Ronaldo's stunning overhead kick in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals for Real Madrid against his current club Juventus has been voted as UEFA.com Goal of the Season.Ronaldo's strike, which was applauded on the night by his opposing – and it turned out future – fans, topped the poll with nearly 200,000 of the total 346,915 votes. He succeeds his new Juve colleague Mario Mandžukić, who won last year for goal against Madrid in the UEFA Champions League final, while Lionel Messi took the award in both 2014/15 and 2015/16. The runner-up was Dimitri Payet's goal in Marseille's 5-2 UEFA Europa League defeat of
Women’s U19 EURO season guide
Less than a month after Spain retained the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship in Switzerland, qualifying commences for the 2019 finals in Scotland.In all, 48 of the record 51 entrants begin in the qualifying round, which starts next Tuesday with Group 6 hosted by Liechtenstein – a country making their competitive women's football debut – and also involving 2018 semi-finalists Denmark, Greece and Serbia.The other 11 groups will be played between 1 and 9 October, with 26 teams to advance alongside the two sides given byes to the elite round, holders Spain and France. Seven nations will eventually qualify to join hosts Scotland in July's finals.< ... UEFA.com - News
UEFA Futsal Champions League starts Tuesday
The UEFA Futsal Cup has become the UEFA Futsal Champions League in 2018/19: here is the format and the key dates for the new season. What is the format?• The top three nations in the UEFA Futsal National Team coefficient rankings will have two guaranteed entries in the competition: for 2018/19 that is Spain, Portugal and Russia.• Kazakhstan (ranked fourth) will also have a second entrant for 2018/19 as Spanish champions Inter FS will enter as holders (joined by Barça; no country can enter ... UEFA.com - News
UEFA Women’s Futsal EURO main round groups
Qualifying for the first UEFA Women's Futsal EURO with the preliminary round as Belarus, Finland and Sweden topped the groups to complete September's main round line-up.Last year UEFA announced the launch of its first women's futsal competition for national teams, to be held every two years with initially a four-team knockout final tournament. That will be held in mid-February 2019, to be hosted by one of the four eventual qualifiers.Qualifying began on 21 August with the preliminary round, where the ten lowest-ranked entrants compete for the three vacant places in September's main round. Northern Ireland, playing their first competitive futsal international for... UEFA.com - News
