Champion of Ukraine Shakhtar in the group stage of the Champions League will avoid the winners of the leading national Championships.
According to the regulations of the UEFA Champions League recently, the first pot when the draw for the group stage is not formed by the club rating of UEFA for the UEFA coefficients table. In the top 8 come the winners of seven leading European Championships and current holder of Champions League trophy.
On the eve of Juventus officially became the champion of Italy and real Madrid for the first time in five years has won the championship of Spain. Thus, the winner of the Champions League already was in the first basket when the draw for the group stages, and this means that the last vacant seat will go to the national Federation, which in the table of UEFA coefficients is the eighth. It Is Ukraine. Respectively, “miner”, with an overwhelming advantage won the local Premier League, went to the first basket.
Company Shakhtar in the first pot when the Champions League draw in addition to the aforementioned “real” and “Juventus” will be “Chelsea” (England), Bayern (Germany), Monaco (France), Benfica (Portugal) and Spartak (Russia).
The second representative of Ukraine in the group stage of the Champions League may become a Dynamo, but the capital club need to overcome two rounds of qualifying. It is already known that in both the preliminary rounds of the tournament “white-blue” fall planting. The struggle for access to the main stage of the Champions League Kiev will begin on July 25-26.
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