Manchester United face PSG in their first Champions League group match on October 20 while Liverpool start with tricky trip to Ajax as fixtures are revealed following group stage draw
- Manchester United launch their Champions League group stage away at PSG
- Liverpool face a tricky trip to Amsterdam to take on Ajax on matchday one
- Manchester City face Porto first while Sevilla visit Chelsea in their first game
- The group stage starts on October 20 and then concludes on December 9
Manchester United visit Paris Saint-Germain in their first Champions League group game of the season while Liverpool will launch their bid to regain the European cup in Amsterdam against Ajax.
UEFA have released the group stage fixtures and Jurgen Klopp’s 2019 winners, whose title defence ended in defeat to Atletico Madrid in the round of 16 last season, face Group D rivals Ajax on matchday one.
Manchester City face Porto at home on the same evening in their first Group C match.
Manchester United visit PSG in their first Champions League group game – the scene of their dramatic comeback victory in 2019
Liverpool will launch their bid to regain the Champions League in Amsterdam against Ajax
Chelsea will play Group E rivals Sevilla at Stamford Bridge on October 20, the same night United travel to play last season’s beaten finalists PSG in Group H.
Liverpool’s first group-stage home game is against Danish side Midtjylland the following week (October 27) when Pep Guardiola’s City travel to play Marseille.
United play RB Leipzig their first home group game at Old Trafford on October 28 and Chelsea face Krasnodar in Russia on the same night.
Liverpool and City will complete their group-stage fixtures at Midtjylland and at home against Marseille respectively on December 9.
Manchester City face Porto at home in their first Group C match, hoping to end their long wait for European glory
Chelsea will play Group E rivals Sevilla at Stamford Bridge on October 20 in their first game
Chelsea and United both travel to face Krasnodar and Leipzig away respectively in their final group-stage matches on December 8.
Holders Bayern Munich begin their defence of the title at home against Atletico on October 21 and play Lokomotiv Moscow in their last group game.
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will clash twice in the group stage after Barcelona and Juventus were both drawn in Group G.
Arguably football’s greatest ever players will meet in Turin on October 28 before the return leg will give fans an early Christmas present on December 8 at the Nou Camp.