16) Athletic Bilbao – Basque side Athletic Club haven’t qualified for the Champions League for a number of years, but they have an exciting side and they ease with which they dispatched Napoli in qualifying was particularly impressive.
15) AS Roma – Serie A runners-up AS Roma had a superb 2013/14 season as they ran Juventus close for a significant amount of the season, but Rudi Garcia will have been frustrated by an extremely difficult group stage draw.