Champions League participants revealed – Manchester giants join Arsenal and two other Premier League teams in draw

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during the UEFA Champions League Final between Juventus and FC Barcelona at Olympiastadion on June 6, 2015 in Berlin, Germany.

Manchester City booked their place in the Champions League group stages after beating Steaua Bucharest 6-0 on aggregate following a 1-0 victory at the Etihad in the second-leg tie.

City will join Arsenal in Pot 2 while Leicester City find themselves in Pot 1 and Tottenham Hotspur will be drawn from Pot 3.

The Foxes find themselves in Pot 1 despite this being their first Champions League campaign due to being league champion in one of the top seven leagues based on UEFA’s coefficient: England, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Russia and Portugal.

Eight groups of four will be drawn from four pots of the 32 qualified teams, with one team from each pot making up the group.

Pot 1: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Leicester City, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Benfica, Paris Saint-Germain, CSKA Moscow.

Pot 2: Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Napoli, Porto, Arsenal, Sevilla, Manchester City.

Pot 3: Dynamo Kiev, Tottenham Hotspur, Lyon, PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon, Club Brugge, Basel, Borussia Moenchengladbach.

Pot 4: Monaco, Besiktas, Legia Warsaw, Ludogorets Razgrad, Celtic, Rostov, FC Copenhagen, Dinamo Zagreb.

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