Six Premier League clubs are confronted with a Champions League horror stretch with each team guaranteed two European giants
This season, three of the four English clubs automatically qualified for the round of 16 phase – Liverpool, Arsenal and Aston Villa.
But Prem Clubs may find it more difficult next season, depending on the draw.
Three English teams are in pot 1, which is based on their UEFA -Coefficient score – Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea.
They will each have to play two colleagues 1 teams and cannot face a club from the same country.
The heaviest competition phase of Pot 1 might be Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​although Paris Saint-Germain made the final of this year.
According to the coefficiity list, the two best non-English teams in pot 1 are Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Each team in the competition phase must be confronted with two teams of each pot – so one of Liverpool, City, Arsenal, Newcastle, Chelsea or Spurs can make a trip to the Bernabeu and to Munich.
Pot 2 also raises some potentially difficult opponents for prem teams; Clubs with European pedigree such as Juventus and Atletico Madrid can be signed or people with more recent success, such as Bayer Leverkusen and Atalanta.
While Pot 3 recently awarded Serie A champions Napoli, together with Sporting and PSV Eindhoven.
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Pot 4, to which Newcastle is one of the only English club, could surrender the Turkish champions Galatasary and the kings of Scottic, Celtic, although they have to progress through the qualifying phases.
However, non-English clubs can be confronted with an even more difficult draw and, however, each play two Prem-Teams because of the rules that prevent parties from playing their fellow countrymen.