UEFA have performed the draw for the primary part of the 2024/25 Convention League.
As is the case with the Champions League and Europa League, the Convention League has been reformatted to incorporate a league stage and a knockout stage, with 36 qualifying groups competing towards one another in a single desk.
The distinction with the Convention League is every workforce will play solely six league video games, versus the eight by Champions League and Europa League golf equipment.
Groups had been put into six pots relying on their UEFA coefficient and had been drawn towards one membership from every of these pots, with three fixtures at dwelling and three away.
Here is your information to the competing groups and who Chelsea will face.
Pots for Convention League league part draw
Chelsea have by far the perfect coefficient within the Convention League this season (96.000) and head into the match as heavy favourites.
They’ve averted a lot of the different massive names within the competitors, although there are some prolonged away days in retailer for Enzo Maresca’s facet.
Their opponents from pot one are Gent, who received the Belgian Professional League’s mini-league for European qualification on the finish of the 2023/24 season. Chelsea shall be at dwelling for this encounter.
There’s a difficult away tie for Chelsea in pot two, with a visit to Bundesliga outfit Heidenheim – competing in Europe for the primary time within the membership’s historical past – on the playing cards.
Chelsea’s farthest journey within the league stage sees them fly to Kazakhstan to tackle European regulars Astana.
An fascinating draw for the Blues got here from pot 4. Irish champions Shamrock Rovers will head to Stamford Bridge in the course of the league stage.
Chelsea’s opponents from pot 5 might hardly be more durable, with the Blues drawn away to Greek giants Panathinaikos.
The Blues’ pot-six adversaries, Armenian minnows Noah, have the bottom coefficient within the competitors with solely 2.125.
UEFA will launch the total Convention League schedule with fixtures on 31 August, although dates for the league part have already been set in stone.
Provisionally, groups is not going to play greater than two successive dwelling or away video games, whereas they are going to break up one dwelling and one away match for the final two fixtures.
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Matchday |
Date |
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1 |
3 October 2024 |
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2 |
24 October 2024 |
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3 |
7 November 2024 |
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4 |
28 November 2024 |
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5 |
12 December 2024 |
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6 |
19 December 2024 |
