The draw for the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League will take place on Thursday, August 28, 2025. It will be held in Monaco at the Grimaldi Forum, starting at 12 p.m. ET (6 p.m. CEST, 5 p.m. BST). This draw will determine the matchups for the league phase of the tournament involving 36 teams. The draw process is largely automated and teams are seeded into pots based on UEFA rankings, with restrictions on matchups to avoid teams from the same country facing each other in the league stage.
After this draw, the league phase matchdays will run from mid-September 2025 through January 2026, with knockout rounds starting in February 2026, leading up to the final scheduled for May 30, 2026, in Budapest, Hungary.
