Official: Real Madrid’s eight opponents for the league phase of the 2026/27 Champions League

Official: Real Madrid’s eight opponents for the league phase of the 2026/27 Champions League After a couple rather underwhelming campaigns compared to their lofty standards, Real Madrid will be hoping to fare better in the 2026/27 UEFA Champions League. Los Blancos , who finished outside the top-eight in the newly-introduced league phase last term, had to go through playoffs to make it to the knockout rounds before eventually being eliminated by Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals. Now, ahead of the kickoff of the new season of the Champions League in September, Real Madrid have learnt their eight opponents for the league phase. For the draw, the 36 participating teams were split into four pots based on their individual coefficient ranking, with the last season’s Champions League winner, PSG, being the top seed in Pot 1. Mourinho returns to Champions League with Real Madrid. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) No teams from the same association can be drawn against each other and no team can face more than two opponents from the same association. In addition, new UEFA regulations state that a team cannot play the same individual league phase fixture for three seasons in a row. This rules out the possibility of a third straight meeting between Real Madrid and Liverpool at Anfield Who are Real Madrid facing? Real Madrid were placed in Pot 1, along with PSG, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Inter Milan, Manchester City, Arsenal, Barcelona, and Atletico Madrid From this pot, Jose Mourinho’s men have drawn and Inter Milan (H) and Arsenal (A). Meanwhile, from Pot 2, which contained Aston Villa, Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund, AS Roma, Sporting CP, FC Porto, Club Brugge, PSV Eindhoven, and Real Betis, the Merengues will be facing PSV (H) and AS Roma (A) Pot 3 had Feyenoord, Lille, Bodo/Glimt, Napoli, RB Leipzig, Villarreal, Fenerbahce, Shakhtar Donetsk, and Galatasaray. From these, Mourinho’s men will be taking on RB Leipzig (H) and Shakhtar (A). Finally, from Pot 4, which contained Slavia Praha, Slovan Bratislava, VfB Stuttgart, AEK Athens, LASK Linz, Como, Lens, Viking, and Sabah, Real Madrid will take on LASK (H) and AEK (A). The league-phase fixture list with match dates and kick-off times will be communicated on or before Saturday, 30 August. Having failed to make it past the quarter-finals in the last two seasons, Real Madrid, the record European champions, will be aiming to go all the way under new manager Mourinho this time around.