The raffles for the latest stages of European competition will take a new turn on Friday after the changes in the format this season.
The 16 -quarter round and semifinal raffles will take place for the Champions League, the Europa League and the Conference League at the UEFA headquarters in Switzerland on Friday afternoon, starting with the European Cup to 11 am
But unlike previous years, when all the teams involved would expect to see a ball that represents its club taken from one of the UEFA iconic semi-factor, only eight balls will be presented in each competition this time.
That is due to the new sowing of 'tennis' style that prevents the teams from finishing one next to the other at the League phase meeting until the final, these are known as sowing pairs.
To take the Champions League as an example, the four couples planted are Liverpool and Barcelona, who finished first and second, Arsenal and Inter Milan, Atlético de Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen, and Lille and Aston Villa.
These eight best parts of the league phase were automatically classified for the last 16, where the winners of the two-legged eliminated phase players will be joined.
The raffles for the last stages of the Champions League, the Europa League and the conference will take place in Nyon, Switzerland on Friday.
Unlike the previous seasons, only eight bowl balls will be extracted in the 16 raffle round
Liverpool exceeded the phase of the Champions League League and can meet PSG or Benfica in the next round
On Friday, the clubs of each pair seed will attract one of the two positions, assigning the side of the support.
A bowl of the bowl that contains the two relevant seeds (for example, Liverpool and Barcelona) will be taken and opens to exhibit the team. The first drawn team is placed in place on the silver side of the support, while the other is placed in the corresponding place on the blue side.
In this example, if the Arne Slot side will be exhibited, they will be attracted to play French champions Paris St-Germain, who hit the compatriots to Brest in the Play-off round.
The same format will be adopted in the Europa League and Conference, where the tastes of Manchester United, Tottenham and Chelsea expect European success.
The Red Devils and the Spurs finished the phase of the League in the third and fourth place, which means that they invent a couple planted in the Europa League and cannot fulfill until the final.
They will face the true society or Az Alkmaar, depending on the side of the support that is drawn.
Meanwhile, Chelsea finished the conference league phase with a perfect six -game record and exceeded the classification ahead of the Portuguese side Vitoria.
Blues can face the Laliga Real Betis outfit or Danish giants FC Copenhagen in the next round.
The eight best phase sides of the league will be placed in four pairs planted in the 16 raffle round
Manchester United finished the phase of Europa League League in third place and cannot meet Tottenham until the final
The sides in the Europa League will be placed on the silver or orange side of the support
The planted teams will play the return games of the two -legged round of 16 games at home, with the first clashes established for the first week of March.
However, there is more to reveal in Friday's draw in Nyon, with the order of matches in the quarterfinals and the semifinals that need to decide in each competition.
Four bowls are prepared for the quarterfinal raffle, which will immediately follow the 16 round, with two for the silver side of the support and two for the blue side of the support in the Champions League.
Each bowl contains two balls that represent the winners of the 16 games of a step on the relevant side of the support, with the first silver bowl containing paper slips 'winners R16 1' and 'Winners R16 2' and the second Silver Bowl 'Winners R16 3' and 'Winners R16 4'.
The first bowl on the blue side will contain paper slips 'winners R16 5' and 'winners R16 6' and, finally, 'winners R16 7' and 'winners R16 8' in the second bowl on the blue side.
The first ball extracted from this bowl indicates the team that will play the first game of the quarterfinals at home, and the second ball the team that will play the leg back at home.
This process is repeated for the semifinal raffle, with only two prepared bowls, one for the silver side of the support with balls that contain marked paper slips 'winners qf 1' and 'winners Qf 2', and another for the blue side of the raffle which contains 'winners QF 3' and 'winners QF 4'.
There is no attraction for the final, since the winners of the silver side of the support will be designated as the local team.
Chelsea headed the Conference League classification with a perfect record of six six -game victories
The blue can face the side of LaLiga Real Betis or the Danish giants FFC Copenhagen in the 16
In another change in the procedures this year, the teams of the same nation can be attracted to each other in the 16 round.
In the Champions League, this could lead to delicious confrontations between Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen, and Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid in the last 16.
The teams can also face the sides that played in the phase of the League, such as Barcelona and Benfica.