UEFA Champions League group stage draw

Galatasaray paired with European football giants PSG, Real Madrid and Club Brugge in Group A

By Fatih Erel

ISTANBUL (AA) - Turkey's Galatasaray were paired with European football giants PSG (FRA), Real Madrid (ESP) and Club Brugge (BEL) in Group A in the UEFA Champions League group stage draw.

The draw was held in Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Thursday.

The first matches will be played on Sept. 17-18. The final matches of the group schedule will be played on Dec. 10-11.

The 2020 UEFA Champions League final will return to Istanbul for the first time in 15 years this season.

It will be played in Istanbul's Ataturk Olympic Stadium on May 30.

Inaugurated in 2002, Ataturk Olympic Stadium will host its second Champions League final after the one in 2005 between Italy's AC Milan and England's Liverpool.

The groups are as follows:

GROUP A:	GROUP B:	GROUP C	GROUP D	GROUP E	GROUP F	GROUP G	GROUP H
Paris (FRA)	Bayern (GER)	Man. City (ENG)	Juventus (ITA)	Liverpool (ENG)	Barcelona (ESP)	Zenit (RUS)	Chelsea (ENG)
Real Madrid (ESP	Tottenham (ENG)	Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)	Atletico (ESP)	Napoli (ITA)	Dortmund (GER)	Benfica (POR)	Ajax (NED)
Club Brugge (BEL)	Olympiacos (GRE)	Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)	Leverkusen (GER)	Salzburg (AUT)	Internazionale (ITA)	Lyon (FRA)	Valencia (ESP)
Galatasaray (TUR)	Crvena zvezda (SRB)	Atalanta (ITA)	Lokomotiv Moskva (RUS)	Genk (BEL)	Slavia Praha (CZE)	Leipzig (GER)	LOSC (FRA)

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