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The 2014–15 UEFA Champions League group stage was played from 16 September to 10 December 2014. A total of 32 teams competed in the group stage to decide the 16 places in the knockout phase of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League.

Draw

The draw was held on 28 August 2014, 17:45 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The 32 teams were allocated into four pots based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the title holders being placed in Pot 1 automatically. They were drawn into eight groups of four containing one team from each of the four seeding pots, with the restriction that teams from the same national association could not be drawn against each other. Moreover, the draw was controlled for teams from the same association in order to split the teams evenly into the two sets of groups (A–D, E–H) for maximum television coverage.

The fixtures were decided after the draw. On each matchday, four groups played their matches on Tuesday, while the other four groups played their matches on Wednesday, with the two sets of groups (A–D, E–H) alternating between each matchday. There were other restrictions: for example, teams from the same city (e.g., Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, Chelsea and Arsenal, Benfica and Sporting CP) in general did not play at home on the same matchday (UEFA tried to avoid teams from the same city playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days), and Russian teams did not play at home on the last matchday due to cold weather.

On 17 July 2014, the UEFA Emergency Panel ruled that Ukrainian and Russian clubs would not be drawn against each other "until further notice" due to the political unrest between the countries. Therefore, Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk (Pot 2) and Russian club CSKA Moscow (Pot 3) could not be drawn into the same group despite being in different pots.

Teams

Below were the 32 teams which qualified for the group stage (with their 2014 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their seeding pot. They included 22 teams which entered in this stage, and the 10 winners of the play-off round (5 in Champions Route, 5 in League Route).

Pot 1 Team Coeff Real Madrid 161.542 Barcelona 157.542 Bayern Munich 154.328 Chelsea 140.949 Benfica 129.459 Atlético Madrid 119.542 Arsenal 112.949 Porto 105.459

Pot 2 Team Coeff Schalke 04 95.328 Borussia Dortmund 82.328 Juventus 80.387 Paris Saint-Germain 80.300 Shakhtar Donetsk 78.193 Basel 75.645 Zenit Saint Petersburg 73.899 Manchester City 72.949

Pot 3 Team Coeff Bayer Leverkusen 70.328 Olympiacos 67.720 CSKA Moscow 66.899 Ajax 61.862 Liverpool 58.949 Sporting CP 58.459 Galatasaray 55.340 Athletic Bilbao 54.542

Pot 4 Team Coeff Anderlecht 50.260 Roma 39.887 APOEL 37.650 BATE Borisov 33.725 Ludogorets Razgrad 18.125 Maribor 16.200 Monaco 11.300 Malmö FF 6.265

Notes

1. Title holders, automatically placed at the top position of seeding list.
2. Winners of the play-off round (Champions Route).
3. Winners of the play-off round (League Route).

Format

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams entered the Europa League round of 32.

Tiebreakers

The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings:

1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
3. higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
4. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
5. If, after applying criteria 1 to 4 to several teams, two or more teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 4 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6 to 8 apply;
6. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
7. higher number of goals scored from all group matches played;
8. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

Groups

The matchdays were 16–17 September, 30 September – 1 October, 21–22 October, 4–5 November, 25–26 November, and 9–10 December 2014. The match kickoff times were 20:45 CEST/CET, except for matches in Russia and one match in Belarus which were 18:00 CEST/CET.

Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ATM	JUV	OLY	MAL
1	Atlético Madrid	6	4	1	1	14	3	+11	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	4–0	5–0
2	Juventus	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10			0–0	—	3–2	2–0
3	Olympiacos	6	3	0	3	10	13	−3	9	Transfer to Europa League		3–2	1–0	—	4–2
4	Malmö FF	6	1	0	5	4	15	−11	3			0–2	0–2	2–0	—

Olympiacos	3–2	Atlético Madrid
Masuaku 13' Afellay 31' Mitroglou 73'	Report	Mandžukić 38' Griezmann 86'

Juventus	2–0	Malmö FF
Tevez 59', 90'	Report

Malmö FF	2–0	Olympiacos
Rosenberg 42', 82'	Report

Atlético Madrid	1–0	Juventus
Turan 75'	Report

Atlético Madrid	5–0	Malmö FF
Koke 48' Mandžukić 61' Griezmann 63' Godín 87' Cerci 90+3'	Report

Olympiacos	1–0	Juventus
Kasami 36'	Report

Malmö FF	0–2	Atlético Madrid
	Report	Koke 30' García 78'

Juventus	3–2	Olympiacos
Pirlo 21' Roberto 65' (o.g.) Pogba 66'	Report	Botía 24' N'Dinga 61'

Atlético Madrid	4–0	Olympiacos
García 9' Mandžukić 38', 62', 65'	Report

Malmö FF	0–2	Juventus
	Report	Llorente 49' Tevez 88'

Olympiacos	4–2	Malmö FF
Fuster 22' Domínguez 63' Mitroglou 87' Afellay 90'	Report	Kroon 59' Rosenberg 81'

Juventus	0–0	Atlético Madrid
	Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	BSL	LIV	LUD
1	Real Madrid	6	6	0	0	16	2	+14	18	Advance to knockout phase		—	5–1	1–0	4–0
2	Basel	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	7			0–1	—	1–0	4–0
3	Liverpool	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	5	Transfer to Europa League		0–3	1–1	—	2–1
4	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	1	1	4	5	14	−9	4			1–2	1–0	2–2	—

Liverpool	2–1	Ludogorets Razgrad
Balotelli 82' Gerrard 90+3' (pen.)	Report	Abalo 90+1'

Real Madrid	5–1	Basel
Suchý 14' (o.g.) Bale 30' Ronaldo 31' Rodríguez 37' Benzema 79'	Report	González 38'

Basel	1–0	Liverpool
Streller 52'	Report

Ludogorets Razgrad	1–2	Real Madrid
Marcelinho 6'	Report	Ronaldo 24' (pen.) Benzema 77'

Ludogorets Razgrad	1–0	Basel
Minev 90+2'	Report

Liverpool	0–3	Real Madrid
	Report	Ronaldo 23' Benzema 30', 41'

Basel	4–0	Ludogorets Razgrad
Embolo 34' González 41' Gashi 59' Suchý 65'	Report

Real Madrid	1–0	Liverpool
Benzema 27'	Report

Ludogorets Razgrad	2–2	Liverpool
Abalo 3' Terziev 88'	Report	Lambert 8' Henderson 37'

Basel	0–1	Real Madrid
	Report	Ronaldo 35'

Liverpool	1–1	Basel
Gerrard 81'	Report	Frei 25'

Real Madrid	4–0	Ludogorets Razgrad
Ronaldo 20' (pen.) Bale 38' Arbeloa 80' Medrán 88'	Report

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MON	LEV	ZEN	BEN
1	Monaco	6	3	2	1	4	1	+3	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	2–0	0–0
2	Bayer Leverkusen	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10			0–1	—	2–0	3–1
3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	2	1	3	4	6	−2	7	Transfer to Europa League		0–0	1–2	—	1–0
4	Benfica	6	1	2	3	2	6	−4	5			1–0	0–0	0–2	—

Monaco	1–0	Bayer Leverkusen
Moutinho 61'	Report

Benfica	0–2	Zenit Saint Petersburg
	Report	Hulk 5' Witsel 22'

Zenit Saint Petersburg	0–0	Monaco
	Report

Bayer Leverkusen	3–1	Benfica
Kießling 25' Son Heung-min 34' Çalhanoğlu 64' (pen.)	Report	Salvio 62'

Bayer Leverkusen	2–0	Zenit Saint Petersburg
Donati 58' Papadopoulos 63'	Report

Monaco	0–0	Benfica
	Report

Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–2	Bayer Leverkusen
Rondón 89'	Report	Son Heung-min 68', 73'

Benfica	1–0	Monaco
Talisca 82'	Report

Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–0	Benfica
Danny 79'	Report

Bayer Leverkusen	0–1	Monaco
	Report	Ocampos 72'

Monaco	2–0	Zenit Saint Petersburg
Abdennour 63' Fabinho 89'	Report

Benfica	0–0	Bayer Leverkusen
	Report

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DOR	ARS	AND	GAL
1	Borussia Dortmund	6	4	1	1	14	4	+10	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	1–1	4–1
2	Arsenal	6	4	1	1	15	8	+7	13			2–0	—	3–3	4–1
3	Anderlecht	6	1	3	2	8	10	−2	6	Transfer to Europa League		0–3	1–2	—	2–0
4	Galatasaray	6	0	1	5	4	19	−15	1			0–4	1–4	1–1	—

Galatasaray	1–1	Anderlecht
Yılmaz 90+1'	Report	Praet 52'

Borussia Dortmund	2–0	Arsenal
Immobile 45' Aubameyang 48'	Report

Arsenal	4–1	Galatasaray
Welbeck 22', 30', 52' Sánchez 41'	Report	Yılmaz 63' (pen.)

Anderlecht	0–3	Borussia Dortmund
	Report	Immobile 3' Ramos 69', 79'

Anderlecht	1–2	Arsenal
Najar 71'	Report	Gibbs 89' Podolski 90+1'

Galatasaray	0–4	Borussia Dortmund
	Report	Aubameyang 6', 18' Reus 41' Ramos 83'

Arsenal	3–3	Anderlecht
Arteta 25' (pen.) Sánchez 29' Oxlade-Chamberlain 58'	Report	Vanden Borre 61', 73' (pen.) Mitrović 90'

Borussia Dortmund	4–1	Galatasaray
Reus 39' Papastathopoulos 56' Immobile 74' Kaya 85' (o.g.)	Report	Balta 70'

Anderlecht	2–0	Galatasaray
Mbemba 44', 86'	Report

Arsenal	2–0	Borussia Dortmund
Sanogo 2' Sánchez 57'	Report

Galatasaray	1–4	Arsenal
Sneijder 88'	Report	Podolski 3', 90+2' Ramsey 11', 29'

Borussia Dortmund	1–1	Anderlecht
Immobile 58'	Report	Mitrović 84'

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	MCI	ROM	CSKA
1	Bayern Munich	6	5	0	1	16	4	+12	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	2–0	3–0
2	Manchester City	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8			3–2	—	1–1	1–2
3	Roma	6	1	2	3	8	14	−6	5	Transfer to Europa League		1–7	0–2	—	5–1
4	CSKA Moscow	6	1	2	3	6	13	−7	5			0–1	2–2	1–1	—

Roma	5–1	CSKA Moscow
Iturbe 6' Gervinho 10', 31' Maicon 20' Ignashevich 50' (o.g.)	Report	Musa 82'

Bayern Munich	1–0	Manchester City
Boateng 90'	Report

CSKA Moscow	0–1	Bayern Munich
	Report	Müller 22' (pen.)

Manchester City	1–1	Roma
Agüero 4' (pen.)	Report	Totti 23'

CSKA Moscow	2–2	Manchester City
Doumbia 65' Natcho 86' (pen.)	Report	Agüero 29' Milner 38'

Roma	1–7	Bayern Munich
Gervinho 66'	Report	Robben 9', 30' Götze 23' Lewandowski 25' Müller 36' (pen.) Ribéry 78' Shaqiri 80'

Manchester City	1–2	CSKA Moscow
Touré 8'	Report	Doumbia 2', 34'

Bayern Munich	2–0	Roma
Ribéry 38' Götze 64'	Report

CSKA Moscow	1–1	Roma
V. Berezutski 90+3'	Report	Totti 43'

Manchester City	3–2	Bayern Munich
Agüero 22' (pen.), 85', 90+1'	Report	Alonso 40' Lewandowski 45'

Roma	0–2	Manchester City
	Report	Nasri 60' Zabaleta 86'

Bayern Munich	3–0	CSKA Moscow
Müller 18' (pen.) Rode 84' Götze 90'	Report

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	PAR	AJX	APO
1	Barcelona	6	5	0	1	15	5	+10	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	3–1	1–0
2	Paris Saint-Germain	6	4	1	1	10	7	+3	13			3–2	—	3–1	1–0
3	Ajax	6	1	2	3	8	10	−2	5	Transfer to Europa League		0–2	1–1	—	4–0
4	APOEL	6	0	1	5	1	12	−11	1			0–4	0–1	1–1	—

Barcelona	1–0	APOEL
Piqué 28'	Report

Ajax	1–1	Paris Saint-Germain
Schöne 74'	Report	Cavani 14'

Paris Saint-Germain	3–2	Barcelona
David Luiz 10' Verratti 26' Matuidi 54'	Report	Messi 12' Neymar 56'

APOEL	1–1	Ajax
Manduca 31' (pen.)	Report	Andersen 28'

APOEL	0–1	Paris Saint-Germain
	Report	Cavani 87'

Barcelona	3–1	Ajax
Neymar 7' Messi 24' Sandro 90+4'	Report	El Ghazi 88'

Paris Saint-Germain	1–0	APOEL
Cavani 1'	Report

Ajax	0–2	Barcelona
	Report	Messi 36', 76'

APOEL	0–4	Barcelona
	Report	Suárez 27' Messi 38', 58', 87'

Paris Saint-Germain	3–1	Ajax
Cavani 33', 83' Ibrahimović 78'	Report	Klaassen 67'

Barcelona	3–1	Paris Saint-Germain
Messi 19' Neymar 42' Suárez 77'	Report	Ibrahimović 15'

Ajax	4–0	APOEL
Schöne 45+1' (pen.), 50' Klaassen 53' Milik 74'	Report

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CHE	SCH	SPO	MRB
1	Chelsea	6	4	2	0	17	3	+14	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	3–1	6–0
2	Schalke 04	6	2	2	2	9	14	−5	8			0–5	—	4–3	1–1
3	Sporting CP	6	2	1	3	12	12	0	7	Transfer to Europa League		0–1	4–2	—	3–1
4	Maribor	6	0	3	3	4	13	−9	3			1–1	0–1	1–1	—

Chelsea	1–1	Schalke 04
Fàbregas 11'	Report	Huntelaar 62'

Maribor	1–1	Sporting CP
Zahović 90+2'	Report	Nani 80'

Sporting CP	0–1	Chelsea
	Report	Matić 34'

Schalke 04	1–1	Maribor
Huntelaar 56'	Report	Bohar 37'

Schalke 04	4–3	Sporting CP
Obasi 34' Huntelaar 51' Höwedes 60' Choupo-Moting 90+3' (pen.)	Report	Nani 16' Adrien 64' (pen.), 78'

Chelsea	6–0	Maribor
Rémy 13' Drogba 23' (pen.) Terry 31' Viler 54' (o.g.) Hazard 77' (pen.), 90'	Report

Sporting CP	4–2	Schalke 04
Sarr 26' Jefferson 52' Nani 72' Slimani 90+1'	Report	Slimani 17' (o.g.) Aogo 88'

Maribor	1–1	Chelsea
Ibraimi 50'	Report	Matić 73'

Schalke 04	0–5	Chelsea
	Report	Terry 2' Willian 29' Kirchhoff 44' (o.g.) Drogba 76' Ramires 78'

Sporting CP	3–1	Maribor
Mané 10' Nani 35' Slimani 65'	Report	Jefferson 42' (o.g.)

Chelsea	3–1	Sporting CP
Fàbregas 8' (pen.) Schürrle 16' Mikel 56'	Report	Silva 50'

Maribor	0–1	Schalke 04
	Report	Meyer 62'

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POR	SHK	ATH	BATE
1	Porto	6	4	2	0	16	4	+12	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	2–1	6–0
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	2	3	1	15	4	+11	9			2–2	—	0–1	5–0
3	Athletic Bilbao	6	2	1	3	5	6	−1	7	Transfer to Europa League		0–2	0–0	—	2–0
4	BATE Borisov	6	1	0	5	2	24	−22	3			0–3	0–7	2–1	—

Porto	6–0	BATE Borisov
Brahimi 5', 32', 57' Martínez 37' Adrián 61' Aboubakar 76'	Report

Athletic Bilbao	0–0	Shakhtar Donetsk
	Report

Shakhtar Donetsk	2–2	Porto
Alex Teixeira 52' Luiz Adriano 85'	Report	Martínez 89' (pen.), 90+4'

BATE Borisov	2–1	Athletic Bilbao
Palyakow 19' Karnitsky 41'	Report	Aduriz 45'

BATE Borisov	0–7	Shakhtar Donetsk
	Report	Alex Teixeira 11' Luiz Adriano 28' (pen.), 36', 40', 44', 82' (pen.) Douglas Costa 35'

Porto	2–1	Athletic Bilbao
Herrera 45' Quaresma 75'	Report	Guillermo 58'

Shakhtar Donetsk	5–0	BATE Borisov
Srna 19' Alex Teixeira 48' Luiz Adriano 58' (pen.), 83', 90+3'	Report

Athletic Bilbao	0–2	Porto
	Report	Martínez 56' Brahimi 73'

BATE Borisov	0–3	Porto
	Report	Herrera 56' Martínez 65' Tello 89'

Shakhtar Donetsk	0–1	Athletic Bilbao
	Report	San José 68'

Porto	1–1	Shakhtar Donetsk
Aboubakar 87'	Report	Stepanenko 50'

Athletic Bilbao	2–0	BATE Borisov
San José 47' Susaeta 88'	Report

Notes

1. CET (UTC+1) for matches from 4 November 2014, and CEST (UTC+2) for matches to 22 October 2014
2. ^ Ludogorets Razgrad played their home matches at Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia instead of their regular stadium, Ludogorets Arena, Razgrad.
3. The CSKA Moscow v Bayern Munich match was played behind closed doors due to punishment by UEFA.
4. ^ The CSKA Moscow v Manchester City and v Roma matches were played behind closed doors due to punishment by UEFA, after incidents at the Roma v CSKA Moscow match on 17 September 2014.
5. ^ Shakhtar Donetsk played their home matches at Arena Lviv, Lviv instead of their regular stadium, Donbass Arena, Donetsk, due to the war conditions in Eastern Ukraine.

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External links

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