International football competition
The 2021–22 UEFA Champions League group stage began on 14 September 2021 and ended on 9 December 2021. A total of 32 teams competed in the group stage to decide the 16 places in the knockout phase of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League .
Sheriff Tiraspol made their debut appearance in the group stage, becoming the first team from Moldova to play in the Champions League group stage.
Draw
The draw for the group stage was held on 26 August 2021, 18:00 CEST (19:00 TRT ), in Istanbul , Turkey. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on the following principles:
Pot 1 contained the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2020 UEFA country coefficients .
Pot 2, 3, and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2021 UEFA club coefficients .
Teams from the same association, and due to political reasons, teams from Ukraine and Russia cannot be drawn into the same group. Prior to the draw, UEFA formed pairings of teams from the same association (one pairing for associations with two or three teams, two pairings for associations with four or five teams) based on television audiences, where one team was drawn into Groups A–D and another team was drawn into Groups E–H, so that the two teams would play on different days. The following pairings were announced by UEFA after the group stage teams were confirmed:
On each matchday, one set of four groups played their matches on Tuesday, while the other set of four groups played their matches on Wednesday, with the two sets of groups alternating between each matchday. The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public. Each team would not play more than two home matches or two away matches in a row, and would play one home match and one away match on the first and last matchdays (Regulations Article 16.02). This arrangement was different from previous seasons, where the same two teams would play at home on the first and last matchdays.
Teams
Below were the participating teams (with their 2021 UEFA club coefficients ), grouped by their seeding pot. They included:
Notes
Champions League title holders, automatically placed into Pot 1 as top seed.
Europa League title holders, automatically placed into Pot 1 as second top seed.
Winners of play-off round (Champions Path).
Winners of play-off round (League Path).
Format
In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format . The top two teams of each group advanced to the round of 16 . The third-placed teams were transferred to the Europa League knockout round play-offs , while the fourth-placed teams were eliminated from European competitions for the season.
Tiebreakers
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 tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 17 Equality of points – group stage, Regulations of the UEFA Champions League):
Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Away goals scored in all group matches;
Wins in all group matches;
Away wins in all group matches;
Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
UEFA club coefficient .
Due to the abolition of the away goals rule , head-to-head away goals were no longer applied as a tiebreaker starting from this season. However, total away goals were still applied as a tiebreaker.
Groups
The fixtures were announced on 27 August 2021, the day after the draw. The matches were played on 14–15 September 28–29, September 19–20, October 2–3, November 23–24, November, and 7–8 December 2021. The scheduled kick-off times were 18:45 (two matches on each day) and 21:00 (remaining six matches) CET/CEST.
Times were CET /CEST , as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Group A
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
15 September 2021 (2021-09-15)21:00 (20:00 BST ) City of Manchester Stadium , Manchester Attendance: 38,062Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands )
15 September 2021 (2021-09-15)21:00 Jan Breydel Stadium , Bruges Attendance: 27,546Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland )
28 September 2021 (2021-09-28)21:00 Red Bull Arena , Leipzig Attendance: 23,500Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia )
28 September 2021 (2021-09-28)21:00 Parc des Princes , Paris Attendance: 37,350Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain )
19 October 2021 (2021-10-19)18:45 Jan Breydel Stadium , Bruges Attendance: 24,915Referee: István Kovács (Romania )
19 October 2021 (2021-10-19)21:00 Parc des Princes , Paris Attendance: 47,359Referee: Marco Guida (Italy )
3 November 2021 (2021-11-03)21:00 Red Bull Arena , Leipzig Attendance: 39,794Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden )
3 November 2021 (2021-11-03)21:00 (20:00 GMT ) City of Manchester Stadium , Manchester Attendance: 50,228Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain )
24 November 2021 (2021-11-24)21:00 (20:00 GMT ) City of Manchester Stadium , Manchester Attendance: 52,030Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy )
24 November 2021 (2021-11-24)21:00 Jan Breydel Stadium , Bruges Attendance: 24,072Referee: Davide Massa (Italy )
7 December 2021 (2021-12-07)18:45 Red Bull Arena , Leipzig Attendance: 0Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland )
7 December 2021 (2021-12-07)18:45 Parc des Princes , Paris Attendance: 47,492Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain )
Group B
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
15 September 2021 (2021-09-15)21:00 (20:00 BST ) Anfield , Liverpool Attendance: 51,445Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland )
15 September 2021 (2021-09-15)21:00 Wanda Metropolitano Stadium , Madrid Attendance: 40,098Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania )
28 September 2021 (2021-09-28)21:00 San Siro , Milan Attendance: 35,374Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey )
28 September 2021 (2021-09-28)21:00 (20:00 WEST ) Estádio do Dragão , Porto Attendance: 23,520Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia )
19 October 2021 (2021-10-19)21:00 Wanda Metropolitano Stadium , Madrid Attendance: 60,725Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany )
19 October 2021 (2021-10-19)21:00 (20:00 WEST ) Estádio do Dragão , Porto Attendance: 32,130Referee: Felix Brych (Germany )
3 November 2021 (2021-11-03)18:45 San Siro , Milan Attendance: 39,675Referee: Clément Turpin (France )
3 November 2021 (2021-11-03)21:00 (20:00 GMT ) Anfield , Liverpool Attendance: 51,347Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands )
24 November 2021 (2021-11-24)21:00 (20:00 GMT ) Anfield , Liverpool Attendance: 52,209Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany )
24 November 2021 (2021-11-24)21:00 Wanda Metropolitano Stadium , Madrid Attendance: 61,019Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia )
7 December 2021 (2021-12-07)21:00 (20:00 WET ) Estádio do Dragão , Porto Attendance: 38,830Referee: Clément Turpin (France )
7 December 2021 (2021-12-07)21:00 San Siro , Milan Attendance: 56,237Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands )
Group C
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers Notes:
^ Tied on head-to-head points. Head-to-head goal difference: Sporting CP +1, Borussia Dortmund −1.
15 September 2021 (2021-09-15)18:45 (19:45 TRT ) Vodafone Park , Istanbul Attendance: 22,445Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain )
15 September 2021 (2021-09-15)21:00 (20:00 WEST ) Estádio José Alvalade , Lisbon Attendance: 20,382Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain )
28 September 2021 (2021-09-28)18:45 Johan Cruyff Arena , Amsterdam Attendance: 52,628Referee: Benoît Bastien (France )
28 September 2021 (2021-09-28)21:00 Westfalenstadion , Dortmund Attendance: 25,000Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia )
19 October 2021 (2021-10-19)18:45 (19:45 TRT ) Vodafone Park , Istanbul Attendance: 22,936Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia )
19 October 2021 (2021-10-19)21:00 Johan Cruyff Arena , Amsterdam Attendance: 54,029Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain )
3 November 2021 (2021-11-03)21:00 Westfalenstadion , Dortmund Attendance: 54,820Referee: Michael Oliver (England )
3 November 2021 (2021-11-03)21:00 (20:00 WET ) Estádio José Alvalade , Lisbon Attendance: 40,835Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia )
24 November 2021 (2021-11-24)18:45 (20:45 TRT ) Vodafone Park , Istanbul Attendance: 11,712Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina )
24 November 2021 (2021-11-24)21:00 (20:00 WET ) Estádio José Alvalade , Lisbon Attendance: 41,341Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain )
7 December 2021 (2021-12-07)21:00 Johan Cruyff Arena , Amsterdam Attendance: 0Referee: Davide Massa (Italy )
7 December 2021 (2021-12-07)21:00 Westfalenstadion , Dortmund Attendance: 15,000Referee: François Letexier (France )
Group D
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
15 September 2021 (2021-09-15)18:45 (19:45 EEST ) Sheriff Stadium , Tiraspol Attendance: 5,205Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany )
15 September 2021 (2021-09-15)21:00 San Siro , Milan Attendance: 37,082Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany )
28 September 2021 (2021-09-28)18:45 (19:45 EEST ) NSC Olimpiyskiy , Kyiv Attendance: 26,170Referee: István Kovács (Romania )
28 September 2021 (2021-09-28)21:00 Santiago Bernabéu , Madrid Attendance: 24,522Referee: Lawrence Visser (Belgium )
19 October 2021 (2021-10-19)21:00 (22:00 EEST ) NSC Olimpiyskiy , Kyiv Attendance: 34,037Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia )
19 October 2021 (2021-10-19)21:00 San Siro , Milan Attendance: 43,305Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands )
3 November 2021 (2021-11-03)18:45 Santiago Bernabéu , Madrid Attendance: 38,105Referee: Benoît Bastien (France )
3 November 2021 (2021-11-03)21:00 (22:00 EET ) Sheriff Stadium , Tiraspol Attendance: 5,930Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany )
24 November 2021 (2021-11-24)18:45 San Siro , Milan Attendance: 46,225Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania )
24 November 2021 (2021-11-24)21:00 (22:00 EET ) Sheriff Stadium , Tiraspol Attendance: 5,932Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland )
7 December 2021 (2021-12-07)21:00 (22:00 EET ) NSC Olimpiyskiy , Kyiv Attendance: 6,841Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania )
7 December 2021 (2021-12-07)21:00 Santiago Bernabéu , Madrid Attendance: 46,887Referee: Felix Brych (Germany )
Group E
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
14 September 2021 (2021-09-14)21:00 Camp Nou , Barcelona Attendance: 39,737Referee: Michael Oliver (England )
14 September 2021 (2021-09-14)21:00 (22:00 EEST ) NSC Olimpiyskiy , Kyiv Attendance: 21,657Referee: Anthony Taylor (England )
29 September 2021 (2021-09-29)21:00 (20:00 WEST ) Estádio da Luz , Lisbon Attendance: 29,454Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy )
29 September 2021 (2021-09-29)21:00 Allianz Arena , Munich Attendance: 25,000Referee: Marco Guida (Italy )
20 October 2021 (2021-10-20)18:45 Camp Nou , Barcelona Attendance: 45,968Referee: Clément Turpin (France )
20 October 2021 (2021-10-20)21:00 (20:00 WEST ) Estádio da Luz , Lisbon Attendance: 55,201Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania )
2 November 2021 (2021-11-02)21:00 Allianz Arena , Munich Attendance: 50,000Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland )
2 November 2021 (2021-11-02)21:00 (22:00 EET ) NSC Olimpiyskiy , Kyiv Attendance: 31,378Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania )
23 November 2021 (2021-11-23)18:45 (19:45 EET ) NSC Olimpiyskiy , Kyiv Attendance: 28,732Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey )
23 November 2021 (2021-11-23)21:00 Camp Nou , Barcelona Attendance: 49,572Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia )
8 December 2021 (2021-12-08)21:00 Allianz Arena , Munich Attendance: 0Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania )
8 December 2021 (2021-12-08)21:00 (20:00 WET ) Estádio da Luz , Lisbon Attendance: 36,591Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany )
Group F
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
14 September 2021 (2021-09-14)18:45 Stadion Wankdorf , Bern Attendance: 31,120Referee: François Letexier (France )
14 September 2021 (2021-09-14)21:00 Estadio de la Cerámica , Villarreal Attendance: 12,916Referee: Clément Turpin (France )
29 September 2021 (2021-09-29)18:45 Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia , Bergamo Attendance: 8,536Referee: Felix Brych (Germany )
29 September 2021 (2021-09-29)21:00 (20:00 BST ) Old Trafford , Manchester Attendance: 73,130Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany )
20 October 2021 (2021-10-20)21:00 (20:00 BST ) Old Trafford , Manchester Attendance: 72,279Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland )
20 October 2021 (2021-10-20)21:00 Stadion Wankdorf , Bern Attendance: 27,398Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia )
2 November 2021 (2021-11-02)21:00 Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia , Bergamo Attendance: 14,443Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia )
2 November 2021 (2021-11-02)21:00 Estadio de la Cerámica , Villarreal Attendance: 14,890Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands )
23 November 2021 (2021-11-23)18:45 Estadio de la Cerámica , Villarreal Attendance: 20,875Referee: Felix Brych (Germany )
23 November 2021 (2021-11-23)21:00 Stadion Wankdorf , Bern Attendance: 31,120Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany )
8 December 2021 (2021-12-08)21:00 (20:00 GMT ) Old Trafford , Manchester Attendance: 73,156Referee: Benoît Bastien (France )
9 December 2021 (2021-12-09)19:00 Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia , Bergamo Attendance: 11,690Referee: Anthony Taylor (England )
Group G
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
14 September 2021 (2021-09-14)18:45 Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán , Seville Attendance: 18,373Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus )
14 September 2021 (2021-09-14)21:00 Stade Pierre-Mauroy , Villeneuve-d'Ascq Attendance: 34,314Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands )
29 September 2021 (2021-09-29)21:00 Stadion Wals-Siezenheim , Salzburg Attendance: 24,207Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey )
29 September 2021 (2021-09-29)21:00 Volkswagen Arena , Wolfsburg Attendance: 11,733Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria )
20 October 2021 (2021-10-20)18:45 Stadion Wals-Siezenheim , Salzburg Attendance: 29,520Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy )
20 October 2021 (2021-10-20)21:00 Stade Pierre-Mauroy , Villeneuve-d'Ascq Attendance: 34,362Referee: Michael Oliver (England )
2 November 2021 (2021-11-02)18:45 Volkswagen Arena , Wolfsburg Attendance: 16,112Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal )
2 November 2021 (2021-11-02)21:00 Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán , Seville Attendance: 29,369Referee: István Kovács (Romania )
23 November 2021 (2021-11-23)21:00 Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán , Seville Attendance: 28,663Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey )
23 November 2021 (2021-11-23)21:00 Stade Pierre-Mauroy , Villeneuve-d'Ascq Attendance: 33,573Referee: Anthony Taylor (England )
8 December 2021 (2021-12-08)21:00 Volkswagen Arena , Wolfsburg Attendance: 6,544Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy )
8 December 2021 (2021-12-08)21:00 Stadion Wals-Siezenheim , Salzburg Attendance: 0Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia )
Group H
Source: UEFA Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
14 September 2021 (2021-09-14)21:00 (20:00 BST ) Stamford Bridge , London Attendance: 39,252Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland )
14 September 2021 (2021-09-14)21:00 Stadion , Malmö Attendance: 5,832Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal )
29 September 2021 (2021-09-29)18:45 (19:45 MSK ) Krestovsky Stadium , Saint Petersburg Attendance: 15,339Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece )
29 September 2021 (2021-09-29)21:00 Juventus Stadium , Turin Attendance: 19,934Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain )
20 October 2021 (2021-10-20)21:00 (22:00 MSK ) Krestovsky Stadium , Saint Petersburg Attendance: 18,717Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland )
20 October 2021 (2021-10-20)21:00 (20:00 BST ) Stamford Bridge , London Attendance: 39,095Referee: François Letexier (France )
2 November 2021 (2021-11-02)18:45 Stadion , Malmö Attendance: 19,551Referee: Felix Brych (Germany )
2 November 2021 (2021-11-02)21:00 Juventus Stadium , Turin Attendance: 20,053Referee: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain )
23 November 2021 (2021-11-23)21:00 (20:00 GMT ) Stamford Bridge , London Attendance: 39,513Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia )
23 November 2021 (2021-11-23)21:00 Stadion , Malmö Attendance: 15,520Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia )
8 December 2021 (2021-12-08)18:45 (20:45 MSK ) Krestovsky Stadium , Saint Petersburg Attendance: 29,349Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands )
8 December 2021 (2021-12-08)18:45 Juventus Stadium , Turin Attendance: 17,501Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina )
Notes
CEST (UTC+2 ) for dates up to 30 October 2021 (matchdays 1–3), and CET (UTC+1 ) for dates thereafter (matchdays 4–6).
^ Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe , the match was played behind closed doors .
^ Shakhtar Donetsk played their home matches at NSC Olimpiyskiy, Kyiv, instead of their regular stadium Donbass Arena , Donetsk , due to the war conditions in Eastern Ukraine .
The Atalanta v Villarreal match, originally scheduled on 8 December 2021, 21:00 CET, was postponed to the following day, 19:00 CET, due to adverse weather conditions.
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