Champions League & Europa League: British clubs await draw

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Seven British clubs will find out on Thursday who they will face in the Champions League and Europa League.

Manchester United, Arsenal and Celtic are in the day's first draw, for the last 16 of the Champions League.
Liverpool, Newcastle, Tottenham and Chelsea will discover their opponents in the last 32 of the Europa League - and the last 16, should they progress.
The Champions League draw starts at 10:30 GMT, with the Europa League following at 13:00 GMT.
Manchester United are in the group winners' pot for the Champions League draw in Nyon, Switzerland, but will not face Arsenal in the next round as clubs from the same country cannot be drawn together.
Nine-time European champions Real Madrid are one of several potential opponents for United from the pot containing clubs that finished as runners-up.
Celtic, who clinched a place in the knock-out phase with a dramatic win over Spartak Moscow, are also in the runners-up pot and could face United.
The first legs of the Champions League last-16 ties will played on 12-13 and 19-20 February, with the second legs on 5-6 and 12-13 March.
Chelsea dropped into the Europa League after becoming the first holders of the Champions League to fail to reach the knock-out phase.
Defending champions Atletico Madrid are unseeded after finishing second in their Europa League group, and could face Chelsea or Liverpool, who are both seeded.
As with the Champions League draw, clubs cannot be paired with either the winners from their group or clubs from the same country.
The Europa League last-32 ties will be played on 14 and 21 February. The draw for the last 16 will be made immediately after the draw for the last 32.


Group winners: Paris Saint-Germain, Schalke 04, Malaga, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Manchester United .
Group runners-up: FC Porto, Arsenal, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk, Valencia, Celtic, Galatasaray.

Europa League pots

Seeded teams: Liverpool, Viktoria Plzen, Fenerbahce, Bordeaux, Steaua Bucharest, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Genk, Rubin Kazan, Olympique Lyonnais, Lazio, Mentalist Kharkiv, Hannover 96, Chelsea,CFR Cluj, Olympiacos, Benfica.
Unseeded teams: Anzhi Makhachkala, Atletico Madrid, Borussia Monchengladbach, Newcastle United , VfB Stuttgart, Napoli, FC Basel, Inter Milan, Sparta Prague, Tottenham Hotspur, Bayer Leverkusen, Levante, Dynamo Kyiv, Zenit St Petersburg, Ajax, BATE Borisov.

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