Champions League Group Draw – Chelsea were drawn into ‘Group G’ and will face Schalke from Germany, Sporting from Portugal and Maribor from Slovenia and will be looking to make the knock out rounds once again this season – Let’s hope we can do what we achieved in Munich in 2012, and head back to Germany for the Champions League Final in June 2015. Never been to Berlin, fingers crossed eh
The schedule for the games is as follows: Wednesday 17 September – Chelsea v Schalke 8 * Tuesday 30 September – Sporting Lisbon v Chelsea * Tuesday 21 October – Chelsea v Maribor * Wednesday 5 November – Maribor v Chelsea * Tuesday 25 November – Schalke v Chelsea * Wednesday 10 December – Chelsea v Sporting Lisbon
Full Champions League Group draws:
GROUP A –
Atlético (ESP)
Juventus (ITA)
Olympiaco (GRE)
Malmö (SWE)
GROUP B –
Real Madrid (ESP)
Basel (SUI)
Liverpool (ENG)
Ludogorets (BUL)
GROUP C –
Benfica (POR)
Zenit (RUS)
Leverkusen (GER)
Monaco (FRA)
GROUP D –
Arsenal (ENG)
Dortmund (GER)
Galatasaray (TUR)
Anderlecht (BEL)
GROUP E –
Bayern (GER)
Man. City (ENG)
CSKA Moskva (RUS)
Roma (ITA)
GROUP F –
Barcelona (ESP)
Paris (FRA)
Ajax (NED)
APOEL (CYP)
GROUP G –
Chelsea (ENG)
Schalke (GER)
Sporting (POR)
Maribor (SVN)
GROUP H –
Porto (POR)
Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)
Athletic (ESP)
BATE (BLR)
Report from the Official Chelsea FC website here [1] – UEFA Interactive site here [2]