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25th Aug 2016

Celtic handed extremely tough Champions League draw

Leicester City will be happy with their group, and Guardiola goes back to Barcelona

Robert Redmond

Celtic have been handed a very tough draw in the Champions League group stages.

The Scottish side, who have reached this stage of the competition for the first time since 2013, were in Pot 4, and will face Barcelona, Manchester City and  Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Premier League champions Leicester City were in Pot 1 alongside the cream of European football, such as Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

The Foxes were drawn in a group alongside Porto, Club Brugge and F.C. Copenhagen.

Arsenal were in Pot 2 and will face Paris Saint-Germain, FC Basel and Bulgarian side Ludogorets.

Tottenham Hotspur, who were in Pot 3, will play their Champions League games at Wembley, and have been drawn alongside CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen and AS Monaco.

Here’s the draw in full:

Group A
Paris Saint-Germain
Arsenal
FC Basel
Ludogorets

Group B
Benfica
Napoli
Dynamo Kyiv
Beşiktaş

Group C
Barcelona
Manchester City
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Celtic

Group D
Bayern Munich
Atlético Madrid
PSV Eindhoven
FC Rostov

Group E
CSKA Moskow
Bayer Leverkusen
Tottenham Hotspur
AS Monaco

Group F
Real Madrid
Borussia Dortmund
Sporting Lisbon
Legia Warsaw

Group G
Leicester City
Porto
Club Brugge
F.C. Copenhagen

Group H
Juventus
Sevilla
Lyon
Dinamo Zagreb

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