BREAKING! Van Dijk named UEFA player of the year as Ronaldo returns to Madrid for Champions League

The UEFA Champions league draw for the 2019/20 season has been concluded as European giants get to know their opponents for the most prestigious football competition in the world. The draw was held in Monaco at the Grimaldi Forum on Thursday.

Cristiano Ronaldo will make a return to the city of Madrid as Juventus are drawn with Atletico after both teams faced each other in the second round last season with the Portuguese star scoring a hat-trick in the second leg after losing the first leg 2-0 at Wanda Metropolitano.

 

Awards were also dished out at the event with Alisson Becker winning the Best goalkeeper.

Virgil Van Dijk was given the Best defender award.

The best midfielder was given to Frenkie de Jong.

While the best forward was given to who else but Lionel Messi.

Virgil Van Dijk also won the UEFA player of the year award.

The defending champions Liverpool are in Group E and will face Napoli, Salzburg and Genk.

The tagged ‘group of death’ for this year is group F having Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund, Inter Milan, Slavia Prague

GROUP A: Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Club Brugge, Galatasaray

GROUP B: Bayern Munich, Tottenham Hotspur, Olympiakos, Crvena zvezda

GROUP C: Manchester City, Shakhtar Donetsk, Dinamo Zagreb, Atalanta

GROUP D: Juventus, Atlético Madrid, Bayern Leverkusen, Locomotiv Moscow

GROUP E: Liverpool, Napoli, Salzburg, Genk

GROUP F: Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund, Inter Milan, Slavia Prague

GROUP G: Zenit Saint-Petersburg, Benfica, Olympique Lyonnais, RB Leipzig

GROUP H: Chelsea, AFC Ajax, Valencia, Lille OSC

17/18 September: group stage, matchday one

1/2 October: group stage, matchday two

22/23 October: group stage, matchday three

5/6 November: group stage, matchday four

26/27 November: group stage, matchday five

10/11 December: group stage, matchday six

16 December: round of 16 draw

18/19/25/26 February: round of 16, first leg

10/11/17/18 March: round of 16, second leg

20 March: quarter-final & semi-final draw

7/8 April: quarter-finals, first leg

14/15 April: quarter-finals, second leg

28/29 April: semi-finals, first leg

5/6 May: semi-finals, second leg

Saturday 30 May: final – Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadı, Istanbul