6 clubs set to join Newcastle in UEFA Champions League - 26 teams confirmed & draw next week
by Olly Hawkins · 24 August 2023, 20:00
With the Champions League draw set to take place next Thursday (31st August), Newcastle's return to the biggest club competition in world football is just around the corner.
26 clubs have already been confirmed (see the full list below), but the likes of Rangers, PSV, Galatasaray and Braga have taken part in their final play-off deciders this week, throwing up the following first leg results:
- Rangers 2-2 PSV
- Braga 2-1 Panathinaikos
- Molde FK 2-3 Galatasaray
- Royal Antwerp 1-0 AEK Athens
- Raków Częstochowa 0-1 Copenhagen
- Macabi Haifa 0-0 Young Boys
The winner's of next week's all important second legs will enter pots three and four of the draw, with Newcastle United set to be in pot four alongside Real Sociedad, Celtic, Union Berlin and RC Lens.
Here's the current projected pots based on the first leg results and those who've already qualified:
- Arsenal
- AC Milan
- Atletico Madrid
- Barcelona
- Bayern Munich
- Benfica
- Celtic
- Crvena zvezda
- Borussia Dortmund
- Feyenoord
- Inter Milan
- Lazio
- Lens
- Man City
- Man Utd
- Napoli
- Newcastle
- PSG
- Porto
- RB Leipzig
- RB Salzburg
- Real Madrid
- Real Sociedad
- Sevilla
- Shakhtar Donetsk
- Union Berlin
