Liverpool will be in pot 3 for the Champions League group stage draw.

CSKA Moscow and Zenit St Petersburg qualified for the Champions League at the expense of Lokomotiv Moscow, which extinguished Liverpool's faint hopes of being elevated into the second pot for the draw on Aug. 29.

Manchester City recorded their highest UEFA coefficient score last season in reaching the Round of 16 in the Champions League before exiting to Barcelona. City will be in pot 2.

Liverpool and City will definitely be drawn against one of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Atletico Madrid or FC Porto, so will likely hope their opponents are Portuguese.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW POTS
* Team in playoffs. Should this team fail to qualify for the group stage the others below would move up a position. 

Pot 1
Real Madrid
Barcelona
Bayern Munich
Chelsea
Benfica
Atletico Madrid
Arsenal *
FC Porto *

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Pot 2
Schalke
Borussia Dortmund
Juventus
Paris Saint-Germain
Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Basel
Zenit St Petersburg *
Man City

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Pot 3
Bayer Leverkusen *
Olympiakos
CSKA Moscow
Ajax
Napoli *
Liverpool
Sporting Lisbon
Galatasaray

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Pot 4 (outline)
Athletic Bilbao *
Anderlecht
Salzburg *
Lille *
FC Copenhagen *
AS Roma
AS Monaco