The Champions League group stage draw in on this Thurday, 17:45CET (16:45 UK time) and we're a part of it.

Anyway, it's standard procedure for both draws. In the Champions League, 32 teams will be sorted into four pots depending on their co-efficient scores and then drawn into 8 groups of 4 teams. Arsenal will very likely be in Pot 1 should we qualify.

The pots are:

Pot 1
Arsenal (England)
FC Barcelona (Spain)
FC Bayern Munich (Germany)
Chelsea FC (England)
FC Internazionale Milan (Italy)
Manchester United FC (England)
FC Porto (Portugal)
Real Madrid CF (Spain)

Pot 2
AC Milan (Italy)
Benfica (Portugal)
CSKA Moskva (Russia)
Olympique Lyonnais (France)
Olympique de Marseille (France)
FC Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)
Valencia CF (Spain)
Villareal (Spain)

Pot 3
AFC Ajax (Netherlands)
FC Basel (Switzerland)
BATE (Belarus)
Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Germany)
LOSC Lille Metropole (France)
Manchester City FC (England)
Olympiacos FC (Greece)
FC Zenit St. Petursburg (Russia)

Pot 4
Apoel FC (Cyprus)
Borussia Dortmund (Germany)
Genk (Belgium)
SSC Napoli (Italy)
FC Otelul Galati (Romania)
Pizen (Czech Republic)
Trabzonspor (Turkey)
Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia)

choked on my tea when i read Europea league draw loool

but i know why its there

How much money will we lose if we dont make the CL? I dont want to even think about Europa league now.

25 million. Just about made up for it by selling Nasri?

TY Arsenal board for this embarrassment, we were suppose to be fighting for big trophies but now fighting for our CL life's.

In terms of money, the Europa League is pathetic in comparison to the Champions League. You get £17,000,000 just for qualifying for the group stages and a whopping £20,000,000+ from TV rights.

I don't know the figures for the Europa League, but considering it's shown on ITV, Channel 5 and ESPN in the UK, I imagine it's not a lot.

I've now got this horrible image of us being shown on Channel 5. Their football coverage is awful.

all those years mocking spurs fans about channel 5 thursday night...

no no no no no no

GoonerJay29 wrote:In terms of money, the Europa League is pathetic in comparison to the Champions League. You get £17,000,000 just for qualifying for the group stages and a whopping £20,000,000+ from TV rights.

I don't know the figures for the Europa League, but considering it's shown on ITV, Channel 5 and ESPN in the UK, I imagine it's not a lot.

I've now got this horrible image of us being shown on Channel 5. Their football coverage is awful.

Jay dont worry we still have the quality to win, I have better feeling about this game then I did about the Liverpool game.

Stop trippin' fellas.

We're 1-0 up, and King Robin is back.

We've been in tougher situations before, No? anyway, i am more worried about the Old Trafford game tbh. i got a feeling this is gonna be one game which run riot. you had it here first!!!

Last game we had 2 useless player and with 2 injuries, and we still won, I know we will go through.

What happened to the old Arsenal? Whenever we faced a team like Udinese we knew the outcome before the game. We just had to guess how many we were gonna score and who was gonna score for us. Now we can't even face a team like Ipswich Town without shivering in fear. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

But it's all good. I have faith in our team. In Arsene We Trust.

As I promised yesterday, I've updated the first post with the pots for tomorrow's draw.

So, which combination of teams would be the group of death?

Arsenal
Ac Milan
Ajax
Dourtmond

Barcelona-Milan-Mercenary-Dortmund
Arsenal-OM-Bate-Otelul on group 8

Looking forward to the draw.

I'd like to have at least one strong team in our Group for a change

I believe playing big teams will only improve our teams cause our players will work harder to prove that they can beat big teams

Unlike playing UNKNOWN / Small teams , the players will play with arrogance no matter what

Spider wrote:Arsenal
Ac Milan
Ajax
Dourtmond

thats a hard group.

bet we are in group H with the easiest draw and still finish 2nd

For some we reason we're always in group G. Or was it group H? One of those.

i bet we will be drawn into group G or H. we need to send a message early so i think we should be given a tough group. i want milan but not dortmund

Arsenal
Valencia
Lille
Dortmund

For those interested in watching the draw live: http://www.sportlemon.tv/v-2/8/156/v-295797.html

We are in group F.
More soon.

2nd team in our group is OM..