Sports News | European Champion Barcelona Gets Man City in Group Stage of Women''s Champions League

Nyon (Switzerland), Sep 27 (AP) Two-time defending champion Barcelona will play Manchester City in a Women's Champions League group after the 16-team draw on Friday.

Barcelona and Man City also will face St. Pölten and Hammarby in the traditional round-robin groups that start on October 8.

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Lyon, the record eight-time European champion, landed in a tough group with Wolfsburg, the titleholder in 2013 and '14, Roma and debutant Galatasaray.

Juventus eliminated Paris Saint-Germain on Thursday in the second qualifying round and was drawn into a group with Bayern Munich, Arsenal and Vålerenga. Chelsea was top-seeded in a group with Real Madrid, Twente and Celtic.

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This is the final season of the group stage in the Women's Champions League before it adopts the new single-standings format that the men's competition changed to this season.

Games finish on December 18 and the top two in each group advance to the knockout stage.

Two-leg quarter-finals are in March, the semi-finals are in April and the final is at Sporting Lisbon's stadium on May 25.

The competition has a total prize money fund of at least 24 million euros (USD 26.8 million) with 11.4 million euros (USD 12.7 million) shared between the 16 group-stage clubs. (AP)

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