AC Milan given top ranking

Reign­ing champs AC Milan were given the top seed in the draw for Cham­pi­ons League groups. The full lineup for the 2007/08 UEFA Cham­pi­ons League has been con­firmed with Real Madrid CF’s tri­umph in Spain this past Sun­day mark­ing the con­clu­sion of all of Europe’s domes­tic league seasons.

The seed­ing is based on per­for­mances over the pre­vi­ous five sea­sons and deter­mines the num­ber of spots each national asso­ci­a­tion will have in the fol­low­ing campaign’s UEFA Cham­pi­ons League and UEFA Cup.

The top eight are:
1 AC Milan
2 Barcelona
3 Liv­er­pool
4 Inter Milan
5 Arse­nal
6 Real Madrid
7 Man­ches­ter United
8 Chelsea

When the full draw is made, the top 8 seeds go into pot 1, the next eight remain­ing seeds into pot 2, and so on. The groups are made up of one ran­dom draw from each pot. There are some very good sides in the sec­ond group­ing of eight includ­ing Valen­cia, Roma and Lyon. The draw for the group stage will be made once the qual­i­fy­ing rounds have com­pleted. The draw for the first two qual­i­fy­ing rounds will be made on Fri­day June 29th and we will have all the matchups (inl­cud­ing some pre­views) posted here.