by maypaxvobiscum » Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:58 am
The teams are drawn into twelve groups of four, and played each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.
The matchdays are 20 September, 4 October, 25 October, 8 November, 22 November, and 6 December 2012.
The top two teams in each group advance to the round of 32, where they are joined by the eight third-placed teams from the ECL.
POT 1
Atlético Madrid
Internazionale
Lyon
Liverpool
Marseille
Sporting CP
PSV Eindhoven
Tottenham Hotspur
Bayer Leverkusen
Bordeaux
Twente
Stuttgart
POT 2
Basel
Metalist Kharkiv
Panathinaikos
Athletic Bilbao
Copenhagen
Fenerbahçe
Rubin Kazan
Napoli
Udinese
Club Brugge
Hapoel Tel Aviv
Hannover 96
POT 3
Lazio
Steaua București
Sparta Prague
Rosenborg
Newcastle United
Young Boys
Levante
Genk
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Partizan
Viktoria Plzeň
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
POT 4
Helsingborg
Marítimo
Rapid Wien
Académica
Anzhi Makhachkala
Maribor
AIK
AEL Limassol
Ironi Kiryat Shmona
Molde
Videoton
Neftchi Baku
The draw for the group stage will be held at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco on 31 August 2012 at 13:00 CEST (UTC+2).