Teams Qualified for the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League Group Stage



The UEFA Champions League logo - Large sizeThe club football league season is over and we now know the twenty two teams that directly qualified for the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League.

Here they are, ranked by the UEFA Club Coefficient, which will come in play during the group draw on August 28th, 2014:

Real Madrid
Barcelona
Bayern Munich
Chelsea
Benfica
Atletico Madrid
Schalke
Borussia Dortmund
Juventus
Paris Saint-Germain
Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Basel
Man City
Olympiakos
CSKA Moscow
Ajax
Liverpool
Sporting Lisbon
Galatasaray
Anderlecht
AS Roma
AS Monaco

Some of the more successful teams that will have to fight to qualify for the group stage in the UEFA Champions League playoffs:

Arsenal
FC Porto
Zenit St Petersburg
Bayer Leverkusen
Napoli
Athletic Bilbao
Salzburg
Lille
FC Copenhagen