The 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage matches took place between 15 September and 9 December 2009. The draw for the eight groups took place on 27 August 2009, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
The group stage featured the 22 automatic qualifiers and the 10 winners of the play-off round (five through the Champions Path, five through the Non-Champions Path).
After the completion of the group stage, the top two teams in each group advanced to play in the first knockout round, while the third-placed teams dropped down to the UEFA Europa League round of 32.
Teams The draw for the group stage was held in Monaco on 27 August 2009.
Seeding was determined by the UEFA coefficients: Pot 1 held teams ranked 1–8, Pot 2 held teams ranked 10–28, Pot 3 held teams ranked 34–64, while Pot 4 held teams ranked 97–190 and unranked teams.
Clubs from the same association were paired up to split the matchdays between Tuesday and Wednesday. Clubs with the same pairing letter played on different days, ensuring that teams from the same city (e.g. Milan and Inter Milan, who also share a stadium) did not play on the same day.
Group winners and runners-up advanced to the first knockout roundThird-placed teams entered the UEFA Europa League at the round of 32
+Pot 1TeamNotes Barcelona 121.853 Chelsea 118.899 Liverpool 118.899 Manchester United 111.899 Milan 110.582 Arsenal 106.899 Sevilla 100.853 Bayern Munich 98.339+Pot 2TeamNotes Lyon 91.033 Inter Milan 87.582 Real Madrid 78.853 CSKA Moscow 71.525 Porto 68.292 AZ 64.826 Juventus 63.582 Rangers 56.575+Pot 3TeamNotes Olympiacos 52.633 Marseille 48.033 Dynamo Kyiv 46.370 VfB Stuttgart 45.339 Fiorentina 42.582 Atlético Madrid 41.853 Bordeaux 40.033 Beşiktaş 32.445+Pot 4TeamNotes VfL Wolfsburg 21.339 Standard Liège 21.065 Maccabi Haifa 17.050 Zürich 14.050 Rubin Kazan 9.525 Unirea Urziceni 8.781 APOEL 4.016 Debrecen 1.633 Notes
Tie-breaking criteria Based on Article 7.06 in the UEFA regulations, if two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings: higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question; superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question; higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question; superior goal difference from all group matches played; higher number of goals scored; higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.
Groups Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Notes
References
External links 2009–10 UEFA Champions League, UEFA.com