AC Milan learned their Champions League group stage opponents as the full draw was completed today in Istanbul.
Last season’s Scudetto win meant that Milan secured Champions League football for a second straight campaign after their long-awaited return to the elite competition of club football in 2021-22 after a seven-year absence.
Milan entered that draw in Pot 4 despite having won the competition seven times, as such a long absence meant that the UEFA coefficient had taken a hit, but this time they were put in Pot 1 as a league winner.
The Rossoneri were drawn in Group E, and the team that were first drawn to join them was Chelsea. They ended up finishing third in the Premier League last season and won the competition in 2020-21, with the added sub-plots of Fikayo Tomori and Olivier Giroud facing their old club plus the Rafael Leao speculation.
The next team drawn (from Pot 3) was Red Bull Salzburg, who won the Austrian Bundesliga again in the last campaign and will be in the group stages of the competition for the third time.
The final team to complete the group is GNK Dinamo Zagreb, the Croatian powerhouses who won the league last season and are experienced in the Champions League at this point.
