My team faces Liverpool in the pre-groups of the Champions League.
why Liverpool is not automatically qualified for the group stage and that he is the current champion of the Champions league?
I’ll be one more season out of the group stage.

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The current draw considers the countries ranking position when selecting teams for the qualifying stage. As England is in a bad ranking position even the top team was selected.

Galante, Don’t worry. Maybe you make it into the group stage. Hercules beated Barcelona this weekend. Small teams can win from giants. There is hope for you ;)

As Dirk said, you never know until the final whistle is over.

It’s ok Liverpool being on the qualification because England’s ranking is too low, but they should be automatacly qualified because they are the CL champions of last season, it is an ensurance that the Champs can defend their title…

By the way Gabriel, have you changed the rules for the qualification draw? Strange to see teams like Liverpool or Napoli almost at the end of the second colum…

Yes I did and that was for all cup competitions. Now all the teams in the right column (stronger) and left column (weakest) are shuffled for the draw. There are 2 reasons for that change: make it harder to guess the exact team order and make the draw less predictable.