Man City Face Real Madrid In Pick Of Champions League Play-off Ties
- Reigning champions Real Madrid will face 2023 winners Manchester City in the Champions League play-off round.
- Other notable fixtures include Celtic v Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain v Brest, Juventus facing PSV Eindhoven, and Feyenoord taking on AC Milan.
- The play-off ties will decide which eight teams join the pre-qualified sides such as Liverpool, Barcelona, and Arsenal in the last 16.
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Reigning champions Real Madrid will face 2023 winners Manchester City in the plum tie of the play-off round of this seasons Champions League, following Fridays draw.
It is the fourth year running in which the sides have been drawn against each other in a knockout tie, with Real emerging victorious in a penalty shoot-out in the quarter-finals last season.
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City, who scraped through after finishing 22nd in the league phase in this first season of the new format for Europes elite club competition, will be at home in the first leg before going to Spain for the return.
Elsewhere, Celtic will face six-time European champions Bayern Munich, after the Scottish champions reached the knockout stage for the first time in 12 years.