UEFA Champions League semi-final draw

The UEFA Champions league draw will be done on Friday, April 15, 2016  and streamed live in the UEFA.com DrawCentre from 11.30CET. Bayern München and Atlético Madrid have joined Manchester City and Real Madrid in the draw for the UEFA Champions League semi-finals.

• Qualified: Atlético Madrid, Bayern München, Manchester City, Real Madrid
• The draw will be open, meaning all match-ups are possible
• Watch live on UEFA.com or the UEFA Champions League app via our DrawCentre
• Ties will take place on 26/27 April & 3/4 May. Final 28 May, Milan

 Bayern München and Real Madrid are into the UEFA Champions League semi-finals for at least the fifth season running.

Madrid are through to a sixth successive UEFA Champions League semi-final, surpassing Barcelona's 2008/09–2012/13 record of five. Bayern themselves made it five on Wednesday. Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, Manchester City and Real Madrid will find out their continental fate at 6:30 a.m ET in an open draw in which any tie is possible.

Potentially mouth-watering clashes include Bayern drawing the club Pep Guardiola will be leaving for at the end of the season, Man City, and a Madrid derby between 2013-14 finalists Atletico and Real

The last time neither Bayern nor Real Madrid failed to make it to the last four was 2008/09.

 The odds are firmly stacked against Manchester City and Atlético Madrid: since Marseille won the first edition in 1992/93, only two sides have won the UEFA Champions League who had not previously won the European Champion Clubs' Cup – Borussia Dortmund in 1996/97 and Chelsea in 2011/12. Dortmund are the only side to win the new competition in their first UEFA Champions League or European Cup final appearance.

                            

                                       Barcelona beat Bayern 5-3 12 months ago

 Most UEFA Champions League semi-final appearances by club (inc 2016):
11: Barcelona
11: Real Madrid
10: Bayern München
7: Chelsea, Manchester United
6: AC Milan, Juventus
3: Ajax, Borussia Dortmund, Liverpool, Monaco
2: Arsenal, Atlético Madrid, Internazionale Milano, Porto, Valencia
1: Deportivo La Coruña, Dynamo Kyiv, Leeds United, Bayer Leverkusen, Manchester City, Nantes, Panathinaikos, Paris Saint-Germain, Schalke, Lyon, PSV Eindhoven, Villarreal

Spain have had two semi-finalists in each of the past five seasons

UEFA Champions League semi-finalists by nation:
27: Spain (six clubs: Atlético, Barcelona, Deportivo, Real Madrid, Valencia, Villarreal)
21: England (six clubs: Arsenal, Chelsea, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United)
14: Italy (three clubs: AC Milan, Internazionale, Juventus)
15: Germany (four clubs: Bayern, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Schalke)
5: France (four clubs: Lyon, Monaco, Nantes)
4: Netherlands (two clubs: Ajax, PSV)
2: Portugal (one club: Porto)
1: Greece (Panathinaikos), Ukraine (Dynamo Kyiv)

Classic semi-finals

·         Semi-final lineups by season
15/16: Atlético, Bayern, Manchester City, Real Madrid
14/15: Barcelona, Bayern, Juventus, Real Madrid
13/14: Atlético, Bayern, Chelsea, Real Madrid
12/13: Barcelona, Bayern, Dortmund, Real Madrid
11/12: Barcelona, Bayern, Chelsea, Real Madrid
10/11: Barcelona, Man. United, Real Madrid, Schalke
09/10: Barcelona, Bayern, Internazionale, Lyon
08/09: Arsenal, Barcelona, Chelsea, Man. United
07/08: Barcelona, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man. United
06/07: AC Milan, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man. United
05/06: AC Milan, Arsenal, Barcelona, Villarreal
04/05: AC Milan, Chelsea, Liverpool, PSV
03/04: Chelsea, Deportivo, Monaco, Porto
02/03: AC Milan, Internazionale, Juventus, Real Madrid
01/02: Barcelona, Leverkusen, Man. United, Real Madrid
00/01: Bayern, Leeds, Real Madrid, Valencia
99/00: Barcelona, Bayern, Valencia, Real Madrid
98/99: Bayern, Dynamo Kyiv, Juventus, Man. United
97/98: Dortmund, Juventus, Monaco, Real Madrid
96/97: Ajax, Dortmund, Juventus, Man. United
95/96: Ajax, Juventus, Nantes, Panathinaikos
94/95: AC Milan, Ajax, Bayern, Paris
93/94: AC Milan, Barcelona, Monaco, Porto
92/93: No semi-finals*

·         *No semi-finals in 1992/93; top side from each of the two groups – Marseille and AC Milan – went straight to the final.

Here on the soccerbetting202 team we see a draw where Bayern may be drawn with Manchester city and the two Madrid sides clash in what may look like a repeat of the 2014/2015 finals.
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