UNITED GET INTO POT 1

Last updated : 01 July 2002 By editor

United, join European champions Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Valencia , Arsenal and Inter Milan in Pot 1, despite United having to qualify.

Those teams in the same group cannot be drawn against each other, whilst teams from the same country are kept apart in the draw for the group stages.

Seedings in full:

Pot 1: Real Madrid (Esp), Bayern Munich * (Ger), MANCHESTER UNITED * (Eng), FC Barcelona * (Esp), Valencia (Esp), Juventus (Ita), ARSENAL (Eng), Inter Milan * (Ita).

Pot 2: Deportivo La Coruna (Esp), Bayer Leverkusen (Ger), LIVERPOOL (Eng), Galatasaray (Tur), AS Roma (Ita), Olympique Lyon (Fra), Borussia Dortmund (Ger), Feyenoord * (Ned).

Pot 3: AC Milan * (Ita), PSV Eindhoven (Ned), Dinamo Kiev * (Ukr), Spartak Moscow (Rus), Lokomotiv Moscow * (Rus), Olympiakos (Gre), AEK Athens * (Gre), Sparta Prague * (Cze)

Pot 4: Ajax (Ned), Rosenborg * (Nor), RC Lens (Fra), NEWCASTLE UNITED * (Eng), Club Brugge * (Bel), Sturm Graz * (Aut), Boavista * (Por), Celtic * (Sco).

* = have yet to qualify.