The 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage matches took place between 15 September and 9 December 2009. The draw for the eight groups took place on 27 August 2009, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.

The group stage featured the 22 automatic qualifiers and the 10 winners of the play-off round (five through the Champions Path, five through the Non-Champions Path).

After the completion of the group stage, the top two teams in each group advanced to play in the first knockout round, while the third-placed teams dropped down to the UEFA Europa League round of 32.

Seedings

The draw for the group stage was held in Monaco on 27 August 2009.

Seeding was determined by the UEFA coefficients: ^[1] Pot 1 held teams ranked 1–8, Pot 2 held teams ranked 10–28, Pot 3 held teams ranked 34–64, while Pot 4 held teams ranked 97–190 and unranked teams.

Clubs from the same association were paired up to split the matchdays between Tuesday and Wednesday. Clubs with the same pairing letter played on different days, ensuring that teams from the same city (e.g. Milan and Inter Milan, who also share a stadium) did not play on the same day. ^[2]

Group winners and runners-up advanced to the first knockout round

Third-placed teams entered the UEFA Europa League at the round of 32

Pot 1 Team Coeff. Barcelona TH 121.853 Chelsea 118.899 Liverpool 118.899 Manchester United 111.899 Milan 110.582 Arsenal n 106.899 Sevilla 100.853 Bayern Munich 98.339

Pot 2 Team Coeff. Lyon n 91.033 Inter Milan 87.582 Real Madrid 78.853 CSKA Moscow 71.525 Porto 68.292 AZ 64.826 Juventus 63.582 Rangers 56.575

Pot 3 Team Coeff. Olympiacos c 52.633 Marseille 48.033 Dynamo Kyiv 46.370 VfB Stuttgart n 45.339 Fiorentina n 42.582 Atlético Madrid n 41.853 Bordeaux 40.033 Beşiktaş 32.445

Pot 4 Team Coeff. VfL Wolfsburg 21.339 Standard Liège 21.065 Maccabi Haifa c 17.050 Zürich c 14.050 Rubin Kazan 9.525 Unirea Urziceni 8.781 APOEL c 4.016 Debrecen c 1.633

th Title holder

^c Qualified through Play-off round ( Champions Path)

ⁿ Qualified through Play-off round ( Non-Champions Path)

Tie-breaking criteria

Based on Article 7.06 in the UEFA regulations, if two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings: ^[3]

1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
3. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
4. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
5. higher number of goals scored;
6. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

Groups

Times are CET/ CEST, ^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bordeaux	6	5	1	0	9	2	+7	16	Advance to knockout phase
2	Bayern Munich	6	3	1	2	9	5	+4	10
3	Juventus	6	2	2	2	4	7	−3	8	Transfer to Europa League
4	Maccabi Haifa	6	0	0	6	0	8	−8	0

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Notes

• Note 1: Juventus played their home group matches at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino as their Stadio delle Alpi was demolished to make way for Juventus Stadium.
• Note 2: Maccabi Haifa played their home group matches at the Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv District as their Kiryat Eliezer Stadium did not meet UEFA criteria.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Manchester United	6	4	1	1	10	6	+4	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	CSKA Moscow	6	3	1	2	10	10	0	10
3	VfL Wolfsburg	6	2	1	3	9	8	+1	7	Transfer to Europa League
4	Beşiktaş	6	1	1	4	3	8	−5	4

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Real Madrid	6	4	1	1	15	7	+8	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	Milan	6	2	3	1	8	7	+1	9
3	Marseille	6	2	1	3	10	10	0	7	Transfer to Europa League
4	Zürich	6	1	1	4	5	14	−9	4

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chelsea	6	4	2	0	11	4	+7	14	Advance to knockout phase
2	Porto	6	4	0	2	8	3	+5	12
3	Atlético Madrid	6	0	3	3	3	12	−9	3	Transfer to Europa League
4	APOEL	6	0	3	3	4	7	−3	3

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Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fiorentina	6	5	0	1	14	7	+7	15	Advance to knockout phase
2	Lyon	6	4	1	1	12	3	+9	13
3	Liverpool	6	2	1	3	5	7	−2	7	Transfer to Europa League
4	Debrecen	6	0	0	6	5	19	−14	0

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Notes

• Note 3: Debrecen played their home group matches at Ferenc Puskás Stadium in Budapest as their Stadion Oláh Gábor Út did not meet UEFA criteria.

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Barcelona	6	3	2	1	7	3	+4	11	Advance to knockout phase
2	Inter Milan	6	2	3	1	7	6	+1	9
3	Rubin Kazan	6	1	3	2	4	7	−3	6	Transfer to Europa League
4	Dynamo Kyiv	6	1	2	3	7	9	−2	5

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Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sevilla	6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	VfB Stuttgart	6	2	3	1	9	7	+2	9
3	Unirea Urziceni	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8	Transfer to Europa League
4	Rangers	6	0	2	4	4	13	−9	2

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Notes

• Note 4: Unirea Urziceni played their home group matches at Stadionul Steaua in Bucharest as their Stadionul Tineretului did not meet UEFA criteria.

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Arsenal	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	Olympiacos	6	3	1	2	4	5	−1	10
3	Standard Liège	6	1	2	3	7	9	−2	5	Transfer to Europa League
4	AZ	6	0	4	2	4	8	−4	4

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References

External links

• 2009–10 UEFA Champions League, UEFA.com