The Champions League group stage pots for 2013-14 are as follows: Pot 1 Bayern Munich Barcelona Chelsea Real Madrid Manchester United Arsenal Porto Benfica Pot 2 Atletico Madrid Shakhtar Donetsk AC Milan Schalke Olympique de Marseille CSKA Moscow Paris Saint-Germain Juventus Pot 3 Zenit St Petersburg Manchester City Ajax Borussia Dortmund Basel Olympiakos Galatasaray Bayer Leverkusen Pot 4 Copenhagen Napoli Anderlecht Celtic Steaua Bucharest Viktoria Plzen Real Sociedad Austria Wien
POT 1 FC Bayern München (GER) FC Barcelona (ESP) Chelsea FC (ENG) Real Madrid CF (ESP) Manchester United FC (ENG) Arsenal FC (ENG) FC Porto (POR) SL Benfica (POR) POT 2 Club Atlético de Madrid (ESP) Paris Saint-Germain FC (FRA) Juventus (ITA) FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) AC Milan (ITA) FC Schalke 04 (GER) Olympique de Marseille (FRA) PFC CSKA Moksva (RUS) POT 3 Borussia Dortmund (GER) Manchester City FC (ENG) FC Zenit St Petersburg (RUS) Galatasaray AŞ (TUR) AFC Ajax (NED) FC Basel 1893 (SUI) Olympiacos FC (GRE) Bayer 04 Leverkusen (GER) POT 4 SSC Napoli (ITA) Real Sociedad (ESP) Celtic FC (SCO) FC København (DEN) RSC Anderlecht (BEL) FC Steaua Bucureşti (ROU) FC Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) Austria Vienna (AUS)
The teams are listed in each pot above in order of strength (not UEFA coefficient) in my opinion. Lets just agree now that wherever Napoli ends up will basically be the group of death, unless they somehow fall into Porto or Benfica's Group (or Marseille or Moscow, for that matter)
I'm guessing Group G with a difficult group, but not quite group of death. Arsenal - Shakhtar Donetsk - Galatassaray - Sociedad
POT 2 Club Atlético de Madrid (ESP)...........don't want Paris Saint-Germain FC (FRA)..........don't want Juventus (ITA).....................................don't want FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) AC Milan (ITA).....................................preferred FC Schalke 04 (GER) Olympique de Marseille (FRA) PFC CSKA Moksva (RUS)..................preferred POT 3 Borussia Dortmund (GER)..................don't want Manchester City FC (ENG).................can't get FC Zenit St Petersburg (RUS) Galatasaray AŞ (TUR).........................prefer not to get AFC Ajax (NED) FC Basel 1893 (SUI).............................preferred Olympiacos FC (GRE)..........................preferred Bayer 04 Leverkusen (GER)..............prefer not to get POT 4 SSC Napoli (ITA)...................................don't want Real Sociedad (ESP) Celtic FC (SCO) FC København (DEN)...........................preferred RSC Anderlecht (BEL) FC Steaua Bucureşti (ROU) FC Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)......................preferred Austria Vienna (AUS)..........................preferred
Marseille it is. Could have been much worse. Looking forward to watching them over the weekend against Monaco.