2011–12 UEFA Champions League group stage

[1] The teams were drawn into eight groups of four, and played each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.

[3] The draw for the group stage was held at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco on 25 August 2011 at 17:45 CEST (UTC+02:00).

[4] Teams were seeded into four pots[5] based on their 2011 UEFA club coefficients.

Notes For the group stage draw, teams from the same national association cannot be drawn against each other.

There are other restrictions, e.g., teams from the same city (e.g. Milan and Internazionale, which also share a stadium) do not play at home on the same matchday (UEFA tries to avoid teams from the same city playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days), and Russian teams do not play at home on the last matchday due to cold weather.