Dates and kick-off times set for Sporting’s Champions League matches | OneFootball

After the draw for the group stage of the Champions League took place last Thursday, August 28, with Sporting learning their respective opponents, UEFA announced, this Saturday, the schedule for the respective duels of the 36 teams in the competition.

Rui Borges' pupils kick off their participation in this edition of the competition against Kairat, at Alvalade, on September 18. Remember that the group stage will take place between September 16 and January 28, with each of the 36 teams in the competition playing eight matches in the group stage, four at home and four away.

The other first-place finishers in the group stage advance directly to the round of 16, while the teams ranked between 9th and 16th will face those ranked between 17th and 24th in a playoff, to define the last spots in the next stage of the competition.

Bernardo Palmeiro, general director of the Alvalade emblem, in statements to the Club's channels, expressed confidence in a good journey in which the greens and whites will try to dignify national football and said it is a great responsibility to represent the lions.

"Sporting is very pleased to be in the Champions League, to participate in this competition, the most prestigious at club level. We have a great responsibility to represent Sporting, but also the whole country. We represent Portugal and we have the obligation to do our best", assumed (Remember HERE).

See the schedule:

September 18: Kairat (home) at 20h00

October 1: Naples (away) at 20h00

October 22: Marseille (home) at 20h00

November 4: Juventus (away) at 20h00

November 26: Club Brugge (home) at 20h00

December 9: Bayern Munich (away) at 17h45

January 20: PSG (home) at 20h00

January 28: Atlético Bilbao (away) at 20h00

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