The Champions League resumes this Tuesday evening with the first matchday of the group stage. As every year, many players who have passed through the Maurice Revello Tournament will play in the competition. This season, there are nearly 80 of them.
Who will succeed Chelsea? Will the favourites be there? What will be the surprise of this edition? These are just some of the issues at stake in the 2021-2022 Champions League, which opens this Tuesday evening with the first matchday of the group stage.
The competition is always full of promise and this year is no exception, given the make-up of the groups. Many clashes between big names and favourites are on the programme throughout this first phase. The opening day has already seen some of them. On Tuesday, Barça host Bayern and on Wednesday, Inter host Real, Liverpool AC Milan and Manchester City Leipzig. Exciting, and that's just the beginning.
We will also be keeping a close eye on all the players who have been through the Tournament and who are competing in the competition. There are 77 of them this year. Paris Saint-Germain and FC Porto are the clubs with the most, with 6 and 11 former Tournament players in their ranks respectively.
The 77 players who have passed through the Maurice Revello Tournament and are competing in the Champions League this season:
GROUP A :
Club Brugge : Ruud Vormer, Bas Dost, José Izquierdo
Manchester City : Ederson, Ruben Dias, João Cancelo, Fernandinho, Jack Grealish
Paris Saint-Germain : Abdou Diallo, Marquinhos, Presnel Kimpembe, Layvin Kurzawa, Danilo Pereira, Rafinha
RB Leipzig : Péter Gulácsi
GROUP B :
AC Milan : Fikayo Tomori, Tiémoué Bakayoko, Franck Kessie
Atlético de Madrid : Yannick Carrasco, Hector Herrera, Thomas Lemar, Matheus Cunha
Liverpool : Alisson, Caoimhin Kelleher, James Milner, Takumi Minamino
FC Porto : Agustin Marchesin, Claudio Ramos, Francisco Meixedo, Fabio Cardoso, Chancel Mbemba, Wendell, Sergio Oliveira, Fabio Vieira, Vitinha, Jesus Corona, João Mario
GROUP C :
Ajax Amsterdam : Maarten Stekelenburg, Antony, Steven Berghuis, Sébastien Haller, Zakaria Labyad
Besiktas : Rachid Ghezzal, Jeremain Lens, Necip Uysal
Sporting CP : João Virginia, Ricardo Esgaio, Zouhair Feddal, Ruben Vinagre, Bruno Tabata
GROUP D :
Shakhtar Donestk : Pedrinho
GROUP E :
FC Barcelona : Hiroki Abe
Benfica : Gilberto Moraes, João Mario, Gonçalo Ramos
GROUP F :
Atalanta : Merih Demiral, Hans Hateboer, Duvan Zapata, Luis Muriel
Manchester United : Bruno Fernandes, Cristiano Ronaldo
Villarreal : Etienne Capoue
Young Boys BSC : Wilfried Kanga
GROUP G :
Lille : Jérémy Pied, Jonathan Bamba, Jonathan David
Sevilla FC : Yassine Bounou, Papu Gomez
VfL Wolfsburg : Koen Casteels, Lukas Nmecha
GROUP H :
Chelsea : Ben Chilwell, Reece James, Trevoh Chalobah, Ruben Loftus-Cheek
Juventus : Adrien Rabiot
Zenit Saint-Petersburg : Douglas Santos, Wendel