Monaco hosted on Thursday the draw for the 08/09 UEFA Champions League Group Stage. The competition will take place between 16.09.2008 — 28.05.2009, and the stadium to host the final will be announced not before the knockout rounds. Noteworthy is the presence of two Romanian football clubs, which will make their Champions League debut alongside two other European clubs – BATE (Borisov, Belarus) and Anosthosis (Cyprus). The groups for this stage of the 08/09 UEFA Champions League look as follows: [Group A:] Chelsea (England), Roma (Italy), Bordeaux (France), CFR 1907 Cluj (Romania) [Group B:] Inter (Italy), Werder Bremen (Germany), Panathanaikos (Greece), Anorthosis Famagusta (Cyprus) [Group C:] Barcelona (Spain), Sporting Lisbon (Portugal), FC Basel (Switzerland), Shaktar Donetsk (Ukraine) [Group D:] Liverpool (England), PSV (the Netherlands), Marseille (France), Atletico Madrid (Spain) [Group E:] Manchester United (England), Villareal (Spain), Celtic (Scotland), Aalborg BK (Denmark) [Group F:] Olympique Lyonnais (France), Bayern Munich (Germany), Steaua Bucharest (Romania), Fiorentina (Italy) [Group G:] Arsenal (England), Porto (Portugal), Fenerbache (Turkey), Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) [Group H:] Real Madrid (Spain), Juventus (Italy), Zenit St. Petersburg (Russia), Bate Borisov (Belarus)