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|==Seeding== The draw for the group stage was held in Monaco on 26 August 2010 at 6:00 p.m. CEST (UTC+2).

Teams were seeded into four pots based on their 2010 UEFA club coefficients. The title holders, Barcelona, were automatically seeded into Pot 1. Teams from the same national association could not be drawn against each other. Pot 1 held teams ranked 1–10, Pot 2 held teams ranked 11–29, Pot 3 held teams ranked 30–63, while Pot 4 held teams ranked 73–180 and unranked teams.

Group winners and runners-up advanced to the first knockout round

Third-placed teams entered the UEFA Europa League at the round of 32

Pot 1 Team Coeff. Internazionale TH 100.867 Barcelona 136.951 Manchester United 125.371 Chelsea 118.371 Arsenal 115.371 Bayern Munich 110.841 Milan 99.867 Lyon 96.748

Pot 2 Team Coeff. Werder Bremen n 94.841 Real Madrid 84.951 Roma 83.867 Shakhtar Donetsk 73.910 Benfica 72.659 Valencia 66.951 Marseille 62.748

Pot 3 Team Coeff. Tottenham Hotspur n 56.371 Rangers 56.158 Ajax n 55.309 Schalke 04 54.841 Basel c 48.675 Braga n 39.659 Copenhagen c 34.470 Spartak Moscow 33.758

Pot 4 Team Coeff. Valletta c 27.775 Hibernians 25.309 Sliema Wanderers 21.758 Floriana n 19.748 Birkirkara FC 15.898 Marsaxlokk c 13.800 Tarxien Rainbows c 10.666 Hamrun Spartans FC 6.890

^TH Title Holder

^c Qualified through Champions Path

ⁿ Qualified through Non-Champions Path

On each matchday, four groups played their matches on Tuesday, while the other four groups played their matches on Wednesday, with the two sets of groups (A–D, E–H) alternating between each matchday. Based on this principle, the draw was controlled for clubs from the same association in order to split the teams evenly into the two sets of groups, with clubs from the same association "paired up" so that when one was is drawn into one set, the other team was drawn into the other set. The following pairings were used for the draw:

• Italy: Internazionale and Milan
• Spain: Barcelona and Real Madrid
• England: Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur; Chelsea and Manchester United
• Germany: Bayern Munich and Schalke 04
• France: Lyon and Marseille
• Russia: Rubin Kazan and Spartak Moscow
• Portugal: Benfica and Braga
• Netherlands: Ajax and Twente

The fixtures were decided after the draw. There are certain 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 play 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.