It became known, in what basket will Donetsk Shakhtar be during the draw of the group stage of the Champions League-2018/19.

According to Bleach Report, "miners" will begin their way in the most prestigious club tournament in Europe from the second basket. Among the possible opponents of Donetsk, there will definitely not be English Manchester United and German Borussia Dortmund, for which the Ukrainian Andrey Yarmolenko.

As for the most likely opponents of Shakhtar, here it is necessary to single out Manchester City, with which the wards of Paulo Fonseca met in the current draw of the tournament - 2: 1, 0: 2.

The full composition of the participants in the group stage of the Champions League is as follows:.

The first basket: "Atletico", "Barcelona", "Real", "Locomotive", PSG, "Bavaria", "Juventus", "Manchester City";.

Second basket: Tottenham, Shakhtar, Napoli, Porto, Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United, Benfica, Basel;.

The third basket: Liverpool, Schalke, Monaco, Roma, Lyon, CSKA, Red Bull Salzburg and Ajax;.

Fourth basket: Valencia, Victoria, Bruges, Inter, Galatasaray, Hoffenheim, PSV, Celtic.

The brackets indicate the teams that need to qualify.

It should be noted that Shakhtar can not meet in the Champions League with Russian clubs.

Note, in August 2016, the format of the UEFA Champions League of the season 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 was approved. Thus, the four best clubs from the four associations with the highest rating will go directly to the group stage of the tournament. The winner of the Europa League is guaranteed to get a ticket to the group stage.

Recall, previously possible opponents in the qualifying round of this tournament learned the Kiev "Dynamo".