Liverpool will face Champions League holders Real Madrid on their return to the competition following the draw for the new-look format.

Manchester City and Arsenal both play Paris St-Germain in their fixtures, while Aston Villa take on Scottish champions Celtic.

Each team plays eight fixtures in the ‘league phase’, with this year’s men’s tournament seeing a radical change, including the end of a group stage.

The high-tech draw took place in Monaco on Thursday, with Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo pressing the all-important button to make a computer algorithm determine the fixtures.

A Uefa video shown before the draw used stars from across the game showing their confusion at the new format, before former Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic praised it for “more football” in a comical interaction with Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin.

The order of matches will be confirmed on Saturday, after the Europa League and Conference League draws have been made.

Aston Villa

Arsenal

Celtic

Liverpool

Manchester City

The expanded 36-team tournament sees each team play eight games – four at home and four away – in the league system, against two opponents from each of the four seeding pots.

Teams who finish in the top eight will qualify automatically for the last 16, while those who place ninth to 24th will compete in a two-legged knockout play-off for the chance to join them.

Whoever finishes 25th or lower will be eliminated and will not be entered into the Europa League.

The number of matches in the new format will increase from 125 to 189.

Each team will play a minimum of eight games – instead of six – and a maximum of 17.

Champions League action begins on 17-19 September, and with the increased number of fixtures, the league phase runs until 29 January rather than finishing before Christmas.

For the next three years, from 22:00 on the Wednesday of Champions League matchweeks, there will be match-by-match highlights available on the BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.

There will be a highlights show on BBC One on the Wednesday, running from 22:40 to 00:00.

There will also be clips online and on social media, as well as live text commentary and radio coverage for all matchweeks on the BBC Sport website.