MONACO (AP) — Good luck Manchester City, Tottenham, Juventus and Monaco — one of them will have to travel north of the Arctic Circle in mid-January to play a Champions League game.
All four were drawn Thursday as away opponents for Norwegian champion Bodo/Glimt, whose 8,000-capacity Aspmyra stadium is located further north than soccer's top club competition has ever been.
And Real Madrid’s team of superstars is going further east than the Champions League has ever been, to play at Kairat Almaty in Kazakshtan near its border with China.
That is a flight of about 6,420 kilometers (4,000 miles) across three time zones from the Spanish capital.
Thursday's draw only paired teams with their opponents but did not determine the dates of any of the games, so it's still unclear which teams will