Here’s the full fixture list for the Champions League group stages

“It’s good for Pep because he knows Borussia very well from his time at Bayern and Barcelona as well so we will see”, City’s Director of Football Txiki Begiristain said.

Barca and City were drawn in Group C alongside Borussia Moenchengladbach and former European champions Celtic, with recent history clearly favouring the Catalans.

The London side will begin their campaign against Monaco on Wednesday September 14 at Wembley stadium. The 31-year-old, who won Euro 2016 with Portugal in July as well as last season’s Champions League with his club, took the prize ahead of Real teammate Gareth Bale and Atletico’s Antoine Griezmann. “It is an wonderful competition, an fantastic group”.

Yet there was no doubting the most eye-catching group, with Guardiola given a trip back to the Nou Camp.

City, who visit the Nou Camp on October 19, met Barca in the round of 16 in 2013-14 and 2014-15 and lost both legs on each occasion.

Celtic failed to qualify for the group stage in the previous two years and will be relishing the prospect of a “Battle of Britain” and a visit to a raucous Celtic Park in particular promises to be an intimidating game for Guardiola’s side.

Celtic have hardly been impressive in reaching the group stage – losing 1-0 to Gibraltarian part-timers Lincoln Red Imps before winning the return leg 3-0 in Scotland.

Neither team has ever won the European Cup but PSG reached the quarterfinals in the last four seasons. The seeding system meant they avoided numerous bigger sides and they may harbour realistic hopes of progress. “We are certainly looking forward to playing on this stage and this platform and we look forward to the games coming to Leicester”.

The Spanish champions beat City at the last-16 stage in both 2014 and 2015 while goalkeeper Claudio Bravo has just completed a move from Barca to Guardiola’s new side.

With only nine of 46 Champions League debutants making it through the group stages since the 2003-04 season, Leicester must buck the trend to remain in the competition beyond the turn of the year, but Claudio Ranieri’s team will not be daunted having avoided the more hard opponents in Pots Two, Three and Four.

“It was nice to avoid those teams, in particular, and I think on reflection we are reasonably pleased with that draw”.

And Tottenham, despite having been forced to stage their home games at Wembley due to construction work at White Hart Lane, will be confident of navigating their way through a group containing CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen and AS Monaco.

Holders Real Madrid face Borussia Dortmund, Portuguese league runners-up Sporting Lisbon and Legia Warsaw, who qualified after beating Ireland’s Dundalk in a play-off this week. Matches against Real are becoming classics for Dortmund.

“It would be unbelievable to experience a Champions League final in Cardiff”, Bale said. The Foals will also face Scottish champions Celtic in group C.