Tottenham & Liverpool will avoid Turkish giants in Champions League after pot change
Besiktas were dealt a major Champions League boost without playing kick a ball last night.
Liverpool, Napoli, Dinamo Kiev, Ajax and Olympiakos were the sides could have determined which pot Besiktas will enter the group stages from.
All the clubs mentioned above wounded have qualified from Pot 3 had they made it past the playoff round.
The Black Eagles were promoted from Pot 3 to Pot 4 after Ajax and Dynamo Kiev crashed out of the qualification round.
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The Super Lig champions will enter the Champions League in Pot 3 for the first time in their history.
Liverpool will automatically enter Pot 3 if they make it past the playoff round.
The Reds could however, face Turkish league runners-up Basaksehir who are among the unseeded teams – Liverpool are seeded.
The current guaranteed pots are as follows:
Pot 1: Real Madrid, Bayern Münih, Juventus, Benfica, Chelsea, Shakhtar Donetsk, Monaco, Spartak Moscow
Pot 2: Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, PSG, Borussia Dortmund, Manchester City, Porto, Manchester United
Pot 3 (As things stand): Napoli, Tottenham, Basel, Olympiakos, Anderlecht, Liverpool, AS Roma, Besiktas
Pot 4 (As things stand): Celtic, CSKA Moscow, Copenhagen, Sporting Lisbon, APOEL, Feyenoord, Maribor, Leipzig
