UEFA Champions League: Group A analysis

Key players, top signings, ones to watch and more: all you need to know about the four Group A teams in the 2023/24 group stage.

The line-up for the 2023/24 Uefa Champions League features 15 domestic title holders and 14 former European champions. Uefa.com profiled all the contenders after the group stage draw.

Group A

Bayern München (GER)

Uefa coefficient ranking: 2

How they qualified: German champions

Last season: Quarterfinals (L1-4agg v Man City)

Best European Cup performance: Winners (1973/74, 1974/75, 1975/76, 2000/01, 2012/13, 2019/20)

Top Fantasy Football points-scorer last season: Leon Goretzka 50

Coach: Thomas Tuchel

Impressed with Mainz and Dortmund before leading Paris to a domestic treble and Champions League final in 2019/20. Took over at Chelsea in January 2021 and led them to victory in the Champions League final in a matter of months. Returned to Germany with Bayern in March this year and steered them home in the title race.

Key player: Jamal Musiala

The 20-year-old has established himself as one of the first names on the team sheet with performances displaying a maturity beyond his years, not least when scoring the late winner that sealed another Bundesliga title on the final day. A delightful dribbler, a productive playmaker and an efficient goalscorer, 'Magic Musiala' has more than a few shades of a young Lionel Messi.

Big summer signing: Harry Kane

The England captain established himself as one of the best forwards in the world during his time with boyhood club Tottenham and is their all-time top scorer with 280 goals in all competitions. Twenty-one of those came in the Champions League for the north Londoners, and Kane will be keen to add plenty more to that tally at Bayern, though