Group H analysis: Madrid, Dortmund, Spurs, APOEL

Who's in Group G?

Real Madrid (ESP)
• UEFA coefficient ranking (end of 2016/17): 1
• How they qualified: holders/first in Spanish Liga
• Previous group stage campaigns: 21 (last appearance: 2016/17)
• Last season: UEFA Champions League winners
• Best European Cup performance: winners x 12 (1955/56, 1956/57, 1957/58, 1958/59, 1959/60, 1965/66, 1997/98, 1999/2000, 2001/02, 2013/14, 2015/16, 2016/17)

Borussia Dortmund (GER)
• UEFA coefficient ranking: 7
• How they qualified: third in German Bundesliga
• Previous group stage campaigns: 11 (last appearance: 2016/17)
• Last season: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals
• Best European Cup performance: winners x 1 (1996/97)

Tottenham Hotspur (ENG)
• UEFA coefficient ranking: 20
• How they qualified: second in English Premier League
• Previous group stage campaigns: 2 (last appearance: 2016/17)
• Last season: UEFA Champions League group stage/UEFA Europa League round of 32
• Best European Cup performance: semi-finals (1961/62)

APOEL (CYP)
• UEFA coefficient ranking: 82
• How they qualified: first in Cypriot First Division, play-off winners
• Previous group stage campaigns: 3 (last appearance: 2014/15)
• Last season: UEFA Champions League play-offs/UEFA Europa League round of 16
• Best European Cup performance: quarter-finals (2011/12)

Matchday one fixtures (Wednesday 13 September)
Real Madrid v APOEL
Tottenham Hotspur v Borussia Dortmund

• Every group stage fixture

Key facts

• This is the second year in a row that Madrid and Dortmund have played in the group stage – in 2016/17 the teams played out two 2-2 draws. The matchday six draw in Spain left Dortmund first in the group, eventual champions Madrid second.

• Madrid beat Dortmund in the 2013/14 quarter-finals (3-0 home, 0-2 away) having lost 4-3 on aggregate to the German club in the semi-finals the previous season (1-4 away, 2-0 home).

• Overall Madrid and Dortmund have met 12 times, Madrid winning four matches to Dortmund's three, with the remaining five draws.

• Madrid ended Tottenham's first UEFA Champions League campaign, winning 5-0 on aggregate in the 2010/11 quarter-finals.

• Gareth Bale made 146 Premier League appearances for Tottenham between 2007 and 2013, scoring 42 goals – including 21 in his final season in 2012/13, at the end of which he moved to Madrid.

• Dortmund eliminated Tottenham in the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League round of 16, winning the home first leg 3-0 before a 2-1 success in London.

• APOEL's odyssey to the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in 2011/12 was ended by Madrid, who won 3-0 in Cyprus and 5-2 in Spain.

• APOEL have never played Dortmund or Tottenham.