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- City will play an away match at Norwegian champion Bodo/Glimt on Jan. 20
- Pep Guardiola and his team of mega-stars will face harsh temperatures at the 8,000-capacity Aspmyra stadium
NYON: Manchester City face a trip north of the Arctic Circle in the middle of the European winter after the dates of this season鈥檚 Champions League games were published on Saturday.
City will play an away match at Norwegian champion Bodo/Glimt on Jan. 20, meaning Pep Guardiola and his team of mega-stars will face harsh temperatures at the 8,000-capacity Aspmyra stadium 鈥� a venue farther north than soccer鈥檚 top club competition has ever been.
Bodo/Glimt are a tournament debutant like Kazakhstan鈥檚 Kairat Almaty, whose first-ever Champions League match 鈥� at Sporting Lisbon 鈥� is the longest away trip in the competition鈥檚 history.
Kairat will have to travel across three time zones and more than 6,500 kilometers (4,000 miles) to Lisbon from Almaty, near Kazakhstan鈥檚 border with China, for the Sept. 18 game on the Champions League鈥檚 first matchday.
Almaty can have temperatures as low as minus-20 C (minus-4 F) in January 鈥� chillier even than Bodo/Glimt 鈥� so Club Brugge鈥檚 visit to Kairat on Jan. 20 could be the coldest game in Champions League history.
Paris Saint-Germain open the defense of their title at home to Atalanta on Sept. 17.
Kevin De Bruyne won鈥檛 have long to wait before his match against Man City, his former long-time club. He will make his return to Etihad Stadium on Sept. 18.