The list of clubs joining Chelsea as automatic qualifiers for next season's Champions League is now complete, apart from uncertainty over a place for Dan Petrescu's FC Unirea.

The final round of matches in Romania is on Wednesday and the side managed by the former Chelsea favourite is four points clear of Dinamo Bucharest and eight ahead of third-placed FC Timisoara. However Timisoara's total does not include six points deducted for a kit irregularity earlier in the season.

That penalty has been challenged in the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the verdict was due before this week's games. However it has been postponed so there remains an outside chance Petrescu and his players may yet end as runners-up rather than top, a position that is rewarded with a place in the Champions League qualification round rather than an automatic group spot.

However he Court decision becomes irrelevant if Unirea avoid defeat on Wednesday at home to Steaua Burcharest or Timisoara fail to win.

Petrescu was the first overseas player to make 200 appearances for Chelsea and this is his second season in charge of a club that only entered the Romanian top flight for the first time in 2006 and has the smallest average gates there.

Chelsea's Champions League group opponents in the season just completed, CFR Cluj, are fourth.

Since Chelseafc.com's last round up of the Champions League qualification standings in mid-May, the third team in Spain to automatically make the group stage with Barcelona and Real Madrid has been determined as Sevilla. Atlético Madrid must try their luck in the strengthened qualification round having edged out Villarreal.

The fact that AC Milan made the group stage is not news to Chelsea fans, seeing as it was the last achievement by Carlo Ancelotti before announcing his new life in London. Milan finished third in Serie A with the other group stage qualifiers being champions Inter and runners-up Juventus, who disposed of Claudio Ranieri's services after a record run without a victory and then won their last two games.

Fiorentina can still make the group stage but must do it through the qualifiers.

Bordeaux were the eventual champions in France which might be a surprise to anyone whose only sighting of Laurent Blanc's side last season was their 4-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge. Bordeaux won their final 11 league games, a French record for consecutive victories.

Marseille, opponents of Chelsea in our first Champions League campaign a decade ago, also make the group stage and will have a new manager - Didier Deschamps, a former Marseille captain who was with Chelsea in 1999/00 European campaign.

Lyon are finally off their perch and need to qualify having finished an unfamiliar third.

Germany, like France, receive two group places automatically and one qualifier spot.First-time champions Wolfsburg will also enter the group stage with new coach, Felix Magath moving on to Schalke.

Bayern Munich are the second team through having recovered form following the sacking of Jürgen Klinsmann. Stuttgart are the team that now needs to win a two-legged qualifier.

The story from Russia, Portugal and the Netherlands was known for our last round-up.

Rubin Kazan, first-time champions from outside the capital, and CSKA Moscow will be in the group stage draw. Dinamo Moscow need to qualify.

Porto are Portugal's automatic group stage team with Sporting Lisbon into the qualifiers. Champions AZ Alkmaar are in the Dutch group stage team, although they have lost manager Louis van Gaal to Bayern Munich. Ronald Koeman takes over.

FC Twente, managed by Steve McClaren, are the second-placed team who enter the qualifiers. It is the first time in 50 years that none of the traditional big three in Holland made the top two places.

By beating Celtic to the Scottish title, Rangers also beat their big rivals to the one automatic group place, although Celtic do have the qualifier high road available to them.

Besiktas, another of Chelsea's Champions League opponents from the past, will be in the group draw from Turkey with the less well-known Sivasspor in the qualifiers.

A similar split in Ukraine sees Dinamo Kiev an automatic entrant and Uefa Cup winners Shakhtar Donetsk playing the qualification round. In Belgium it is Standard Liège ahead of Anderlecht.

And there the automatic group places end. The best sides in other leagues must take a chance in the qualification rounds.

There are changes to the qualification regulations this coming season as Uefa aims to increase the spread of countries with representation in the group stage. Click here to read more details.