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For the next stage, the 16 teams were drawn into 8 ties (C1–C8), with the groups from Pot 1 hosting the next leg. Teams in the same Affiliation couldn't be drawn to the same tie, excluding the 3 winners of the 1st stage, which had been seeded in Pot 2 and whose id was not acknowledged at the time in the draw, and could be drawn into the very same