The UEFA Champions League has a brand new expanded format for the 2024-25 season and it takes some explaining, but we’re to help you understand it all below.
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36 sides entered into the new “league phase,” and now there are 24 remaining. 8 have already gone through to the round of 16, while sides finishing 9th through 24th are headed to the first knockout round — the playoff.
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Things are also a little different this year in that eliminated Champions League sides don’t transfer to the Europa League any longer.
Full schedule, dates and times can be found here via UEFA.com
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Wednesday, January 29
Aston Villa 4-2 Celtic — Recap, highlights & analysis
Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 Sparta Prague
Borussia Dortmund 3-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Young Boys 0-1 Red Star Belgrade
Barcelona 2-2 Atalanta
Bayern Munich 3-1 Slovan Bratislava
Inter Milan 3-0 Monaco
RB Salzburg 1-4 Atletico Madrid
Girona 1-2 Arsenal
Dinamo Zagreb 2-1 AC Milan
Juventus 0-2 Benfica
Lille 6-1 Feyenoord
Manchester City 3-1 Club Brugge Recap, highlights & analysis
PSV Eindhoven 3-2 Liverpool
Sturm Graz 1-0 RB Leipzig
Sporting Lisbon 1-1 Bologna
Brest 0-3 Real Madrid
Stuttgart 1-4 PSG
Tuesday, September 16
Young Boys 0-3 Aston Villa
Juventus 3-1 PSV Eindhoven
AC Milan 1-3 Liverpool – Highlights, recap & analysis
Bayern Munich 9-2 Dinamo Zagreb
Real Madrid 3-1 Stuttgart
Sporting Lisbon 2-0 Lille
Wednesday, September 17
Sparta Prague 3-0 RB Salzburg
Bologna 0-0 Shakhtar Donetsk
Celtic 5-1 Slovan Bratislava
Club Brugge 0-3 Borussia Dortmund
Manchester City 0-0 Inter Milan — Recap & analysis
PSG 1-0 Girona
Thursday, September 18
Feyenoord 0-4 Bayer Leverkusen
Red Star Belgrade 1-2 Benfica
Monaco 1-2 Barcelona
Atalanta 0-0 Arsenal — Recap & analysis
Atletico Madrid 2-1 RB Leipzig
Brest 2-1 Sturm Graz
Tuesday, October 1
RB Salzburg 0-4 Brest
Stuttgart 1-1 Sparta Prague
Arsenal 2-0 PSG — Highlights & recap
Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 AC Milan
Borussia Dortmund 7-1 Celtic
Barcelona 5-0 Young Boys
Inter Milan 4-0 Red Star Belgrade
PSV Eindhoven 1-1 Sporting Lisbon
Slovan Bratislava 0-4 Manchester City
Wednesday, October 2
Shakhtar Donetsk 0-3 Atalanta
Girona 2-3 Feyenoord
Aston Villa 1-0 Bayern Munich — Highlights & recap
Dinamo Zagreb 2-2 Monaco
Lille 1-0 Real Madrid
Liverpool 2-0 Bologna — Salah scores superb, historic goal
RB Leipzig 2-3 Juventus
Sturm Graz 0-1 Club Brugge
Benfica 4-0 Atletico Madrid
Tuesday, October 22
Milan 3-1 Club Brugge
Monaco 5-1 Red Star Belgrade
Arsenal 1-0 Shakhtar Donetsk — Highlights & recap
Aston Villa 2-0 Bologna
Girona 2-0 Slovan Bratislava
Juventus 0-1 Stuttgart
PSG 1-1 PSV Eindhoven
Real Madrid 5-2 Borussia Dortmund
Sturm Graz 0-2 Sporting Lisbon
Wednesday, October 23
Atalanta 0-0 Celtic
Brest 1-1 Bayer Leverkusen
Atletico Madrid 1-3 Lille
Young Boys 0-1 Inter Milan
Barcelona 4-1 Bayern Munich
Salzburg 0-2 Dinamo Zagreb
Manchester City 5-0 Sparta Prague — Haaland scores unique, acrobatic goal
RB Leipzig 0-1 Liverpool — Highlights & recap
Benfica 1-3 Feyenoord
Tuesday, November 5
PSV Eindhoven 4-0 Girona
Slovan Bratislava 1-4 Dinamo Zagreb
Bologna 0-1 Monaco
Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Sturm Graz
Celtic 3-1 Leipzig
Liverpool 4-0 Bayer Leverkusen — Recap & highlights
Lille 1-1 Juventus
Real Madrid 1-3 AC Milan
Sporting Lisbon 4-1 Manchester City — What we learned about Manchester United’s next manager
Wednesday, November 6
Club Brugge 1-0 Aston Villa
Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 Young Boys
Sparta Prague 1-2 Brest
Bayern Munich 1-0 Benfica
Inter Milan 1-0 Arsenal — Recap, analysis & highlights | Arteta upset by penalty
Feyenoord 1-3 RB Salzburg
Red Star Belgrade 2-5 Barcelona
PSG 1-2 Atletico Madrid
Stuttgart 0-2 Atalanta
Tuesday, November 26
Sparta Prague 0-6 Atletico Madrid
Slovan Bratislava 2-3 AC Milan
Bayer Leverkusen 5-0 RB Salzburg
Young Boys 1-6 Atalanta
Barcelona 3-0 Brest
Bayern Munich 1-0 PSG
Inter Milan 1-0 RB Leipzig
Manchester City 3-3 Feyenoord – Highlights, recap & analysis
Sporting Lisbon 1-5 Arsenal – Highlights, recap & analysis
Wednesday, November 27
Red Star Belgrade 5-1 Stuttgart
Sturm Graz 1-0 Girona
Monaco 2-3 Benfica
Aston Villa 0-0 Juventus – Highlights, recap & analysis
Bologna 1-2 Lille
Celtic 1-1 Club Brugge
Dinamo Zagreb 0-3 Borussia Dortmund
Liverpool 2-0 Real Madrid – Highlights, recap & analysis
PSV Eindhoven 3-2 Shakhtar Donetsk
Tuesday December 10
Girona 0-1 Liverpool — Highlights & recap
Dinamo Zagreb 0-0 Celtic
Atalanta 2-3 Real Madrid
Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 Inter Milan
Club Brugge 2-1 Sporting Lisbon
Salzburg 0-3 PSG
Shakhtar Donetsk 1-5 Bayern Munich
RB Leipzig 2-3 Aston Villa
Brest 1-0 PSV Eindhoven
Wednesday, December 11
Atletico Madrid 3-1 Slovan Bratislava
Lille 3-2 Sturm Graz
AC Milan 2-1 Red Star Belgrade
Arsenal 3-0 Monaco — Highlights & recap
Borussia Dortmund 2-3 Barcelona
Feyenoord 4-2 Sparta Prague
Juventus 2-0 Manchester City — Highlights & recap | Weah, McKennie team up
Benfica 0-0 Bologna
Stuttgart 5-1 Young Boys
Tuesday, January 21
Monaco 1-0 Aston Villa
Atalanta 5-0 Sturm Graz
Atletico Madrid 2-1 Bayer Leverkusen
Bologna 2-1 Borussia Dortmund
Club Brugge 0-0 Juventus
Red Star Belgrade 2-3 PSV Eindhoven
Liverpool 2-1 Lille — Recap, highlights & analysis
Slovan Bratislava 1-3 Stuttgart
Benfica 4-5 Barcelona
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Wednesday, January 22
Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Brest
RB Leipzig 2-1 Sporting Lisbon
AC Milan 1-0 Girona
Sparta Prague 0-1 Inter Milan
Arsenal 3-0 Dinamo Zagreb — Highlights, recap & analysis
Celtic 1-0 Young Boys
Feyenoord 3-0 Bayern Munich
PSG 4-2 Manchester City — Highlights, recap & analysis
Real Madrid 5-1 RB Salzburg
The draw for the Champions League group stage took place at 12pm ET on Thursday, August 29 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
Each team will play eight games in the new league phase of the tournament, against eight different teams. Four games at home and four away.
Teams will be ranked in to one of four pots (full pot list below) and each team will play against two teams from each of the four pots. Teams will play one match at home and one match away against a team from each pot.
The top eight teams in the league phase will qualify for the Round of 16 automatically, while the teams who finish in positions 9-24 will qualify for the knockout round. Teams who finish in positions 25-36 will be eliminated from the Champions League and will not play in any other European competition for the rest of the 2024-25 season.
The eight teams who advance from the knockout round will then face one of the teams who finished in positions 1-8 in the league phase in the Round of 16, and from then on the tournament will be a normal knockout format.
An extra knockout round has been created, as the teams who finish in spots 9-24 in the league phase will play two-legged ties to reach the Round of 16 where they will face one of the top eight teams from the league phase who qualified automatically for the Round of 16.
The Champions League final will take place at the Allianz Arena in Munich on May 31, 2025.
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