The Champions League draw for the 2025/26 version of the competitors will schedule the preliminary eight matches for contributors.
Reigning French champions Paris Saint-Germain will defend the title they received for the primary time by beating Inter 5-0 within the 2024/25 remaining.
Reigning Premier League champions Liverpool and runners-up Arsenal will likely be joined by Manchester City, Chelsea, Newcastle and Tottenham because the six English groups within the draw.
Here’s what you might want to know concerning the Champions League draw, together with when it takes place, when future attracts are and the fixture schedule for 2024/25.
Table of Contents
- 1 When is the Champions League league section draw?
- 2 How to observe the Champions League draw: TV channel, stay stream
- 3 Champions League format
- 4 Champions League schedule, fixtures 2024/25
- 5 When is the Champions League knockout section?
- 6 When are the Champions League attracts?
- 7 English groups within the Champions League: Why are there six membership?
- 8 When is the Champions League remaining?
When is the Champions League league section draw?
The draw will happen on Thursday, August 28 – a day after the play-off ties come to a near resolve the final groups to qualify.
Timings for the draw have been but to be confirmed at the beginning of July.
How to observe the Champions League draw: TV channel, stay stream
The draw will likely be proven stay and free of charge on UEFA.com, in addition to on UEFA’s YouTube channel and BBC Sport’s website and that iPlayer.
TNT Sports will even broadcast the draw by way of Discovery+ and YouTube.
Champions League format
In a change from the earlier group stage format carried out till 2023/24, every workforce now performs eight matches within the league section, all in opposition to completely different opponents.
Four of these matches will likely be at dwelling and 4 away, with the opponents decided in accordance with 4 seeding pots cut up by rankings.
Teams will play two opponents from every of these pots – one in opposition to a workforce from every pot at dwelling and one away. The outcomes resolve the general standings in a single league.
The prime eight sides within the desk qualify mechanically for the spherical of 16. The groups ending in ninth to twenty fourth will compete in a two-legged knockout section play-off to achieve the final 16.
Teams ending twenty fifth or decrease are out of Europe for the season.
Champions League schedule, fixtures 2024/25
The league section runs till the top of January, with the play-offs in February and the remainder of the knockout stage earlier than the ultimate happening between March and early May.
Matchday 1: September 16-18 2025
Matchday 2: September 30 – October 1 2025
Matchday 3: October 21/22 2025
Matchday 4: November 4/5 2025
Matchday 5: November 25/26 2025
Matchday 6: December 9/10 2025
Matchday 7: January 20/21 2026
Matchday 8: January 28 2026
When is the Champions League knockout section?
Knockout section play-offs: February 17/18 & 24/25 2026
Round of 16: March 10/11 & 17/18 2026
Quarter-finals: April 7/8 & 14/15 2026
Semi-finals: April 28/29 and May 5/6 2026
Final: May 30 2026 (Budapest)
When are the Champions League attracts?
Third qualifying spherical: July 21 2025
Play-offs: August 4 2025
League section: August 28 2025
Knockout section play-offs: January 30 2026
Round of 16, quarter-final, semi-final and remaining: February 27 2026
English groups within the Champions League: Why are there six membership?
Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Newcastle all certified as the highest 5 groups within the Premier League.
There have been 5 locations for English groups as a result of additional positions are awarded primarily based on Uefa’s co-efficient rankings, that are primarily based on the general performances of countries throughout European competitors over a season.
Spurs certified as Europa League champions, regardless of dropping 22 and profitable solely 11 of their 2024/25 league video games and ending seventeenth.
When is the Champions League remaining?
The remaining will happen on May 30 2026 on the The Puskas Arena in Budapest, which opened in 2019 and is dwelling to Hungary’s nationwide workforce.
The enviornment hosted a dramatic 2022/23 Europa League remaining, when Sevilla beat Roma on penalties following a 1-1 draw after additional time.
