It’s nearly time for the UEFA Champions League draw with the 2024-25 season’s league section set to be selected Thursday, Aug. 29. The UCL format has modified so we’ve damaged down all the pieces that you could count on from the new-look European prime tier competitors. Defending champions Actual Madrid have already began the brand new marketing campaign with continental silverware within the UEFA Tremendous Cup, however who will they face as they try their title protection with new boy Kylian Mbappe?
Right here is how the street to the UCL last at Allianz Area in Munich on Might 31, 2025, might be mapped out.
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UCL playoffs for league section berths
- Bodo/Glimt or Pink Star Belgrade (2-1 after leg one)
- Lille or Slavia Praha (2-0 after leg one)
- Dinamo Zagreb or Qarabag FK (3-0 after leg one)
- Younger Boys or Galatasaray (3-2 after leg one)
- Midtjylland or Slovan Bratislava (1-1 after leg one)
- Dynamo Kyiv or RB Salzburg (0-2 after leg one)
- Malmo or Sparta Praha (0-2 after leg one)
What’s the UCL league section?
The group stage as we knew it’s now gone. As a substitute, every workforce that reaches the brand new league section will face eight totally different opponents. 4 of those video games might be performed at house and the opposite 4 will happen away and the section lasts for longer than the earlier group stage with the eighth and last spherical of video games slated for late January regardless of the common late December break. The groups are break up into 4 pots and every workforce will play towards two groups from every of these pots. One house recreation and one away recreation towards a workforce from every of these pots will make up the fixture checklist. The highest eight groups within the desk will qualify straight for the spherical of 16 with the groups ranked from ninth to twenty fourth will go into the knockout spherical. These ending twenty fifth and beneath might be eradicated from Europe and won’t drop into the UEFA Europa League. The eight knockout spherical winners will then face the highest eight groups within the spherical of 16 earlier than the Champions League returns to its recognizable knockout format from the quarterfinals onwards.
UCL league section pots
- Pot 1: Actual Madrid (titleholders), Manchester Metropolis, Bayern Munich, PSG, Liverpool, Inter, Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig and Barcelona.
- Pot 2: Bayer Leverkusen, Atletico Madrid, Atalanta, Juventus, Benfica, Arsenal, Membership Brugge, Shakhtar Donetsk and Milan.
- Pot 3: Feyenoord, Sporting CP, PSV Eindhoven, Younger Boys or Galatasaray, Dinamo Zagreb or Qarabag FK and Lille or Slavia Praha.
- Pot 3 or Pot 4: Midtjylland or Slovan Bratislava, Bodo/Glimt or Pink Star Belgrade and Dynamo Kiev or RB Salzburg.
- Pot 4: Monaco, Aston Villa, Bologna, Girona, Stuttgart, Sturm Graz, Brest and Malmo or Sparta Praha.
UCL league section dates
- Recreation 1: Sept. 17-19
- Recreation 2: Oct. 1-2
- Recreation 3: Oct. 22-23
- Recreation 4: Nov. 5-6
- Recreation 5: Nov. 26-27
- Recreation 6: Dec. 10-11
- Recreation 7: Jan. 21-22 (2025)
- Recreation 8: Jan. 29 (2025)
UCL knockout section dates
- Knockout spherical playoffs: Feb. 11-12 and 18-19 (2025)
- Spherical of 16: March 4-5 and 11-12
- Quarterfinals: April 8-9 and 15-16
- Semifinals: April 29-30 and Might 6-7
- Closing: Might 31
