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live Updated 8m ago Champions League today Fixtures: 5:45pm BST/12:45pm EDT/9:45am PDT Bologna vs Shakhtar Donetsk Sparta Prague vs Salzburg 8pm BST/3pm EDT/12pm PDT Celtic vs Slovan Bratislava Club Brugge vs Dortmund Manchester City vs Inter PSG vs Girona US Streaming: Fubo (Try for free) Subscribe to The Athletic on an exclusive offer here. A quick-fire guide to what’s new Getty Images You may well have heard that the Champions League is different from this season onwards, but been short on time to find out how. Therefore, let me bring you a quick-fire guide: Rather than it starting with lots of small groups, there is now one big league phase with all 36 clubs in it.
Each team plays eight games, four at home and four away). The top eight will qualify for the knockout stage. The 16 teams below them will have a two-legged play-off to join them in the round of 16.
That’s basically it! All the teams in the league have been split into tiers, to make sure the difficulty of their eight games are spread evenly across opponents of varying quality. As you’ll see scrolling down the feed, we’ve already got some scores on the doors with last night’s results — which we’ll reflect more on shortly — and tonight’s games will feed into that overnight picture. Advertisement Bring on this season’s first Champions League Wednesday Getty Images Hello and welcome again to our live coverage of matchday one from this season’s Champions League — and specifically, our second night of action from across Europe.
It’s early days but there was certainly a different feel to the games yesterday, as the Champions League settles into its new league phase that has replaced the previous group stage. Don’t worry if you’re yet to get up to speed on what that means and how things look; we’ll cover all that off over the coming hours. We’ll also bring you the key notes and gems from last night’s curtain-raisers, as well as looking ahead to the games on the way tonight.
Then once the games are up and running, we’ll keep you fully up to date on the action on the pitch too. So in short, don’t go anywhere. We’ve got you covered from here.
The teams propping up the table No one ever wants to see their team at the wrong end of the table, but there is plenty of football still to be played by these teams in the league phase. They have seven more matches to turn their fortunes around. Dinamo Zagreb, in particularly, have a lot of work to do to overturn the crippling hit to their goal difference from last night's defeat in Munich.
The early Champions League frontrunners Those results last night mean that Bayern Munich lead the way after day one and I think we're safe to assume that they will still be top once today and tomorrow's matches have been played. What a start for Aston Villa after 41 years of being away from the top table of European football. Yesterday's Champions League results Getty Images As I mentioned, we were treated to a feast of goals in the Champions League last evening.
The two early matches set the standard before a glut of goalmouth action in the four late matches, particularly the one in Bavaria where Harry Kane scored four goals in Bayern Munich's rout of Dinamo Zagreb. Juventus 3-1 PSV (Yildiz, McKennie, Gonzalez; Saibari) Young Boys 0-3 Aston Villa (Tielemans, Ramsey, Onana) Milan 1-3 Liverpool (Pulisic; Konate, Van Dijk, Szoboszlai) Bayern Munich 9-2 Dinamo Zagreb (Kane x4, Guerreiro, Olise x2, Sane, Goretzka; Petkovic, Ogiwara) Real Madrid 3-1 Stuttgart (Mbappe, Rudiger, Endrick; Undav) Sporting CP 2-0 Lille (Gyokeres, Debast) And what about tomorrow? Getty Images While we don't want to wish away today's action too quickly, let's also take a look at what is on tomorrow's menu. A rare Thursday of Champions League action looks like this: 5:45pm BST/12:45pm EDT/9:45am PDT Feyenoord vs Bayer Leverkusen Red Star Belgrade vs Benfica 8pm BST/3pm EDT/12pm PDT Atalanta vs Arsenal Atletico Madrid vs RB Leipzig Brest vs Sturm Graz Monaco vs Barcelona Advertisement Today's fixtures Getty Images Six more Champions League matches to tuck into today.
Up first is these two: 5:45pm BST/12:45pm EDT/9:45am PDT Bologna vs Shakhtar Donetsk Sparta Prague vs Salzburg Then these four afterwards, including a repeat of the 2023 final: 8pm BST/3pm EDT/12pm PDT Celtic vs Slovan Bratislava Club Brugge vs Dortmund Manchester City vs Inter PSG vs Girona Subscribe to The Athletic If you're a sports fan, then there is no better place to follow all your favorite teams, leagues and players than on The Athletic . Whether you want the latest news and in-depth coverage from the upcoming NFL season, the Premier League campaign, or the upcoming NBA season, we've got you covered. And you're in luck — you can subscribe to The Athletic on an exclusive offer here .
How to watch the Champions League today Getty Images Here's how you can tune in to the action on TV today: US : Paramount+, CBS, Fubo UK : TNT Sports, Discovery+ Canada : DAZN Canada Australia : Stan Sport What time does today's Champions League action start? Getty Images You're in luck as today's games get underway nice and early. The first two matches kick off at 5:45pm BST/12:45pm EDT/9:45am PDT and the four later matches start at 8pm BST/3pm EDT/12pm PDT. Welcome to our Champions League coverage! Hello and welcome back to our coverage of the UEFA Champions League! We were treated to a pulsating evening of action yesterday and Europe's elite are back to do it all over again today for day two of the opening game week of the 2024-25 Champions League campaign.
Throughout the course of the day, we will be taking a look back at last night's action while previewing the six matches coming up later on. Don't go anywhere!.
