2025/26 Champions League League Phase Draw: Pots, How It Works, Format, Rules, and Conditions
The UEFA Champions League now features 36 teams playing eight matches each in a new league phase, expanding matchdays to 10 midweeks and altering knockout qualifications.
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Photo: UEFA The UEFA Champions League 2025-26, in its 71st edition, arrives with a renewed league format that includes 36 clubs facing epic duels. This season, which starts soon, brings with it a vibrant calendar and high caliber clashes. Next, we tell you when to start, where to see it in Mexico, how the outstanding matches remained and who is the current champion. When does the Champions League 2025-26 start? UEFA Champions League 2025-26 star…
The most important club tournament in Europe will return with changes in its rules from this season, which starts on 16 September.
The big change in Champions League's rules this year after Barça and Arsenal complained
UEFA Champions League changed its format completely last year, with the debut of a League Phase instead of Group stage, that allowed more teams to participate (36 teams in total), increased the number of matches (eight during the league phase instead of six) and even added an extra play-off round for teams that ended the league phase between 9 and 24. The format remains the same this year except for one key thing, that has been modified after s…
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