When does the Champions League 2025/26 take? History, time, league phase schedule, TV channels and live flow

For the participants of the Champions League for 2025/26, the competition will determine eight matches for participants.

French champions Paris Saint-Germain will defend the title for the first time by defeating 5-0 in the 2024/25 final.

Premier League Champions will participate in Liverpool and Runners-Up Arsenal, Chelsea, Newcastle and Tottenham 6 English teams.

That’s what you need to know about Champions League When it comes to when the future is incoming, including when they are included in the form of an armature for 2024/25.

When is the stage of the Champions League?

The lottery will take place on Thursday, August 28 – a day after the play-off ties, the latest teams were approached.

Times are not yet endorsed in early July.

How to follow the drawing of the Champions League: TV channel, live flow

The lottery will be displayed vibrant and free Uefa.comAs well as UEFA’s YouTube channel and BBC SPORT website And the iPlayer.

TNT Sports will also broadcast the draw Discover + and YouTube.

Champions League format

Until 2023/24, each team plays eight matches against different opponents, each team, in a change in the previous group stage.

Four of these matches will be at home and four, and set by rivals by ratings were determined by four sown pots.

The teams will play two opponents from each of these dishes – they will play against a team against a team from anyone in the house and one. The results decide the common situations in a league.

The best eight sides on the table automatically adapt to the 16th round. Teams that end in the ninth period will compete with the play-off of the two-legged Nokaut phase to reach the last 16.

Teams that are 25 or lower are left out of Europe for the season.

Champions League schedule, fixtures 2024/25

The league phase runs through the finals before the end of March in February until the end of January, in February.

Matchday 1: 16-18 September 2025
Matchday 2: September 30 – October 1, 2025
In the 3rd match: October 21-22 2025
Matchday 4: November 4/5 2025
Matchday 5: November 25, 2025
Matchday 6: December 9/10 2025
Matchday 7: 20/21 January 2026
Matchday 8: 28 January 2026

When is the Champions League Nokaut stage?

Knockout phase Play-offs: 17/18 February and 24/25 2026
16 rounds: 10/11 and 17/18 2026
To the quarterfinals: 7/8 April & 14/15 2026
Semifinal: 28/29 April and 5/6 in May 2026
FINAL: 30 May 2026 (Budapest)

When does the Champions League take?

Third qualifying phase: 21 July 2025
Play-offs: 4 August 2025
League stage: 28 August 2025
Knockout phase Play-offs: January 30, 2026
16, round the final, semifinal and round to the final: 27 February 2026

English teams in the Champions League: Why are there six clubs?

Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Newcastle were elected as the first five teams in the Premier League.

There were five places for British teams, because additional positions are based on UEFA’s trade-winning ratings based on common performances of the people in Europe in Europe.

Spurs like Europa League Despite the champions, 22 lost, only 11 of the 2024/25 league matches were 17th.

When is the end of the Champions League?

The final was held on May 30, 2026 in 2019 in the Puskas Arena in Budapest and the Hungarian National Team.

Arena, dramatically 2022/23 Europa League final, Sevilla, after the 1-1 draw after additional time, when the penalty was defeated by Rome.