THE Champions League 2024-2025 It starts this Tuesday, September 17th with the dispute of the new championship phase which replaces the old group phase. It the real Madridwhich will premiere in Bernabeu against Stuttgart, is the current champion of a competition that has its new format with the participation of 36 teams, four more than in the last edition. The end of the Champions League It will be next Saturday, May 31 at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
THE Champions League begins a new one with a new competition format in which UEFA, in an attempt to imitate the Super League, bets on a regular league in which the top eight will be in the round of 16, from the 9th to the 24th they will play one the sixteenth eliminated and the others will be eliminated without the possibility of playing in the Europa League, something that has happened in recent years.
In this way, in the new Champions League Each of the 36 teams will play eight matches (two more than in previous editions) against two of the rivals from the four groups in which the UEFA distributed the clubs according to the coefficient of recent years. Each club will play four home games and four away games before starting the knockout phase, which will continue to be as we have known it in recent years.
Date and time of the Champions League final
THE Champions League This new edition begins this Monday, September 17, with the dispute of the first day of the group stage. The new phase of the Champions League will end on January 29 and between February 11 and 19, the preliminary round will be played, in which the teams from 9 to 24 will play the round of 16. The knockout phase will begin on March 4 and the qualifying rounds will continue until May 31, when the final will be played at Allianz Arena Munich. Key dates of the new Champions are as follows:
- Day 1: September 17-19, 2024
- Day 2: October 1-2, 2024
- Day 3: October 22-23, 2024
- Day 4: November 5-6, 2024
- Day 5: November 26-27, 2024
- Day 6: December 10-11, 2024
- Day 7: January 21-22, 2025
- 8th day (last phase of the championship): January 29, 2025
- Preliminary round first leg: February 11-12, 2025
- Preliminary round return: February 18-19, 2025
- Round of 16 first leg: March 4-5, 2025
- Round of 16 second leg: March 11-12, 2025
- Quarter-final first leg: April 8-9, 2025
- Quarter-finals return: April 15-16, 2025
- Semi-final first leg: April 29-30, 2025
- Semi-final second leg: May 6-7, 2025
- Champions Final: May 31, 2025
Champions League Final Venue: Country and Stadium
The end of the Champions League It will be played next Saturday, May 31 at the Allianz Arena, the stadium of the Bayern Munich. After Real Madrid managed to raise the London sky to Fourteenth European Cup, this season, the most important match of the season will be played in the Bavarian city.
He Allianz Arena It is located in the Fröttmaning district in the north of Munich and can accommodate just over 75,000 spectators. It was inaugurated on 5 May 2005 for the World Cup which was held in Germany in 2006. This stadium already hosted the most important match of the season at club level last year, in 2012, in which Chelsea beat Bayern on penalties. This will be the fourth time that the city of Munich will host the final of the Champions League after having been in 1997 and 1993.
UEFA has also confirmed the date of the final of the Champions League for the 2025-2026 season which will be played on Saturday, May 30, 2026 at the Puskas Arena in Budapest. As for 2027, the decision has been postponed until September, pending the presentation of information on the renovation projects of the San Siro stadium in Milan, the venue where Real Madrid won the Undécima after beating Atlético on penalties.
