For Bayern, who had won every game they had played in 2025 before this first leg, the highlight was undoubtably just before ...

Ahead of a crucial week of action The Athletic examines the teams who stand the best chance of progressing in the Champions ...

The Champions League has a new format for 2024-25. Forget group tables, instead we saw a 36-team league stage being contested from September through to January. But now that has been completed ...

The first Champions League match to be affected by the rule change was a 2021/22 first qualifying round matchup between Welsh club Connah's Quay Nomads and Armenian side Alashkert, who went to ...

Like Messi, he has scored eight Champions League hat-tricks. Messi left Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain in the summer of 2021 having scored ... the Bavarian club in 2020, and though he did ...

The last 16 of this year's Champions League is already under way and with the Premier League home straight also now in sight, thoughts are turning to qualifying for next year's tournament.

Who will win the first revamped Champions League format? The first ever playoff ties have wrapped up, which saw Real Madrid eliminate Manchester City behind Kylian Mbappe's hat-trick, while Serie ...

Sam Kerr last played for Chelsea in December 2023 before suffering a knee injury Chelsea have included injured forward Sam Kerr in their 25-player squad for the Champions League knockout stages.