2024–25 UEFA Champions League league phase

The 2024–25 UEFA Champions League league phase will begin on 17 September 2024 and end on 29 January 2025. A total of 36 teams will compete in the league phase to decide the 24 places in the knockout phase of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League.

Aston Villa, Bologna, Brest, Girona and Slovan Bratislava will make their debut appearances since the introduction of the group stage. Brest and Girona will also make their debut appearances in European football. A total of 16 national associations will be represented in the league phase.

This will be the first season with the single-league format, which replaces the group format used until the previous season.^[1] With the format change, the number of matches prior to the knockout phase will increase from 96 to 144.

Format

Each team will play eight matches, four at home and four away, against eight different opponents, with all 36 teams ranked in a single league table. Teams will be separated into four pots based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients, and each team will play two teams from each of the four pots – one at home and one away. The top eight ranked teams will receive a bye to the round of 16. The teams ranked from 9th to 24th will contest the knockout phase play-offs, with the teams ranked from 9th to 16th seeded for the draw. Teams ranked from 25th to 36th are eliminated from all competitions, with no access to the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League.

Tiebreakers

Teams will be ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points upon completion of the league phase, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine their rankings:^[2]

Goal difference;
Goals scored;
Away goals scored;
Wins;
Away wins;
Higher number of points obtained collectively by league phase opponents;
Superior collective goal difference of league phase opponents;
Higher number of goals scored collectively by league phase opponents;
Lower disciplinary points total (direct red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA club coefficient.

Teams and seeding

The 36 teams were divided into four pots of nine teams each, with the Champions League title holders automatically placed as the top seed of pot 1.^[3] All remaining teams were allocated to pots based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients.^[4] The participants include:

29 teams which entered at this stage
7 winners of the play-off round (5 from the Champions Path, 2 from the League Path)

Key to colours
Teams ranked 1 to 8 advance to the round of 16 as a seeded team
Teams ranked 9 to 16 advance to the knockout phase play-offs as a seeded team
Teams ranked 17 to 24 advance to the knockout phase play-offs as an unseeded team

Pot 1
Team	Notes	Coeff.
Real Madrid	^[TH]	136.000
Manchester City		148.000
Bayern Munich		144.000
Paris Saint-Germain		116.000
Liverpool		114.000
Inter Milan		101.000
Borussia Dortmund		97.000
RB Leipzig		97.000
Barcelona		91.000

Pot 2
Team	Notes	Coeff.
Bayer Leverkusen		90.000
Atlético Madrid		89.000
Atalanta	^[EL]	81.000
Juventus		80.000
Benfica		79.000
Arsenal		72.000
Club Brugge		64.000
Shakhtar Donetsk		63.000
Milan		59.000

Pot 3
Team	Notes	Coeff.
Feyenoord		57.000
Sporting CP		54.500
PSV Eindhoven		54.000
Dinamo Zagreb	^[CP]	50.000
Red Bull Salzburg	^[LP]	50.000
Lille	^[LP]	47.000
Red Star Belgrade	^[CP]	40.000
Young Boys	^[CP]	34.500
Celtic		32.000

Pot 4
Team	Notes	Coeff.
Slovan Bratislava	^[CP]	30.500
Monaco		24.000
Sparta Prague	^[CP]	22.500
Aston Villa		20.860
Bologna		18.056
Girona		17.897
VfB Stuttgart		17.324
Sturm Graz		14.500
Brest		13.366

Notes

^TH Champions League title holders (automatic top seed of pot 1)
^EL Europa League title holders
^CP Winners of the play-off round (Champions Path)
^LP Winners of play-off round (League Path)

Draw

The draw for the league phase pairings was held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on 29 August 2024, 18:00 CEST.^[5]^[6]^[7] All 36 teams were manually drawn using physical balls. For every team manually drawn, automated software digitally drew their opponents at random, determining which of their matches were at home and which ones away. Each team will face two opponents from each of the four pots, one of which they will face at home and one away. Teams could not face opponents from their own association, and could only be drawn against a maximum of two sides from the same association. The draw started with Pot 1, assigning opponents to all teams, one after the other, and continued with the other pots in descending order until all teams were assigned their opponents.^[8]^[9]^[10]

The switch to a primarily computer-based draw was made due to issues with the complexity and duration required by a manual draw.^[11] The draw software, developed by AE Live, guaranteed total randomness within the framework of the draw conditions and prevented any deadlock situations. The software was reviewed by external auditor Ernst & Young, which also provided review and control of the manual and digital draw operations on-site.^[8]

League phase opponents by club^[12]
Club	Pot 1 opponents		Pot 2 opponents		Pot 3 opponents		Pot 4 opponents		Avg coeff.
Club	Home	Away	Home	Away	Home	Away	Home	Away	Avg coeff.
Real Madrid	Borussia Dortmund	Liverpool	Milan	Atalanta	Red Bull Salzburg	Lille	VfB Stuttgart	Brest	59.8
Manchester City	Inter Milan	Paris Saint-Germain	Club Brugge	Juventus	Feyenoord	Sporting CP	Sparta Prague	Slovan Bratislava	65.7
Bayern Munich	Paris Saint-Germain	Barcelona	Benfica	Shakhtar Donetsk	Dinamo Zagreb	Feyenoord	Slovan Bratislava	Aston Villa	63.4
Paris Saint-Germain	Manchester City	Bayern Munich	Atlético Madrid	Arsenal	PSV Eindhoven	Red Bull Salzburg	Girona	VfB Stuttgart	74.0
Liverpool	Real Madrid	RB Leipzig	Bayer Leverkusen	Milan	Lille	PSV Eindhoven	Bologna	Girona	64.9
Inter Milan	RB Leipzig	Manchester City	Arsenal	Bayer Leverkusen	Red Star Belgrade	Young Boys	Monaco	Sparta Prague	66.0
Borussia Dortmund	Barcelona	Real Madrid	Shakhtar Donetsk	Club Brugge	Celtic	Dinamo Zagreb	Sturm Graz	Bologna	58.6
RB Leipzig	Liverpool	Inter Milan	Juventus	Atlético Madrid	Sporting CP	Celtic	Aston Villa	Sturm Graz	63.2
Barcelona	Bayern Munich	Borussia Dortmund	Atalanta	Benfica	Young Boys	Red Star Belgrade	Brest	Monaco	64.1

Bayer Leverkusen	Inter Milan	Liverpool	Milan	Atlético Madrid	Red Bull Salzburg	Feyenoord	Sparta Prague	Brest	63.2
Atlético Madrid	RB Leipzig	Paris Saint-Germain	Bayer Leverkusen	Benfica	Lille	Red Bull Salzburg	Slovan Bratislava	Sparta Prague	66.5
Atalanta	Real Madrid	Barcelona	Arsenal	Shakhtar Donetsk	Celtic	Young Boys	Sturm Graz	VfB Stuttgart	57.5
Juventus	Manchester City	RB Leipzig	Benfica	Club Brugge	PSV Eindhoven	Lille	VfB Stuttgart	Aston Villa	65.9
Benfica	Barcelona	Bayern Munich	Atlético Madrid	Juventus	Feyenoord	Red Star Belgrade	Bologna	Monaco	67.9
Arsenal	Paris Saint-Germain	Inter Milan	Shakhtar Donetsk	Atalanta	Dinamo Zagreb	Sporting CP	Monaco	Girona	63.4
Club Brugge	Borussia Dortmund	Manchester City	Juventus	Milan	Sporting CP	Celtic	Aston Villa	Sturm Graz	63.2
Shakhtar Donetsk	Bayern Munich	Borussia Dortmund	Atalanta	Arsenal	Young Boys	PSV Eindhoven	Brest	Bologna	64.2
Milan	Liverpool	Real Madrid	Club Brugge	Bayer Leverkusen	Red Star Belgrade	Dinamo Zagreb	Girona	Slovan Bratislava	67.8

Feyenoord	Bayern Munich	Manchester City	Bayer Leverkusen	Benfica	Red Bull Salzburg	Lille	Sparta Prague	Girona	74.8
Sporting CP	Manchester City	RB Leipzig	Arsenal	Club Brugge	Lille	PSV Eindhoven	Bologna	Sturm Graz	64.3
PSV Eindhoven	Liverpool	Paris Saint-Germain	Shakhtar Donetsk	Juventus	Sporting CP	Red Star Belgrade	Girona	Brest	62.3
Dinamo Zagreb	Borussia Dortmund	Bayern Munich	Milan	Arsenal	Celtic	Red Bull Salzburg	Monaco	Slovan Bratislava	63.6
Red Bull Salzburg	Paris Saint-Germain	Real Madrid	Atlético Madrid	Bayer Leverkusen	Dinamo Zagreb	Feyenoord	Brest	Sparta Prague	71.7
Lille	Real Madrid	Liverpool	Juventus	Atlético Madrid	Feyenoord	Sporting CP	Sturm Graz	Bologna	70.4
Red Star Belgrade	Barcelona	Inter Milan	Benfica	Milan	PSV Eindhoven	Young Boys	VfB Stuttgart	Monaco	57.5
Young Boys	Inter Milan	Barcelona	Atalanta	Shakhtar Donetsk	Red Star Belgrade	Celtic	Aston Villa	VfB Stuttgart	55.8
Celtic	RB Leipzig	Borussia Dortmund	Club Brugge	Atalanta	Young Boys	Dinamo Zagreb	Slovan Bratislava	Aston Villa	59.4

Slovan Bratislava	Manchester City	Bayern Munich	Milan	Atlético Madrid	Dinamo Zagreb	Celtic	VfB Stuttgart	Girona	69.7
Monaco	Barcelona	Inter Milan	Benfica	Arsenal	Red Star Belgrade	Dinamo Zagreb	Aston Villa	Bologna	59.0
Sparta Prague	Inter Milan	Manchester City	Atlético Madrid	Bayer Leverkusen	Red Bull Salzburg	Feyenoord	Brest	VfB Stuttgart	70.7
Aston Villa	Bayern Munich	RB Leipzig	Juventus	Club Brugge	Celtic	Young Boys	Bologna	Monaco	61.7
Bologna	Borussia Dortmund	Liverpool	Shakhtar Donetsk	Benfica	Lille	Sporting CP	Monaco	Aston Villa	62.4
Girona	Liverpool	Paris Saint-Germain	Arsenal	Milan	Feyenoord	PSV Eindhoven	Slovan Bratislava	Sturm Graz	64.6
VfB Stuttgart	Paris Saint-Germain	Real Madrid	Atalanta	Juventus	Young Boys	Red Star Belgrade	Sparta Prague	Slovan Bratislava	67.6
Sturm Graz	RB Leipzig	Borussia Dortmund	Club Brugge	Atalanta	Sporting CP	Lille	Girona	Brest	59.0
Brest	Real Madrid	Barcelona	Bayer Leverkusen	Shakhtar Donetsk	PSV Eindhoven	Red Bull Salzburg	Sturm Graz	Sparta Prague	65.1

League phase table

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Arsenal	Advance to round of 16 (seeded)
2	Aston Villa
3	Atalanta
4	Atlético Madrid
5	Barcelona
6	Bayer Leverkusen
7	Bayern Munich
8	Benfica
9	Bologna	Advance to knockout phase play-offs (seeded)
10	Borussia Dortmund
11	Brest
12	Celtic
13	Club Brugge
14	Dinamo Zagreb
15	Feyenoord
16	Girona
17	Inter Milan	Advance to knockout phase play-offs (unseeded)
18	Juventus
19	Lille
20	Liverpool
21	Manchester City
22	Milan
23	Monaco
24	Paris Saint-Germain
25	PSV Eindhoven
26	RB Leipzig
27	Real Madrid
28	Red Bull Salzburg
29	Red Star Belgrade
30	Shakhtar Donetsk
31	Slovan Bratislava
32	Sparta Prague
33	Sporting CP
34	Sturm Graz
35	VfB Stuttgart
36	Young Boys

First match(es) will be played: 17 September 2024. Source: UEFA^[13]
Rules for classification: League phase tiebreakers

Results summary

Matchday 1
Home	Score	Away
Young Boys	17 Sep	Aston Villa
Juventus	17 Sep	PSV Eindhoven
Milan	17 Sep	Liverpool
Bayern Munich	17 Sep	Dinamo Zagreb
Real Madrid	17 Sep	VfB Stuttgart
Sporting CP	17 Sep	Lille
Sparta Prague	18 Sep	Red Bull Salzburg
Bologna	18 Sep	Shakhtar Donetsk
Celtic	18 Sep	Slovan Bratislava
Club Brugge	18 Sep	Borussia Dortmund
Manchester City	18 Sep	Inter Milan
Paris Saint-Germain	18 Sep	Girona
Feyenoord	19 Sep	Bayer Leverkusen
Red Star Belgrade	19 Sep	Benfica
Monaco	19 Sep	Barcelona
Atalanta	19 Sep	Arsenal
Atlético Madrid	19 Sep	RB Leipzig
Brest	19 Sep	Sturm Graz

Matchday 2
Home	Score	Away
Red Bull Salzburg	1 Oct	Brest
VfB Stuttgart	1 Oct	Sparta Prague
Arsenal	1 Oct	Paris Saint-Germain
Bayer Leverkusen	1 Oct	Milan
Borussia Dortmund	1 Oct	Celtic
Barcelona	1 Oct	Young Boys
Inter Milan	1 Oct	Red Star Belgrade
PSV Eindhoven	1 Oct	Sporting CP
Slovan Bratislava	1 Oct	Manchester City
Shakhtar Donetsk	2 Oct	Atalanta
Girona	2 Oct	Feyenoord
Aston Villa	2 Oct	Bayern Munich
Dinamo Zagreb	2 Oct	Monaco
Liverpool	2 Oct	Bologna
Lille	2 Oct	Real Madrid
RB Leipzig	2 Oct	Juventus
Sturm Graz	2 Oct	Club Brugge
Benfica	2 Oct	Atlético Madrid

Matchday 3
Home	Score	Away
Milan	22 Oct	Club Brugge
Monaco	22 Oct	Red Star Belgrade
Arsenal	22 Oct	Shakhtar Donetsk
Aston Villa	22 Oct	Bologna
Girona	22 Oct	Slovan Bratislava
Juventus	22 Oct	VfB Stuttgart
Paris Saint-Germain	22 Oct	PSV Eindhoven
Real Madrid	22 Oct	Borussia Dortmund
Sturm Graz	22 Oct	Sporting CP
Atalanta	23 Oct	Celtic
Brest	23 Oct	Bayer Leverkusen
Atlético Madrid	23 Oct	Lille
Young Boys	23 Oct	Inter Milan
Barcelona	23 Oct	Bayern Munich
Red Bull Salzburg	23 Oct	Dinamo Zagreb
Manchester City	23 Oct	Sparta Prague
RB Leipzig	23 Oct	Liverpool
Benfica	23 Oct	Feyenoord

Matchday 4
Home	Score	Away
PSV Eindhoven	5 Nov	Girona
Slovan Bratislava	5 Nov	Dinamo Zagreb
Bologna	5 Nov	Monaco
Borussia Dortmund	5 Nov	Sturm Graz
Celtic	5 Nov	RB Leipzig
Liverpool	5 Nov	Bayer Leverkusen
Lille	5 Nov	Juventus
Real Madrid	5 Nov	Milan
Sporting CP	5 Nov	Manchester City
Club Brugge	6 Nov	Aston Villa
Shakhtar Donetsk	6 Nov	Young Boys
Sparta Prague	6 Nov	Brest
Bayern Munich	6 Nov	Benfica
Inter Milan	6 Nov	Arsenal
Feyenoord	6 Nov	Red Bull Salzburg
Red Star Belgrade	6 Nov	Barcelona
Paris Saint-Germain	6 Nov	Atlético Madrid
VfB Stuttgart	6 Nov	Atalanta

Matchday 5
Home	Score	Away
Sparta Prague	26 Nov	Atlético Madrid
Slovan Bratislava	26 Nov	Milan
Bayer Leverkusen	26 Nov	Red Bull Salzburg
Young Boys	26 Nov	Atalanta
Barcelona	26 Nov	Brest
Bayern Munich	26 Nov	Paris Saint-Germain
Inter Milan	26 Nov	RB Leipzig
Manchester City	26 Nov	Feyenoord
Sporting CP	26 Nov	Arsenal
Red Star Belgrade	27 Nov	VfB Stuttgart
Sturm Graz	27 Nov	Girona
Monaco	27 Nov	Benfica
Aston Villa	27 Nov	Juventus
Bologna	27 Nov	Lille
Celtic	27 Nov	Club Brugge
Dinamo Zagreb	27 Nov	Borussia Dortmund
Liverpool	27 Nov	Real Madrid
PSV Eindhoven	27 Nov	Shakhtar Donetsk

Matchday 6
Home	Score	Away
Girona	10 Dec	Liverpool
Dinamo Zagreb	10 Dec	Celtic
Atalanta	10 Dec	Real Madrid
Bayer Leverkusen	10 Dec	Inter Milan
Club Brugge	10 Dec	Sporting CP
Red Bull Salzburg	10 Dec	Paris Saint-Germain
Shakhtar Donetsk	10 Dec	Bayern Munich
RB Leipzig	10 Dec	Aston Villa
Brest	10 Dec	PSV Eindhoven
Atlético Madrid	11 Dec	Slovan Bratislava
Lille	11 Dec	Sturm Graz
Milan	11 Dec	Red Star Belgrade
Arsenal	11 Dec	Monaco
Borussia Dortmund	11 Dec	Barcelona
Feyenoord	11 Dec	Sparta Prague
Juventus	11 Dec	Manchester City
Benfica	11 Dec	Bologna
VfB Stuttgart	11 Dec	Young Boys

Matchday 7
Home	Score	Away
Monaco	21 Jan	Aston Villa
Atalanta	21 Jan	Sturm Graz
Atlético Madrid	21 Jan	Bayer Leverkusen
Bologna	21 Jan	Borussia Dortmund
Club Brugge	21 Jan	Juventus
Red Star Belgrade	21 Jan	PSV Eindhoven
Liverpool	21 Jan	Lille
Slovan Bratislava	21 Jan	VfB Stuttgart
Benfica	21 Jan	Barcelona
Shakhtar Donetsk	22 Jan	Brest
RB Leipzig	22 Jan	Sporting CP
Milan	22 Jan	Girona
Sparta Prague	22 Jan	Inter Milan
Arsenal	22 Jan	Dinamo Zagreb
Celtic	22 Jan	Young Boys
Feyenoord	22 Jan	Bayern Munich
Paris Saint-Germain	22 Jan	Manchester City
Real Madrid	22 Jan	Red Bull Salzburg

Matchday 8
Home	Score	Away
Aston Villa	29 Jan	Celtic
Bayer Leverkusen	29 Jan	Sparta Prague
Borussia Dortmund	29 Jan	Shakhtar Donetsk
Young Boys	29 Jan	Red Star Belgrade
Barcelona	29 Jan	Atalanta
Bayern Munich	29 Jan	Slovan Bratislava
Inter Milan	29 Jan	Monaco
Red Bull Salzburg	29 Jan	Atlético Madrid
Girona	29 Jan	Arsenal
Dinamo Zagreb	29 Jan	Milan
Juventus	29 Jan	Benfica
Lille	29 Jan	Feyenoord
Manchester City	29 Jan	Club Brugge
PSV Eindhoven	29 Jan	Liverpool
Sturm Graz	29 Jan	RB Leipzig
Sporting CP	29 Jan	Bologna
Brest	29 Jan	Real Madrid
VfB Stuttgart	29 Jan	Paris Saint-Germain

Matches

The fixture list was announced on 31 August 2024, two days after the draw.^[14]^[15]^[16] This was to ensure no calendar clashes with teams in Europa League and Conference League playing in the same cities.^[8]

In principle, each team will not play more than two home matches or two away matches in a row, and will play one home match and one away match across both the first and last two matchdays. The matches will be played on 17–19 September (exclusive week),^{[note 1]} 1–2 October, 22–23 October, 5–6 November, 26–27 November, 10–11 December 2024, 21–22 January and 29 January 2025. All matches will be played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, except for the competition's exclusive week, which also includes Thursday fixtures. The scheduled kick-off times will be 18:45 (two matches on each day) and 21:00 (remaining matches) CET/CEST. The only exception is the final matchday, where all fixtures will be played simultaneously at 21:00.^[18]^[19]

Times are CET or CEST,^{[note 2]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Matchday 1

17 September 2024