UEFA Champions League Draw for English Premier League Clubs

The UEFA Champions League will be different for the 2024-25 season, and beyond. It has evolved past the format with which we have been familiar since the 1992-1993 season—when Marseille won the final against AC Milan after it had been last reformatted, and renamed from ‘European Cup’ to the ‘UEFA Champions League’.

Instead of 32 teams competing in eight groups of four, 36 clubs will participate this season in the ‘League Phase’. Each club will face eight different opponents, two each from four pots of nine, and qualify to the ‘Round of 16’ based on the final rankings.

There are no more home-and-away ties. Clubs will face four of their opponents at home, and the other four away. The top eight go through to the next round automatically, the next 16 will play-off against each other in two-legged ties, and the bottom eight will be eliminated altogether.

The draw for the 2024-25 campaign took place in Monaco on 29th August, and was conducted through AI given its complex nature.

Who Do the English Clubs Play?

Four Premier League teams will participate in this season’s competition, and here we look at who they have been drawn to play.

Manchester City

Italian champions Inter Milan [Home]

French champions Paris Saint-Germain [Away]

Belgian champions Club Brugge [Home]

Juventus [Away]

Feyenoord [Home]

Portuguese champions Sporting CP [Away]

Czech champions Sparta Prague [Home]

Slovakian champions Slovan Bratislava [Away]

Arsenal

French champions Paris Saint-Germain [Home]

Italian champions Inter Milan [Away]

Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk [Home]

Atalanta [Away]

Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb [Home]

Portuguese champions Sporting CP [Away]

AS Monaco [Home]

Girona [Away]

Liverpool

Spanish champions/Champions League winners Real Madrid [Home]

RB Leipzig [Away]

German champions Bayer Leverkusen [Home]

AC Milan [Away]

Lille [Home]

Dutch champions PSV Eindhoven [Away]

Bologna [Home]

Girona [Away]

Aston Villa

Bayern Munich [Home]

RB Leipzig [Away]

Juventus [Home]

Belgian champions Club Brugge [Away]

Scottish champions Celtic [Home]

Swiss champions Young Boys [Away]

Bologna [Home]

AS Monaco [Away]

When Do the Matches Take Place?

League Phase fixtures will be played across eight matchdays from September 2024 to January 2025:

Matchday 01: September 17–19, 2024

Matchday 02: October 1/2, 2024

Matchday 03: October 22/23, 2024

Matchday 04: November 5/6, 2024

Matchday 05: November 26/27, 2024

Matchday 06: December 10/11, 2024

Matchday 07: January 21/22, 2025

Matchday 08: January 29 2025

All clubs will learn the date, times, and the order in which play against each of their opponents once the fixtures are announced on Saturday, 31st August.