After the qualification of PSG against Liverpool on Tuesday March 11, Lille wants to imitate the Parisian club and also join the quarter -finals.
They did it! Faced with Liverpool Reds, PSG was snatched to reach the quarter -finals of the Champions League. After his 1-0 defeat on the outward journey, Paris was back to the wall and succeeded in the unthinkable, winning in Anfield after the penalty shootout. A capital feat that offers Paris beautiful prospects for the future especially since the final quarter will be either against Aston Villa, or against Bruges. Lille will try to imitate the capital’s club on Wednesday. Author of a beautiful draw in Dortmund, the LOSC leaves with the favors of the predictions for this return match. We will also follow Madrid’s shock between Atlético and Real.
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What are the new rules of the Champions League?
The Champions League lost its group stage in 2024-2025. This is transformed into a “regular season”, with a unique classification. For the first stage of this new generation champions League, each team must play 8 games (against 6 previously), each time with a different opponent. So also finished in passing the round trip system, characteristic of previous versions. The matches were decided by a draw made at the end of August and based on a system of hats, making it possible to preserve a certain equity in the course.
The Champions League then finds a semblance of normality at the end of this mini championship. One semblance only since the teams finished in the first 8 places qualify directly for knockout stages, with the teams classified between the 9th and 24th places, which will have to go through dams in a round-trip format. Previously, the final phase of the Champions League started directly with quarter -finals.
Another notable difference: the less well -classified teams (between places 25 to 36) are eliminated from the competition and none of them is drafted in the Europa League. The draw for the final phase also changes and takes place with a series of standard heads. Thus, the leader in the classification can only be found in the same part of the painting as his runner -up. The third will be in the opposite part of the fourth, ect …
Dams and final phase
The final table, made up of direct elimination matches, was organized according to mid-February dams followed by knockout stages. The grand final was scheduled in Munich on Saturday May 31, 2025.
- Full table draw: February 21, 2025
- Eighth finals: 4-5 and 11-12 March 2025
- Quarterfinals: 8-9 and 15-16 April 2025
- Semi-finals: April 29-30 and May 6-7, 2025
- Final: May 31, 2025
On which TV channel to see the Champions League in France?
The Battle of TV rights continued to rage before this season of the Champions League. UEFA has attributed the French TV rights of the “big ears” to Canal+ which thus obtained the privilege of distributing the Champions League.