Week of the knockout stages of the Champions League with big shocks on the program.
We are there! After the league phase, the dams, it is finally the hour of the knockout stages of the Champions League on Tuesday, March 4 and Wednesday March. Two French clubs are at the rendezvous of the 8th with Lille which moves to Germany to face the Borussia Dortmund of the top scorer Serhou Guirassy and the PSG who will have to face the best team since the start of the season, the Liverpool of Mohamed Salah. Among the other posters, we will also follow the derby of the two Madrid, desired by Kylian Mbappé or the shock in Germany between Bayern Munich and Leverkusen.
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10:30 – The Champions League matches calendar
Calendar of upcoming matches. Here are the next posters of this 2024-2025 Champions League with the knockout stages that are on the program.
10:30 – The last results of the Champions League
Matches. Discover the results of the last Champions League games. The scores are updated as soon as possible in the minutes following the final whistle:
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.