Return games of the Champions League dams on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday, February 19 with big challenges everywhere.
The return matches of the Champions League dams are eagerly awaited this week and especially for French clubs. After his stinging defeat on the go on the 3-0 score, Brest must achieve a feat and even a miracle to join the knockout stages. We will also follow the big shock between Real and Manchester City or Milan AC, back to the wall before the return match … For Monaco, the adventure was definitively ended with many regrets after the draw 3-3 Faced with the Benfica Portuguese during the return match.
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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.
- Dams draw: January 31, 2025
- Dams for the direct elimination phase: 11-12 and 18-19 February 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.