The 2025-26 Champions League uses the new 36-team format with each club playing eight fixtures against two opponents from each seeding pot. Twenty-seven clubs qualified through domestic positions, alongside the Champions League and Europa League holders and seven qualifiers. Seeding follows UEFA club coefficients and an automated draw assigns opponents while ensuring clubs do not face same-country opponents or more than two from one nation. Premier League provides six representatives, including Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester City and Chelsea. High-profile group ties feature Liverpool with Real Madrid and Inter, Arsenal with Bayern and San Siro, City with Dortmund and Real, and Chelsea visiting Napoli.
The Champions League returns for its second season in the newly adopted format and in 2025-26, the Premier League will have six teams looking to become the best side in Europe. Champions Liverpool are looking to claim a historic seventh Champions League crown and will take on old foes Real Madrid as well as Inter Milan. Meanwhile, Arsenal will host Bayern Munich again and also travel to San Siro, and Tottenham take on PSG in a rematch of August's Super Cup.
Manchester City are participating in their 15th consecutive campaign in Europe's elite competition and will face Borussia Dortmund, with Real Madrid also lying in wait for Pep Guardiola's side. They are joined by World champions Chelsea, who must travel to Antonio Conte's Napoli, as well as Bayern Munich. The other heavy hitters are involved, including Spanish giants Barcelona, who face Chelsea and PSG. Real Madrid must overcome both Liverpool and City, and Harry Kane's Bayern Munich have some tough tests against Chelsea, PSG and Arsenal.
Clubs are seeded into four pots, determined by UEFA's club coefficient rankings. Starting with Pot 1, teams are drawn individually, and each will be allocated eight opponents by UEFA's automated software. Every team will play eight fixtures in total: two opponents from each pot, one at home and one away. Clubs cannot face opponents from their own country, and no team can be drawn to play more than two clubs from the same nation (e.g. two Italian teams).
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