Champions League - League Phase Tickets

The Champions League is without doubt the biggest club football tournament in the world, and during its recent history, it has gone from strength to strength. The first edition of the UEFA Champions League was run in 1992 and was the rebranded version of the European Cup, which itself was founded in 1955.

The 2024/25 Champions League season is the first to be run following a format shake-up that sees the tournament expand in terms of the number of teams involved in the opening group phase section.

Tickets for the Champions League League Phase are sure to be in big demand with some major clashes between Europe's biggest clubs whetting the appetite to see the famous stars in action.

UEFA Champions League League Stage Tickets

Fans of the major European teams who have qualified for the League Phase, either directly or via Champions League qualifying rounds, will be searching for the best-priced tickets to see their idols perform in the tournament.

The good news is that the new format for the group phase means extra games and, therefore, extra opportunities for supporters to get in on the action. Champions League tickets are among the most sought-after commodities in sports, and the league phase is perhaps the most accessible period to get hold of the hottest tickets in town.

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UEFA Champions League League Phase Explained

Up until 2023/24 the Champions League group stage saw 32 of the best European teams split into eight groups of four teams, with each playing each other twice. The top two teams finishing at the head of each group would then qualify for the Round of 16.

As of 2024/25, the UEFA Champions League format will include a League Phase. This phase will see 36 participating teams fight it out in one league. Each qualified team, be those who made it directly due to their domestic league placing from the previous season or those who came through the qualifying rounds, which include a Champions path and a League path, then plays eight games made up of fixtures (four home and four away) against opponents from the four pots.

Following the completion of the group stage, the top eight sides from the group of 36 earn a direct route to the Round of 16. The 16 sides who finish between 9th and 24th in the league phase rankings then enter the playoffs, where the winners of the two-legged ties also get to the Round of 16.

The new format means that instead of playing the same two teams twice in a group stage, teams will get to play eight different clubs, which is great for supporters seeking to see a more varied selection of opponents. The Champions League League phase will run into January, and the number of matches in the new format will be 189, a big increase from the 125 previously, meaning even more chances for you to be sat in the stadium watching your favourite teams do battle.

The rest of the tournament, to the UEFA Champions League Final, is then run as it always has been, namely two-legged ties up to the one match that settles the tournament at the end of the season.

The process of selecting the teams taking part has also been impacted by the European performance spots allocated on the basis of co-efficient rankings of competing national leagues. In other words, the better that teams from a competing nation have performed, the more available slots will be handed to them in future editions.

Though the process is a little more convoluted than previous seasons, it is a format that we'll all get used to and handily gives us even more great UEFA Champions League action.

UEFA Champions League League Phase History

The first season of the Champions League League Phase was a huge success with plenty of major teams failing to impose themselves on this larger format.

Liverpool were the form team, winning their first seven games and the Merseyside giants cruised into the Round of 16. Barcelona, Arsenal and Inter Milan also showed their quality to finish in the top eight.

Meanwhile, Manchester City, Real Madrid and even eventual winners Paris Saint Germain had major scares and only scraped through to the knock-out play-offs. Manchester City were not even seeded and that lead to their eventual tie and subsequent elimination at the hands of Real Madrid.

On the final matchday, all eighteen matches kicked off simultaneously and there was plenty of drama as all the teams jostled for positions.

Champions League History

In whichever format the competition has been run, the UEFA Champions League remains the most distinguished and respected football tournament in the world.

The undoubted kings of the competition remain Real Madrid, who racked up their 15th title when they overcame Borussia Dortmund in the 2023/24 edition. So far ahead of the pack are Los Blancos, the next most decorated club side in the history of the competition, AC Milan, have racked up less than half the triumphs that the Santiago Bernabeu side have managed (seven wins as of 2024).

Real Madrid's domination of the competition began from its very inception, with the Spanish capital club winning each of the first five editions. Their next period of complete dominance ran from 2014 to 2022, when, under the guidance of Zinedine Zidane and Carlo Ancelotti, the La Liga giants won the tournament on no fewer than six occasions.

As for English sides, well, Liverpool top the table in that regard, with six titles won over the course of the European Cup and UEFA Champions League, with Manchester United having three titles to their name and Chelsea having twice run out as Champions League winners (in 2012 and 2021).

It remains, by some distance, the most reputable of all UEFA Club competitions, sitting at the top of the pile when it comes to the three UEFA Club competitions that currently run, namely the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Europa Conference League.

UEFA Champions League League Phase Dates

The UEFA Champions League League phase will be run across eight matchday weeks. For most of these weeks, these games will be played on the traditional Tuesday and Wednesday nights. In this new format, there will now be a Champions League exclusive week, which will see games played on Thursdays as well as Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Indeed, there will also be a Europa League exclusive week, where games will also take place on a Wednesday and not just the traditional Thursday slot.

Cheap UEFA Champions League League Phase Tickets

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