Champions League 2025/26

It all starts again on the first week of July as the champions from many of europes smaller leagues begin qualifying for the champions league format. And ultimately to play in this years final in the Puskas Arena in Hungary on the 1st June 26.

Tuesday 8th July

1st Qualifying Round

KuPS vs Milsami

Iberia Vs Malmo

Noah vs Budućnost

Levadia vs RFS

Olympija vs Kairat

Drita vs Differdange 03

The New Saints vs Shkendija

Víkingur vs Lincoln Red Imps Rrogozhinë Vs Breidablik

Virtus vs Zrinjski

Wednesday 9th July

1st Qualifying Round

Zalgiris vs Hamrun Spartans

FCSB Vs Inter Club d'Escaldes

Ludogorets vs Dinamo Minsk

Shelbourne Vs Linfield

Edited June 26Jun 26 by Steve201

Early Odds: (Coral)

Real Madrid 11-2f

Liverpool 6-1

PSG 6-1

Arsenal 8-1

Barcelona 8-1

Manchester City 8-1

Bayern Munich 10-1

Chelsea 20-1

Atletico Madrid 25-1

Inter Milan 25-1

Newcastle United 25-1

Napoli 28-1

Juventus 40-1

Tottenham Hotspur 40-1

Atalanta 66-1

Athletic Bilbao 66-1

Bayer Leverkusen 66-1

Borussia Dortmund 66-1

Eintracht Frankfurt 80-1

Villarreal 80-1

AS Monaco 100-1

Marseille 100-1

Teams In League Phase:

PSG

Tottenham Hotspur (Won Europa League)

Liverpool

Arsenal

Manchester City

Chelsea

Newcastle United

Napoli

Inter Milan

Atalanta

Juventus

Barcelona

Real Madrid

Atletico Madrid

Athletic Bilbao

Villarreal

Bayern Munich

Bayer Leverkusen

Eintracht Frankfurt

Borussia Dortmund

Marseille

Monaco

PSV Eindhoven

Ajax

Sporting CP

Union Saint-Gilloise

Slavia Prague

Olympiacos

Play-Off Round:

Celtic

Basel

Sturm Graz

Bodo/Glimt

Third Qualifying Round:

Nice

Feyenoord

Benfica

Club Brugge

Fenerbahce

Second Qualifying Round:

Champions Path:

Copenhagen

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Dynamo Kiev

Red Star Belgrade

Rijeka

Lech Poznan

Pafos

Ferencvaros

Qarabag

Slovan Bratislava

League Path:

Viktoria Plzen

Rangers

Servette

Red Bull Salzburg

Brann

Panathinaikos

Inter Milan only 25-1 🤣 despite being the only team to make 2 of the past 3 finals, even the bookies think they fluked their way there!

Barca & Bayern at very tempting odds.

How many matches out of 8 do we predict Tottenham will lose in the league phase?

5 hours ago, Dobbo said:

Inter Milan only 25-1 🤣 despite being the only team to make 2 of the past 3 finals, even the bookies think they fluked their way there!

Barca & Bayern at very tempting odds.

Inter at tempting odds too tbf!

3 hours ago, Houdini said:

How many matches out of 8 do we predict Tottenham will lose in the league phase?

More than Man United?

First round games are on tonight!

Shelbourne vs Linfield on rte now!

On 26/06/2025 at 18:07, Houdini said:

How many matches out of 8 do we predict Tottenham will lose in the league phase?

I reckon it will be about six.

BBC Sport

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1st Qualifying round results.

From Will Unwin in the Guardian:

Bigger Cup is up and running, baby, as we officially wave goodbye to “last season” and welcome “this season”. The question of when we enter a new campaign is eternally asked; it’s like the quandary of where the north of England starts (anything above Bristol Stoke, if you were wondering), and Football Daily is happy to provide the definitive answer of … roundabout now. Tuesday’s first qualifying round second legs brought the drama Uefa desperately needs to make the competition entertaining before the drudge of matches from September to January. Unfortunately for the suits in Switzerland, almost certainly none of the teams currently playing in the qualifying rounds will reach the league stage but we should let Hamrun Spartans, Lincoln Red Imps and Drita dream … for a bit. At the same time, the prospect of facing Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool and FC Basel is over for another year for the likes of The New Saints, Differdange 03 and Virtus, who will have to wipe away the tears, pull their socks up and go again in Tin Pot.

Permanent Welsh champions TNS went down to a 116th-minute own goal against Macedonia’s Shkendija to lose 2-1 on the night and on aggregate. Football Daily might even have watched it on S4C due to our commitment to the underdog and love of Welsh commentary. “There is one thing everyone can be proud of through the club, it’s that everyone gave everything that they had,” chirped manager Craig Harrison. “No one could give anything more and sometimes that’s all you can ask.” There was greater cruelty for Lithuania’s Zalgaris, who last won a two-legged Big Cup tie in 2000, as they were sent packing by Malta’s mighty Hamrun Spartans 11-10 on penalties after 28 spot-kicks. It is the first time a Maltese side have made it beyond this round, becoming part of football history in the process.

Even in defeat there can be triumph. Andorra’s national team are ranked 173rd in the world, therefore when their best and brightest, Inter Club d’Escaldes, drew Romanian giants FCSB, who won the competition back in the 1986 by beating Barcelona, when they were known as Steaua, no one gave them a chance. Inter Club d’Escaldes obviously lost over two legs because FCSB possess the former Tottenham defender Vlad Chiriches and ex-Port Vale man Dennis Politic. Respectfully beaten 3-1 in the Romanian capital, a lesser team would have given up and gone through the motions. But Inter Club could not let down the 509 fans inside the Nou Estadi Encamp and ran out 2-1 winners, exiting by a single-goal margin. The names of Sascha Andreu and Alexandre Llovet will be sung on the streets of Escaldes–Engordany for years to come.

Dynamo Kyiv, Slovan Bratislava and Crvena Zvezda enter in the next round, readying themselves to bring their lesser-known rivals back down to earth and restore the natural order at the top of the second qualifying round tree. Come May, the ending will doubtless be the same given that the biggest clubs win the biggest prizes, but the summer months provide a reminder that football is more than just millionaires battling for trinkets and there is still glory to be had for those other professionals who can say they are Bigger Cup players. The evolution of the football season is well and truly under way.