The UEFA Champions League is back and better than ever very different, as 36 teams play eight games — four home and four away — in bids to reach the knockout rounds.
The schedule is longer, the table much bigger, and there are even Thursday games on the docket.
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Below you’ll find the table, 1-36, as well as the top scorers from the tournament so far.
Harry Kane’s in the lead with five goals including a hat trick of penalties on Day 1, while Barcelona’s Raphinha scored a hat trick against Kane’s Bayern to creep within one the lead.
UEFA Champions League tables — Latest standings from 2024-25 league phase
- Top eight spots qualify directly for knockout rounds
- Positions 9-24 are matched up in two-legged playoff ties
- Positions 25-36 are eliminated from all European competitions
- Liverpool — 4-0-0 — +9 GD — 12 points
- Sporting Lisbon — 3-1-0 — +7 GD — 10 points
- AS Monaco — 3-1-0 — +6 GD — 10 points
- Brest — 3-1-0 — +6 GD — 10 points
- Inter Milan — 3-1-0 — +6 GD — 10 points
- Barcelona — 3-0-1 — +10 GD — 9 points
- Borussia Dortmund — 3-0-1 — +7 GD — 9 points
- Aston Villa — 3-0-1 — +5 GD — 9 points
- Atalanta — 2-2-0 — +5 GD — 8 points
- Manchester City — 2-1-1 — +6 GD — 7 points
- Juventus — 2-1-1 — +2 GD — 7 points
- Arsenal — 2-1-1 — +2 GD — 7 points
- Bayer Leverkusen — 2-1-1 — +1 GD — 7 points
- Lille — 2-1-1 — +1 GD — 7 points
- Celtic — 2-1-1 — 0 GD — 7 points
- Dinamo Zagreb — 2-1-1 — -2 GD — 7 points
- Bayern Munich — 2-0-2 — +4 GD — 6 points
- Real Madrid — 2-0-2 — +2 GD — 6 points
- Benfica — 2-0-2 — +2 GD — 6 points
- AC Milan — 2-0-2 — +1 GD — 6 points
- Feyenoord — 2-0-2 — -3 GD — 6 points
- Club Brugge — 2-0-2 — -3 GD — 6 points
- Atletico Madrid — 2-0-2 — -4 GD — 6 points
- PSV Eindhoven — 1-2-1 — +2 GD — 5 points
- Paris Saint-Germain — 1-1-2 — -2 GD — 4 points
- Sparta Prague — 1-1-2 — -3 GD — 4 points
- Stuttgart — 1-1-2 — -3 GD — 4 points
- Shakhtar Donetsk — 1-1-2 — -3 GD — 4 points
- Girona — 1-0-3 — -4 GD — 3 points
- Red Bull Salzburg — 1-0-3 — -7 GD — 3 points
- Bologna — 0-1-3 — -5 GD — 1 point
- RB Leipzig — 0-0-4 — -5 GD — 0 points
- Sturm Graz — 0-0-4 — -5 GD — 0 points
- Young Boys — 0-0-4 — -10 GD — 0 points
- Red Star Belgrade — 0-0-4 — -12 GD — 0 points
- Slovan Bratislava — 0-0-4 — -13 GD — 0 points
UEFA Champions League 2024-25 leading scorers
- Viktor Gyokeres, Sporting Lisbon — 5
- Harry Kane, Bayern Munich — 5
- Robert Lewandowski, Barcelona — 5
- Raphinha, Barcelona — 5
- Vinicius Junior, Real Madrid — 4
- Jonathan David, Lille — 4
- Abdallah Sima, Brest — 3
- Karim Adeyemi, Borussia Dortmund — 3
- Jamie Gittens, Borussia Dortmund — 3
- Serhou Guirassy, Borussia Dortmund — 3
- Benjamin Sesko, RB Leipzig — 3
- Florian Wirtz, Bayer Leverkusen — 3
- Kerem Akturkoglu, Benfica — 3
- Antoni Milambo, Feyenoord — 3
- Erling Haaland, Manchester City — 3
- Luis Diaz, Liverpool — 3
- Phil Foden, Manchester City — 3
- Dusan Vlahovic, Juventus — 3
- Sandro Kulenovic, Dinamo Zagreb — 3
- Tijjani Reijnders, AC Milan — 3
Explaining how the new Champions League format works
Each team will play eight games in the new league phase of the tournament, against eight different teams. Four games at home and four away.
Teams will be ranked in to one of four pots (full pot list below) and each team will play against two teams from each of the four pots. Teams will play one match at home and one match away against a team from each pot.
The top eight teams in the league phase will qualify for the Round of 16 automatically, while the teams who finish in positions 9-24 will qualify for the knockout round. Teams who finish in positions 25-36 will be eliminated from the Champions League and will not play in any other European competition for the rest of the 2024-25 season.
The eight teams who advance from the knockout round will then face one of the teams who finished in positions 1-8 in the league phase in the Round of 16, and from then on the tournament will be a normal knockout format.
