UEFA Champions League League Table — 2024-25 season standings

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 four goals including a hat trick of penalties on Day 1, while four players have struck thrice through two matchdays.

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

1. Borussia Dortmund — 2-0-0 — +9 GD — 6 points
2. Brest — 2-0-0 — +5 GD — 6 points
3. Benfica — 2-0-0 — +5 GD — 6 points
4. Bayer Leverkusen — 2-0-0 — +5 GD — 6 points
5. Liverpool — 2-0-0 — +4 GD — 6 points
6. Aston Villa — 2-0-0 — +4 GD — 6 points
7. Juventus — 2-0-0 — +3 GD — 6 points
8. Manchester City — 1-1-0 — +4 GD — 4 points
9. Inter Milan — 1-1-0 — +4 GD — 4 points
10. Sparta Prague — 1-1-0 — +3 GD — 4 points
11. Atalanta — 1-1-0 — +3 GD — 4 points
12. Sporting Lisbon — 1-1-0 — +2 GD — 4 points
13. Arsenal — 1-1-0 — +2 GD — 4 points
14. AS Monaco — 1-1-0 — +1 GD — 4 points
15. Bayern Munich — 1-0-1 — +6 GD — 3 points
16. Barcelona — 1-0-1 — +4 GD — 3 points
17. Real Madrid — 1-0-1 — +1 GD — 3 points
18. Lille — 1-0-1 — -1 GD — 3 points
19. Paris Saint-Germain — 1-0-1 — -1 GD — 3 points
20. Celtic — 1-0-1 — -2 GD — 3 points
21. Club Brugge — 1-0-1 — -2 GD — 3 points
22. Feyenoord — 1-0-1 — -3 GD — 3 points
23. Atletico Madrid — 1-0-1 — -3 GD — 3 points
24. PSV Eindhoven — 0-1-1 — -2 GD — 1 point
25. Stuttgart — 0-1-1 — -2 GD — 1 point
26. Bologna — 0-1-1 — -2 GD — 1 point
27. Shakhtar Donetsk — 0-1-1 — -3 GD — 1 point
28. Dinamo Zagreb — 0-1-1 — -7 GD — 1 point
29. RB Leipzig — 0-0-2 — -2 GD — 0 points
30. Girona — 0-0-2 — -2 GD — 0 points
31. Sturm Graz — 0-0-2 — -2 GD — 0 points
32. AC Milan — 0-0-2 — -3 GD — 0 points
33. Red Star Belgrade — 0-0-2 — -5 GD — 0 points
34. Red Bull Salzburg — 0-0-2 — -7 GD — 0 points
35. Slovan Bratislava — 0-0-2 — -8 GD — 0 points
36. Young Boys — 0-0-2 — -8 GD — 0 points

UEFA Champions League 2024-25 leading scorers

1. Harry Kane, Bayern Munich — 4
2. Abdallah Sima, Brest — 3
3. Karim Adeyemi, Borussia Dortmund — 3
4. Serhou Guirassy, Borussia Dortmund — 3
5. Benjamin Sesko, RB Leipzig — 3
6. Michael Olise, Bayern Munich — 2
7. Jamie Gittens, Borussia Dortmund — 2
8. Florian Wirtz, Bayer Leverkusen — 2
9. Daizen Maeda, Celtic — 2
10. Florian Wirtz, Bayer Leverkusen — 2
11. Kaan Kairinen, Sparta Prague — 2
12. Kerem Akturkoglu, Benfica — 2
13. Dusan Vlahovic, Juventus — 2
14. Orkun Kokcu, Benfica — 2

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.