The UEFA Champions League is very different this season, as 36 teams played eight league phase games — four home and four away — in bids to reach the knockout rounds.
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The schedule was longer, the table bigger, and we’ve now seen how chaotic a final matchday can look, with all 18 games played at the same time on Wednesday, January 29 at 3pm ET.
Below you’ll find the table, 1-36, as well as the top scorers from the tournament so far.
UEFA Champions League 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
Final UEFA Champions League table, league phase
- Liverpool — 7-0-1 — +12 GD — 21 points
- Barcelona — 6-1-1 — +15 GD — 19 points
- Arsenal — 6-1-1 — +13 GD — 19 points
- Inter Milan — 6-1-1 — +10 GD — 19 points
- Atletico Madrid — 6-0-2 — +8 GD — 18 points
- Bayer Leverkusen — 5-1-2 — +8 GD — 16 points
- Lille — 5-1-2 — +7 GD — 16 points
- Aston Villa — 5-1-2 — +7 GD — 16 points
- Atalanta — 4-3-1 — +14 GD — 15 points
- Borussia Dortmund — 5-0-3 — +10 GD — 15 points
- Real Madrid — 5-0-3 — +8 GD — 15 points
- Bayern Munich — 5-0-3 — +8 GD — 15 points
- AC Milan — 5-0-3 — +3 GD — 15 points
- PSV Eindhoven — 4-2-2 — +4 GD — 14 points
- Paris Saint-Germain — 4-1-3 — +5 GD — 13 points
- Benfica — 4-1-3 — +4 GD — 13 points
- AS Monaco — 4-1-3 — 0 GD — 13 points
- Brest — 4-1-3 — -1 GD — 13 points
- Feyenoord — 4-1-3 — -3 GD — 13 points
- Juventus — 3-3-2 — +2 GD — 12 points
- Celtic — 3-3-1 — -1 GD — 12 points
- Manchester City — 3-2-3 — +4 GD — 11 points
- Sporting Lisbon — 3-2-3 — +1 GD — 11 points
- Club Brugge — 3-2-3 — -4 GD — 11 points
- Dinamo Zagreb — 3-2-3 — -7 GD — 11 points
- Stuttgart — 3-1-4 — -4 GD — 10 points
- Shakhtar Donetsk — 2-1-5 — -7 GD — 7 points
- Bologna — 1-3-4 — -5 GD — 6 points
- Red Star Belgrade — 2-0-6 — -9 GD — 6 points
- Sturm Graz — 2-0-6 — -9 GD — 6 points
- Sparta Prague — 1-1-6 — -14 GD — 4 points
- RB Leipzig — 1-0-7 — -7 GD — 3 points
- Girona — 1-0-7 — -8 GD — 3 points
- Red Bull Salzburg — 1-0-7 — -22 GD — 3 points
- Slovan Bratislava — 0-0-8 — -20 GD — 0 points
- Young Boys — 0-0-8 — -21 GD — 0 points
UEFA Champions League 2024-25 leading scorers
- Robert Lewandowski, Barcelona — 9
- Serhou Guirassy, Borussia Dortmund — 9
- Raphinha, Barcelona — 8
- Vinicius Junior, Real Madrid — 7
- Antoine Griezmann, Atletico Madrid — 6
- Julian Alvarez, Atletico Madrid — 6
- Erling Haaland, Manchester City — 6
- Florian Wirtz, Bayer Leverkusen — 6
- Viktor Gyokeres, Sporting Lisbon — 6
- Jonathan David, Lille — 6
- Harry Kane, Bayern Munich — 6
- Lautaro Martinez, Inter Milan — 5
- Santiago Gimenez, Feyenoord — 5
- Vangelis Pavlidis, Benfica — 5
Explaining how the new Champions League format works
Each team played eight games in the new league phase of the tournament, against eight different teams. Four games at home and four away.
Teams were ranked and placed in one of four pots and each team played two teams from each of the four pots — one match at home and one match away against a team from each pot.
The top eight teams in the league phase qualified for the Round of 16 automatically, while the teams who finish in positions 9-24 qualified for the knockout round. Teams who finish in positions 25-36 were 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.
