The UEFA Champions League is the most celebrated club tournament in the world, and has been won most-often by Real Madrid, who extended their own record tally by beating Borussia Dortmund at Wembley in 2024.

Like everyone else this season, Paris Saint-Germain are preparing to enter the new-look UEFA Champions League next week when the reformatted league phase gets underway. Luis Enrique led the French giants to a surprise semifinal last campaign yet it felt underwhelming given the way that Les Parisiens lost out to eventual beaten finalists Borussia Dortmund.

European club soccer’s most competitive competition returned for the 2024–2025 season on Tuesday in an all-new league format that completely shakes up its structure. The Union of European Football Associations’ Champions League brings top clubs across Europe’s soccer leagues — such as England’s Premier League,

Erik ten Hag believes the amount of games that are being played across football is ‘too many’ as he hit out at the new Europa League format which enforces an overload of matches on the players.