Champions League winners odds revealed including Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City

Another twelvemonth of the Champions League is close astir the country arsenic Real Madrid look to proceed their dominance successful the competition.

Real won the contention for a record-extending 15th clip past season with a 2-0 triumph implicit Borussia Dortmund astatine Wembley successful May.

And with new summertime signing Kylian Mbappe already hitting the crushed moving successful La Liga, Carlo Ancelotti’s broadside volition beryllium fancied to scope the second stages erstwhile again.

But contention volition beryllium fierce, with respective Premier League sides amongst the favourites to assistance the trophy.

Ahead of the opening gameweek, here’s a look astatine the latest likelihood for the Champions League winners.

Who are favourites to triumph the Champions League?

Despite winning past year, Real Madrid are lone 2nd favourite for to bash truthful again this clip around, with Manchester City installed arsenic the bookmaker’s favourite for the Champions League this season.

Pep Guardiola’s broadside won the tourney successful 2022/23 and were knocked retired by Los Blancos connected penalties in the quarter-finals past year.

Back successful Europe’s premier nine contention for a second successive season aft a seven-year absence, Arsenal are 3rd favourite to triumph the contention for the archetypal time, with Bayern Munich conscionable beneath them successful the likelihood expanse having knocked retired the Gunners past season.

Barcelona and Liverpool, some entering caller eras nether Hansi Flick and Arne Slot, are some expected to execute well, with Paris Saint-Germain priced somewhat higher pursuing the departure of Mbappe this summer.

Bayer Leverkusen, Atletico Madrid and the 2 astir caller runners-up – Borussia Dortmund and Inter Milan – are each seen arsenic acheronian horses who could origin an upset.

When does the tourney commencement and end?

The Champions League play begins connected Tuesday 17 September, with the last acceptable to instrumentality spot successful Munich connected Saturday 31 May, 2025.

What is the caller radical format?

One large alteration for this twelvemonth is the scrapping of the accepted four-team groups successful spot of a 36-team league format.

Rather than playing 3 teams twice, each broadside volition beryllium drawn against 8 antithetic opponents; 2 from each of the 4 seeding pots. Every squad volition play 4 games astatine location and 4 away.

Those teams that decorativeness successful positions 1 to 8 (from the 36 teams involved) unafraid nonstop qualification to the round-of-16.

Clubs ranked 9 to 24 participate into a knockout playoff contest, wherever triumph volition unafraid a spot successful the circular of 16. Teams successful positions 25 to 36 are eliminated from the competition.

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