We’re all the way down to the ultimate two video games of the league part of the Champions League, so who’s heading for a knockout spot and that are groups are going through an early exit?
The Opta Supercomputer has predicted the ultimate desk with two video games remaining – and a few massive golf equipment are set to face a play-off as a way to attain the knockout stage.
Six matchdays have been performed with Arsenal – who’re the one crew to carry a 100 per cent document – forward of Bayern Munich in second and holders Paris Saint-Germain in third.
Opta predicts the highest two will keep as it’s, with Manchester Metropolis ending above PSG, Atalanta in fifth and Liverpool in sixth.
Final yr, within the first version of this new format, you wanted 16 factors to make the highest eight and 11 (with a useful purpose distinction) to make the highest 24. Atletico Madrid and Actual Madrid are at present predicted to take seventh and eighth with predicted factors totals of 15.8 and 15.5.
This might imply Tottenham, Chelsea and Newcastle would end in eleventh, twelfth and 14th respectively.
See the complete predicted desk under…
Who qualifies for the knockouts?
The highest eight sides on the finish of the league part qualify routinely for the final 16.
The subsequent 16 sides – ranked ninth to twenty fourth – go right into a two-legged play-off towards one another to make the knockout rounds.
The underside 12 groups will probably be eradicated, with no entry to the Europa League.
So might the English groups that end from ninth to twenty fourth face one another?
The groups that end from ninth to sixteenth will probably be seeded, with these ending seventeenth to twenty fourth unseeded.
Seeded groups can not face each other, and the identical goes for unseeded groups.
At the moment, all three English groups sit in seeded positions, and they’re predicted to complete there, so would keep away from each other.
Who do the English sides have left to play?
Tuesday January 20
- Bodo/Glimt vs Tottenham, kick-off 5.45pm
- Inter Milan vs Arsenal, kick-off 8pm
- Tottenham vs Borussia Dortmund, kick-off 8pm
Wednesday January 21
- Chelsea vs Pafos, kick-off 8pm
- Marseille vs Liverpool, kick-off 8pm
- Newcastle vs PSV Eindhoven, kick-off 8pm
Wednesday January 28
- Arsenal vs Kairat Almaty, kick-off 8pm
- Eintracht Frankfurt vs Tottenham, kick-off 8pm
- Liverpool vs Qarabag, kick-off 8pm
- Man Metropolis vs Galatasaray, kick-off 8pm
- Napoli vs Chelsea, kick-off 8pm
- Paris Saint-Germain vs Newcastle, kick-off 8pm
And the way have they fared to this point?
When are the 2025/26 Champions League knockout phases?
Play-off draw: January 30, 2026
Knockout play-offs: February 17-18 and 24-25, 2026
Spherical of 16: March 10-11 and 17-18, 2026
Quarter-finals: April 7-8 and 14-15, 2026
Semi-finals: April 28-29 and Could 5-6, 2026
Ultimate: Saturday, Could 30, 2026
The place is the Champions League ultimate being held in 2026?
The 2025/26 Champions League ultimate will happen in Budapest on the Puskas Enviornment on Saturday Could 30.
