All you need to know as matchday eight of Champions League arrives with a different format

All you need to know as matchday eight of Champions League arrives with a different format

Paris Saint-Germain v Manchester City - UEFA Champions League 2024/25 League Phase MD7
Paris Saint-Germain v Manchester City - UEFA Champions League 2024/25 League Phase MD7 | Crystal Pix/MB Media/GettyImages

The UEFA Champions League is set to feature matchday eight, which concludes the first-ever League Phase and will confirm which clubs have made it through to the last 16, which will be in the play-offs and who has been eliminated from the competition.

The new Champions League format, which saw the group stage made up of eight groups of four turn into a league phase where all 36 teams are featured in one big table, is set to conclude this upcoming Wednesday, with all fixtures set to decide which 24 clubs will continue their UCL journey.

This will be a very special and busy matchday, as all 36 teams will be playing at the same time which means all 18 fixtures will kickoff along one another.

The decision to change how the last matchday is played out results in a more intense and exciting evening, as every goal, every minute and every change in the 90 minutes would determine the fate of every club. Safe to say this will be a dramatic night of football.

For Manchester City, their fixture is a must-win after their 4-2 loss to Paris Saint-Germain last week. The Cityzens are currently in 25th place, which is the elimination spot; to secure a play-off ticket, they have to win their match.

Champions League Matchday eight full fixture list

  • Manchester City vs Club Brugge
  • Inter Milan vs Monaco
  • Barcelona vs Atalanta
  • Aston Villa vs celtic
  • Young boys vs Red Star Belgrade
  • Salzburg vs Atletico Madrid
  • Bayern Munich vs Slovan Bratislava
  • Dinamo Zagreb vs AC Milan
  • Girona vs Arsenal
  • Dortmund vs Shakhtar
  • Stade Brest vs Real Madrid
  • Lille vs Feyenoord
  • Stuttgart vs PSG
  • Leverksuen vs Sparta Prague
  • PSV Eindhoven vs Liverpool
  • Sporting Lisbon vs Bologna
  • Juventus vs Benfica
  • Sturm Graz vs RB Leipzig

An exciting fixture list that will see out this Champions League round. For Manchester City, their opponents come as Club Brugge, who are currently 20th on the table.

Phil Foden, Erling Haaland
Manchester City FC v Chelsea FC - Premier League | Michael Regan/GettyImages

Full Champions League table

(1-8th automatically qualify for the last round of 16, 9-24 secure play-off spot and so on, are eliminated from the competition.)

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