How to follow the Champions League on the BBC

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England midfielder Jude Bellingham helped Real Madrid win the Champions League in 2023-24 [Getty Images]

The Champions League returns next week and you will be able watch highlights of Europe's showpiece competition on the BBC.

For the next three years, from 22:00 on the Wednesday of Champions League matchweeks, there will be match-by-match highlights available on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app, plus a Match of the Day highlights show on BBC One at 22:40.

There will also be clips online and on social media.

You will also be able to follow all the action online and on the BBC Sport app through our live text coverage, as well as listen to radio commentary.

The competition will include five British clubs - Arsenal, Aston Villa, Celtic, Liverpool and Manchester City.

The Champions League will expand from 32 to 36 teams from this season, with all teams contained in a single table.

That means there will have more rounds of fixtures than before with 17 in total, including eight rounds of group games - running from 17 September until 29 January - and then an extra round before the last 16.

The top eight will go through to the last 16, while teams from ninth to 24th go into a new play-off round.

It means the BBC will have highlights of the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup this season.

BBC Radio 5 Live will still have live commentary of selected Champions League games this season, while TNT Sport and Amazon Prime Video will show the games live in the UK.

Amazon have first pick of the Tuesday games - 17 matches in total - with all the other matches shown on TNT.

First week of Champions League fixtures

Tuesday, 17 September

17:45 BST: Young Boys v Aston Villa, Juventus v PSV Eindhoven.

20:00 BST: Real Madrid v Stuttgart, AC Milan v Liverpool, Sporting Lisbon v Lille, Bayern Munich v Dinamo Zagreb.

Wednesday, 18 September

17:45 BST: Sparta Prague v RB Salzburg, Bologna v Shakhtar Donetsk.

20:00 BST: Paris St-Germain v Girona, Manchester City v Inter Milan, Club Bruges v Borussia Dortmund, Celtic v Slovan Bratislava.

Thursday, 19 September

17:45 BST: Feyenoord v Bayer Leverkusen, Red Star Belgrade v Benfica.

20:00 BST: Monaco v Barcelona, Brest v Sturm Graz, Atletico Madrid v RB Leipzig, Atalanta v Arsenal.

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