Champions League round of 16: The evening of the duels is so exciting!

Champions League round of 16: The evening of the duels is so exciting!

An exciting evening is before the UEFA Champions League! Today, March 5, 2025, German champion FC Bayern Munich meets the leaders Bayer Leverkusen. This high-tensioning game will be broadcast live from 9 p.m., as well as the duel between Benfica Lisbon and FC Barcelona as well as the match between Paris Saint-Germain and FC Liverpool, as sportkrone.at reports.

The Champions League is in a new era! The 2024/25 season is not only the 70th season of the most respected European club competition, it also brings significant changes: instead of the traditional group phase, 36 teams now compete in a joint league. Each club will play against eight other teams and the same opponents will not be hit twice, unless a special draw requires, so Augsburger-allgemeine.de . The best eight teams qualify for the round of 16, while the places have to fight nine to twenty-four in exciting play-offs.

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This season, the tournament will not only offer more games for fans and players, but the final will take place on May 31, 2025 in the Allianz Arena in Munich, which has marked the return of a large event to the Bavarian capital since 2012. There is also an exciting innovation: In addition to the traditional Tuesday and Wednesday games, there will be so-called European Cup weeks, in which it will also be played on Thursday. The first games of the new league are already scheduled for September 17, 2024, and the excitement in terms of the new rules is already noticeable.