Gooooooooaaaaaal! The UEFA Champions League has a new expanded format for the 2024-25 season. The new UEFA Champions League season is underway, with 36 teams attempting to reach the final in Munich in May. (Each team will be in one of four groups and will play two teams from each group or in other words, eight games against eight different teams: four at home and for away.) The top eight teams in the league phase will qualify for the Round of 16 automatically, while the teams who finish in positions 9-24 will qualify for the knockout round. Teams who end up in positions 25-36 will be eliminated and will not play in any other European competition for the rest of the 2024-2025 season, NBCSports.com reports. May be best team win! Matchday 7 Tuesday, Jan. 21 Monaco 1-0 Aston Villa Atalanta 5-0 Sturm Graz Atletico Madrid 2-1 Bayer Leverkusen Bologna 2-1 Borussia Dortmund Club Brugge 0-0 Juventus Red Star Belgrade 2-3 PSV Eindhoven Liverpool 2-1 Lille — Recap, highlights & analysis Slovan Bratislava 1-3 Stuttgart Benfica 4-5 Barcelona Wednesday, Jan. 22 12:45pm: Shakhtar Donetsk vs Brest 12:45pm: RB Leipzig vs Sporting Lisbon 3pm: AC Milan vs Girona 3pm: Sparta Prague vs Inter Milan 3pm: Arsenal vs Dinamo Zagreb 3pm: Celtic vs Young Boys 3pm: Feyenoord vs Bayern Munich 3pm: PSG vs Manchester City 3pm: Real Madrid vs RB Salzburg Matchday 8 Wednesday, Jan. 29 3pm: Aston Villa vs Celtic 3pm: Bayer Leverkusen vs Sparta Prague 3pm: Borussia Dortmund vs Shakhtar Donetsk 3pm: Young Boys vs Red Star Belgrade 3pm: Barcelona vs Atalanta 3pm: Bayern Munich vs Slovan Bratislava 3pm: Inter Milan vs Monaco 3pm: RB Salzburg vs Atletico Madrid 3pm: Girona vs Arsenal 3pm: Dinamo Zagreb vs AC Milan 3pm: Juventus vs Benfica 3pm: Lille vs Feyenoord 3pm: Manchester City vs Club Brugge 3pm: PSV Eindhoven vs Liverpool 3pm: Sturm Graz vs RB Leipzig 3pm: Sporting Lisbon vs Bologna 3pm: Brest vs Real Madrid 3pm: Stuttgart vs PSG To see the scores of the matches played during Matchday 1-6, click here. What happens to the teams that do not get an automatic qualification? An extra knockout round has been created for teams who finished in spots 9 to 24. These teams will play two-legged ties to reach the 16th round. Knockout round play-offs: February 11, 12 & 18,19, 2025 Round of 16: March 4,5 &11,12, 2025 Quarter-finals: April 8,9 & 15,16, 2025 Semi-finals: May 29,30 April & 6,7, 2025 Final: May 31, 2025 When and where is the 2024-25 Champions League final? The Champions League final will take place at the Allianz Arena in Munich on May 31, 2025. Will Real Madrid CF win again? Real Madrid CF was the Champions League winner for the 2023-24 season after beating Borussia Dortmund 2-0 in the final at Wembley Stadium on June 1, 2024. This was by no means the only season in which the renowned soccer club won the Champions League. They won: 1955/56, 1956/57, 1957/58, 1958/59, 1959/60, 1965/66, 1997/98, 1999/2000, 2001/02, 2013/14, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2021/22, 2023/24. So, will the win again? Only time will tell! Be sure to check out UEFA.com and NBCSports.com for more information and the latest Champions League and other sports news.