Football Highlights CompassUEFA Champions League — Complete Guide
How the Champions League works since 2024–25: the 36-team league phase, the knockout rounds, the calendar, past winners, and how to find official spoiler-free highlights.
What is the Champions League?
The UEFA Champions League is Europe's premier club competition, bringing together the top clubs from each national league. It is one of the most watched tournaments in world football.
The new "league phase" (2024–25 onwards)
From 2024–25, the old group stage was replaced by a 36-team league phase. Each club plays eight different opponents (four home, four away), and all 36 clubs are ranked in a single table — there are no groups.
How clubs reach the knockouts
After the eight league-phase rounds: clubs ranked 1–8 advance directly to the round of 16; clubs 9–24 enter a two-legged play-off; clubs 25–36 are eliminated. From the round of 16 the competition is a two-legged knockout, with a single-venue final.
Calendar
League phase runs September–January, play-offs in February, knockouts March–May, and the final in late May or early June.
Recent winners
Real Madrid are the record champions. Recent winners: 2021–22 Real Madrid · 2022–23 Manchester City · 2023–24 Real Madrid · 2024–25 Paris Saint-Germain (their first).
Watch official highlights (spoiler-free)
We gather only official, rights-holder highlights and hide scores by default.
Guides: Champions League · Europa League · Nations League · World Cup winners
Match pages are currently in Japanese, but the video players are universal and scores are hidden by default (spoiler-free) — toggle them on any match page.
For standings, fixtures, club & player pages and news, visit the Japanese site.
Highlights are embedded from the official YouTube channels of the respective rights holders. This site does not host any video.