It's been a journey into the unknown, but the new-look Champions League is finally reaching the climax of the league phase. Here's what's needed to go through.

An own goal five minutes from time gave Celtic a 1-0 victory over Young Boys Berne in the Champions League on Wednesday and took the Scottish side past the competition’s group stage for the first time in 12 years.

Much has changed in this season's Champions League, the knockout play-off phase being one major new introduction

The moment of truth has arrived in the UEFA Champions League. With a revamped format, Europe’s premier competition is entering a critical juncture. Just one matchday remains in this inaugural league-phase format, which replaced the traditional group stage, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Manchester City are under pressure in the Champions League. While the new-look format was widely criticised in some quarters, there are some major teams in jeopardy heading into the penultimate round of first-stage fixtures. Man City are one of those, having endured a difficult campaign thus far.

THE expanded Champions League has delighted and confused fans in equal abundance this season. More teams and more matches – plus a league table to contend with – have left many fans

Round-up: Brendan Rodgers’s side and the defending champions are both through to the play-off round at least with one more matchweek of fixtures in the league phase

A year of unprecedented pressures on the global football calendar begins with a Champions League first, as two rounds of matches in Europe's elite club competition take place in January and some of the continent's biggest names face a scrap to avoid a humiliating exit.

It is just the third time an English team has won their opening seven matches of a European Cup or Champions League campaign, with two of those being done by Liverpool (2021-22 and 2024-25 - along wit

An own goal five minutes from time gave Celtic a 1-0 victory over Young Boys Berne in the Champions League on Wednesday and took the Scottish side past the competition’s group stage for the first time in 12 years.