Manchester City UEFA Champions League 2024-25 schedule ...

Manchester City, the reigning Premier League champions, will begin their UEFA Champions League 2024-25 campaign on Thursday, September 19 with a home game against the Serie A winners Inter Milan at the Etihad Stadium.

Manchester City won their first UEFA Champions League (UCL) title in the 2022-23 season after a long wait. They had lost to fellow Premier League giants Chelsea in the 2020-21 UCL final.

The Cityzens will be without the services of Julian Alvarez and Joao Cancelo, who have joined Atlético Madrid and Al-Hilal, respectively. Kalvin Phillips has been loaned out to Ipswich Town.

Man City have brought on board the young Brazilian winger Savinho and re-signed former club captain Ilkay Gundogan from FC Barcelona.

The UCL 2024-25 season will be the first time that the new UEFA Champions League format will be implemented. A total of 36 clubs, instead of the previous 32, will battle in a league phase as opposed to group stages.

The clubs from Europe's top football leagues will play eight matches against eight teams- four at home and four away. The results of each match will be important in determining the overall league standings with the top eight clubs qualifying for the UCL round of 16.

The clubs finishing from the 9th to 24th will compete in a two-legged knock-out phase play-offs, with the winners securing the rest of the eight spots in the round of 16. Teams that finish 25th or below will be eliminated.

In the UEFA Champions League 2024-25 league phase, Manchester City will play Inter Milan, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, Slovan Bratislava, Sparta Praha, Sporting CP, Feyenoord and Club Brugge. For their away fixtures, they will be travelling to Bratislava, Sporting CP, Juventus and PSG.

The home fixture against Inter Milan on September 19 will be a rematch of the 2022-23 UCL final. City will be against the French champions PSG on January 23.

The UCL league phase commences on September 17 and will run till January 30. The knock-outs will begin in February while the final will be played on May 31 at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany.

Apart from the UCL 2024-25, Manchester City will simultaneously compete in the English Premier League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup.

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