The world’s best membership competitors, UEFA Champions League, comes to Showmax Pro in South Africa
The 68th season of the UEFA Champions League, Europe’s premier membership soccer match, shall be obtainable to stream for Showmax Pro subscribers in South Africa, Lesotho and Mauritius, courtesy of SuperSport.
How to stream the UEFA Champions League
All video games from the group stage onwards shall be dwell, kicking off on 6 September. The UEFA Champions League is an annual membership soccer competitors contested by top-division European golf equipment, deciding the competitors winners by means of group phases to qualify for a double-legged knockout format and a single-leg closing.
Defending champions Real Madrid defeated Liverpool in the 2021/22 closing, lifting their 14th Champions League title – a report in the historical past of the competitors. Karim Benzema, Los Blanco’s putting talisman, netted 14 objectives final season, making him the high scorer in the competitors, and he was named UEFA Player of the Year throughout the group stage draw that happened on 25 August.
This yr’s teams are:
Group A: AFC Ajax, Liverpool, S.S.C Napoli, Rangers F.C
Group B: FC Porto, Atlético Madrid, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Club Brugge
Group C: Bayern Munich, FC Barcelona, Inter Milan, Viktoria Plzen
Group D: Eintracht Frankfurt, Tottenham Hotspur FC, Sporting CP, Olympique de Marseille
Group E: AC Milan, Chelsea FC, FC Red Bull Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb FC
Group F: Real Madrid, RB Leipzig, FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Celtic FC
Group G: Manchester City, Sevilla FC, Borussia Dortmund, FC Copenhagen
Group H: Paris Saint-Germain FC, Juventus FC, SL Benfica, Maccabi Haifa FC
Key matchups to look ahead to embrace: Barcelona taking over Bayern Munich – a fixture in which they’ve traditionally struggled, having misplaced each of their group video games final season by 3–0, additionally struggling a humiliating 8-2 loss in 2020, in which Bayern went on to be topped champions. Xavi and his males will need to flip this round and can put their religion in Polish tremendous striker Robert Lewandowski, who joined Barcelona from Bayern this season.
Man City’s new star striker Erling Haaland will return to Germany to tackle Borussia Dortmund, the facet he parted methods with at the begin of this season to be a part of Pep Guardiola’s troops. The Norwegian has hit the floor working in England, scoring six objectives in 4 video games in the English Premier League.
PSG, who’re nonetheless on a quest for his or her first ever Champions League trophy, will hope forwards Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr and Kylian Mbappe can lead them to victory towards Serie A giants Juventus. Portuguese facet Benfica will intention to take all three factors as they’re robust favourites in their sport towards Israeli outfit Maccabi Haifa.
Tottenham make a long-awaited return to the competitors since dropping to Liverpool in the 2019 closing. The London membership will depend on England striker Harry Kane to hearth them out of the group stage, in which they face final season’s Europa League winners Eintracht Frankfurt, Sporting CP and French membership Marseille.
Last yr’s runners-up Liverpool face Ajax and new supervisor Alfred Schreuder, who goals to inspire his males to overcome The Reds. Napoli and Rangers are the different eagerly awaited conflict in Group A. Rangers, who have been runners-up to Eintracht Frankfurt in final season’s Europa League closing, will look to defeat Serie A staff Napoli.
Dates for the group stage are as follows:
- Matchday 1: 6/7 September
- Matchday 2: 13/14 September
- Matchday 3: 4/5 October
- Matchday 4: 11/12 October
- Matchday 5: 25/26 October
- Matchday 6: 1/2 November
The final group-stage video games happen on 1 and a couple of November, with the Round of 16 draw occurring on 7 November. The full fixtures listing has been launched and you’ll see all the match ups here.
Don’t miss the world’s best membership competitors, obtainable for streaming to Showmax Pro subscribers in South Africa, Lesotho and Mauritius, courtesy of SuperSport, from 6 September.
