Draft:2024–25 UEFA Champions League league phase

The 2024–25 UEFA Champions League league phase will begin on 17 September 2024 and end on 29 January 2025. A total of 36 teams will compete in the league phase to decide the 24 places in the play-offs and knockout phase of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League.

Aston Villa, Bologna, Brest and Girona will make their debut appearances since the introduction of the group stage. Brest and Girona will also make their debut appearances in European football. A total of 16 or 17 national associations will be represented in the league phase.

This will be the first season with the league format, which replaces the group format used until the previous season.

Format
Each team will play eight matches, four at home and four away, against eight different opponents with all 36 teams ranked in a single league table. Teams will be separated into four pots based on their 2024 UEFA club coefficients and each team will play two teams from each of the four pots – one at home and one away. The top eight ranked teams will receive a bye to the round of 16. The teams ranked from ninth to 24th will contest the knock-out phase play-offs with the teams ranked from ninth to 16th seeded for the draw.

Tiebreakers
Teams will be ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria will be applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 18 Equality of points – league phase, Regulations of the UEFA Champions League) :
 * 1) Goal difference;
 * 2) Goals scored;
 * 3) Away goals scored;
 * 4) Wins;
 * 5) Away wins;
 * 6) Higher number of points obtained collectively by league phase opponents;
 * 7) Superior collective goal difference of league phase opponents;
 * 8) Higher number of goals scored collectively by league phase opponents;
 * 9) Lower disciplinary points total (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
 * 10) UEFA club coefficient.

Teams
Below were the participating teams (with their 2024 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their seeding pot. They included:
 * 29 teams which entered in this stage
 * 7 winners of the play-off round (5 from the champions path, 2 from the league path)

Notes

Draw
The draw for the league phase will be held on 29 August 2024 in Monaco.

League phase table
