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Champions League previews: every round in numbers

Since 2024-25 the Champions League has no groups: 36 teams in a single table, eight matches each against eight different opponents. The top eight go to the round of 16, 9th to 24th into the play-offs, and the bottom twelve are out. A 36-team table reads differently from a group of four, which is why the previews show the part of it that matters for the round.

We have published 3 previews of the Champions League so far, the first on 9 October 2026. The latest covers the round from 3 to 4 November 2026. Each one is written before the round from numbers we can source — the table, recent form, head-to-heads where our archive has them, and the odds read from the operators' own feeds with the time they were read — and none of them contains a prediction.