How to follow the Champions League on the BBC

England midfielder Jude Bellingham helped Real Madrid win the Champions League in 2023-24

The Champions League returns this week and you will be able watch highlights of Europe's showpiece competition on the BBC.

For the next three years, from 22:00 BST on the Wednesday of Champions League matchweeks, there will be match-by-match highlights available on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.

You'll also be able to watch highlights, with analysis from our experts on the big stories and talking points, in Match of the Day on Wednesdays on BBC One at 22:40 and on Thursday, 19 September on BBC Two at 23.05.

There will be clips available online and on social media.

You will also be able to follow all the action online and on the BBC Sport app through our live text coverage, as well as listen to radio commentary.

BBC Radio 5 Live will continue to have live commentary of selected Champions League games this season.

The competition will include five British clubs: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Celtic, Liverpool and Manchester City.

The Champions League will expand from 32 to 36 teams from this season, with all teams contained in a single table.

That means there will have more rounds of fixtures than before with 17 in total, including eight rounds of group games - running from 17 September until 29 January - and then an extra round before the last 16.

The top eight will go through to the last 16, while teams from ninth to 24th go into a new play-off round.

It means the BBC will have highlights of the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup this season.

TNT Sport and Amazon Prime Video will show the games live in the UK.

Amazon have first pick of the Tuesday games - 17 matches in total - with all the other matches shown on TNT.

First week of Champions League fixtures

Tuesday, 17 September

17:45 BST: Young Boys v Aston Villa (BBC Radio 5 Live), Juventus v PSV Eindhoven.

20:00 BST: Real Madrid v Stuttgart, AC Milan v Liverpool (BBC Radio 5 Live), Sporting Lisbon v Lille, Bayern Munich v Dinamo Zagreb.

Wednesday, 18 September

17:45 BST: Sparta Prague v RB Salzburg, Bologna v Shakhtar Donetsk.

20:00 BST: Paris St-Germain v Girona, Manchester City v Inter Milan (BBC Radio 5 Live), Club Bruges v Borussia Dortmund, Celtic v Slovan Bratislava.

Thursday, 19 September

17:45 BST: Feyenoord v Bayer Leverkusen, Red Star Belgrade v Benfica.

20:00 BST: Monaco v Barcelona, Brest v Sturm Graz, Atletico Madrid v RB Leipzig, Atalanta v Arsenal (BBC Radio 5 Live).