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Opponents of Italian teams in the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League Phase

Opponents of Italian teams in the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League Phase

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The opponents of the Italian teams in the UEFA Champions League Phase are set. The Champions League – League Phase Draw on Thursday 28 August 2025 shows this outcome.      

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Opponents of Italian teams in the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League Phase

   INTER MILAN is set to compete against Liverpool (home), Borussia Dortmund (away), Arsenal (home), Atletico Madrid (away), Slavia Prague (home), Ajax (away), Kairat Almaty (home), and Union SG (away).

  ATALANTA will encounter Chelsea, Club Brugge, Slavia Prague, and Athletic Bilbao at home, while facing PSG, Frankfurt, Marseille, and Union SG away.

 

JUVENTUS will take on Borussia Dortmund, Benfica, Sporting, and Paphos at the Allianz Stadium, and will face Real Madrid, Villarreal, Bodo/Glimt, and Pogba’s Monaco in away matches.

            NAPOLI will play against Chelsea, Frankfurt, Sporting, and Qarabag at the Maradona, and will travel away to face Manchester City (Kevin De Bruyne’s return), Benfica, PSV (Lang’s return), and Copenhagen

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2025-26 Champions League Phase Draw Fixtures and Tickets

2025-26 Champions League Phase Draw Fixtures and Tickets

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The 2025–26 UEFA Champions League – League Phase Draw is on Thursday 28 August 2025 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo. The draw will start at (18:00 CEST).  Primarily, it will feature all 36 participating teams, including major clubs like PSG, Real Madrid, and Bayern Munich. Importantly, the draw will be live on various platforms, including UEFA.tv and YouTube in Europe, and CBS Sports in the U.S.

There are 4 Italian Serie A teams participating: Napoli, Inter, Atalanta, and Juventus.

                  

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Here are the opponents of the Italian teams in the UEFA Champions League Phase:

INTER MILAN is set to compete against Liverpool (home), Borussia Dortmund (away), Arsenal (home), Atletico Madrid (away), Slavia Prague (home), Ajax (away), Kairat Almaty (home), and Union SG (away).

ATALANTA will encounter Chelsea, Club Brugge, Slavia Prague, and Athletic Bilbao at home, while facing PSG, Frankfurt, Marseille, and Union SG away.

JUVENTUS will take on Borussia Dortmund, Benfica, Sporting, and Paphos at the Allianz Stadium, and will face Real Madrid, Villarreal, Bodo/Glimt, and Pogba’s Monaco in away matches.

NAPOLI will play against Chelsea, Frankfurt, Sporting, and Qarabag at the Maradona, and will travel away to face Manchester City (Kevin De Bruyne’s return), Benfica, PSV (Lang’s return), and Copenhagen.

🏆   The 36 contenders for the UEFA Champions League  Phase are categorized into four pots.

✅   2025/26 league phase teams: Full access list

2024/25 UEFA Champions League winners (1): Paris Saint-Germain*.2024/25 UEFA Europa League winners (1): Tottenham.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿  England (4): Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea.
🇮🇹   Italy (4): Napoli, Inter, Atalanta, Juventus.
🇪🇸   Spain (4): Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid, Athletic Club.
🇩🇪   Germany (4): Bayern München, Bayer Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt, Dortmund.
🇫🇷   France (3): Paris Saint-Germain*, Marseille, Monaco.
🇳🇱   Netherlands (2): PSV, Ajax.
🇵🇹   Portugal (1): Sporting CP.
🇧🇪   Belgium (1): Union Saint-Gilloise.
🇹🇷   Türkiye (1): Galatasaray.
🇨🇿   Czechia (1): Slavia Praha.
>Champions League winner rebalancing (1): Olympiacos*
European Performance Spots (2): Newcastle United, Villarreal
Qualifying rounds – champions path (5): Bodø/Glimt, Copenhagen, Kairat Almaty, Pafos, Qarabağ
Qualifying rounds – league path (2): Benfica, Club Brugge

*Olympiacos earned a league phase spot as UEFA Champions League winners Paris had already qualified via their domestic league position.

✅  What is the procedure for conducting the draw for the league phase?

The 36 teams participating will be into four pots according to their respective coefficient rankings.  Certainly, the titleholder of the Champions League being the top seed in Pot 1.

Beginning with Pot 1, a single physical ball will be drawn, after which the automated software, previously employed last year, will select eight opponents for them. That is adhering to the following guidelines:

  • Two teams from each of the four pots will be drawn, with one home and one away match against teams from each pot selected by the software.
  • No teams from the same association will be drawn against one another.
  • No more than two opponents from the same association will be allowed.

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✅   When are this season’s Champions League matches?
League phase

First Matchday 1: 16–18 September 2025.
Second Matchday 2: 30 September–1 October 2025.
Third Matchday 3: 21/22 October 2025.
Fourth Matchday 4: 4/5 November 2025.
Fifth Matchday 5: 25/26 November 2025.
Sixth Matchday 6: 9/10 December 2025.
Seventh Matchday 7: 20/21 January 2026.
Eighth Matchday 8: 28 January 2026.

✅  Knockout phase

Knockout phase play-offs: 17/18 & 24/25 February 2026.
Round of 16: 10/11 & 17/18 March 2026.
Quarter-finals: 7/8 & 14/15 April 2026.
Semi-finals: 28/29 April & 5/6 May 2026.
Final: 30 May 2026 (Budapest).

Match Officials Italy Serie A Week 2: Friday 29 to Sunday 31 August 2025

Match Officials Italy Serie A Week 2 / Second Round Referees, Assistants, Fourth officials, VAR, and AVAR.  2024-25 Italian Serie A Live Stats


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✅    Here are the match officials and fixtures for the Serie A Enilive Week 2 / Second Round on Friday 29, Saturday 30, and Sunday 31 August 2025 as designated by the Italian Referee Association (AIA).  Take a look at all 10 games along with their designated Referees, Assistants, Fourth Officials, VAR, and AVAR officials.

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🇮🇹   The Italian Referee Association (AIA) has designated the match officials for the Serie A Week 2 game Lecce vs AC Milan on Friday 29 August at the Via del Mare Stadium in Lecce, Italy at 20:45.

Referee Livio Marinelli from the Tivoli section will officiate the match. The assistant referees are Pietro Dei Giudici from the Latina section and Vito Mastrodonato from the Molfetta section. The Fourth Official is Alberto Ruben Arena from the Torre del Greco section. The VAR official is Davide Ghersini from the Genoa section. The AVAR is Francesco Meraviglia from the Pistoia section.

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Match Officials Italy Serie A Week 2: Friday 29 August 2025

CREMONESE – SASSUOLO
Giovanni Zini Stadium
Referee: GUIDA
Assistants: BARONE – MONACO
Fourth Official: CALZAVARA
VAR: GARIGLIO
AVAR: SOZZA
18:30

LECCE – MILAN
Via del Mare Stadium
Referee: MARINELLI
Assistants: DEI GIUDICI – MASTRODONATO
Fourth Official: ARENA
VAR: GHERSINI
AVAR: MERAVIGLIA
20:45

Match Officials Italy Serie A Week 2: Saturday 30 August 2025

BOLOGNA – COMO
Renato Dall’Ara Stadium
Referee: DOVERI
Assistants: PALERMO – CATALLO
Fourth Official: TREMOLADA
VAR: DI PAOLO
AVAR: PEZZUTO
18:30

PARMA – ATALANTA
Ennio Tardini Stadium
Referee: MARIANI
Assistants: BINDONI – TEGONI
Fourth Official: FERRIERI CAPUTI
VAR: AURELIANO
AVAR: PAIRETTO
18:30

NAPOLI – CAGLIARI
Diego Armando Maradona Stadium
Referee: BONACINA
Assistants: ROSSI C. – BAHRI
Fourth Official: MARCENARO
VAR: LA PENNA
AVAR: PATERNA
20:45

PISA – ROMA
Arena Garibaldi Romeo Anconetani
Referee: COLLU
Assistants: CECCONI – ROSSI M.
Fourth Official: MANGANIELLO
VAR: MERAVIGLIA
AVAR: MARESCA
20:45

Match Officials Italy Serie A Week 2: Sunday 31 August 2025

GENOA – JUVENTUS
Luigi Ferraris Stadium
Referee: CHIFFI
Assistants: MONDIN – FONTEMURATO
Fourth Official: FOURNEAU
VAR: PATERNA
AVAR: LA PENNA
18:30

TORINO – FIORENTINA
Olimpico di Torino Stadium
Referee: ABISSO
Assistants: PERETTI – PERROTTI
Fourth Official: AYROLDI
VAR: MAZZOLENI
AVAR: DIONISI
18:30

INTER – UDINESE
Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
Referee: MARCHETTI
Assistants: BACCINI – COLAROSSI
Fourth Official: ZUFFERLI
VAR: MARINI
AVAR: AURELIANO
20:45

LAZIO – HELLAS VERONA
Olimpico di Roma Stadium
Referee: CREZZINI
Assistants: COSTANZO – GARZELLI
Fourth Official: COLOMBO
VAR: PEZZUTO
AVAR: MARESCA
20:45

Thursday 28 August 2025: Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport

Thursday 28 August 2025: Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport


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✅   Greetings, my friends!  I present to you the latest front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, dated Thursday 28 August 2025.
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Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Thursday 28 August 2025

👉Monday closes: sprint for the strikers
Kolo
Here’s to you, Juve

PSG opens the deal: €60 million
The Bianconeri are now considering whether to say yes to the deal without Vlahovic’s departure.

👉 Draw at 18
Champions League
Italy goes all-out

Napoli and Inter threaten the big teams
Juventus and Atalanta can make it

👉No to Harder too
Nkunku assault by Milan

Dovbyk, plan B. And about Akanji and Rabiot …

👉Former Inter Milan owner
Moratti’s anxiety

He’s in intensive care
He has pneumonia

👉 Achille Polonara’s letter
“Me in the hospital wearing the Azzurri jersey.”

👉The aim is to get nine hits.
Conte waits for Hojlund and finds Elmas.

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Front Page Corriere dello Sport, Thursday 28 August 2025

👉Champions League
The draws for Napoli, Inter, Atalanta, and Juventus are at 18
English nightmare

In the Monte Carlo draw, Chivu is in pot one, Tudor and Juric in pot two, and Conte in pot three. From Liverpool to City, avoid the Premier League big teams. We begin on Tuesday, September 16th. Mourinho’s Fenerbahce has been eliminated.

👉 Discount and turning point
PSG lowers their asking price and the Bianconeri begin talking about the Frenchman

Kolo returns to the table
Juve, €60 million to bring Muani back from Tudor

Comolli is pushing for the striker even though Vlahovic continues to reject every offer and risks leaving for free in a year.

👉High costs for Rabiot, Chelsea’s Frenchman is closing in

Harder skips
AC Milan moves for Nkunku

👉Elmas, a wildcard for Conte

Returns after 600 days in Naples
Hojlund to the bitter end

👉Anxiety for former Inter president
Moratti admitted to intensive care

He is intubated in the hospital with pneumonia, but his condition is not critical

👉Tennis: US Open
Sinner at the Popyrin test

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Front Page Tutto Sport, Thursday 28 August 2025

👉 Champions League: Thrilling draw at 18 for the four Italian teams

👉 AC Milan is getting closer to making their bid for Vlahovic, Comolli sprint for the Frenchman.
Dusan to the Devil
Juve-Kolo!

Allegri’s push for the Serbian has convinced the Rossoneri, but the striker has yet to agree.
Juve raises their offer to PSG (€5 million for the loan, €55 million option to buy): Kolo Muani has never been so close to a return, regardless of Vlahovic.

👉Yildiz, what numbers!
Tudor always starts 1-0 with him.

👉The transfer window is winding down and gaps need to be filled.
Toro, a dangerous stalemate.
And for Cuesta, Vasco is interested.

Negotiations continue with Spartak for Coco, while the Brazilians are seeking an advance on the Colombian. Maripan and the accusations of revenge porn: “There’s an extortion plot against me.”

👉The sporting director and the sirens of Al Hilal
In defiance of Inter
Inzaghi tempts Ausilio

A huge offer and a call from the coach: the manager considers it. Pneumonia: Moratti in intensive care.

👉US Open / Three Italians who could face each other today
Sinner, Musetti, Cobolli
Looking forward to the derby

👉European Basketball Championship / Greece kicks off at 20:30
Italy is tough right from the start
Giant Giannis is there

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Wednesday 27 August 2025: Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport

Wednesday 27 August 2025: Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport


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✅   Greetings, my friends!  I present to you the latest front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, dated Wednesday 27 August 2025.
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Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Wednesday 27 August 2025

👉The young Croatian has won over the fans.
With him and Diouf, the Nerazzurri’s future is now.
Inter
Make way for Sucic

👉AC Milan turning point: ready to pounce on the Frenchman
AC Milan, here is Rabiot

Contact between the clubs: Marseille is asking for €15 million
Tottenham and Aston Villa are also in the running
The player’s mother and agent are buying time.

👉 He’ll earn €5 million
Hojlund’s final move
Elmas is one step away
Napoli has two more weapons

👉 Bianconere’s moves
Juventus
Money for Kolo

Savona on his way out
New attack on PSG’s striker

👉A reinforcement for Gasperini
George to Roma
Fiorentina signs Lindelof

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Front Page Corriere dello Sport, Wednesday 27 August 2025

👉 AC Milan is trying
A great connection between Allegri and the Frenchman
Max wants Rabiot

Adrien, cold relations with Marseille: Tare is making a move

Troubled relationship with De Zerbi and Olympique de Marseille
The Rossoneri sporting director has contacted the midfielder’s mother

👉Deal close to completion with United
Hojlund-Napoli final sprint

Negotiations over obligation to buy
Pressure on Leipzig for Elmas

👉 Tonali almost out
Friday, the squad for the matches against Estonia and Israel, Sandro suffers a shoulder injury

Italy: Chiesa warms up

👉Juve: Savona in the Premier League

Nottingham on the full-back: 18 million operations. Besiktas signs Tiago Djalo.

👉Roma pounce on George

Massara in London: Sancho says no, Chelsea attack on talent

👉Mourinho, a Champions League derby

Playoff return leg: Fenerbahce faces Benfica, after the 0-0 draw in Istanbul

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Front Page Tutto Sport, Wednesday 27 August 2025

👉US Open: They beat Kopriva and Opelka and already scare their opponents
Sinner and Alcaraz are scary

👉Comolli is negotiating with PSG, but no crazy moves…
Dusan is still there
Juve-Kolo
To the bitter end
And Vlahovic too!

The Bianconeri are also focusing on right-back: Savona, on his way to Nottingham Forest, opens the door to Martinez. Meanwhile, Tudor confirms Kalulu on the right, also against Genoa. Zhegrova is pushing for a move to Turin, but now there is Marseille.

👉Spartak on Coco
Cuesta is here to plug the hole

Toro must make amends after the humiliation in Milan. And Baroni raises his voice: “We should just be ashamed.”
The Maripan case

👉What a midfield rebus
Milan, after Harder, here’s Rabiot to relaunch Max.

Allegri wants his protégé: The key against Marseille is Bennacer. The Danish striker is on the way.

👉The Croatian enchants on his debut
Inter are now enjoying Sucic and thanking Torino

In 2021, the talented player was on trial with the Primavera but was rejected by Torino’s management.

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