Stream UCL on CBS All Access
Watch Champions League live on CBS All Access.
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The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is one of the most prestigious tournaments in all of soccer. It determines who’s the best club in Europe and is the trophy every side covets.
Bayern Munich are the defending champions heading into the 2020/21 tournament, defeating Paris Saint-Germain in the final of last season’s coronavirus-impacted competition for their sixth title overall.
Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester City, Juventus, PSG, Chelsea and Atletico are among the teams competing for this year’s crown. The tournament has been pushed back about a month due to last year’s delayed finish. The 2021 final will be at the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul, the original venue for last year’s final before that was moved to Portugal.
In July 2020, CBS Sports announced a multi-platform deal to become the exclusive English-language rights holder for the UEFA Champions League, Europa League and Super Cup, plus the new UEFA Europa Conference League, a competition planned for 2021. The deal starts with the remainder of the 2019/20 Champions League through 2024.
Watch Champions League live on CBS All Access.
Stream UCL on CBS All Access
Every Champions League match will be shown on CBS’s streaming service, CBS All Access. The standard CBS television channel and CBS Sports Network will also show select games, but CBS All Access will be the place to be for European soccer fans.
There will also be additional programming, prime-time replays to suit a US audience and much more in an exciting development for CBS and American fans of the sport. CBS All Access is available with commercials for $5.99 or commercial-free at $7.99 a month. Both subscriptions get you access to a range of shows, movies and sports.
Best of all CBS All Access comes with a 7-day free trial. To find out more you can see our CBS All Access review.
The tournament has several different preliminary and qualifying rounds, but the real fun begins in the group stage with 32 teams. Clubs are divided equally into eight different groups, with teams seeded before the draw. Each team plays its group opponents in a home-and-away, round-robin format.
The group stage is traditionally played from September to December and is held over six match days. Teams from the same nations are also split up to ensure parity. After the group stage, the UCL progresses to the knockout phase, which usually begins in February and is contested by 16 clubs.
The 16 teams who finished as the top 2 in each group advance and play matches over 2 legs. Those who finished in third place in their group enter the UEFA Europa League. The knockout phase begins with the round of 16 and sees the 8 group winners seeded against the 8 runners-up.
At this point, teams still can’t be drawn against clubs from the same country or who were previously in their group. Then from the quarter-finals onwards, there are no restrictions on who will play each other through to the semi-finals and final.
The final will be held on May 29, 2021 at Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul. This was the original venue for the 2020 final before it was moved to Estádio da Luz in Lisbon as last season’s tournament was completed in Portugal.
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