The 2023/2024 Champions League proper is underway with the group stage. As always, the Squawka Bet team will bring you our Champions league betting tips for Europe’s most prestigious club competition.
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We are four matchdays into the 2023/24 Champions League group stages and we are starting to see which sides look likely to go far into the competition.
Champions League 2023/2024 Predictions
After finally securing their first Champions League trophy last season by beating Inter Milan 0-1 in the final in Istanbul, Manchester City are again the favourites to lift the trophy in 2024 with most bookmakers offering odds as short as 2/1 on the Citizens at the time of writing.
Pep Guardiola’s side have picked up right where they left off last season, beating Crvena Zvezda, RB Leipzig and Young Boys to extend their unbeaten run in Europe to 17 matches, the longest run for English teams in European Cup/Champions League history
The Citizens are one of three sides with a 100% record in this seasons Champions League alongside Pep’s former side Bayern and his former El Clasico rivals and 14 time winners Real Madrid.
Bayern, now with the added firepower of Harry Kane, saw off Manchester United 4-3 in their opening game, before coming from behind against FC Copenhagen, where they set a record in the competition for consecutive away group games avoiding defeat (18 – W16 D2), overtaking Barcelona’s run of 17 between November 2006 and October 2012. Back-to-back wins over Galatasaray also extended their unbeaten run in the group stages to 38 matches (35 wins).
LaLiga giants Real Madrid have also made a perfect start, with Los Blancos yet to concede at home so far this campaign.
Newcastle provided the shock of the tournament so far, beating PSG 4-1 in their first UCL match at St. James’ Park in over 20 years, but were brought back down to earth with back-to-back defeats against Dortmund without scoring a single goal.
2023/24 Champions League group stage draw
Group A: Bayern Munich, Man Utd, FC Copenhagen, Galatasaray
Group B: Sevilla, Arsenal, PSV, Lens
Group C: Napoli, Real Madrid, Braga, Union Berlin
Group D: Benfica, Inter Milan, Red Bull Salzburg, Real Sociedad
Group E: Feyenoord, Atletico Madrid, Lazio, Celtic
Group F: PSG, Borussia Dortmund, AC Milan, Newcastle
Group G: Man City, RB Leipzig, Crvena zvezda, BSC Young Boys
Group H: Barcelona, Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk, Royal Antwerp
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The Champions League group stages are underway and odds are widely available with Bet365, Sky Bet and Midnite for the upcoming campaign.
Manchester City, perhaps unsurprisingly, are comfortably the favourites to lift the trophy at 2/1 as things stand. Pep Guardiola finally ended his long wait to win a third Champions League trophy as a manager by leading the Citizens to their first ever success in the competition in 2023.
Beaten finalists Inter Milan are not expected to be among the front runners, but with former winner Thomas Tuchel at the helm and the summer acquisition of Harry Kane, Bayern Munich are expected to be among the teams competing at 4/1 – as are Real Madrid, the most successful team in the competition’s history, at 13/2.
Arsenal are then priced at 8/1 thanks to a pretty favourable group, despite slipping up against Lens, but PSG saw their odds lengthen to 16/1 after their 4-1 thrashing at St. James’ Park, since coming back in to 14/1.
Man Utd have also been given an interesting group, drawn against Bayern Munich, FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray, but currently sit bottom after losing of three their opening four matches.
UCL Main Dates
Stage
Draw Date
First Game/Leg
Last Game/Leg
Group Stages
31st August
19th September
13th December
Round of 16
18th December
13th February
13th March
Quarter Final
15th March
9th April
17th April
Semi Final
15th March
30th April
8th May
Final
15th March
1st June 2024 – Wembley Stadium
Squawka’s Champions League experts
For millions of readers monthly, Squawka is the place to come for the latest news, views and, most importantly, stats for the Champions League and beyond.
Our team of experts is made up of some of the most clued-up and football-obsessed writers, with backgrounds in betting and journalism, combining our use of the stats with our own knowledge.
Which is why, throughout the Champions League action, we’ll be bringing you all of our best bets as well as our most informed stats-based previews, picking out carefully selected and data-driven bets.
When do Squawka release their Champions League Predictions?
We aim to have you covered with our Champions League match-by-match tips on this very page at least 24 hours in advance of the fixtures being played and we’ll look to be equally prepared with any accumulator tips that we post for these games.
Our match previews will be posted as early as possible ahead of the relevant fixture and will include all the information you need ahead of placing your bet including the best odds, stats, predictions, team news and of course our specially selected, data-driven best bets for the games.
What betting markets are popular for the Champions League?
Full-time results
There’s no more popular market to use your Champions League betting tips on than full-time results and score lines.
As each game doles up different opponents, varying playing styles, and fluctuating form, you’ll have the chance to work out what the final scoreboard will look like.
Both teams to score
Simple really – both teams must score for a BTTS bet to payout, and that’s regardless of who wins the game at the end of the 90 minutes, making it one of the more popular wagers to use with those Champions League betting tips.
This also counts for extra time goals and penalty permutations, which will come in handy in the final, so keep your eyes peeled.
Over 2.5 goals
Whereas you need both teams to find the net in a both teams to score bet, you only need a certain amount of goals to be scored in an overs or unders bet, giving you the chance of winning even if one team fails to score.
You can change the parameters on how many goals you wish to bet on there to be scored on this kind of bet, so if you’re expecting a goal fest then why not go for over 3.5 or even over 4.5? All you need is that amount of goals to be scored for your bet to be a winner.
Player total shots
Here you’ll be able to forecast how many shots you think any given player will rack up over the match, normally as an under/over wager.
Last season, it was the likes of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Erling Haaland who were racking up the shots and putting the opposition keeper to the test.
Bookings
The man leading the all-time charts is none other than Sergio Ramos, unsurprisingly, with 40 to his name. No fewer than nine players were booked four times last season in the Champions League, with only one of those nine – AC Milan’s Fikayo Tomori – also receiving a red card.
Goalscorer markets
You can back on all kinds of goalscoring markets – first goalscorer, last goalscorer, anytime goalscorer, or even to score two or more goals or a hat-trick. Unsurprisingly, the man leading the goalscoring charts last season was Manchester City’s Erling Haaland who ended the campaign with 12 – four more than his closest rival, Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah.
This week’s Champions League predictions
There are plenty more wagers still yet to place, especially on all of this week’s action, which will give you all the opportunities to put those Champions League betting tips to use. So, without further ado…
Price boosts are one way to get ahead of the betting game, especially considering that most major bookmakers will be offering these on every game of the 2023/2024 Champions League campaign – or at least once we reach the group stages.
All the big games will have price boosts on them including new customer offers at massive enhanced odds and existing customer price boosts.
Best bookmakers for Betting on the Champions League
There are many bookies out there that’ll be offering competitive odds, specials, and Champions League betting tips on all the action. Yet few provide a comprehensive online betting experience for you to hoot about. So, we’ve sorted through the lot and listed the creme of the crop below:
We don’t just provide tips and predictions for the Champions League action. You’ll see the same love and dedication for this particular European competition applied to all the other major leagues and tournaments too.
Here are some of the other competitions we cover:
There are always plenty of Champions League free bets and offers doing the rounds as the action hots up.
Fortunately, once the big teams are sussed out, these offers normally involve them, from specials to price boosts offering huge enhanced odds on the biggest favourites.
So, make sure to stay in the loop with all the Squawka Bet Champions League betting tips, free bets and much more for this year’s campaign.
