Champions League Predictions & Betting Tips
The 2023/2024 Champions League proper is about to get 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.Latest Price Boosts
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Claim HereAfter four qualifying rounds, we are down to the 32 teams that will be taking part in the Champions League group stage. There have already been some familiar names to fall, with Genk, Sparta Prague, Marseille and Rangers dropping out.
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.
Among the other teams expected to challenge are Bayern Munich and PSG – both of whom won their domestic leagues in the previous season despite going through something of a transitional period. Could better preparation this time around help them take on the Citizens?
La Liga giants Barcelona and Real Madrid will always expect to reach the latter stages as a minimum, while Premier League outfit Arsenal will be hoping to announce their return to the top table of European football with a bang following a six-year absence.
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
2023/24 Champions League schedule
- Matchday 1: 19/20 September 2023
- Matchday 2: 3/4 October 2023
- Matchday 3: 24/25 October 2023
- Matchday 4: 7/8 November 2023
- Matchday 5: 28/29 November 2023
- Matchday 6: 12/13 December 2023
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Claim HereChampions League 2023/2024 odds
| Club | Paddy Power | Sky Bet |
| Manchester City | 2/1 | 9/4 |
| Bayern Munich | 11/2 | 11/2 |
| Real Madrid | 8/1 | 15/2 |
| Arsenal | 10/1 | 10/1 |
| PSG | 12/1 | 12/1 |
| Barcelona | 14/1 | 14/1 |
| Man Utd | 20/1 | 20/1 |
| Inter Milan | 20/1 | 22/1 |
| Atletico Madrid | 25/1 | 22/1 |
| Newcastle | 25/1 | 25/1 |
| Napoli | 25/1 | 28/1 |
| Borussia Dortmund | 50/1 | 66/1 |
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The Champions League group stages are about to get underway and odds are widely available with Sky Bet and Paddy Power 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 frontrunners, but with former winner Thomas Tuchel at the helm, Bayern Munich are expected to be among the teams competing at 11/2 – as are Real Madrid, the most successful team in the competition’s history, at 8/1.
Arsenal are then priced at 10/1 thanks to a pretty favourable group, but PSG saw their odds lengthen after being drawn alongside Newcastle, AC Milan and Borussia Dortmund.
Man Utd have also been given an interesting group, drawn against Bayern Munich, FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray.
UCL Main Dates
| Stage | Draw Date | First Game/Leg | Last Game/Leg |
| Group Stages | 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…
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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.
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