Champions League Predictions & Betting Tips
The 2024/25 Champions League returns for the new season but with a whole new format. As always, the Squawka Bet team will bring you our Champions league betting tips for Europe’s most prestigious club competition.ArsenalPSG
Arsenal showed their class against Real Madrid in the quarter finals and with the return to fitness of Bukayo Saka, they can take an advantage into the second leg in France. PSG were beaten 3-2 at Villa Park and have failed to keep a clean sheet in seven of their last eight matches across all compeitions.
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A new format might be confusing to some but it’s sure to bring some exciting match ups over the coming months. Get the latest predictions and betting tips for the next stage of Europe’s premier club competition here.
Champions League 2024/25 Predictions
It was yet another Galactico masterclass last season, with Real Madrid picking up yet another Champions League title, this time at the expense of Borussia Dortmund.
Carlo Ancelotti’s men were able to extend their record of European Cup wins, claiming their 15th title. It was the final season with the 32 team, eight group format with big changes ahead of the 24/25 season.
This season will see one 36 team league, with each side playing eight games to determine their finishing position within the league. The eight sides that finish highest will advance to the knockout phase, with the other eight teams being made up of the sides that finished between 9th and 24th in the league stage.
Those sides will face each other in a preliminary knockout round for the right to advance to the knockout stage proper.
2024/25 Champions League schedule
- League phase Matchday One: 17-19 September 2024
- League phase Matchday Two: 1-2 October 2024
- League phase Matchday Three: 22-23 October 2024
- League phase Matchday Four: 5-6 November 2024
- League phase Matchday Five: 26-27 November 2024
- League phase Matchday Six: 1-11 December 2024
- League phase Matchday Seven: 21-22 January 2025
- League phase Matchday Eight: 29 January 2025
- Preliminary Knockout Round First Leg: 11-12 February 2025
- Preliminary Knockout Round Second Leg: 18-19 February 2025
- Round of 16 First Leg: 4-5 March 2025
- Round of 16 Second Leg: 11-12 March 2025
- Quarter-Final First Leg: 8-9 April 2025
- Quarter-Final Second Leg: 15-16 April 2025
- Semi-Final First Leg: 29-30 April 2025
- Semi-Final Second Leg: 6-7 May 2025
- Final: 31 May 2025
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Champions League 2024/25 odds
Manchester City, perhaps unsurprisingly, are comfortably the favourites to lift the trophy at 5/2 as things stand.
Beaten finalists Inter Milan are not expected to be among the front runners, but with Harry Kane up front, Bayern Munich are expected to be among the teams competing at 12/1 – as are Real Madrid, the most successful team in the competition’s history, at 3/1.
Arsenal are then priced at 9/1 but PSG saw their odds lengthen to 16/1 after coming up short in the semi-final last season.
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 Harry Kane 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.
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.
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 2024/25 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:
What other competitions do you offer tips for?
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:
Champions League Offers & Free Bets
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.