Premier League clubs set to start Champions League campaigns

Daniel Wales looks at the four Premier League clubs’ first fixture in this season’s Champions League.

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00:00This year's Champions League sees the competition take up a different format for the first time,

00:05with teams playing a different opponent at home or away on every matchday.

00:09Having finished 4th in the Premier League, Aston Villa are making their return to Europe's

00:13elite competition. This is the first time they have played in the newly rebranded Champions

00:17League, having last appeared in the European Cup in 1983. They travel to Switzerland to

00:22face young boys in their first match.

00:25Six times Champions League winners Liverpool face a trip to the San Siro to come up against

00:29seven times Champions League winners AC Milan. On Wednesday, Manchester City will play host

00:35to Inter Milan, a repeat of the 2023 final, in which a second-half goal from Rodrigues

00:40saw Manchester City win their first Champions League title in a stand ball.

00:45Finally, on Thursday, Arsenal, fresh from their North London derby win, take a trip

00:50to Bergamo in Italy to face another Serie A side in Atalanta. Mikel Arteta will want

00:55his side to go far into the Champions League this year.