Quickest goal of the second half

Champions league 2024-25 season, duel 1, night 1 out of 3:

Juventus - Psv 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 21 Kenan Yildiz

               2:0 27 Weston McKennie

               3:0 52 Nicolas Gonzalez

               3:1 90+3 Ismael Saibari

Young boys Bern - Aston villa 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 27 Youri Tielemans

               0:2 37 Jacob Ramsey

               0:3 85 Amadou Onana

Sporting - Lille 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 38 (37.51) Victor Gyokeres

               2:0 65 (64.30) Zeno Debast

- Visiting midfielder Angel Gomes on 39 received his second yellow card.

Real Madrid - Stuttgart 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 46 (45.22) Kylian Mbappe

               1:1 67 (67.03) Deniz Undav

               2:1 83 (82.26) Antonio Rudiger

               3:1 90+5 (94.57) Endrick de Sousa

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Removed from football for life

Just hours before the national team played a World Cup elimination game for 2026 against Saudi Arabia, in Dalian was revealed that the Chinese football association has removed 43 people from football. In an investigation that lasted 2 years they were accused of online gambling, match fixing together with bribery, while in this case was involved 120 duels, 128 criminal suspects and 41 football clubs. Out of those 38 professional players and 5 club officials will not be active in this sport anymore while 17 others have received bans on 5 years.

Punished who were removed for life are Chinese internationals and one South Korean player (Son Jun-ho).

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Official start of the 2024-25 season

With a new format and set of rules it begins the second part (after qualifiers) of the 2024-25 season at the 3 international European tournaments, and this time is without the famous group stages as all clubs are put into one, single table. Earlier each one of them has kick offed continuously for 3 nights, but from this year every competition will start week after another. If anything is not clear we have to adapt to the new system for many years to come.

First in turn is the Champions league who has 1 novelty: instead of 2 there will be 3 consecutive nights of play.

Tuesday, 17 September at 18.45 CEt: Juventus - Psv.

Tuesday, 17 September at 18.45 CEt: Young boys Bern - Aston villa.

Tuesday, 17 September at 21.00 CEt: Bayern - Dinamo Zagreb.

Tuesday, 17 September at 21.00 CEt: Milan - Liverpool.

Tuesday, 17 September at 21.00 CEt: Real Madrid - Stuttgart.

Tuesday, 17 September at 21.00 CEt: Sporting - Lille.

Wednesday, 18 September at 18.45 CEt: Bologna - Shakhtar.

Wednesday, 18 September at 18.45 CEt: Sparta Praha - Red bull Salzburg.

Wednesday, 18 September at 21.00 CEt: Celtic - Slovan.

Wednesday, 18 September at 21.00 CEt: Club Brugge - Borussia Dortmund.

Wednesday, 18 September at 21.00 CEt: Manchester city - Inter.

Wednesday, 18 September at 21.00 CEt: Psg - Girona.

Thursday, 19 September at 18.45 CEt: Crvena zvezda - Benfica.

Thursday, 19 September at 18.45 CEt: Fyenoord - Bayer.

Thursday, 19 September at 21.00 CEt: Atalanta - Arsenal.

Thursday, 19 September at 21.00 CEt: Atletico Madrid - Rasenballsport Leipzig.

Thursday, 19 September at 21.00 CEt: Monaco - Barcelona.

Thursday, 19 September at 21.00 CEt: Stade Brestois - Sturm.

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Agreement was reached

On Wednesday the deal was made with the Serbian football association and Partizan for Maccabi Tel Aviv to use their stadium where they will play the Europa league competition for its home duels. The club has also announced that at all their away games in Belgrade are going to be present spectators.

At neutral terrain they are going to welcome Midtjylland, Real Sociedad, Rigas futbola shkola and Porto, and the first game on this arena will be on 03 October.

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Lowered prices for the away fans

From 2019 those spectators who travelled to see their favourite club away from home had to give away of up to 70 euros for the tickets in each of the 2 European international competitions (later came the third event).

Starting from the upcoming Tuesday this number will change. At the beginning of last week the organization has announced that the maximum prices for tickets for the guests will have to cost 60 euros for the Champions league, 40 at Europa league and the entry papers for the visiting fans in Conference league are going to be 20 euros.

Starting from next season (2025-26) the Champions league tickets are going to be valued at 50 euros, 35 euros would cost the Europa league tournament, while for the Conference league the price for the entry paper for the guests remains the same of 20.

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