Champions League, Europa League and Conference League restart on Sky

Champions League, Europa League and Conference League are ready to go again. From Tuesday, September 16 on Sky and streaming on NOW, the nights dedicated to the three UEFA competitions distributed over 53 major evenings return, for a unique adventure that will embrace a total of no less than 527 live matches. It starts with the queen, the UEFA Champions League, with the new format that a year ago multiplied spectacle, thrills and excitement, with more matches and more clashes between the big names already from the first day. On Sky you can live exclusively 185 of the 203 matches of the 2025/2026 season, up to the final in Budapest on May 30, 2026. All 203 matches will then be available in full on Sky Business, thanks to the agreement signed with Amazon Prime Video: in bars and hotels it will thus also be possible to watch Wednesday’s best match.

Same successful format for UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League, the two Thursday competitions exclusively on Sky with all 342 matches, also available thanks to Diretta Gol. Great expectations for the 7 Italian teams protagonists of the European adventure: Napoli, Inter, Atalanta and Juventus in UEFA Champions League, Roma and Bologna in UEFA Europa League, Fiorentina in UEFA Conference League.

The maximum editorial commitment for a link, the one between Sky and the UEFA Cups, that will last until 2027: the coverage of the European weeks for fans and enthusiasts will be complete and capillary, starting from training sessions, with news and live interviews of the 7 Italian teams and the top international teams, for a long pre-match that will reach the immediate eve of the matches. So it will be an Oscar season, as also suggested by the new campaign signed by the Sky Creative Agency, on air these weeks on TV and digital. The protagonists are Oscar®-winning director Paolo Sorrentino and Sky’s voice of soccer Fabio Caressa, who meet in an empty, nocturnal San Siro stadium. Under the spotlight, the dialogue between the two is suspended between soccer and cinema, between unpredictability and pure talent. While Sorrentino confesses to Caressa the impossibility of writing a script about the UEFA Champions League, which is too unpredictable and full of twists and turns, images of the most exciting moments of the past season scroll by. The message is clear and direct: the UEFA Champions League is the most unpredictable show in the world.

Appointment on Tuesday, September 16, for the first day of the “League Phase” of the UEFA Champions League, a single 36-team round with fascinating challenges and uncertain verdicts until the last minute of the final day, as last season proved. On the two evenings a week dedicated to the most prestigious of the European Cups, Tuesdays and Wednesdays – also on Thursday, September 18 in the opening week – Champions League Show will be the studio that will accompany and comment on the matches. It will be hosted by the Queen of Europe Federica Masolin, who in the early stages of the tournament will be temporarily replaced by Sara Benci, for the 6 p.m. studio, and Mario Giunta for the evening pre-match and post-match. It will be Giunta who will take care of the moments dedicated to statistics and in-depth reports throughout the season.

During Champions League Show, along with the permanent presence of first signing Paolo Condò, the many soccer legends who make up the Sky Sport team will take turns. A dream team that boasts as many as 37 continental trophies in its trophy cabinet: Fabio Capello, Zvonimir Boban, Alessandro Del Piero, Beppe Bergomi, Alessandro Costacurta, Faouzi Ghoulam, Paolo Di Canio, Luca Marchegiani, Riccardo Montolivo, Massimo Gobbi, Walter Zenga, Michele Padovano, Giancarlo Marocchi, Lorenzo Minotti, Fabio Quagliarella, Aldo Serena and Nando Orsi, with new arrivals that will further enrich the team during the season, such as Luca Gotti, an active coach who joins the team, bringing his tactical analyses directly from the field. Sky Sport’s team correspondents will be at work on the pitches, including Gianluca Di Marzio, Giorgia Cenni and Gianluigi Bagnulo, as well as the correspondents who follow the day-to-day life of Italian clubs in the European Cups.

The team will also be on the pitch.

Thursdays, on the other hand, will be the day of the UEFA Europa League, kicking off exceptionally on Wednesday, September 24, and the UEFA Conference League, which will start on October 2. Accompanying the pre-match and post-match coverage of the 342 matches will be the work of Sky Sport’s editorial staff and authoritative commentary by journalists Stefano De Grandis, Marco Bucciantini, and Gianfranco Teotino, with Mario Giunta and Vittoria Orlando anchoring the news space for all of the day’s insights.

The long evenings of European football will be the day of the UEFA Europa League, which will start on Wednesday, Sept. 24, and the UEFA Conference League, which will start on Oct. 2.

Sky Sport’s long European evenings continue at the end of studios with Goleador Europa, the recap of all goals scored on continental pitches, hosted by Martina Quaranta. On Thursday, however, to close the three continental days, After Party-Best of Europe returns, the program that from 11:30 p.m. goes over in an hour what happened on the field, with commentaries and highlights of the best plays, the first balance sheets, and Lisa Offside to tell the behind-the-scenes stories from her privileged perspective a few inches from the playing fields.

The tale of European competitions does not end in the three days of live matches. In the House of Sport, coverage is always rich and extensive thanks to the all news channel Sky Sport 24, which throughout the week provides news, commentary and updates directly from the retreats of the Italian teams and major international clubs, not to mention the daily 2 p.m. Euro Show, hosted by Valentina Mariani and Niccolò Omini.

All with the finest technology including the use of augmented reality and artificial intelligence on the field, with the viewer having the feeling of being immersed 360 degrees in the sporting event thanks also to the use of the rail cam that we saw at work during the Inter-Barcelona semifinal last May. Making its debut in the European studios is Sky Sport Skill, which features the key individual plays of the top players, putting the stellar technique of the players on the field at the center of the story. Technique but also tactics, with the support of Sky Sport Tech, the tool that allows you to enter the schemes thought up by the coaches.