Europe’s biggest clubs have wasted little time asserting themselves in the 2026-27 Champions League, with Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona and Bayern Munich among the teams already setting the pace after matchday one.
Alongside that leading trio, Arsenal, Liverpool, Real Madrid and Manchester City also opened with victories. Côme, meanwhile, made an impressive entrance into the competition with a historic and thoroughly deserved win over Leipzig.
For Belgium’s sole representative, Club Brugge paid heavily for first-half errors in their opening defeat to Aston Villa. The Blauw en Zwart will need to put that right in a month’s time on the next matchday, when they travel to Inter Milan. That will not be an easy task.
In purely table terms, the picture after one round is straightforward: the winners are at the top, the losers are down below. Only two matches ended level across the 18 fixtures played.
The source does not give a full standings list, but it is clear that the early leaders are the clubs that began with victories, with Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona and Bayern Munich among them.