2026/26 UEFA Champions League outright winner predictions with 125/1 longshot!
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Paris Saint-Germain were sent off as Champions League favourites last season and duly obliged, leaving punters to wonder whether recent history is about to repeat itself.
Last season’s ride to the title wasn’t the smoothest for Luis Enrique’s men but they got better and better as the tournament evolved and by the end were the worthiest of winners.
The French aces head the betting again but as one of six clubs priced between 5-1 and 9-1 with some firms, clearly the layers expect battle to be fierce over the coming months.
2026/27 Champions League winner odds
- PSG – 5/1
- Arsenal – 6/1
- Barcelona – 6/1
- Bayern Munich – 6/1
- Real Madrid – 13/2
- Manchester City – 9/1
- Liverpool – 12/1
- Manchester United – 20/1
*All odds correct as of 28th August on bet365
2026/27 Champions League outright predictions
Champions League outright winner prediction – Arsenal at 6/1
You’ll never win anything challenging on two fronts, they said. You’ll never win anything playing the way you do, they sniped.
Arsenal proved the doubters wrong with the latter, almost wrong with the former and stronger this season than they were last, expect the Gunners to have a real shot at going one better in Europe.
Mikel Arteta’s men were simply fabulous in the Champions League last year, winning all eight group games – 3-1 wins over Inter Milan and Bayern and a 4-0 drubbing of Atletico the highlights – and gutsily squeezing past Leverkusen, Sporting and Atletico before succumbing to PSG in the final in Budapest.
That game finished 1-1 and went to penalties but we all know it was a mismatch.
Arteta knows, therefore, the gap between his side and PSG needs to close and shrewd summer transfer work might have enabled him to do that.
The arrivals of Ezri Konsa, Bruno Guimaraes and Christos Tzolis add quality and, critically, depth and if Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka can stay injury free – something the Norwegian wasn’t often enough – then there is everything to like about this most solid of groups.
You absolutely can challenge on two fronts – Arsenal have proved that and bear a Premier League winner’s rosette as proof.
The next step is conquering Europe and having come so close on May 30 take them to get it right this time.
Champions League outright winner alternative – Real Madrid at 13/2
The final is in Madrid next spring and a Madrid side may well be there.
Real, 15-time winners, were quarter-finalists last year when they went out in a shooting spree against Bayern Munich and they look better equipped this time.
Jose Mourinho, a two-time winner of the tournament with two different clubs, is back at the helm and whether or not that is a positive will forever be debated.
But just look at the group of players at The Special One’s disposal.
That front three of Jude Bellingham playing in and around Vinicius Junior and the extraordinary Kylian Mbappe, with any of Arda Guler, Endrick, Yan Diomande, Rodrygo and so on and so on, makes mouths water.
Mourinho has also looked to improve them defensively though the likes of full-backs Denzel Dumfries and Marc Cucurella will do far more bombing forward than sitting back in this team.
Champions League longshot prediction – PSV Eindhoven at 125/1
It is desperately hard to make a case for sides outside the top six.
Inter Milan, possibly, at 28-1 or Atletico at 40-1 given Diego Simeone’s men have become such a major player in Europe.
Three-figure runners are clearly easier to ignore but PSV have a puncher’s chance and will be desperate to avenge last season’s flop when they finished 28th in the league phase despite scoring more goals than Man City.
This was a team capable of thrashing Napoli 6-2 and Liverpool (away) 4-1, but a 3-0 loss at Newcastle in between home losses to Atletico and Bayern did for them. This time round, their draw looks far easier and if nine points is the benchmark then it is easy enough to see them getting those from home games against Brugge and Shakhtar with a trip to newcomers Viking a massive plus.
Peter Bosz has held on to last season’s top scorer Ricardo Pepi and added defensive quality in Filip Kostic and Lutsharel Geertruida.
Guus Til, Sergino Dest and Ivan Perisic are big players in a team who should make the top 24 and, with a kindly draw, have a slim chance of outrunning their odds.
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