He Real Madrid He has reached the break with good feelings and as the first division leader, but new challenges already arise on the horizon such as the Champions League that starts in this month of September and so that Xabi Alonso He has already given his list of selected for the European competition. The 40 players who complete the payroll of the coach in Europe are already known with surprise in the goal.
Xabi Alonso’s chosen for the Champions League
Xabi Alonso already has its 40 chosen to play the Champions League. UEFA has already published the teams of the teams and in that of Real Madrid there is a surprise in goal. The novelty affects the goal, where Thibaut Courtois, Lunin and Fran García binds the youth Javi Navarro instead of Sergio Mestre, a usual in the calls of the first team.
In the rest of the call there are no surprises with 15 defenses, five of them from Castilla: Fortea, Diego Aguado, David Jiménez, Joan Martínez and Valdepeñas. In Centro del Campo, 7 Canteranos enter: Pol Fortuny, Manuel Ángel, César Palacios, Cristian David, of Llanos and the youth Thiago Pitarch. Finally, in the attack only one canterano: Dani Yáñez.
This is the complete list:
Goalkeepers: Courtois, Lunin, Fran González and Javi Navarro.
Defenses: Carvajal, Militao, Alaba, Trent, Asencio, Carreras, Fran García, Rüdiger, Mendy, Huijsen, Diego Aguado, Fortea, David Jiménez, Joan Martínez and Valdepeñas.
Midfielders: Bellingham, Valverde, Güler, Eyeshakes, Cester,
Front: Vinicius, edrick, Mbapé, Rodrygo, Gonzalo, Brahim, Mastantuono and Yáñez.
Hard group for Real Madrid
Those are the ‘soldiers’ of Xabi Alonso for a competition that starts in a few weeks and that for the phase of Liguilla has provided a complicated group for the white team. The fate of the draw was not on the side of Real Madrid that will be measured to five European champions, while, in addition, it has to make a 7,000 km trip to Kazakhstan.
Xabi Alonso’s team will not have an easy league by measuring even Manchester City (Santiago Bernabéu), Liverpool (outside), Juventus (Santiago Bernabéu), Benfica (outside), Marseille (Santiago Bernabéu), Olympiacos (outside), Monaco (Santiago Bernabéu) and Kaira (outside).
In this phase of Liguilla the first eight will be classified directly to the round of 16 with the privilege of then always playing the return at home, while the teams that occupy the positions from 9th to 24th will face a double game. The remaining 12 teams (25-36) will be eliminated from the competition.
The Real Madrid calendar in Champions
The Champions League starts in this month of September and will last until next January. For Real Madrid, the starting gun will be on September 16, while his last duel of this first phase of the competition will dispute it on January 28.
- September 16: Real Madrid vs Olympique de Marseille (21:00)
- September 30: Kaira Almath vs Real Madrid (18:45)
- October 22: Real Madrid vs Juventus (21:00)
- November 4: Liverpool vs Real Madrid (21:00)
- November 26: Olympiacos vs Real Madrid (21:00)
- December 10: Real Madrid vs Manchester City (21:00)
- January 20, 2026: Real Madrid vs As Monaco (21:00)
- January 28, 2026: SL Benfica vs Real Madrid (21:00)
