Dundee, Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Ross County, St Johnstone and St Mirren will each take in £1.6m in solidarity payments due to Celtic's Champions League qualification, with Aberdeen and Dundee United receiving £1m and £650,

They might have only played one of their eight group games, but Celtic fans will already be wondering what it will take to progress in the Champions League. Wednesday's 5-1 victory over Slovan Bratislava was the club's biggest ever in the competition and the first time they had opened a league phase or group campaign with three points.

Celtic’s Adam Idah celebrates scoring his side's fifth goal of the game. Pic: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire. The new Champions League format has capacity to bruise egos. Few teams finishing bottom of a section of four are likely to invite ridicule.

Matchday 1 of the Champions League has come to an end and what a matchday it was. Barcelona dropped points, Manchester City and Arsenal failed to win and there were some banner results already. Bayern Munich scored nine goals to move to number one in our power rankings but how did the other teams around UCL do?

Bayern Munich sit atop of the Champions League table following the first round of fixtures this week. Vincent Kompany’s men hammered Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 at home on Tuesday night. It has been a good start for German clubs,

The first round of Champions League matches continued on Wednesday as PSG bemoaned a laborious performance, Man City and Inter played out a 0-0 draw and Shakhtar Donetsk showed national pride.

The 0-0 draws between Manchester City and Inter Milan in their rematch of the 2023 final, after Bologna and Shakhtar Donetsk also could not find a goal, capped an untypically goal-shy evening for the Champions League on Wednesday.

Manchester City opened their Champions League campaign with a goalless draw against Inter Milan on Wednesday. Eilidh Barbour, Chris Sutton, John Murray and James Horncastle review the match on the Champions League Debrief,