Champions League Matchday 2: 13–14 October 2026

UEFA.com’s 2026/27 season guide (10 September 2026) puts league-phase matchday 2 on 13/14 October 2026. Dates can still change, and the club list is provisional until final admittance. Below are the 18 pairings three public schedules print, the clocks in UTC, UK time and US Eastern, and the UK windows Radio Times named. This is not a channel inventory.

The weekend of 10–12 October is a different competition. Premier League planning stays on the Premier League 2026-27 page.

Which 18 fixtures are on the card?

Sporting News prints the league-phase list and says UEFA confirmed it on 29 August. Radio Times (3 September 2026) and CBS Sports (27 September 2026) print the same pairings. A row is included only where those three agree.

Venues follow Sporting News, which also places Shakhtar’s home games at Stamford Bridge and Betis’s at La Cartuja during the Villamarín renovation. Those two notes were not re-checked on a club site.

Tuesday 13 October 2026

Wednesday 14 October 2026

Seven matches share the late slot. Tuesday’s English ties there are Arsenal vs Lille and Atlético Madrid vs Manchester United. On Wednesday, Liverpool play LASK in the early slot; Aston Villa and Manchester City (home to Paris Saint-Germain) are late.

What time is kick-off in UTC, the UK and the US?

Sporting News labels the early game 18:45 and the late game 21:00, and it calls that label CET. Radio Times says “all UK time” and prints 5:45pm and 8pm. CBS Sports prints 12:45 p.m. and 3 p.m. AS USA labels the same slots 12:45 p.m. ET and 3:00 p.m. ET.

The UK is on British Summer Time until 25 October, one hour ahead of UTC, so 5:45pm is 16:45 UTC and 8pm is 19:00 UTC. US Eastern daylight time runs until 1 November, four hours behind UTC, which is 12:45 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. Eastern.

Paris, Madrid, Rome and Berlin stay on Central European Summer Time until 25 October, two hours ahead of UTC. The wall clock is 18:45 and 21:00, the digits Sporting News printed as CET. A guide left on winter CET (UTC+1) is an hour early. Set it to the city where the television sits, and check one early kick-off against 16:45 UTC.

UTC here converts Radio Times’s UK times, using BST as UTC+1. It is not a clock UEFA printed. If a notice moves a match, follow that notice.

Where can you watch in the UK?

Radio Times says TNT Sports and Amazon Prime Video share live UK rights for 2026/27, with Amazon showing one match per round. It assigns Atlético Madrid v Manchester United, Tuesday 13 October at 8pm UK, to Amazon Prime Video. The other 17 fixtures are marked “TNT Sports TBC / HBO Max”. TBC is their word. This page does not turn those 17 lines into a confirmed channel number.

The same article puts highlights on BBC TV and BBC iPlayer, which is not the live match. HBO Max is the streaming home it names for TNT Sports. Read the listing in the app you pay for on the day.

No live broadcaster is named here for the United States, France, Germany, Spain or Italy. CBS Sports and AS USA are cited for the Eastern clock only. Outside the UK, use the local rights holder’s schedule.

How do you set the television before the early game?

In the UK the early slot is late afternoon. On the US East Coast it is lunchtime. The usual miss is a guide on the wrong zone.

1. Write 16:45 UTC and 19:00 UTC next to the set and compare the guide with those anchors.
2. Prefer a wired connection, or a clear 5 GHz band, over a crowded 2.4 GHz network.
3. Open the player you already use. This page has no playlist address.
4. Play something that is not the match and note whether the sound stays with the picture.
5. If it still fails after one band change and one quality drop, stop before kick-off.

A clean test describes your line. It does not replace TNT Sports, Amazon Prime Video or BBC highlights in the UK, or the licensed broadcaster where you live. Nothing here is a route around a blackout or a geo-block.

What should you open if you are choosing a plan?

Screen count and plan length are on compare and pricing. The wider checklist is IPTV football, and UK context is the United Kingdom page. If the player is not installed, use Fire TV Stick or Smart TV. A 24-hour look at your own connection, with no card, is the free trial.

WorldIPTV is one login option beside those licensed broadcasters. This article does not say it includes Atlético Madrid v Manchester United, Manchester City v Paris Saint-Germain, or any other named fixture.

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