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Watch Real Madrid vs Marseille as the 15-time winners start Champions League life under a new head coach on Tuesday.
Real Madrid vs Marseille key information
Date: Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Kick-off time: 8:00pm BST / 3:00pm ET
Venue: Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid
TV & Streaming: TNT Sports / Discovery+ (UK), Paramount+ (USA), Stan Sport (Australia)
Free Streams: Virgin Media Play (IRE)
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There are 11 football clubs who've won the European Cup once and only once. Four of those reached the pinnacle in the Champions League era and the very first of those was Marseille.
The Ligue 1 side will go in off the deep end in their first league phase match, visiting the competition's most successful team of all.
FourFourTwo has dug out all the details you need to watch this Champions League clash anywhere in the world.
Can I watch Real Madrid vs Marseille for free?
You can if you're in Ireland, where Virgin Media TV has the rights to eight Champions League matches each week and puts four on Virgin Media Play streaming service, which can be used in-browser without registration and will be showing Marseille's visit to the Spanish capital as one of their quartet this week.
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Can I watch Real Madrid vs Marseille in the UK?
Real Madrid vs Marseille is part of the package available to watch on TNT Sports and the Discovery+ streaming platform.
It's an 8:00pm kick-off and will be broadcast live on TNT Sports 1.
Watch Real Madrid vs Marseille in the US
In the USA, Real Madrid vs Marseille will be available for streaming on Paramount+ thanks to the official Champions League broadcaster, CBS.
How to watch Real Madrid vs Marseille in Australia
Football fans in Australia can watch Real Madrid vs Marseille live through Stan Sport.
See also Champions League TV guide
Real Madrid vs Marseille: Champions League preview
Roberto De Zerbi and Marseille have put together quite the collection of misfits in the south of France.
Angel Gomes and Brighton loanee Matt O'Riley are among the recent additions to a team that now has a curious collection of players that improbably includes Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang and CJ Egan-Riley, Neal Maupay and Pierre-Emile Hojbjberg, and a single-capped England player in exile. Yes, that one.
Marseille play with aggression and intimidation but lose a little of their edge away from home. Nevertheless, they're exactly the sort of rabble that would love to stick one on Real Madrid on their own patch.
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The man tasked with taking down Barcelona in La Liga and turning 15 into 16 in the Champions League is Xabi Alonso.
A World Cup winner and a European champion with both club and country as a player, the 43-year-old is aiming to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, Carlo Ancelotti, by winning the Champions League as a player and as a manager.
Having moved to the Bernabeu from Bayer Leverkusen, the former Spain international has masterminded four wins from four despite losing new signing Dean Huijsen to a red card very early in their most recent outing.
Real Madrid won away at Real Sociedad and played an hour with ten men, following La Liga wins against Osasuna, Real Oviedo and Mallorca. The league table counts for nothing after four matches unless you're top of it, and Alonso's Blancos are exactly that.
After they were knocked out by Arsenal in the quarter-finals last year, the competition's leading practitioners get the 2025-26 ball rolling against Marseille, who were absent from European football last season for the first time in five years.
OM have been inconsistent at the start of the season, winning two and losing two of their first four matches.
These teams have twice met in the old-fashioned group stage, in 2003-04 and 2009-10. Real Madrid won all four matches and Cristiano Ronaldo scored four goals in their last two games against Marseille.
FourFourTwo's prediction
Real Madrid 3-0 Marseille
Xabi Alonso has made the perfect start and we don't expect it to end at the hands of De Zerbi.
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