Champions League Kick-Off Times 2026/27 in Eastern and Pacific Time

If you follow European club football from New York, Chicago or Vancouver, you mostly need two numbers and one awkward fortnight. This page gives the 2026/27 slots in North American time, round by round, with the reasons behind them. The rules and dates come from UEFA's regulations and uefa.com, read on November 8, 2026; we redid every time conversion on November 9, 2026 with the standard time zone database. We sell Vivimate, an IPTV service, and hold no Champions League rights.

Two slots, both written in CET

Article 25 of UEFA's regulations sets league phase games at 21:00 CET in principle. On every matchday, two Tuesday games and two Wednesday games move to 18:45 CET instead. Play-off and round of 16 games use either slot, and from the quarter-finals every game is at 21:00 CET. The UEFA administration fixes exact times and can make exceptions, so the slot is a strong rule rather than a promise.

UEFA keeps writing “CET” even in spring, when Central Europe is on summer time. Read it as “the time on the clocks in Paris and Madrid that night” and the conversions work.

Champions League times in Eastern time, and every other zone

Between Central Europe and the US East Coast the gap is six hours for almost all of the season, which puts the slots at 12:45 PM and 3:00 PM Eastern. The Paramount+ schedule and CBS Sports publish the same 12:45 PM ET and 3 PM ET starts. Across the rest of the continent:

Arizona and most of Saskatchewan don't change their clocks, so check them against a local clock in spring. Everyone else can use the table.

The March fortnight that catches people out

North America moves to daylight time on March 14, 2027. Europe follows on March 28. For the two weeks in between, the gap is five hours, not six, and a 21:00 CET game starts at 4:00 PM Eastern. Last autumn had the mirror image, from October 25 to 31, 2026, but no games fell in it.

This spring the gap matters: the round of 16 second legs on March 16 and 17 sit right inside it. If your calendar reminder says 3:00 PM because the first leg did, move it.

A simple way to avoid the trap: save kick-offs in your calendar in Central European Time, or as “Paris time”, and let your phone do the converting. Phone calendars use the same time zone rules we used for the tables here, so they move the event automatically when either side of the Atlantic changes its clocks. A reminder typed in as a fixed Eastern time won't move, which is how people end up tuning in an hour into a second leg.

Round by round, 2026/27

Dates from UEFA's season page, last updated November 4, 2026; the league phase began on September 8. Times are converted from each round's slot. The league phase fixture list gives the exact slot for each game.

The final is on Saturday, June 5, 2027 in Madrid, and UEFA hadn't fixed its kick-off when our sources were read. Our page on how to watch the Champions League final shows both likely start times in every North American zone. If you follow one club on the road, the Champions League away games guide explains why the stadium clock reads differently.

Who airs the games in North America

The kick-off is the same everywhere; the broadcaster depends on where you watch. UEFA's 2026/27 partner list (November 4, 2026) gives:

• United States: Paramount+, TUDN and DAZN. Paramount+ says it carries “all matches, live and on demand”.
• Canada: DAZN and OneSoccer.
• Mexico: FOX, plus one streaming partner on UEFA's list.

We couldn't read Paramount+ plan prices, so we quote none.

Get your TV guide to agree with this page

• Set the device's time zone. An IPTV app usually shows guide times in the device's zone. A box left on the wrong zone puts every listing hours out; our page on TV guide times that are wrong shows the fix.
• Re-check around March 14 and March 28. Compare one listing with uefa.com before trusting the rest.
• Search by team. A competition can move between channels from week to week. If the guide is empty, see a TV guide that won't load.
• Plan bandwidth for two games. We work on 10 Mbps for HD, 15 Mbps for Full HD and 25 Mbps for 4K, per stream. Two Full HD games need 30 Mbps; the internet speed guide shows how to measure.

Where Vivimate fits

Vivimate is a prepaid IPTV subscription, no contract and no automatic renewal. We don't promise the Champions League, any match or any channel, and we don't publish the rights agreements behind our channels. IPTV is legal as a technology, but whether a seller is lawful depends on its rights; our guide to IPTV legality explains what to ask. Search the guide during the 24-hour free trial, with no card taken, before you decide.

A first plan comes with a 7-day money-back guarantee when a service problem you report can't be fixed, as the refund policy describes. For a game you must not miss, a UEFA partner is the sure route.

Sources

Read November 8, 2026; conversions redone November 9, 2026 with the IANA time zone database. Links pay us nothing.

• UEFA Champions League Regulations 2026/27, Article 25: kick-off times
• UEFA: 2026/27 Champions League teams, dates, draws, format and final (updated November 4, 2026)
• UEFA: 2026/27 league phase fixtures and results (updated November 4, 2026)
• UEFA: where to watch the Champions League, 2026/27 partners (November 4, 2026)
• Paramount+: UEFA Champions League schedule 2026-2027 (November 2, 2026)
• CBS Sports: Footy Fix, Champions League returns (September 7, 2026)

Couldn't read: Paramount+ plan prices (not shown to our reader). TNT Sports' Champions League page loaded but gave no match split or price, so it isn't used.