The wait is over. UEFA Champions League fantasy is now live on Sofascore Fantasy, and managers across the platform can finally build a squad for Europe’s biggest club competition. With the new season’s scoring changes already reshaping strategy elsewhere, this is the competition where those rules will be tested hardest.

The most expensive players on the market

Squad-building starts with price, and the early market gives a clear read on who Sofascore Fantasy managers rate as the season’s premium picks:

• Lamine Yamal – €12.0M
• Kylian Mbappé – €12.0M
• Erling Haaland – €11.0M
• Harry Kane – €11.0M
• Ousmane Dembélé – €11.0M
• Vinícius Jr. – €10.0M
• Raphinha – €10.0M
• Michael Olise – €10.0M

Yamal and Mbappé sit at the very top of the price chart, with Haaland, Kane, and Dembélé just behind them at €11.0M. Beyond the top tier, Vinícius Jr., Raphinha, and Olise round out the €10.0M bracket, all attacking players expected to carry the goal-and-assist load for their sides.

The price tags aren’t a mystery. Every player on this list is a nailed-on starter for a genuine title contender, with the kind of underlying output that made them essential picks last season too. The real decision isn’t whether they’re good, it’s how many premium names your budget can actually fit.

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Building around the premiums

With eight players already priced at €10.0M or above, budget discipline matters from the first squad selection. Loading up on three or four of these names leaves little room elsewhere, so most managers will need to pick a lane: build around one or two undisputed premiums and use the rest of the budget on value picks with strong underlying numbers, or spread the risk across a wider spread of mid-priced options.

Selection percentage is worth watching too. Mbappé already leads the pack at 46.4%, with Yamal close behind at 44.3%, both well ahead of the rest of the field. That tells you where the template squads are heading early, and where differentials might still be found. Names like Vinícius Jr. at 5.3% or Raphinha at 13.8% offer a route to separate your squad from the pack if you back your judgment over the crowd.

Why this launch matters

The Champions League carries a different weight than domestic leagues. It’s the competition with the deepest pool of elite talent, the widest global audience, and historically the format that delivers fantasy’s biggest highs, and its most brutal blanks. Group-stage draws, rotation policies, and knockout jeopardy all add layers that domestic fantasy simply doesn’t have.

With Sofascore Fantasy’s reworked scoring already live, from doubled free transfers to the new dribbles and clearances thresholds, early squad decisions in the Champions League carry extra weight. Get the template right from matchday one and you’re set up for the long haul.

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Time to lock in your squad

Champions League fantasy is live, the price list is set, and the early scoring changes are already in play. Whether you’re chasing the safe, high-ownership premiums or hunting for a differential that the majority of managers overlook, the opening squad you build now sets the tone for the whole group stage.

The competition everyone’s been waiting for just opened. Time to get your squad in before matchday one.

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