Champions League qualifying and Carabao Cup first round: football
Date: 2025-08-12T16:38:06.000Z
Title: Preamble
Content: Hello, good evening and welcome to a bumper Champions League x EFL Cup clockwatch. We'll have goal updates from Lisbon, Istanbul, Gillingham and elsewhere. These are our featured games, with Jose Mourinho's Fenerbahce v Robin van Persie's Feyenoord probably the pick.
Champions League third qualifying round (6pm kick-off unless stated)
FC Copenhagen v Malmo (first leg: 0-0)
Fenerbahce v Feyenoord (first leg: 1-2)
Plzen v Rangers (first leg: 0-3)
Benfica v Nice (8pm, first leg: 2-0)
EFL Cup (7.45pm unless stated)
Coventry v Luton
Gillingham v AFC Wimbledon
Portsmouth v Reading
Wrexham v Hull
Bromley v Ipswich (8pm)
And if you want to follow all the other goals as they go in, this link is your friend.
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