How to watch Lionel Messi’s UEFA Champions League debut with PSG: Free live stream, time, TV, channel

PSG's Lionel Messi in action during the France League One soccer match between Reims and Paris Saint-Germain, at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021.
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Paris Saint-Germain, led by forwards Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, faces Club Brugge in a UEFA Champions League group stage match on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 (9/15/21) at the Jan Breydelstadion in Brugge, Belgium.

Fans can watch the match for free via a trial of Paramount+ or fuboTV (spanish-language feed only).

Here’s what you need to know:

What: UEFA Champions League, Group Stage

Who: Club Brugge vs. PSG

When: Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Time: 3 p.m. ET

Where: Jan Breydelstadion

TV: TUDN, Univision

Channel finder: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, Cox, DIRECTV, Dish, Hulu, fuboTV, Sling.

Live stream: fuboTV (free trial), Paramount+ (free trial)

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The Champions League group stage starts Tuesday with a match between traditional heavyweights Barcelona and Bayern Munich, but big-spending upstarts elsewhere are the title favorites this season after a summer of eye-catching transfers.

Paris Saint-Germain bolstered its ranks with the arrivals of superstar Lionel Messi from Barcelona, former Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos, Italy’s European Championship-winning goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, Netherlands midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum, and wing backs Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes — the latter arguably the most exciting player in Portugal last season.

PSG, which has been backed by Qatar Sports Investment since 2011, reached the Champions League semifinals last season and the final the year before that, but has never won the title.

Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the club’s spectacular recruitment campaign comes with a view to winning Europe’s premier club competition before Qatar hosts the World Cup next year.

PSG begins its bid Wednesday in Group A at Club Brugge, where Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé could play together for the first time, a fearsome attacking lineup for the Belgian champion to contend with. Messi warmed up for the game with a hat trick for Argentina in World Cup qualifying.

PSG rejected an offer of about $188 million from Real Madrid for Mbappé, despite knowing he can leave without a transfer fee when his contract expires next year.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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