It’s going to be the form of teams in the Champions League that will ultimately determine their chances of winning the title each season.

It’s Written in the Stars. It has to be, right? If you are a Spurs fan reading this right now, you will more. – Who is going to win the Champions League? Bayern Munich take on PSG in the Champions League final on Sunday night so we canvassed our European offices to find out who they felt was the favourite. Liverpool is stronger in every facet of the game. The Reds are the stronger team. Just look at the. Tottenham and Liverpool will face off in an all-English Champions League final in Madrid on Saturday night – and plenty of people have been giving their predictions ahead of the game. Liverpool are favourites with the bookmakers to win their first silverware under Jurgen Klopp, and that is reflected in the predictions of most pundits, albeit.

However, before the competition starts you will find that many odds compilers will have their own ideas as to which teams are much more likely than others to be crowned Champions League winners and as the season progresses they will constantly be updating the odds they make available.

With all of the above in mind, today I am going to be walking you through the list of teams that most fans of the sport and odds compilers currently believe have the very best chance of winning it.

According to soccertimes.com’s soccer betting section, the current favourite to win is Manchester City, and you only have to take a look at their most recent form and the players in Pep Guardiola’s squad to realise why they are the current favourites.

Make no mistake about it though there are plenty of other teams that are in with an excellent chance of winning this season, and another one that is high up on the list of shortlists of teams to back are Barcelona, who today are the second favourite team to win the title.

Bayern Munich and Juventus Joint Third Favourites

It will always be the case that teams that have had a solid track record in Europe are going to be some of the most chosen teams by fans of the sport to win the Champions League.

As such it will probably not surprise you to learn that both Bayern Munich and Juventus are the current joint third favourites to head the Champions League at the end of the season and take the trophy home with them.

However, I would certainly not put you off selecting teams such as Real Madrid and Liverpool as potential winners of the trophy this season. In fact, from a betting point of view, they are both neck and neck on the betting markets as there is nothing separating them regarding the odds attached.

An often overlooked team in the Champions League is, of course, PSG and it would not surprise me if they were to play up to their very best form this season and ended up winning the title or at the very least go far.

Other Possible Winners of this Year’s Champions League

The thing to keep in mind if you are currently doing your research and trying to work out the chances of just which teams could end up winning is that an outsider to do so could suddenly find their very best form and start to win match after match.

With that in mind it could be worth studying the form of teams such as Atletico Madrid, for they certainly know how to play football at the very highest level and they do have a very talented team – there is no escaping that fact.

As a fan of football, you will no doubt have noticed that some teams have a solid track record for playing at a high level, however some of them do appear to have lost their way recently – and two teams that have certainly done that are Manchester United and Tottenham, and whilst they could win the Champions League their chances of doing so are much less than those other teams listed up above due to their poor recent form.

Complete Outsiders to Win the Champions League in 2019

Whilst it could be possible for one of the rank outsiders to win the Champions League in 2019, you have to keep in mind that each teams’ overall chances of winning diminish if they are devoid of luck and form.

As such it is going to be easy to dismiss teams such as Lyon, Inter Milan and Borussia Dortmund as potential winners this season and it is highly unlikely that teams such as Roma, Napoli, Porto, Schalke, Hoffenheim or Valencia are going to go far either.

Some other teams that have virtually no chance of winning the title this year, for a myriad of valid reasons, include the likes of Galatasaray, Benfica, Ajax, Monaco and CSKA Moscow!

The odds available on any of the remaining teams that are playing and actively involved in the Champions League this year are huge, and therefore those odds do give you a good insight into whether they have any realistic chance of winning the title this year.

As the odds associated with PSV Eindhoven, Shakhtar Donetsk, Lokomotiv Moscow and Crvena Zvezda are huge, it would be a major surprise and some would say a complete miracle if any of those teams did go on to win the Champions League this year and it is a fairly safe bet that none of them will do so.

There are four other teams that I haven’t yet mentioned and those teams are AEK Athens, Viktoria Plzen, Club Brugge and also, of course, Young Boys, and I would eat my hat so to speak if any of them did manage to come out on top and be crowned the very top team in the Champions League this year.

However, football wouldn’t be football if there were not a few unexpected results throughout the season, and whilst it is possible for any outsider to win the occasional match, even when playing against some of the top ranked teams, I doubt any of them are going to continue to do so this season with consistency.

The Champions League is back, but not as we know it. With 12 teams, 11 games and a World Cup-style last eight, it will take seven straight knock-out ties in the space of 12 days at two venues in Lisbon, Portugal, to decide who will be crowned European champions.

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the 2019-20 Champions League to be suspended in March with half of the Round of 16 still to be completed, UEFA has condensed the competition into a new format in order to play this season's tournament to a conclusion. And following Friday's draw, we now have a route map to the final, at Benfica's Estadio da Luz on Aug. 23.

But with each remaining club having to overcome their own challenges to get this far, who will finally emerge as Champions League winners? ESPN has predicted the outcome for the 12 clubs still standing in the Champions League.

ATALANTA:

Gian Piero Gasperini's team are a dangerous outsider in their first-ever Champions League campaign, and although they will go into their quarterfinal clash against Paris Saint-Germain as underdogs, the form book suggests they should actually be fancied to progress to the semis.

Atalanta are on a six-game winning streak in Serie A and have already booked their place in next season's Champions League. They have also shown incredible fighting spirit to make it this far, having lost their first three games in Group C -- conceding 10 goals in the process. But with PSG out of action since March due to the cancellation of Ligue 1, Atalanta should have a major advantage in terms of match fitness. They can definitely eliminate the French champions and make it to the semifinals.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Semifinals

ATLETICO MADRID:

Is this finally the year that Atletico Madrid end their agonising wait for Champions League glory? Diego Simeone's team certainly have a golden chance to make it to the final, having been paired with RB Leipzig in the quarters before a match-up with Atalanta or PSG in the semis.

Having eliminated holders Liverpool in the Round of 16, Atletico will go into the mini-tournament as favourites to reach the final having embarked on an eight-game unbeaten run in La Liga since the restart last month. Atleti possess the experience and quality to make it past Leipzig and whomever they face in the semis, but with an array of heavyweights lining up in the other half of the draw, they could be facing another heartbreak in the final, six years after losing to Real Madrid in Lisbon in the 2014 final.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Final

BARCELONA:

Barcelona must negotiate the second leg of their last-16 tie against Napoli before booking their trip to Lisbon, but with Quique Setien's side earning a 1-1 draw in Italy in the first-leg, they will be favourites to make it to the last eight. They face a tough route to the final, though, with Bayern Munich -- leading Chelsea 3-0 from their R16 first-leg tie -- likely to be Barca's opponents in Lisbon.

Barcelona should be able to count on superior match fitness, having been in action throughout July, unlike Bayern, but while Lionel Messi will always be able to win any game on his own, it is doubtful that Barca will be able to keep it tight enough at the back to see off the German champions.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Quarterfinals

BAYERN MUNICH:

Bayern's last-16, second-leg tie against Chelsea at the Allianz Arena will serve as a much-needed competitive work-out for Hansi Flick's team, whose 3-0 first-leg win at Stamford Bridge makes the return game a formality.

But once they get to Portugal, will Bayern be sharp enough to go all the way? Their last competitive game was against Bayer Leverkusen in the DFB-Pokal final on July 4, but their rivals in England, Spain and Italy have continued to play and will arguably have greater match fitness in mid-August.

Robert Lewandowski, the leading scorer in this season's competition, is the ace in the pack for Bayern, but they can also rely on the attacking quality of Serge Gnabry and Alphonso Davies. Bayern will travel to Lisbon as favourites to win the tournament.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Winners

CHELSEA:

The best that manager Frank Lampard can expect from the last-16, second-leg against Bayern Munich is a game that provides his young team with invaluable experience for the future.

Chelsea were well beaten by Bayern at Stamford Bridge, suffering a 3-0 defeat that could have been much heavier. But with Lampard's team on course to return to the Champions League next season, the trip to the Allianz Arena is the perfect opportunity to expose his emerging stars to playing against Europe's elite.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Round of 16

JUVENTUS:

Maurizio Sarri's team must still overcome Lyon in the second-leg of their last-16 tie, but with the game being played in Turin, the Serie A leaders will expect to progress, especially against a side that has played just once since March. Once in Lisbon, though, Juventus will face a daunting route to the final, with Manchester City or Real Madrid waiting in the quarters before a potential clash with Bayern Munich in the semis.

In a one-off game with Cristiano Ronaldo in the team -- and don't underestimate how much he will want to win the Champions League in Lisbon again -- Juventus are a genuine contender, but it's difficult to see them resisting City's firepower if they face Pep Guardiola's team in the last eight.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Quarterfinals

LYON:

Rudi Garcia's team emerged from Group G with just two victories in six games, but they remain alive in their last-16 tie with Juventus having earned a 1-0 win in the first-leg in France. They are capable of producing an upset if Juventus have an off-day in Turin next month, but Lyon realistically appear to have run their race in this season's Champions League.

Lyon have already exceeded expectations this season, so the campaign has been a success, whatever happens against Juve.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Round of 16

MAN CITY:

Manchester City will probably never have a better chance of winning the Champions League ... if they can finish the job against Real Madrid in the last-16 after winning 2-1 in the first-leg in Spain. City simply don't lose one-off cup ties -- their last defeat in any one-leg cup game was against Wigan in the FA Cup in February of 2018 -- so the format in Lisbon will suit them and they will also be primed to peak just in time for the tournament by Pep Guardiola.

From an attacking perspective, City will strike fear into every opponent, but their defensive weaknesses could be their downfall against teams as organised as Bayern or Juventus. Expect City to overcome Juve in the quarters, but if they meet Bayern in the semis, it could be the end of the road.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Semifinals

NAPOLI:

Napoli must get a result against Barcelona in the Nou Camp next month to progress to the quarterfinals, but Gennaro Gattuso's have been inconsistent since the restart. They have won the Coppa Italia, but are out of the running for Champions League qualification, so they will travel to Barcelona needing to find their best form to pull off an upset.

An empty Nou Camp may help them, but they still remain heavy underdogs against Lionel Messi & Co. over 90 minutes.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Round of 16

PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN:

The decision by the French football authorities to cancel the 2019-20 Ligue 1 season in the wake of the coronavirus crisis has left Paris Saint-Germain with a mountain to climb if they are to end their desperate pursuit of Champions League glory.

Thomas Tuchel's team were impressive when eliminating Borussia Dortmund in the Round of 16, but without competitive football since, they will prepare for Lisbon with friendly games against Le Havre, Shamrock Rovers and Celtic before domestic cup games against Saint-Etienne and Lyon. With all their opponents playing competitively since June, PSG must play catch-up -- and fast.

Atalanta may be the best draw they could have hoped for, but fitness may be PSG's downfall.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Quarterfinals

RB LEIPZIG:

The loss of Timo Werner, who will not play in the remainder of Leipzig's Champions League games following confirmation of his move to Chelsea, has left the German side without their most potent attacking weapon. And with a quarterfinal tie against Atletico Madrid awaiting them in Lisbon, the absence of their top scorer will leave Leipzig as big outsiders to make it to the semis.

They will be organised and still carry a threat, but Atletico will have too much quality and nous for Julien Nagelsmann's team.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Quarterfinals

REAL MADRID:

Real are on course for the La Liga title in Spain, meaning they will travel to the Etihad for their last-16, second-leg with the confidence to overturn a 2-1 first-leg deficit. But with captain Sergio Ramos suspended following a red card in the first game, Real will have to nullify City's multi-pronged attack without their best defender.

It's dangerous to write off Real Madrid in any situation, especially a one-off game in which they need to fight back from 2-1 down, but City should be too strong for them on this occasion.

HOW FAR WILL THEY GET? Round of 16

PREDICTIONS

Who Is Going To Win The Champions League 2019

Semifinals:

Who Is Going To Win Champions League 2019 2020

- Man City vs. Bayern Munich
- Atalanta vs. Atletico Madrid

Final:

Bayern vs. Atletico

WINNERS:

Bayern Munich