Dundee, Hibernian, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Ross County, St Johnstone and St Mirren will each take in £1.6m in solidarity payments due to Celtic's Champions League qualification, with Aberdeen and Dundee United receiving £1m and £650,

They might have only played one of their eight group games, but Celtic fans will already be wondering what it will take to progress in the Champions League. Wednesday's 5-1 victory over Slovan Bratislava was the club's biggest ever in the competition and the first time they had opened a league phase or group campaign with three points.

Celtic’s Adam Idah celebrates scoring his side's fifth goal of the game. Pic: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire. The new Champions League format has capacity to bruise egos. Few teams finishing bottom of a section of four are likely to invite ridicule.

The new Champions League format forces teams to go for the win, Atletico Madrid head coach Diego Simeone said after his side fought back from a deficit to grab a late 2-1 victory over RB Leipzig on Thursday.

After match day one of the newly formatted Champions League, our writers answer the burning questions, provide analysis and break down performances.

The first round of Champions League matches continued on Wednesday as PSG bemoaned a laborious performance, Man City and Inter played out a 0-0 draw and Shakhtar Donetsk showed national pride.

The 0-0 draws between Manchester City and Inter Milan in their rematch of the 2023 final, after Bologna and Shakhtar Donetsk also could not find a goal, capped an untypically goal-shy evening for the Champions League on Wednesday.

Manchester City opened their Champions League campaign with a goalless draw against Inter Milan on Wednesday. Eilidh Barbour, Chris Sutton, John Murray and James Horncastle review the match on the Champions League Debrief,