Federico Chiesa Omitted from Liverpool 2025-26 Champions League Squad

The beginning of the 2025-26 season had gave the impression to be shaping up as a possible return to kind for Federico Chiesa, who has struggled at each Juventus and Liverpool in latest seasons following an ACL harm to indicate his early profession kind when he had set himself out as Italy’s prime younger attacking expertise.

Thirty minutes and a purpose in Liverpool’s first three video games won’t have been the numbers of a key starter, however they at the least felt like these of a high quality bench possibility. It’s a minor shock, then, to search out Chiesa omitted from the Reds’ Champions League squad in favour of Rio Ngumoha and Giovanni Leoni.

Ngumoha must be on the membership yet another season—this present season—earlier than he qualifies for the B Listing as an underage participant and a part of Liverpool’s academy. In the meantime, in three years Leoni will qualify as a homegrown, membership educated participant however within the interim the Italian will must be registered.

Golf equipment can register as much as 25 gamers to the A Listing however at the least eight of them have to be homegrown, that means there are 17 slots for individuals who don’t qualify as homegrown. Together with gamers like Ngumoha and Leoni who don’t at present qualify however finally will, Liverpool had 18 gamers for these 17 slots.

Liverpool solely have 5 homegrown gamers within the squad, limiting their total A Listing squad to 22. The addition of homegrown Marc Guéhi from Crystal Palace would have allowed his registration as a sixth homegrown participant and twenty third man within the squad however that might not have impacted Chiesa’s destiny.

In full, that is Liverpool’s 23-man A Listing squad for the league part of the 2025-26 Champions League:

Goalkeepers1 Alisson Becker25 Giorgi Mamardashvili28 Freddie Woodman*

Defenders2 Joe Gomez*4 Virgil van Dijk5 Ibrahima Konate6 Milos Kerkez12 conor bradley*15 Giovanni Leoni26 Andy Robertson30 Jeremie Frimpong*

Midfielders3 Wataru Endo7 Florian Wirtz8 Dominik Szoboszlai10 Alexis Mac Allister17 Curtis Jones*38 Ryan Gravenberch

Forwards9 Alexander Isak11 Mohamed Salah18 Cody Gakpo22 Hugo Ekitike73 Rio Ngumoha