2019–20 UEFA Champions League knockout phase

The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League knockout phase began on 18 February with the round of 16 and will end on 23 August 2020 with the final at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, to decide the champions of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League.[1] A total of 16 teams compete in the knockout phase.[2]

Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Qualified teams

The knockout phase involves the 16 teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage.

Group Winners
(seeded in round of 16 draw)		 Runners-up
(unseeded in round of 16 draw)
A Paris Saint-Germain Real Madrid
B Bayern Munich Tottenham Hotspur
C Manchester City Atalanta
D Juventus Atlético Madrid
E Liverpool Napoli
F Barcelona Borussia Dortmund
G RB Leipzig Lyon
H Valencia Chelsea

Format

Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the final, is played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scores more goals on aggregate over the two legs advances to the next round. If the aggregate score is level, the away goals rule is applied, i.e. the team that scores more goals away from home over the two legs advances. If away goals are also equal, then extra time is played. The away goals rule is again applied after extra time, i.e. if there are goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score is still level, the visiting team advances by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the winners are decided by a penalty shoot-out. In the final, which is played as a single match, if the score is level at the end of normal time, extra time is played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the score is still level.[2] The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

  • In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners are seeded, and the eight group runners-up are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
  • In the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals are held together before the quarter-finals are played, the identity of the quarter-final winners is not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw is also held to determine which semi-final winner is designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it is played at a neutral venue).

For the quarter-finals and semi-finals, teams from the same city are not scheduled to play at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control.[3] To avoid such scheduling conflict, if the two teams are drawn to play at home for the same leg, the order of legs of the tie involving the team with the lower domestic ranking in the qualifying season is reversed from the original draw.[4]

On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the final stages of the competition would feature a format change. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and final would be played in a single-leg format from 12 to 23 August 2020 at the Estádio da Luz and Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon, Portugal. The matches will tentatively be played behind closed doors, though spectators could be allowed subject to a review of the situation and the decisions of the national and local government.

Following the competition restart in August 2020, a maximum of five substitutions will be allowed, with a sixth allowed in extra time. However, each team will only be given three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time. This follows a proposal from FIFA and approval by IFAB to lessen the impact of fixture congestion.[5]

Schedule

The schedule is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).[1]

Following the first set of round of 16 second leg matches, the competition was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[6][7] The final, originally scheduled to take place on 30 May 2020, was officially postponed on 23 March 2020.[8] A working group was set up by UEFA to decide the calendar of the remainder of the season.[9]

Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Round of 16 16 December 2019, 12:00 18–19 & 25–26 February 2020 10–11 March & 7–8 August 2020[lower-alpha 1]
Quarter-finals 10 July 2020, 12:00[lower-alpha 2] 12–15 August 2020[lower-alpha 3]
Semi-finals 18–19 August 2020[lower-alpha 4]
Final 23 August 2020 at Estádio da Luz, Lisbon[lower-alpha 5]
  1. Second week of matches originally scheduled for 17–18 March 2020
  2. Quarter-final, semi-final and final draws originally scheduled for 20 March 2020
  3. Quarter-final first legs originally scheduled for 7–8 April, and second legs 14–15 April 2020
  4. Semi-final first legs originally scheduled for 28–29 April, and second legs 5–6 May 2020
  5. Final originally scheduled for 30 May 2020

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 16 December 2019, 12:00 CET.[10]

Summary

The first legs were played as scheduled on 18, 19, 25 and 26 February, as were the first set of second legs on 10 and 11 March 2020. Due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the second set of second leg matches were postponed by UEFA on 13 March 2020.[6] On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the second legs would be played on 7–8 August 2020, with the venue to be decided between the home team's stadium and a neutral stadium in Portugal (at the Estádio do Dragão in Porto and the Estádio D. Afonso Henriques in Guimarães).[11]

The first leg of the Atalanta v Valencia tie was retrospectively blamed by local civic and medical authorities for contributing to the extremely high concentration of coronavirus cases in Atalanta's home city of Bergamo. Several fans and players of Valencia also had positive diagnoses after returning from the game.[12][13][14] The second leg of the Atlético Madrid v Liverpool tie was similarly blamed for the sharp increase in coronavirus-related deaths in North West England.[15]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Borussia Dortmund 2–3 Paris Saint-Germain 2–1 0–2
Real Madrid 2 Manchester City 1–2 7/8 Aug
Atalanta 8–4 Valencia 4–1 4–3
Atlético Madrid 4–2 Liverpool 1–0 3–2 (a.e.t.)
Chelsea 5 Bayern Munich 0–3 7/8 Aug
Lyon 6 Juventus 1–0 7/8 Aug
Tottenham Hotspur 0–4 RB Leipzig 0–1 0–3
Napoli 8 Barcelona 1–1 7/8 Aug

Matches
Borussia Dortmund 2–1 Paris Saint-Germain
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Attendance: 66,099[16]
Paris Saint-Germain 2–0 Borussia Dortmund
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Attendance: 0[17][note 2]

Paris Saint-Germain won 3–2 on aggregate.

Real Madrid 1–2 Manchester City
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Attendance: 75,615[19]
Atalanta 4–1 Valencia
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Attendance: 44,236[23]
Valencia 3–4 Atalanta
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Attendance: 0[24][note 5]

Atalanta won 8–4 on aggregate.

Atlético Madrid 1–0 Liverpool
 Report
Attendance: 67,443[26]
Liverpool 2–3 (a.e.t.) Atlético Madrid
 Report
Attendance: 52,267[27]

Atlético Madrid won 4–2 on aggregate.

Chelsea 0–3 Bayern Munich
Report
Attendance: 36,761[28]
Lyon 1–0 Juventus
 Report
Attendance: 57,335[29]
Tottenham Hotspur 0–1 RB Leipzig
Report
Attendance: 60,095[30]
RB Leipzig 3–0 Tottenham Hotspur
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Attendance: 42,146[31]

RB Leipzig won 4–0 on aggregate.

Napoli 1–1 Barcelona
 Report
Attendance: 44,388[32]
Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals will take place on 10 July 2020.[6][33]

Summary

The matches will take place from 12 to 15 August 2020.

Qualified teams

Matches
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Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals will take place on 10 July 2020 (after the quarter-final draw).

Summary

The matches will be played on 18 and 19 August 2020.

Matches
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Final

Main article: 2020 UEFA Champions League Final

The final is scheduled to be played at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) will be determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.[33]

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Notes
  1. CET (UTC+1) for dates up to 28 March 2020 (round of 16), and CEST (UTC+2) for dates thereafter (quarter-finals, semi-finals and final).
  2. The match between Paris Saint-Germain and Borussia Dortmund in Paris was played behind closed doors due to a pandemic of COVID-19 in France.[18]
  3. The Manchester City v Real Madrid match, originally scheduled to be played on 17 March 2020, 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT) in Manchester, was indefinitely postponed as the Real Madrid players were quarantined due to a pandemic of COVID-19 in Spain.[20]
  4. Atalanta play their home matches at San Siro, Milan, instead of their regular home stadium Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, Bergamo, which is undergoing renovation.[21][22]
  5. The match between Valencia and Atalanta in Valencia was played behind closed doors due to a pandemic of COVID-19 in Spain.[25]
  6. The last two round of 16 matches (Bayern Munich v Chelsea and Barcelona v Napoli), originally scheduled to be played on 18 March 2020, 21:00 CET, were indefinitely postponed following the suspension of UEFA competitions due to a pandemic of COVID-19 in Europe.[6]
  7. The Juventus v Lyon match, originally scheduled to be played on 17 March 2020, 21:00 CET in Turin, was indefinitely postponed as the Juventus players were quarantined due to a pandemic of COVID-19 in Italy.[20]

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