Champions League draw: Liverpool vs PSG; Real Madrid vs Atlético
Liverpool have been drawn against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League round of 16, while holders Real Madrid face local rivals Atlético Madrid.
Elsewhere in Friday’s draw, there will be an all-German tie as Bayern Munich meet Bayer Leverkusen. Arsenal will take on PSV Eindhoven, and Barcelona will play Benfica.
Aston Villa drew Club Brugge, Borussia Dortmund will play Lille, and Feyenoord will go up against Inter Milan.
The ties will be played over two legs. The first-leg matches are scheduled for March 4-5, with the return legs taking place on March 11-12.
Liverpool may leave the draw feeling hard done by: Arne Slot’s side won seven out of eight games to progress to this stage as the No.1 seed, bypassing the playoff round along with the other top eight teams, but still drew an in-form PSG side.
PSG finished 15th in the league phase of the competition, reaching the round of 16 with a resounding 10-0 aggregate win over fellow French side Brest in the playoff round.
The tie pits the league leaders in England and France against each other, while both teams possess two of the continent’s most effective forwards this season in Mohamed Salah and Ousmane Dembélé.
The winners are due to face either Villa or Brugge in the quarterfinal.
Meanwhile, Madrid and Atlético will meet in a mouthwatering derby, with the first leg to be played at the Bernabéu and the return game at the Metropolitano.
Madrid, who are 15-time champions, reached this stage by knocking out Manchester City 6-3 on aggregate this week, with Kylian Mbappé scoring a hat trick in the second leg.
It sets up a hugely difficult month for Atlético, which also face Barcelona three times in the coming weeks: twice in the a two-legged Copa del Rey semifinal and again in LaLiga.
The winners will meet either Arsenal or PSV in the last eight, with a potential semifinal against either Liverpool or PSG.
On the other side of the draw, Bundesliga top two Bayern and Leverkusen will meet for the chance to take on either Feyenoord or Inter in the quarterfinal. The two sides drew 0-0 when they met in the league last weekend.
A semifinal would then come against either Barça, Benfica, Dortmund or Lille.
Barça beat Benfica 5-4 in the league phase in January, and the teams will meet again over two legs in the last 16, with Hansi Flick’s LaLiga leaders afforded the second leg at home after progressing as the second seed.
A potential quarterfinal would then be against either Dortmund or Lille.
Club Brugge vs. Aston Villa
Borussia Dortmund vs. Lille
Real Madrid vs. Atlético Madrid
Bayern Munich vs. Bayer Leverkusen
PSV Eindhoven vs. Arsenal
Feyenoord vs. Inter Milan
Paris Saint-Germain vs. Liverpool
Benfica vs. Barcelona
Two leagues will be rewarded with an extra place in next season’s UEFA Champions League (UCL) based on performance in Europe this season.
Last season, Borussia Dortmund of the German Bundesliga and Bologna from Italian Serie A were the lucky recipients, with clubs in Germany and Italy outperforming those from England, France and Spain.
Now we’ve moving into the knockout rounds of the UCL, UEFA Europa League (UEL) and UEFA Conference League (UCoL) we’re starting to get a clearer picture of the race this year.
The English Premier League is in a very dominant position, and it’s looking excellent for the Spanish LaLiga too.
Here’s how it works, and where all the leagues stand.
It’s about the collective performance of all teams from each country taking part in Europe this season. The two leagues with the best average coefficient scores get an extra place.
Regardless of competition, each win is worth two coefficient points, a draw gets you one point, and you get nothing for a defeat.
If a match goes to extra time, the score after 120 minutes is used. So, penalties are not taken into account if the game is drawn, as they are used to determine the tie rather than the individual match.
The points gained by all clubs are added together, and that total score is divided by the number of clubs a country has in Europe in the season. That gives the coefficient average. For example, if a country has 60 coefficient points and seven teams in Europe, its score is 8.571 for the table (60 / 7).
The additional place goes to the first team in the league table outside the UCL places. So, in the Premier League it would go to fifth. It’s a place on top of the regular allocation, so if a league usually has seven places in Europe, it will have eight next season.
No, the coefficient system is essentially designed to assess the overall strength of leagues. Wins are the same in all competitions. Otherwise, it would be impossible for those leagues with few or no teams in the UCL group stage to move up the coefficient rankings.
However, clubs in the UCoL do play two fewer games in the league phase.
That said, a revamped bonus points system does give more weight to the UCL clubs. More on this further down the page.
If we look back at the previous six seasons, England and Spain take seven of the 12 slots, with Italy and Germany two each. Only in 2021-22 did one of the countries with fewer than four teams in the Champions League (the Netherlands) finish in the top two of average coefficient.
History already told us that it’s highly likely two of the top leagues will have five places in the Champions League. Now that’s been strengthened by the extra bonus points in the UCL.
2023-24: Italy and Germany
2022-23: England and Italy
2021-22: England and the Netherlands
2020-21: England and Spain
2019-20: Spain and Germany
2018-19: England and Spain
This is the top 10 as of Feb. 20.
1. England, 20.892 – (6/7)
2. Spain, 19.035 – (6/7)
3. Italy, 18.187 – (4/8)
4. Portugal, 16.050 – (2/5)
5. Germany, 16.046 – (4/8)
6. Belgium, 15.250 – (3/5)
7. France, 14.857 – (3/7)
8. Netherlands, 14.750 – (4/6)
9. Greece, 11.687 – (2/4)
10. Czechia, 10.350 – (1/5)
The brackets indicate how many of a league’s original allocation are still active. For instance, 6/7 indicates one of a league’s seven teams has been knocked out.
England and Spain are out in front and both still have six clubs remaining heading into the round of 16.
England in particular has a great buffer to third-placed Italy, which has only four teams remaining.
Germany and Netherlands probably have the best chance of mounting a late charge, but it’s hard to see past the Premier League and LaLiga.
ENGLAND
Still active:
Arsenal (UCL)
Aston Villa (UCL)
Liverpool (UCL)
Manchester United (UEL)
Tottenham Hotspur (UEL)
Chelsea (UCoL)
The Premier League is in a place of incredible strength. Manchester City might have been knocked out by Real Madrid in the UCL playoffs, but all six other clubs went straight through to the round of 16.
The three remaining teams in the UCL are all in the same half of the bracket, while Aston Villa and Liverpool would meet in a potential quarterfinal — which does limit the points available.
Added to that, Man United and Tottenham are paired in the Europa League, which means they cannot face each other until the final — thus no prospect of knocking each other out.
United take on Real Sociedad, and Spurs face AZ.
It would take an even worse collapse than last season to miss out on one of the extra places.
SPAIN
Still active:
Atlético Madrid (UCL)
Barcelona (UCL)
Real Madrid (UCL)
Athletic Club (UEL)
Real Sociedad (UEL)
Real Betis (UCoL)
Spain lost Girona in the UCL league phase, but it still has three teams active in the competition after Real Madrid made it through the playoffs.
That said, there is a Madrid derby in the round of 16, so Spain is sure to lose a team next month. Barcelona are in the opposite half of the UCL bracket.
Real Sociedad must get past Man United in the UEL while Athletic Club take on Roma.
Advantage Spain.
ITALY
Still active:
Internazionale (UCL)
Lazio (UEL)
AS Roma (UEL)
Fiorentina (UCoL)
It’s been a terrible February for Italy, very similar to one round for England last season which cost the league an extra place.
After losing Bologna in the UCL league phase, AC Milan, Atalanta and Juventus went out in the knockout playoffs. Only Inter now remain in the UCL, where they take on Feyenoord.
AS Roma will have to knock out Athletic Club in the UEL for Italy to have a chance.
But it’s starting to look like Italy won’t hold onto a fifth place in the UCL.
PORTUGAL
Still active:
Benfica (UCL)
Guimaraes (UCoL)
Portugal has only two of its five teams remaining, with two lost in the knockout playoffs.
Benfica must face Barcelona in the UCL.
We can forget Portugal from here.
GERMANY
Still active:
Bayer Leverkusen (UCL)
Bayern Munich (UCL)
Borussia Dortmund (UCL)
Eintracht Frankfurt (UEL)
It’s been a poor campaign from the Bundesliga clubs, with four teams out already. But the knockout playoffs given them a glimmer of hope.
Unfortunately, Bayern and Leverkusen will meet in the UCL round of 16, so Germany will lose another team. Dortmund have a more favourable tie against Lille.
Eintracht Frankfurt take on Ajax in the UEL, but pulling it off from here would be a miracle.
BELGIUM
Still active:
Club Brugge (UCL)
Cercle Brugge (UCoL)
The knockout playoffs did not go well.
Club Brugge claimed a superb win at Atalanta to go through in the UCL playoffs, and they now play Villa.
But in the UEL, Union St.-Gilloise and Anderlecht were eliminated and Gent lost in the UCoL.
It’s over for Belgium with only the two Brugge clubs left.
FRANCE
Still active:
Lille (UCL)
Paris Saint-Germain (UCL)
Lyon (UEL)
France has just three of its seven teams remaining after Monaco lost to Benfica and Paris Saint-Germain eliminated fellow Ligue 1 side Brest in the UCL knockout playoffs.
PSG have a tough round-of-16 date against Liverpool, and would then play Atlético Madrid or Real Madrid. Lille take on Dortmund.
Lyon have a favourable draw against FSCB in the UEL round of 16, but the task was made much harder after the damage caused by Lens failing to make the league phase of the UCoL.
We can count them out.
Netherlands
Still active:
PSV Eindhoven (UCL)
Feyenoord Rotterdam (UCL)
Ajax Amsterdam (UEL)
AZ Alkmaar (UEL)
It might end up being a question of might have been for the Netherlands this season, as Go Ahead Eagles’ failure to reach the league phase of the UCoL could be yet the difference between a top-two finish.
The Dutch still have four teams active — and all were in the knockout playoffs which brings added points for results.
Feyenoord now face Inter, and PSV meet Arsenal, and they are in opposite halves of the bracket.
Ajax and AZ managed to get through in the UEL, but FC Twente went out to Bodo/Glimt.
Could the Eredivisie come on the blind side and challenge for second place? One problem … Ajax (vs. Eintracht Frankfurt) and AZ (vs. Spurs) would play each other in a potential UEL quarterfinal and one has to be eliminated at that stage.
This is where things changed, and performance in the UCL became much more valuable than the UEL, and likewise the UCoL.
Under the old system, the maximum bonus points for a club in the UCL was 12, and now it’s 18 (+6). In the UEL it’s up from eight to 10 (+2). In the UCoL, it has risen from four to six (+2).
Every club that participates in the UCL gets a minimum of six bonus points just for taking part (+4) in the league phase. In the UEL, you have to finish first to get six bonus points. In the UCoL, first place only gets you four points. There are no bonus in the UEL or UCoL if you finish outside the top 24, but there are in the UCL.
There are then bonus points for reaching each of the knockout rounds, again weighted by competition.
As well as those high bonus points in the UCL for position, the teams who finish in the top eight are guaranteed another 1.500 for reaching the round of 16.
There were no bonus points for participating in the knockout playoffs in February in any of the competitions, but you did get points for the result of each leg — something which isn’t available to the top eight. Results in the knockout playoffs counted to the league’s overall coefficient, but not the individual club’s.
Looking at the league phase, by winning the UCL league phase Liverpool earned 13.500 bonus points — 12.000 for first place, and another 1.500 for getting to the round of 16. Arsenal added 13.000 bonus points for finishing third. Aston Villa, in eighth, added 11.750 while Man City, who were 22nd, could only supply 6.750 bonus points.
But the totals were much lower in the other two European competitions.
Manchester United (6.500) and Tottenham Hotspur (6.250) picked up much fewer bonus points in the UEL league phase than Man City in the UCL even though they finished third and fourth.
By comparison, Chelsea got only 4.500 bonus points even though they finished first in the UCoL league phase.
Yes, and no.
While Serie A and the Bundesliga have five teams in the Champions League, they also have eight teams in Europe.
Every win and bonus point is, when averaged, worth less than it is for the other leagues. And if a few teams struggle, there’s no chance of challenging for the top two.
Italian clubs had been holding up well until that horrendous knockout playoff round, and German teams have unperformed greatly even though they have three teams still in the top competition.
In many seasons it can be obvious in March, once we know which leagues have multiple teams through to the quarterfinals of the three European competitions.
Last season, Serie A clinched an extra berth on April 18, with the Bundesliga following on May 1. It looked like it was going to be closer, but terrible results for English clubs in the quarterfinals, losing four of its five remaining teams, effectively handed second place to Germany.
The way the Premier League is going, it might be earlier this time.
However, the 2019-20 season shows that it can go right down to the wire. Germany didn’t overtake the Premier League for second place until Bayern Munich beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in the final of the Champions League. If that’s repeated this season, we wouldn’t know which league gets the second additional spot until the UCL final on May 31.
It would leave two clubs in the domestic leagues praying for the right result in the final. In 2019-20, Bayer Leverkusen and Leicester City finished fifth in Germany and England respectively. Leverkusen would have needed Bayern to win the UCL final to get the place, while Leicester required Bayern to lose the match.
Under the old system, a maximum of five clubs from one association could play in the Champions League. The cap has been removed and it will be possible for seven teams to get a place in the UCL: The top four, fifth through league performance in Europe, and the winners of the UCL and the UEL (if they do not finish in the top four).
It would also technically be possible, though highly unlikely, to have 11 teams in Europe: The usual allocation of seven, plus the extra Champions League place and the titleholders of all three European competitions.
If we assume the extra spots will go to one of the top leagues, it means fifth place will enter the Champions League and it will have eight (rather than seven) places in Europe. Other European berths drop down a place.
Any season the Premier League gets it, the access will be:
Champions League: 1-5
Europa League: 6, FA Cup winners
Conference League: Carabao Cup winners
If LaLiga, the Bundesliga or Serie A get it, the access will be:
Champions League: 1-5
Europa League: 6, Cup winners
Conference League: 7
In all cases if a team win the domestic cup and finish in a European place in the league, the spots drop down one more place.
If a team win the UEL or UCL but don’t qualify for the UCL domestically, that league would have six places in the UCL — the five places to the leagues plus the UEL or UCL titleholders as an additional. The league would forfeit the domestic place earned by the titleholders.
Last season, if Borussia Dortmund had won the Champions League, Germany would have had six teams (the top six) in the UCL but only one in the UEL — losing the spot earned by Dortmund.
If a country gets the performance spot, and one of its teams finishes eighth and wins a European trophy, ninth can get a place in the UCoL.
This is how it works if England does get one of the extra UCL spots.
If Liverpool win the Carabao Cup, the place will transfer to the league.
The same applies if Newcastle lift the trophy and finish in the top six.
Champions League: 1-5
Europa League: 6, FA Cup winners
Conference League: 7
If Newcastle win the Carabao Cup and finish outside the top six, this is how it looks:
Champions League: 1-5
Europa League: 6, FA Cup winners
Conference League: Newcastle United
The Carabao Cup final takes place on March 16.
Similarly, if the FA Cup winners finish in the top six, that UEL place transfers to the seventh in the league and places drop down one. We’re some way from find out about that, however, with the final in May.
Right now, AFC Bournemouth are fifth in the Premier League, with Lazio holding that spot in Serie A.
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| Position | UCL | UEL | UCoL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12.000 | 6.000 | 4.000 |
| 2 | 11.750 | 5.750 | 3.750 |
| 3 | 11.500 | 5.500 | 3.500 |
| 4 | 11.250 | 5.250 | 3.250 |
| 5 | 11.000 | 5.000 | 3.000 |
| 6 | 10.750 | 4.750 | 2.750 |
| 7 | 10.500 | 4.500 | 2.500 |
| 8 | 10.250 | 4.250 | 2.250 |
| 9 | 10.000 | 4.000 | 2.000 |
| 10 | 9.750 | 3.750 | 1.875 |
| 11 | 9.500 | 3.500 | 1.750 |
| 12 | 9.250 | 3.250 | 1.625 |
| 13 | 9.000 | 3.000 | 1.500 |
| 14 | 8.750 | 2.750 | 1.375 |
| 15 | 8.500 | 2.500 | 1.250 |
| 16 | 8.250 | 2.250 | 1.125 |
| 17 | 8.000 | 2.000 | 1.000 |
| 18 | 7.750 | 1.750 | 0.875 |
| 19 | 7.500 | 1.500 | 0.750 |
| 20 | 7.250 | 1.250 | 0.625 |
| 21 | 7.000 | 1.000 | 0.500 |
| 22 | 6.750 | 0.750 | 0.375 |
| 23 | 6.500 | 0.500 | 0.250 |
| 24 | 6.250 | 0.250 | 0.125 |
| 25 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 26 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 27 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 28 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 29 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 30 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 31 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 32 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 33 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 34 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 35 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 36 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Position | Per round | Maximum |
|---|---|---|
| UCL | 1.500 | 6.000 |
| UEL | 1.000 | 4.000 |
| UCoL | 0.500 | 2.000 |
| League | Teams | Points per win |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 8 | 0.250 |
| Italy | 8 | 0.250 |
| England | 7 | 0.285 |
| Spain | 7 | 0.285 |
| France | 7 | 0.285 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 0.333 |
| Portugal | 5 | 0.400 |
| Belgium | 5 | 0.400 |
Champions League: Draw details, who we could face
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Friday sees us learn our opponents in the last-16 of the Champions League, following the conclusion of the play-off round.
The draw will also plot out our potential route to the final in Munich, and who we could face in the subsequent rounds.
Here is everything you need to know:
The draw will take place on Friday, February 21 at UEFA’s headquarters in Nyom, Switzerland.
It will start at 11am UK time and streamed live on UEFA.com and their YouTube channel, and shown live in the UK on TNT Sports 1 and Discovery+.
The top eight teams from the league stage all enjoyed a bye to the last-16. Only Liverpool and Barcelona finished above us in the table, while we ended up in third spot. The only team to beat us in the league stage was Inter Milan, whom we finished level on points with.
Atletico Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen ended up in fifth and sixth spot, while Lille and Aston Villa snuck into the top eight on the final round of matches to also skip the play-off round.
Those matches have taken place over the past couple of weeks. Bayern Munich overcame Celtic 3-2 on aggregate, while Feyenoord eliminated AC Milan 2-1 over two legs. Benfica edged out Monaco 4-3 after a 3-3 draw in Portugal, while Club Brugge knocked out our matchday one opponents Atalanta 5-2.
It’s worth noting that there is no country protection in the knockout stages, leaving teams from the association free to face each other. That led to Paris Saint-Germain putting 10 goals against fellow countrymen Brest to advance, while 15-time winners Real Madrid ended Manchester City’s hopes with a 6-3 aggregate success. PSV Eindhoven overturned a 2-1 first-leg deficit to beat Juventus 3-1 after extra-time, while Borussia Dortmund’s 3-0 win at Sporting Lisbon set the platform for them to also qualify.
Following the conclusion of the league phase, all qualified teams were placed into a bracket to determine their possible opponents. As we finished third, we knew we would face the winners of the play-off between the teams who finished in 13th or 14th, or 19th or 20th.
The teams who finished in those positions were AC Milan (13th), PSV Eindhoven (14th), Feyenoord (19th) and Juventus (20th). Following the play-off round, we now know it will be between Feyenoord or PSV Eindhoven.
The top eight clubs will be paired based on their final league position: 1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th, and so on, meaning will be paired with Inter Milan. We will be drawn into one of two spots in the bracket, now occupied by Feyenoord or PSV Eindhoven.
Four bowls are prepared for the draw, with the balls containing the names of each pair of seeded teams. The first selected will be placed in the top reserved spot on the bracket, with the second allocated to the corresponding reserved spot on the other side of the bracket.
Therefore whoever is drawn first between us and Inter Milan will face PSV next month, leaving the other to head to Rotterdam for what could be our first-ever encounter with Feyenoord.
Once all the teams have been allocated spots in the bracket, we will be able to see which two teams we could encounter in the quarter-finals, as well as who else could be potential semi-final opponents given they have been included in our side of the bracket.
What we do know heading into the draw though is that should we get past either of our potential Dutch opponents, we would face one of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid or Bayer Leverkusen.
As one of the seeded top-eight teams, we know that our last-16 clash will see the second leg played at Emirates Stadium. However, there will also be a draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals to decide which team will host the first leg.
Last-16: March 4/5 & March 11/12
Quarter-finals: April 8/9 & April 15/16
Semi-finals: April 29/30 & May 6/7
Final: May 31
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Here’s everything you need to know ahead of Friday’s (21 February) UEFA Europa League round of 16 draw.
On Friday, we shall discover our opponents for the competition’s last 16 via a draw at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland.
Starting at 12noon (UK), with the knockout stages now structured through a bracket system, the draw will not just confirm our opponents for the round of 16 but also our potential opponents, if we are successful, for each of the following stages – the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.
We booked our place in the last 16 with a top-eight finish in the 36-team league phase. That meant we automatically bypassed the 16-team knockout play-off stage which was completed on Thursday night.
By virtue of us finishing fourth in the League Phase, we knew that we would face one of four possible opponents in the round of 16 – Galatasaray, AZ Alkmaar, Real Sociedad or FC Midtjylland – all of which would be battling it out in the knockout stage play-offs.
Now, after the conclusion of the play-offs, that set of four has become two with Real Sociedad running out victors over Midtjylland and AZ defeating Galatasaray on aggregate.
Sociedad and AZ have already learnt on which side of the bracket they will sit, with the Dutch side on the left-hand side of the bracket and the Spanish side on the right. On Friday, we will be assigned to a side of the bracket and our opponents for the round of 16.
For the draw, we will be placed in the same designated bowl as our paired club, Manchester United – the sides who finished third and fourth in the League Phase are paired at this stage.
Once drawn, the first team to be drawn out of us and United will be placed on the left side of the draw before the second is placed on the right-hand side of the draw.
With us and United separated on the bracket, it means we are unable to face them, assuming both sides progress, until the Final.
With our round of 16 opponents at that point confirmed, the fixtures will also be confirmed. We know already, as the seeded side, we will travel to face either Real Sociedad or AZ Alkmaar first, playing them away on Thursday 6 March before the return leg is played at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday 13 March.
Friday 21 February at 12noon (UK)
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AZ Alkmaar
You can watch the draw live on TNT Sports 1 while it will be available to stream on the Discovery+ app and TNT Sports’ YouTube channel.
First leg – Thursday 6 March (A)
Second leg – Thursday 13 March at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
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