The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League is the 65th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 28th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
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The final will be played at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey.[1] The winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup; they will also qualify for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar. They will also automatically qualify for the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage, and if they have already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved will be given to the champions of the 2019–20 Eredivisie, the 11th-ranked association according to next season's access list.
The video assistant referee (VAR) system will be used in the competition from the play-off round onwards.[2]
Liverpool are the defending champions.
Association team allocation[edit]
A total of 79 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[3]
Association ranking[edit]
For the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2018 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2013–14 to 2017–18.[4]
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
Distribution[edit]
The following is the access list for this season.[5]
Changes are made to the default access list, if the Champions League and/or Europa League title holders qualify for the tournament via their domestic leagues. In any case where a spot in the Champions League is vacated, teams of the highest-ranked associations in earlier rounds of the appropriate path are promoted accordingly.
Teams[edit]
League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).[5]
Round and draw dates[edit]Soccer Games Uefa Champions League Draw
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).[6]
Preliminary round[edit]
In the preliminary round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients,[7] and then drawn into one-legged semi-final and final ties. The losers of both semi-final and final rounds enter the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.
The draw for the preliminary round was held on 11 June 2019, 12:00 CEST, to determine the matchups of the semi-finals and the administrative 'home' team of each semi-final and final.[8]The semi-final round was played on 25 June, and the final round on 28 June 2019, both at the Fadil Vokrri Stadium in Pristina, Kosovo.
Qualifying rounds[edit]
In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients,[7] and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties.
First qualifying round[edit]
The losers entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round, except one team who was drawn to receive a bye to the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.
The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 18 June 2019, 14:30 CEST.[9]The first legs were played on 9 and 10 July, and the second legs on 16 and 17 July 2019.
Notes
Uefa Europa League
Second qualifying round[edit]
The second qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from both Champions Path and League Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.
The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2019, 12:00 CEST.[11]The first legs were played on 23 and 24 July, and the second legs on 30 and 31 July 2019.
Third qualifying round[edit]
The third qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from the Champions Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League play-off round, while the losers from the League Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage.
The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 22 July 2019, 12:00 CEST.[12]The first legs were played on 6 and 7 August, and the second legs on 13 August 2019.
Play-off round[edit]
The play-off round is split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from both Champions Path and League Path enter the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage. From this stage, the video assistant referee will be used.
The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2019, 12:00 CEST.[13]The first legs were played on 20 and 21 August, and the second legs on 27 and 28 August 2019.
Group stage[edit]
London teams
Chelsea Tottenham Hotspur Madrid teams Atlético Madrid Real Madrid
Location of teams of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D; Green: Group E; Blue: Group F; Purple: Group G; Pink: Group H.
The draw for the group stage was held on 29 August 2019, 18:00 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.[14] The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on the following principles:[15][16]
In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams enter the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays are 17–18 September, 1–2 October, 22–23 October, 5–6 November, 26–27 November, and 10–11 December 2019.
The youth teams of the clubs that qualify for the group stage also participate in the 2019–20 UEFA Youth League on the same matchdays, where they compete in the UEFA Champions League Path (the youth domestic champions of the top 32 associations compete in a separate Domestic Champions Path until the play-offs).
A total of 16 national associations are represented in the group stage. Atalanta are set to make their debut appearance in the group stage.
Group A[edit]
Updated to match(es) played on 18 September 2019. Source: UEFA
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Group B[edit]
Updated to match(es) played on 18 September 2019. Source: UEFA
Notes:
Group C[edit]
Updated to match(es) played on 18 September 2019. Source: UEFA
Group D[edit]
Updated to match(es) played on 18 September 2019. Source: UEFA
Notes:
Group E[edit]
Updated to match(es) played on 17 September 2019. Source: UEFA
Group F[edit]
Updated to match(es) played on 17 September 2019. Source: UEFA
Notes:
Group G[edit]
Updated to match(es) played on 17 September 2019. Source: UEFA
Notes:
Group H[edit]
Updated to match(es) played on 17 September 2019. Source: UEFA
Knockout phase[edit]
In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:
Statistics[edit]
Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.
There have been 45 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 2.81 goals per match.[17]
Top goalscorers[edit]
Top assists[edit]
See also[edit]References[edit]
External links[edit]
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