2011–12 UEFA Champions League knockout phase

The knockout phase of the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League began on 14 February with the round of 16, and concluded on 19 May 2012 with the final at Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany.

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

Round and draw dates edit

All draws were held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[1]

Round	Draw date and time	First leg	Second leg
Round of 16	16 December 2011 12:00^[2]	14–15 & 21–22 February 2012	6–7 & 13–14 March 2012
Quarter-finals	16 March 2012 11:45^[3]	27–28 March 2012	3–4 April 2012
Semi-finals		17–18 April 2012	24–25 April 2012
Final		19 May 2012 at Allianz Arena, Munich

Format edit

The knockout phase involved the sixteen teams who finished in the top two in each of their groups in the group stage.^[4]

Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the final, was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that had the higher aggregate score over the two legs progressed to the next round. In the event that aggregate scores finished level, the away goals rule was applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs progressed. If away goals were also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time were played, divided into two fifteen-minutes halves. The away goals rule was again applied after extra time, i.e. if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team qualified by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie was decided by a penalty shoot-out. In the final, the tie was played as a single match. If scores were level at the end of normal time in the final, extra time was played, followed by penalties if scores remained tied.

The draw mechanisms for the knockout stage is as follows:

In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight group runners-up were unseeded. A seeded team was drawn against an unseeded team, with the seeded team 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 onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn with each other.

Qualified teams edit

Key to colours
Seeded in round of 16 draw
Unseeded in round of 16 draw

Group	Winners	Runners-up
A	Bayern Munich	Napoli
B	Internazionale	CSKA Moscow
C	Benfica	Basel
D	Real Madrid	Lyon
E	Chelsea	Bayer Leverkusen
F	Arsenal	Marseille
G	APOEL	Zenit Saint Petersburg
H	Barcelona	Milan

Bracket edit

Round of 16				Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final

Marseille (a)	1	1	2

Internazionale	0	2	2
				Marseille	0	0	0

				Bayern Munich	2	2	4
Basel	1	0	1

Bayern Munich	0	7	7
								Bayern Munich (p)	2	1	3 (3)

								Real Madrid	1	2	3 (1)
Lyon	1	0	1 (3)

APOEL (p)	0	1	1 (4)
				APOEL	0	2	2

				Real Madrid	3	5	8
CSKA Moscow	1	1	2

Real Madrid	1	4	5
												Bayern Munich	1 (3)

												Chelsea (p)	1 (4)
Zenit Saint Petersburg	3	0	3

Benfica	2	2	4
				Benfica	0	1	1

				Chelsea	1	2	3
Napoli	3	1	4

Chelsea (a.e.t.)	1	4	5
								Chelsea	1	2	3

								Barcelona	0	2	2
Milan	4	0	4

Arsenal	0	3	3
				Milan	0	1	1

				Barcelona	0	3	3
Bayer Leverkusen	1	1	2

Barcelona	3	7	10

Round of 16 edit

The first legs were played on 14, 15, 21 and 22 February, and the second legs were played on 6, 7, 13 and 14 March 2012.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lyon	1–1 (3–4 p)	APOEL	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Napoli	4–5	Chelsea	3–1	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Milan	4–3	Arsenal	4–0	0–3
Basel	1–7	Bayern Munich	1–0	0–7
Bayer Leverkusen	2–10	Barcelona	1–3	1–7
CSKA Moscow	2–5	Real Madrid	1–1	1–4
Zenit Saint Petersburg	3–4	Benfica	3–2	0–2
Marseille	2–2 (a)	Internazionale	1–0	1–2