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2019–20 UEFA Champions League

The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League was 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.

2019–20 UEFA Champions League
The Estádio da Luz in Lisbon hosted the final
Tournament details
DatesQualifying:
25 June – 28 August 2019
Competition proper:
17 September 2019 – 23 August 2020
TeamsCompetition proper: 32
Total: 79 (from 54 associations)
Final positions
ChampionsGermany Bayern Munich (6th title)
Runners-upFrance Paris Saint-Germain
Tournament statistics
Matches played119
Goals scored386 (3.24 per match)
Attendance4,758,398 (39,987 per match)
Top scorer(s)Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)
15 goals
Best player(s)

Bayern Munich defeated Paris Saint-Germain in the final, played at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, 1–0 and became the first European Cup winners to win all their matches during the tournament. In addition, the Germans secured their second continental treble, becoming only the second European club to do so, and became the first team to claim any European competition with a 100% winning record. As winners, they earned the right to play against Sevilla, the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup, and also qualified for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar. They would go on to win both competitions. Since they had already qualified for the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage through their league performance, the berth originally reserved for the Champions League title holders was given to the team that was top of the 2019–20 Eredivisie (Ajax), the 11th-ranked association according to next season's access list, when it was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was suspended in mid-March 2020 and resumed in August. The quarter-finals onwards were played as single-match knockout ties at neutral venues in Lisbon, Portugal (Estádio da Luz and Estádio José Alvalade) behind closed doors from 12 to 23 August.[5] In keeping with its introduction the campaign prior, the video assistant referee (VAR) system was in use from the play-off round onwards.[6]

Liverpool were the defending champions,[7] but were eliminated in the round of 16 by Atlético Madrid.

Association team allocation edit

A total of 79 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[8]

  • Associations 1–4 each had four teams qualify.
  • Associations 5–6 each had three teams qualify.
  • Associations 7–15 each had two teams qualify.
  • Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein) each had one team qualify.
  • The winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League and 2018–19 UEFA Europa League were each given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League through their domestic leagues. However, both qualified through their domestic leagues, meaning the additional entries were not necessary.

Association ranking edit

For the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2018 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2013–14 to 2017–18.[9]

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

  • (UCL) – Additional berth for UEFA Champions League title holders
  • (UEL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders
Association ranking for 2019–20 UEFA Champions League
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
1   Spain 106.998 4
2   England 79.605
3   Italy 76.249
4   Germany 71.427
5   France 56.415 3
6   Russia 53.382
7   Portugal 47.248 2
8   Ukraine 41.133
9   Belgium 38.500
10   Turkey 35.800
11   Austria 32.850
12   Switzerland 30.200
13   Czech Republic 30.175
14   Netherlands 29.749
15   Greece 28.600
16   Croatia 26.000 1
17   Denmark 25.950
18   Israel 21.750
19   Cyprus 21.550
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
20   Romania 20.450 1
21   Poland 20.125
22   Sweden 19.975
23   Azerbaijan 19.125
24   Bulgaria 19.125
25   Serbia 18.750
26   Scotland 18.625
27   Belarus 18.625
28   Kazakhstan 18.125
29   Norway 17.425
30   Slovenia 14.500
31   Liechtenstein 13.000 0
32   Slovakia 12.125 1
33   Moldova 10.000
34   Albania 8.500
35   Iceland 8.250
36   Hungary 8.125
37   North Macedonia 7.500
Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes
38   Finland 6.900 1
39   Republic of Ireland 6.700
40   Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.625
41   Latvia 5.625
42   Estonia 5.500
43   Lithuania 5.375
44   Montenegro 5.000
45   Georgia 5.000
46   Armenia 4.875
47   Malta 4.500
48   Luxembourg 4.375
49   Northern Ireland 4.250
50   Wales 3.875
51   Faroe Islands 3.750
52   Gibraltar 3.000
53   Andorra 1.331
54   San Marino 0.499
55   Kosovo 0.000

Distribution edit

The following is the access list for this season.[10]

Access list for 2019–20 UEFA Champions League
Teams entering in this round Teams advancing from previous round
Preliminary round
(4 teams)
  • 4 champions from associations 52–55
First qualifying round
(32 teams)
  • 31 champions from associations 20–51 (except Liechtenstein)
  • 1 winner from the preliminary round
Second qualifying round Champions Path
(20 teams)
  • 4 champions from associations 16–19
  • 16 winners from the first qualifying round
League Path
(4 teams)
  • 4 runners-up from associations 12–15
Third qualifying round Champions Path
(12 teams)
  • 2 champions from associations 14–15
  • 10 winners from the second qualifying round (Champions Path)
League Path
(8 teams)
  • 5 runners-up from associations 7–11
  • 1 third-placed team from association 6
  • 2 winners from the second qualifying round (League Path)
Play-off round Champions Path
(8 teams)
  • 2 champions from associations 12–13
  • 6 winners from the third qualifying round (Champions Path)
League Path
(4 teams)
  • 4 winners from the third qualifying round (League Path)
Group stage
(32 teams)
  • 11 champions from associations 1–11
  • 6 runners-up from associations 1–6
  • 5 third-placed teams from associations 1–5
  • 4 fourth-placed teams from associations 1–4
  • 4 winners from the play-off round (Champions Path)
  • 2 winners from the play-off round (League Path)
Knockout phase
(16 teams)
  • 8 group winners from the group stage
  • 8 group runners-up from the group stage

Changes were made to the default access list, if the Champions League and/or Europa League title holders qualified for the tournament via their domestic leagues. In any case where a spot in the Champions League was vacated, teams of the highest-ranked associations in earlier rounds of the appropriate path were promoted accordingly.

  • In the default access list, the Champions League title holders qualified for the group stage. However, since the Champions League title holders (Liverpool) qualified via their domestic league (as second place in the 2018–19 Premier League), the following changes to the access list were made:
    • The champions of association 11 (Austria) entered the group stage instead of the play-off round.
    • The champions of association 13 (Czech Republic) entered the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
    • The champions of association 15 (Greece) entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.
    • The champions of associations 18 (Israel) and 19 (Cyprus) entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.
  • In the default access list, the Europa League title holders qualified for the group stage. However, since the Europa League title holders (Chelsea) qualified for the group stage via their domestic league (as third place in the 2018–19 Premier League), the following changes to the access list were made:
    • The third-placed team of association 5 (France) entered the group stage instead of the third qualifying round.
    • The runners-up of associations 10 (Turkey) and 11 (Austria) entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.

Teams edit

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).[10]

Qualified teams for 2019–20 UEFA Champions League (by entry round)
Group stage
  LiverpoolTH (2nd)   Tottenham Hotspur (4th)   RB Leipzig (3rd)   Benfica (1st)
  ChelseaEL (3rd)   Juventus (1st)   Bayer Leverkusen (4th)   Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)
  Barcelona (1st)   Napoli (2nd)   Paris Saint-Germain (1st)   Genk (1st)
  Atlético Madrid (2nd)   Atalanta (3rd)   Lille (2nd)   Galatasaray (1st)
  Real Madrid (3rd)   Inter Milan (4th)   Lyon (3rd)   Red Bull Salzburg (1st)
  Valencia (4th)   Bayern Munich (1st)   Zenit Saint Petersburg (1st)
  Manchester City (1st)   Borussia Dortmund (2nd)   Lokomotiv Moscow (2nd)
Play-off round
Champions Path League Path
  Young Boys (1st)   Slavia Prague (1st)
Third qualifying round
Champions Path League Path
  Ajax (1st)   PAOK (1st)   Krasnodar (3rd)   Club Brugge (2nd)
  Porto (2nd)   İstanbul Başakşehir (2nd)
  Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)   LASK (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Champions Path League Path
  Dinamo Zagreb (1st)   Maccabi Tel Aviv (1st)   Basel (2nd)   PSV Eindhoven (2nd)
  Copenhagen (1st)   APOEL (1st)   Viktoria Plzeň (2nd)   Olympiacos (2nd)
First qualifying round
  CFR Cluj (1st)   Astana (1st)   Shkëndija (1st)   Saburtalo Tbilisi (1st)
  Piast Gliwice (1st)   Rosenborg (1st)   HJK (1st)   Ararat-Armenia (1st)
  AIK (1st)   Maribor (1st)   Dundalk (1st)   Valletta (1st)
  Qarabağ (1st)   Slovan Bratislava (1st)   Sarajevo (1st)   F91 Dudelange (1st)
  Ludogorets Razgrad (1st)   Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)   Riga (1st)   Linfield (1st)
  Red Star Belgrade (1st)   Partizani (1st)   Nõmme Kalju (1st)   The New Saints (1st)
  Celtic (1st)   Valur (1st)   Sūduva (1st)   HB Tórshavn (1st)
  BATE Borisov (1st)   Ferencváros (1st)   Sutjeska Nikšić (1st)
Preliminary round
  Lincoln Red Imps (1st)   FC Santa Coloma (1st)   Tre Penne (1st)   Feronikeli (1st)

Round and draw dates edit

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).[11]

The competition was suspended on 17 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[12] A working group was set up by UEFA to decide the calendar of the remainder of the season.[13] On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced the revised schedule for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final of the competition, to be played in single-leg matches.[5]

Schedule for 2019–20 UEFA Champions League
Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Qualifying Preliminary round 11 June 2019 25 June 2019 (semi-final round) 28 June 2019 (final round)
First qualifying round 18 June 2019 9–10 July 2019 16–17 July 2019
Second qualifying round 19 June 2019 23–24 July 2019 30–31 July 2019
Third qualifying round 22 July 2019 6–7 August 2019 13 August 2019
Play-off Play-off round 5 August 2019 20–21 August 2019 27–28 August 2019
Group stage Matchday 1 29 August 2019
(Monaco) 		17–18 September 2019
Matchday 2 1–2 October 2019
Matchday 3 22–23 October 2019
Matchday 4 5–6 November 2019
Matchday 5 26–27 November 2019
Matchday 6 10–11 December 2019
Knockout phase Round of 16 16 December 2019 18–19 & 25–26 February 2020 10–11 March & 7–8 August 2020
Quarter-finals 10 July 2020 12–15 August 2020
Semi-finals 18–19 August 2020
Final 23 August 2020 at Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

The original schedule of the competition, as planned before the pandemic, was as follows.

Original schedule for 2019–20 UEFA Champions League
Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Qualifying Preliminary round 11 June 2019 25 June 2019 (semi-final round) 28 June 2019 (final round)
First qualifying round 18 June 2019 9–10 July 2019 16–17 July 2019
Second qualifying round 19 June 2019 23–24 July 2019 30–31 July 2019
Third qualifying round 22 July 2019 6–7 August 2019 13 August 2019
Play-off Play-off round 5 August 2019 20–21 August 2019 27–28 August 2019
Group stage Matchday 1 29 August 2019
(Monaco) 		17–18 September 2019
Matchday 2 1–2 October 2019
Matchday 3 22–23 October 2019
Matchday 4 5–6 November 2019
Matchday 5 26–27 November 2019
Matchday 6 10–11 December 2019
Knockout phase Round of 16 16 December 2019 18–19 & 25–26 February 2020 10–11 & 17–18 March 2020
Quarter-finals 20 March 2020 7–8 April 2020 14–15 April 2020
Semi-finals 28–29 April 2020 5–6 May 2020
Final 30 May 2020 at Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic edit

The round of 16 ties were to be played across four weeks, with the first legs being played across two weeks in February and the second legs across two weeks in March. Because of this, the first leg ties were unaffected by the pandemic, but the second leg ties were affected in different ways. All of the four matches in the first week of fixtures went ahead but due to the increased severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain and France, Valencia's and PSG's home games were played behind closed doors.[14][15] On 15 March, UEFA announced a halt to the competition meaning that the remaining second leg games would be postponed indefinitely.[16][12] A taskforce was convened to reschedule the rest of the season.[13] On 23 March, it was announced that the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey would no longer host the competition final, originally scheduled for 30 May, but would host the 2021 final instead.[17] This was later postponed further to 2023.[18]

On 17 June, it was announced that the Champions League would return on 7 August and conclude on 23 August,[5] with the rest of the tournament to be held in Portugal, with the exception of the four unplayed round of 16 second legs, which would be played at their original venues.[19] The last 8 of the competition would be played as a mini tournament, with the remaining fixtures to be played as single-legged ties. All remaining ties of the competition were played behind closed doors due to the remaining presence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[20]

Final tournament venues edit

Lisbon
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Location of venues within Lisbon, Portugal
 Lisbon
Estádio da Luz
(final venue) 		Estádio José Alvalade
Capacity: 64,642 Capacity: 50,095
   

Qualifying rounds edit

Main article: 2019–20 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients,[21] and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties.

Preliminary round edit

In the preliminary round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients,[21] and then drawn into one-legged semi-final and final ties. The losers of both semi-final and final rounds entered 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.[22] 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.

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Semi-final round
Feronikeli   1–0   Lincoln Red Imps
Tre Penne   0–1   FC Santa Coloma
Team 1  Score  Team 2
Final round
Feronikeli   2–1   FC Santa Coloma

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.[23] The first legs were played on 9 and 10 July, and the second legs on 16 and 17 July 2019.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Nõmme Kalju   2–2 (a)   Shkëndija 0–1 2–1
Sūduva   1–2   Red Star Belgrade 0–0 1–2
Ararat-Armenia   3–4   AIK 2–1 1–3
Astana   2–3   CFR Cluj 1–0 1–3
Ferencváros   5–3[A]   Ludogorets Razgrad 2–1 3–2
Partizani   0–2   Qarabağ 0–0 0–2
Slovan Bratislava   2–2 (2–3 p)   Sutjeska Nikšić 1–1 1–1 (a.e.t.)
Sarajevo   2–5[B][C]   Celtic 1–3 1–2
Sheriff Tiraspol   3–4   Saburtalo Tbilisi 0–3 3–1
F91 Dudelange   3–3 (a)   Valletta 2–2 1–1
Linfield   0–6   Rosenborg 0–2 0–4
Valur   0–5   Maribor 0–3 0–2
Dundalk   0–0 (5–4 p)   Riga 0–0 0–0 (a.e.t.)
The New Saints   3–2   Feronikeli 2–2 1–0
HJK   5–2   HB Tórshavn 3–0 2–2
BATE Borisov   3–2   Piast Gliwice 1–1 2–1

Notes

  1. ^ Following a mistake with the original draw not following the correct procedure, UEFA performed a re-draw to establish the home team for each leg in the Ferencváros-Ludogorets Razgrad tie. As a result, the order of legs was reversed. The error did not affect any other tie.[24]
  2. ^ Order of legs reversed after original draw.
  3. ^ Losers drawn to receive a bye to the Europa League third qualifying round.

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.[25] The first legs were played on 23 and 24 July, and the second legs on 30 and 31 July 2019.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Champions Path
CFR Cluj   3–2   Maccabi Tel Aviv 1–0 2–2
BATE Borisov   2–3   Rosenborg 2–1 0–2
The New Saints   0–3   Copenhagen 0–2 0–1
Ferencváros   4–2   Valletta 3–1 1–1
Dundalk   1–4   Qarabağ 1–1 0–3
Saburtalo Tbilisi   0–5   Dinamo Zagreb 0–2 0–3
Celtic   7–0   Nõmme Kalju 5–0 2–0
Red Star Belgrade   3–2   HJK 2–0 1–2
Sutjeska Nikšić   0–4   APOEL 0–1 0–3
Maribor   4–4 (a)   AIK 2–1 2–3 (a.e.t.)
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
League Path
Viktoria Plzeň   0–4   Olympiacos 0–0 0–4
PSV Eindhoven   4–4 (a)   Basel 3–2 1–2

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.[26] The first legs were played on 6 and 7 August, and the second legs on 13 August 2019.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Champions Path
CFR Cluj   5–4   Celtic 1–1 4–3
APOEL   3–2   Qarabağ 1–2 2–0
PAOK   4–5   Ajax 2–2 2–3
Dinamo Zagreb   5–1   Ferencváros 1–1 4–0
Red Star Belgrade   2–2 (7–6 p)   Copenhagen 1–1 1–1 (a.e.t.)
Maribor   2–6   Rosenborg 1–3 1–3
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
League Path
İstanbul Başakşehir   0–3   Olympiacos 0–1 0–2
Krasnodar   3–3 (a)   Porto 0–1 3–2
Club Brugge   4–3   Dynamo Kyiv 1–0 3–3
Basel   2–5   LASK 1–2 1–3

Play-off round edit

Main article: 2019–20 UEFA Champions League play-off round

The play-off 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 group stage. From this stage, the video assistant referee was used.

The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2019, 12:00 CEST.[27] The first legs were played on 20 and 21 August, and the second legs on 27 and 28 August 2019.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Champions Path
Dinamo Zagreb   3–1   Rosenborg 2–0 1–1
CFR Cluj   0–2   Slavia Prague 0–1 0–1
Young Boys   3–3 (a)   Red Star Belgrade 2–2 1–1
APOEL   0–2   Ajax 0–0 0–2
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
League Path
LASK   1–3   Club Brugge 0–1 1–2
Olympiacos   6–1   Krasnodar 4–0 2–1

Group stage edit

Main article: 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage
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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.[28] The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on the following principles:[29][30]

  • Pot 1 contained the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2018 UEFA country coefficients. If one or both title holders were one of the champions of the top six associations, the champions of the next highest ranked association(s) were also seeded into Pot 1.
  • Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients.[21]

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays were 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 qualified for the group stage also participated in the 2019–20 UEFA Youth League on the same matchdays, where they competed in the UEFA Champions League Path (the youth domestic champions of the top 32 associations competed in a separate Domestic Champions Path until the play-offs).

A total of sixteen national associations were represented in the group stage. Atalanta made their debut appearance in the group stage.

Group A edit

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PAR RMA BRU GAL
1   Paris Saint-Germain 6 5 1 0 17 2 +15 16 Advance to knockout phase — 3–0 1–0 5–0
2   Real Madrid 6 3 2 1 14 8 +6 11 2–2 — 2–2 6–0
3   Club Brugge 6 0 3 3 4 12 −8 3 Transfer to Europa League 0–5 1–3 — 0–0
4   Galatasaray 6 0 2 4 1 14 −13 2 0–1 0–1 1–1 —
Source: UEFA

Group B edit

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BAY TOT OLY RSB
1   Bayern Munich 6 6 0 0 24 5 +19 18 Advance to knockout phase — 3–1 2–0 3–0
2   Tottenham Hotspur 6 3 1 2 18 14 +4 10 2–7 — 4–2 5–0
3   Olympiacos 6 1 1 4 8 14 −6 4 Transfer to Europa League 2–3 2–2 — 1–0
4   Red Star Belgrade 6 1 0 5 3 20 −17 3 0–6 0–4 3–1 —
Source: UEFA

Group C edit

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification MC ATA SHK DZG
1   Manchester City 6 4 2 0 16 4 +12 14 Advance to knockout phase — 5–1 1–1 2–0
2   Atalanta 6 2 1 3 8 12 −4 7 1–1 — 1–2 2–0
3   Shakhtar Donetsk 6 1 3 2 8 13 −5 6 Transfer to Europa League 0–3 0–3 — 2–2
4   Dinamo Zagreb 6 1 2 3 10 13 −3 5 1–4 4–0 3–3 —
Source: UEFA

Group D edit

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification JUV ATM LEV LOM
1   Juventus 6 5 1 0 12 4 +8 16 Advance to knockout phase — 1–0 3–0 2–1
2   Atlético Madrid 6 3 1 2 8 5 +3 10 2–2 — 1–0 2–0
3   Bayer Leverkusen 6 2 0 4 5 9 −4 6 Transfer to Europa League 0–2 2–1 — 1–2
4   Lokomotiv Moscow 6 1 0 5 4 11 −7 3 1–2 0–2 0–2 —
Source: UEFA

Group E edit

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification LIV NAP SAL GNK
1   Liverpool 6 4 1 1 13 8 +5 13 Advance to knockout phase — 1–1 4–3 2–1
2   Napoli 6 3 3 0 11 4 +7 12 2–0 — 1–1 4–0
3   Red Bull Salzburg 6 2 1 3 16 13 +3 7 Transfer to Europa League 0–2 2–3 — 6–2
4   Genk 6 0 1 5 5 20 −15 1 1–4 0–0 1–4 —
Source: UEFA

Group F edit

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification BAR DOR INT SLP
1   Barcelona 6 4 2 0 9 4 +5 14 Advance to knockout phase — 3–1 2–1 0–0
2   Borussia Dortmund 6 3 1 2 8 8 0 10 0–0 — 3–2 2–1
3   Inter Milan 6 2 1 3 10 9 +1 7 Transfer to Europa League 1–2 2–0 — 1–1
4   Slavia Prague 6 0 2 4 4 10 −6 2 1–2 0–2 1–3 —
Source: UEFA

Group G edit

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification RBL LYO BEN ZEN
1   RB Leipzig 6 3 2 1 10 8 +2 11 Advance to knockout phase — 0–2 2–2 2–1
2   Lyon 6 2 2 2 9 8 +1 8 2–2 — 3–1 1–1
3   Benfica 6 2 1 3 10 11 −1 7[a] Transfer to Europa League 1–2 2–1 — 3–0
4   Zenit Saint Petersburg 6 2 1 3 7 9 −2 7[a] 0–2 2–0 3–1 —
Source: UEFA
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Tied on head-to-head points (3). Head-to-head goal difference: Benfica +1, Zenit Saint Petersburg −1.

Group H edit

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification VAL CHL AJX LIL
1   Valencia 6 3 2 1 9 7 +2 11[a] Advance to knockout phase — 2–2 0–3 4–1
2   Chelsea 6 3 2 1 11 9 +2 11[a] 0–1 — 4–4 2–1
3   Ajax 6 3 1 2 12 6 +6 10 Transfer to Europa League 0–1 0–1 — 3–0
4   Lille 6 0 1 5 4 14 −10 1 1–1 1–2 0–2 —
Source: UEFA
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head points: Valencia 4, Chelsea 1.

Knockout phase edit

Main article: 2019–20 UEFA Champions League knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams played 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 was as follows:

  • In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not 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 against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner was designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it was played at a neutral venue).

For the quarter-finals and semi-finals, teams from the same city were not to be scheduled to play at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control.[31] To avoid such scheduling conflict, if the two teams were drawn to play at home for the same leg, the order of legs of the tie involving the team which were not titleholders of Champions League or Europa League, or the team with the lower domestic ranking in the qualifying season (if neither team were continental title holder) was to be reversed from the original draw.[32]

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 were played behind closed doors, through the decisions of the national and local government.

Following the competition restart in August 2020, a maximum of five substitutions were allowed, with a sixth allowed in extra time. However, each team was only 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 followed a proposal from FIFA and approval by IFAB to lessen the impact of fixture congestion.[33]

Bracket edit

 
Round of 16Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
                      
 
 
 
 
  Tottenham Hotspur000
 
 
 
  RB Leipzig134
 
  RB Leipzig2
 
 
 
  Atlético Madrid1
 
  Atlético Madrid (a.e.t.)134
 
 
 
  Liverpool022
 
  RB Leipzig0
 
 
 
  Paris Saint-Germain3
 
  Atalanta448
 
 
 
  Valencia134
 
  Atalanta1
 
 
 
  Paris Saint-Germain2
 
  Borussia Dortmund202
 
23 August – Lisbon (Luz)
 
  Paris Saint-Germain123
 
  Paris Saint-Germain0
 
 
 
  Bayern Munich1
 
  Real Madrid112
 
 
 
  Manchester City224
 
  Manchester City1
 
 
 
  Lyon3
 
  Lyon (a)112
 
 
 
  Juventus022
 
  Lyon0
 
 
 
  Bayern Munich3
 
  Napoli112
 
 
 
  Barcelona134
 
  Barcelona2
 
 
 
  Bayern Munich8
 
  Chelsea011
 
 
  Bayern Munich347
 

Round of 16 edit

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 16 December 2019, 12:00 CET.[34] 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.[16] 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).[35] On 9 July 2020, UEFA announced that the remaining second legs would be held at the venues originally proposed.[36]

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.[37][38][39] 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.[40]

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

Quarter-finals edit

The draw for the quarter-finals took place on 10 July 2020.[16][41] The matches were played from 12 to 15 August 2020.

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Manchester City   1–3   Lyon
RB Leipzig   2–1   Atlético Madrid
Barcelona   2–8   Bayern Munich
Atalanta   1–2   Paris Saint-Germain

Semi-finals edit

The draw for the semi-finals took place on 10 July 2020 (after the quarter-final draw). The matches were played on 18 and 19 August 2020.

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Lyon   0–3   Bayern Munich
RB Leipzig   0–3   Paris Saint-Germain

Final edit

Main article: 2020 UEFA Champions League Final

The final was played at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.[41]

Paris Saint-Germain  0–1  Bayern Munich
Report
  • Coman   59'
Attendance: 0[42][note 1]

Statistics edit

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Top goalscorers edit

 
Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski finished the tournament as the top goalscorer and joint top assist provider, having scored 15 goals and assisting 6.
Rank[43] Player Team(s) Goals Minutes played
1   Robert Lewandowski   Bayern Munich 15 887
2   Erling Haaland[A]   Red Bull Salzburg
  Borussia Dortmund 		10 554
3   Serge Gnabry   Bayern Munich 9 767
4   Harry Kane   Tottenham Hotspur 6 450
  Dries Mertens   Napoli 586
  Gabriel Jesus   Manchester City 590
  Memphis Depay   Lyon 594
  Raheem Sterling   Manchester City 599
9   Son Heung-min   Tottenham Hotspur 5 365
  Mauro Icardi   Paris Saint-Germain 480
  Josip Iličić   Atalanta 516
  Lautaro Martínez   Inter Milan 521
  Luis Suárez   Barcelona 567
  Karim Benzema   Real Madrid 643
  Kylian Mbappé   Paris Saint-Germain 652

Notes

  1. ^ Erling Haaland played for Red Bull Salzburg in the group stage and for Borussia Dortmund in the knockout stage, after his transfer during the January transfer window.[44]

Top assists edit

 
Paris Saint-Germain's Ángel Di María finished the tournament as the joint top assist provider, having assisted 6 goals.
Rank[43] Player Team(s) Assists Minutes played
1   Ángel Di María   Paris Saint-Germain 6 750
  Robert Lewandowski   Bayern Munich 887
3   Hakim Ziyech   Ajax 5 499
  Kylian Mbappé   Paris Saint-Germain 652
  Houssem Aouar   Lyon 715
6   Corentin Tolisso   Bayern Munich 4 341
  Riyad Mahrez   Manchester City 572
  Neymar   Paris Saint-Germain 585
  Roberto Firmino   Liverpool 629
  Alphonso Davies   Bayern Munich 713

Squad of the season edit

The UEFA technical study group selected the following 23 players as the squad of the tournament.[45]

Pos. Player Team(s)
GK   Manuel Neuer   Bayern Munich
  Jan Oblak   Atlético Madrid
  Anthony Lopes   Lyon
DF   Alphonso Davies   Bayern Munich
  Joshua Kimmich   Bayern Munich
  Virgil van Dijk   Liverpool
  Dayot Upamecano   RB Leipzig
  Angeliño[A]   Manchester City
  RB Leipzig
  David Alaba   Bayern Munich
MF   Thiago   Bayern Munich
  Kevin De Bruyne   Manchester City
  Houssem Aouar   Lyon
  Leon Goretzka   Bayern Munich
  Marcel Sabitzer   RB Leipzig
  Marquinhos   Paris Saint-Germain
  Alejandro Gómez   Atalanta
  Thomas Müller   Bayern Munich
FW   Serge Gnabry   Bayern Munich
  Robert Lewandowski   Bayern Munich
  Kylian Mbappé   Paris Saint-Germain
  Neymar   Paris Saint-Germain
  Lionel Messi   Barcelona
  Raheem Sterling   Manchester City

Notes

  1. ^ Angeliño played for Manchester City in the group stage and for RB Leipzig in the knockout stage, after his transfer during the January transfer window.[44]

Players of the season edit

Main articles: UEFA Club Football Awards and UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award

Votes were cast for players of the season by coaches of the 32 teams in the group stage, together with 55 journalists selected by the European Sports Media (ESM) group, representing each of UEFA's member associations. The coaches were not allowed to vote for players from their own teams. Jury members selected their top three players, with the first receiving five points, the second three and the third one. The shortlist of the top three players was announced on 16 September 2020.[46] The award winners were announced and presented during the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Switzerland on 1 October 2020.

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ The remainder of the competition, held in August 2020, was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[20]

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