2018–19 UEFA Champions League

The 2018–19 UEFA Champions League was the 64th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 27th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

The final was played at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid, Spain. The final was played between two English clubs, Liverpool and Tottenham. Liverpool beat Tottenham 2–0 with goals from Mohamed Salah and Divock Origi. This brought Liverpool to there 6th European Champion Clubs' Cup / UEFA Champions League. Liverpool have won the most European Champion Clubs' Cup and UEFA Champions League than any other British Club.

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

Group stage Barcelona  Borussia Dortmund  Roma  Porto  Atlético Madrid EL Manchester City  Internazionale  Shakhtar Donetsk  Real Madrid  Manchester United  Paris Saint-Germain  Club Brugge  Valencia  Tottenham Hotspur  Monaco  Galatasaray  Bayern Munich  Liverpool  Lyon  Viktoria Plzeň  Schalke 04  Juventus  Lokomotiv Moscow  1899 Hoffenheim  Napoli  CSKA Moscow Play-off round Young Boys  PSV Eindhoven Third qualifying round AEK Athens  Red Bull Salzburg  Spartak Moscow  Standard Liège  Benfica  Fenerbahçe  Dynamo Kyiv  Second qualifying round CFR Cluj  Midtjylland  Basel  PAOK  Dinamo Zagreb  BATE Borisov  Ajax  Sturm Graz First qualifying round Legia Warsaw  Red Star Belgrade  Kukësi  Alashkert  Malmö FF  Astana  Cork City  F91 Dudelange  Hapoel Be'er Sheva   Zrinjski Mostar  Crusaders  Celtic  Spartak Trnava  Torpedo Kutaisi  Sūduva Marijampolė  APOEL   Spartaks Jūrmala  Valletta  Rosenborg  Sheriff Tiraspol  Shkëndija  The New Saints  Qarabağ  Valur  Flora Tallinn  Víkingur Gøta  Ludogorets Razgrad  HJK  Sutjeska Nikšić Preliminary round Lincoln Red Imps  FC Santa Coloma   Drita 

Notes

Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).

StageRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legPreliminaryPreliminary round12 June 201826 June 2018 (semi-final round)29 June 2018 (final round)QualifyingFirst qualifying round19 June 201810–11 July 201817–18 July 2018Second qualifying round24–25 July 201831 July – 1 August 2018Third qualifying round23 July 20187–8 August 201814 August 2018Play-offPlay-off round6 August 201821–22 August 201828–29 August 2018Group stageMatchday 130 August 2018(Monaco)18–19 September 2018Matchday 22–3 October 2018Matchday 323–24 October 2018Matchday 46–7 November 2018Matchday 527–28 November 2018Matchday 611–12 December 2018Knockout phaseRound of 1617 December 201812–13 & 19–20 February 20195–6 & 12–13 March 2019Quarter-finals15 March 20199–10 April 201916–17 April 2019Semi-finals19 April 201930 April – 1 May 20197–8 May 2019Final1 June 2019 at Wanda Metropolitano, Madrid

From this season, there will be staggered kick-off times – 18:55 CET and 21:00 CET.

Group stage

The draw for the group stage will be held on 30 August 2018 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The 32 teams are 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 are seeded into four pots based on the following principles (introduced starting this season):
 Pot 1 contains the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2017 UEFA country coefficients. If either or both title holders are one of the champions of the top six associations, the champions of the next highest ranked association(s) are also seeded into Pot 1.
 Pot 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2018 UEFA club coefficients.

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 2018–19 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays are 18–19 September, 2–3 October, 23–24 October, 6–7 November, 27–28 November, and 11–12 December 2018.

A total of 32 teams play in the group stage: 26 teams which enter in this stage, and the six winners of the play-off round (four from Champions Path, two from League Path).

  Atlético Madrid CC: 140.000 (Pot 1)
  Bayern Munich CC: 135.000 (Pot 1)  Barcelona CC: 132.000 (Pot 1)  Juventus CC: 126.000 (Pot 1)  Paris Saint-Germain CC: 109.000 (Pot 1)  Manchester City CC: 100.000 (Pot 1)  Lokomotiv Moscow CC: 22.500 (Pot 1)  Real Madrid CC: TBD (160.000) (Pot 1 if Champions League title holders otherwise Pot 2)  Borussia Dortmund CC: 89.000 (Pot 2)  Porto CC: 86.000 (Pot 2)  Manchester United CC: 82.000 (Pot 2)  Shakhtar Donetsk CC: 81.000 (Pot 2)  Napoli CC: 78.000 (Pot 2)  Tottenham Hotspur CC: 67.000  Roma CC: 64.000  Liverpool CC: TBD (62.000) (Pot 1 if Champions League title holders)  Schalke 04 CC: 62.000 (Pot 3)  Lyon CC: 59.500 (Pot 3)  Monaco CC: 57.000 (Pot 3)  CSKA Moscow CC: 45.000 (Pot 3)  Valencia CC: 36.000  Viktoria Plzeň CC: 33.000  Club Brugge CC: 29.500  Galatasaray CC: 29.500  Internazionale CC: 16.000 (Pot 4)  1899 Hoffenheim CC: 14.285 (Pot 4)''

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, 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:
 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 onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other.

Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 will be held on 17 December 2018. The first legs will be played on 12, 13, 19 and 20 February, and the second legs will be played on 5, 6, 12 and 13 March 2019.

Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals will be held on 15 March 2019. The first legs will be played on 9 and 10 April, and the second legs will be played on 16 and 17 April 2019.

Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals will be held on 19 April 2019. The first legs will be played on 30 April and 1 May, and the second legs will be played on 7 and 8 May 2019.

Final

The final will be played on 1 June 2019 at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) will be determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.

References

Other websites
 UEFA Champions League (official website)


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