2016–17 UEFA Champions League

The **2016-17 UEFA Champions League** is the 62st season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA. It is the 25th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

The 2017 UEFA Champions League Final was  played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Real Madrid are the defending champions.

## Qualifying 
### First round 
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### Second round 
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### Third round 
The losing teams in both the champions and league route go on to the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League play-off round.

**Champions route**:

The champions route is only for teams that won their country's league.

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**League route**:

The league route is only for teams who did not win their country's league.

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### Play-off round 
The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2016. The first legs will be played on 16 and 17 August, and the second legs will be played on 23 and 24 August 2016.

**Champions route**

The champions route is only for teams that won their country's league.

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**League route**

The league route is only for teams who did not win their country's league.

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## Group stage 
The draw for the group stage will be held on 25 August 2016, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.

These teams already qualified for the group stage (the clubs are listed by their UEFA ranking):

These teams qualified from the play-off round:
*  Borussia Mönchengladbach
*  Celtic
*  Copenhagen
*  Dinamo Zagreb
*  Legia Warsaw
*  Ludogorets Razgrad
*  Manchester City
*  Monaco
*  Porto
*  Rostov

## Knockout stage 
The best two teams from each of the groups in the group stage will move on to the knockout stages. The draw for the round of 16 will be held on 12 December 2016.

### Bracket 

### Final 
The final was played on 3 June 2017 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.

## Statistics 
### Goalscorers 
#### 6 goals 
* Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

#### 4 goals 
* Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain)
* Mesut Özil (Arsenal)

#### 3 goals 
* Sergio Agüero (Manchester City)
* Arkadiusz Milik (Napoli)
* Dries Mertens (Napoli)
* Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund)
* Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City)
* Theo Walcott (Arsenal)
* Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Münich)

#### 2 goals 
* Thomas Müller (Bayern Münich)
* Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Münich)
* Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
* Álvaro Morata (Real Madrid)
* Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal)
* Moussa Dembélé (Celtic)
* Dmitry Poloz (Rostov)
* Bernardo Silva (Monaco)
* Bruno César (Sporting CP)
* Vincent Aboubakar (Beşiktaş)
* Eduardo Salvio (Benfica)
* Franco Cervi (Benfica)
* Neymar (Barcelona)
* Yannick Carrasco (Atlético Madrid)
* Jonathan Cafu (Ludogorets Razgrad)
* Blaise Matuidi (Paris Saint-Germain)

#### 1 goal 
* Ángel Di María (Paris Saint-Germain)
* Lucas Moura (Paris Saint-Germain)
* Thomas Meunier (Paris Saint-Germain)
* Natanael (Ludogorets Razgrad)
* Claudiu Keşerü (Ludogorets Razgrad)
* Renato Steffen (Basel)
* Luca Zuffi (Basel)
* Denys Harmash (Dynamo Kyiv)
* Viktor Tsyhankov (Dynamo Kyiv)
* Gonçalo Guedes (Benfica)
* Anderson Talisca (Beşiktaş)
* Ricardo Quaresma (Beşiktaş)
* Adriano (Beşiktaş)
* Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona)
* Arda Turan (Barcelona)
* Gerard Piqué (Barcelona)
* Juan Bernat (Bayern Münich)
* Arjen Robben (Bayern Münich)
* Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético Madrid)
* Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City)
* Fernandinho (Manchester City)
* Raheem Sterling (Manchester City)
* Nolito (Manchester City)
* Admir Mehmedi (Bayer Leverkusen)
* Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Bayer Leverkusen)
* Javier Hernández (Bayer Leverkusen)
* Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow)
* Roman Eremenko (CSKA Moscow)
* Lacina Traoré (CSKA Moscow)
* Thomas Lemar (Monaco)
* Kamil Glik (Monaco)
* Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham)
* Son Heung-min (Tottenham)
* Bryan Ruiz (Sporting CP)
* Bas Dost (Sporting CP)
* Raphaël Varane (Real Madrid)
* Gareth Bale (Real Madrid)
* Marco Asensio (Real Madrid)
* Lucas Vázquez (Real Madrid)
* Mario Götze (Borussia Dortmund)
* Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Borussia Dortmund)
* Marc Bartra (Borussia Dortmund)
* Raphaël Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund)
* Gonzalo Castro Randon (Borussia Dortmund)
* André Schürrle (Borussia Dortmund)
* Julian Weigl (Borussia Dortmund)
* Marc Albrighton (Leicester City)
* Islam Slimani (Leicester City)
* Otávio (Porto)
* Miguel Layún (Porto)
* André Silva (Porto)
* Andreas Cornelius (Copenhagen)
* Thomas Delaney (Copenhagen)
* Federico Santander (Copenhagen)
* Mathias Jørgensen (Copenhagen)
* Corentin Tolisso (Lyon)
* Jordan Ferri (Lyon)
* Maxwel Cornet (Lyon)
* Wissam Ben Yedder (Sevilla)
* Samir Nasri (Sevilla)
* Miralem Pjanić (Juventus)
* Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus)
* Paulo Dybala (Juventus)
* Daniel Alves (Juventus)
* Juan Cuadrado (Juventus)
* Marek Hamšík (Napoli)
* Manolo Gabbiadini (Napoli)
* Thorgan Hazard (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
* Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
* André Hahn (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
* Davy Pröpper (PSV Eindhoven)
* Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven)
* Luciano Narsingh (PSV Eindhoven)
* Miroslav Radović (Legia Warsaw)
* Jelle Vossen (Club Brugge)
* Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal)
* Granit Xhaka (Arsenal)
* Olivier Giroud (Arsenal)

#### Own goals 
* Stefano Denswil (Club Brugge) - against Copenhagen
* Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) - against Celtic
* Tomasz Jodłowiec (Legia Warsaw) - against Real Madrid

## References 
## Other websites 
* UEFA Champions League (official website)