Where To Watch Champions League Draw
It's a large ol' twenty-four hour period in the football game season today – we've got the Champions League last-16 draw, the Europa League play-off draw and, wait for it, the Europa Conference League play-off describe back-to-dorsum!
We'll be guiding y'all through the whole journey, explaining what's what, and revealing why you should be so ruddy excited about information technology all.
Here's your rough guide for the day:
11am GMT: The Champions League final-sixteen draw, including English teams Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and current holders Chelsea, plus a couple of other sides you might take of, such as Real Madrid and Juventus.
12pm GMT: The Europa League play-off depict. This is slightly modified on previous seasons, featuring teams who finished 2nd in the Europa League groups, plus 3rd in the Champions League groups – but non Europa League group winners such as W Ham. You lot will see Rangers though, who could face the likes of Barcelona or Borussia Dortmund.
1pm GMT: The Europa Briefing League play-off depict. If y'all don't know what it is, don't worry! Neither does Brendan Rodgers, and Leicester are in it. As well, we'll explicate all before the draw happens. You'll want to keep an eye out for Leicester, Celtic and Tottenham (who are technically in the describe, but may exist knocked out before the fixtures take place – don't worry, we'll explain that too).
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These are the teams going into the Champions League last-16 describe:
Group winners (seeded)
Ajax (NED)
Bayern (GER)
Juventus (ITA)
Liverpool (ENG)
Lille (FRA)
Manchester City (ENG)
Manchester United (ENG)
Real Madrid (ESP)
Group runners-upwards (unseeded)
Atletico Madrid (ESP)
Benfica (POR)
Chelsea (ENG)
Inter (ITA)
Paris Saint-Germain (FRA)
Salzburg (AUT)
Sporting CP (POR)
Villarreal (ESP)
A pretty simple format hither: seeded sides are drawn confronting non-seeded sides, and no 2 sides from the same land tin exist drawn against each other – so no risk of seeing Chelsea go up against Liverpool, Manchester Metropolis or Manchester United, for case.
Manchester Metropolis are the current bookies' favourites for the Champions League this season, with Betfair offer 3/1 for them to finally lift Europe's elite trophy, having failed at the concluding hurdle last year.
Here's a quick rundown of the favourites – or see our full story on Champions League winners odds hither.
Man City - 3/1
Bayern Munich - 4/1
Liverpool - 5/1
PSG - 13/2
Chelsea - ix/1
Human United - 14/1
Existent Madrid - fourteen/1
Ajax - 14/i
Juventus - 25/one
Atletico Madrid - 33/1
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The kickoff knockout round regularly throws up bright ties, by the way.
Final season saw Porto beat Juventus on abroad goals, after a iv-four amass score.
Two years agone nosotros had Homo City knocking out Real Madrid, and Atletico beating Liverpool at this stage.
The year before that had loads of excitement: Manchester United'southward last-gasp winner over PSG that secured Solskjaer the manager'south chore, Spurs' 4-0 aggregate sabotage of Dortmund en route to the final, Ajax tearing apart Existent Madrid at the Bernabeu, Liverpool knocking out Bayern, and Human City racking up 10 goals confronting Schalke over 2 legs.
The first legs will exist played on February 15, xvi, 22 and 23 ,and the 2d legs will be played on March viii, 9, 15 and 16 2022. In the UK, all will exist circulate alive on BT Sport.
Adidas and UEFA have released a new Champions League brawl for the knockout stages this morn – and it's a adept looking affair. Information technology'll be released on the Adidas shop presently.
This is the (bluntly quite arousing) Adidas ball the teams will be playing with in the knockouts – inspired by the skyline of Leningrad, where the terminal will be played on May 28 #UCL moving picture.twitter.com/FhvUyGKPPkDecember 13, 2022
And nosotros're off! UEFA deputy general secretary Giorgio Marchetti is currently talking usa through statistics and facts from the grouping stage. That's our job, Giorgio.
You can watch the draw here.
Next twelvemonth'southward terminal is in Saint Peterburg, Russia – so nosotros've got former Armory aggressor and native Saint Peterburgian Andrey Arshavin to help pick the balls.
Arshavin says his fondest Champions League memory is when Arsenal beat "the strongest Barcelona team at the Emirates, and I scored the goal".
Yeah, fair enough.
The unseeded teams will play the first leg at habitation, if y'all're wondering.
First unseeded team drawn is... Benfica!
Playing Benfica is... Real Madrid. Ancelotti happy with that 1, you'd recall.
Villarreal drawn adjacent.
Manchester United picked out but they were in the same grouping, so information technology's fatigued again.
And Manchester Metropolis is picked out!
Manchester City vs Villarreal is the second game.
Atletico Madrid picked out for the third game.
Atletico Madrid vs Bayern Munich in the third game.
Fourth unseeded side picked out is Salzburg.
Salzburg vs Liverpool. That'due south surely 1 of the best draws Reds could have hoped for.
Inter Milan the next unseeded side fatigued
Inter Milan vs... Ajax! That could exist a very fun couple of games.
Sporting Lisbon now drawn out. Man United or Juventus for them.
Sporting vs Juventus the adjacent necktie.
Chelsea now fatigued out – they'll get Lille, as they can't be drawn against Human being United,
Chelsea vs Lille now confirmed.
PSG vs Human United is the final one. Oof! Poch vs Ralf.
Champions League concluding-xvi fixtures confirmed
Benfica vs Real Madrid
Villarreal vs Manchester City
Atletico Madrid vs Bayern Munich
Salzburg vs Liverpool
Inter Milan vs Ajax
Sporting vs Juventus
Chelsea vs Lille
PSG vs Manchester United
The first legs will exist played on Feb 15, 16, 22 and 23, and the second legs volition exist played on March 8, 9, 15 and xvi, 2022. In the UK, all will be broadcast live on BT Sport.
That's all from the Champions League draw – next upwardly is the Europa League play-off depict at 12pm GMT, but we'll accept some reflections on what we've just seen earlier that.
PSG vs Manchester United will surely be the tie that catches everyone's centre for this round, with Mauricio Pochettino being regularly linked with moving to the job at Old Trafford in the summer.
That volition add together a scrap of spice to the fixture: he seems unhappy in Paris, and his team has not been performing as the fans might expect from a side featuring Messi, Mbappe and Neymar. Simply would knocking United out of the Champions League better his chances of landing the task or non.
Chelsea vs Lille might look similar a favourable depict for Thomas Tuchel'south team, only Lille did win Ligue ane concluding flavor...
Idea it's also worth pointing out they have fallen off the pace this season, and are currently 11th.
Manchester Urban center take been drawn against Villarreal, last flavor Europa League winners managed by former Arsenal boss Unai Emery.
As rivals United would attest, as the beaten Europa League finalists, Villarreal should not be taken lightly – though, like Lille, they are struggling in the domestic league this season, and are currently 13th.
You shouldn't bet against a City win hither.
Liverpool fans volition probably be the happiest of the English clubs with their depict. Salzburg finished 2d to Lille in their underwhelming grouping, and are the first Austrian side to reach the knockout stages. It would be a hell of an upset if Jurgen Klopp'due south side don't make the quarters.
Here's the fixtures once more, simply in a lovely graphic.
Champions League last-16 fixtures
We're now just ten minutes abroad from the Europa League play-off draw! It starts at 12pm GMT, and you can notice out how to watch it live here.
Europa League play-off teams
Seeded teams
Betis (ESP)
Braga (POR)
Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)
Lazio (ITA)
Napoli (ITA)
Olympiacos (GRE)
Rangers (SCO)
Real Sociedad (ESP)
Unseeded teams
Atalanta (ITA)
Barcelona (ESP)
Dortmund (GER)
Leipzig (GER)
Porto (POR)
Sevilla (ESP)
Sheriff (MDA)
Zenit (RUS)
What'south the Europa League play-off format?
This is the play-off round of xvi teams to determine who goes into the bodily Europa League round of 16 – got it?
The seeded teams are those that finished second in the eight Europa League groups, while the unseeded teams are those that finished 3rd in the eight Champions League groups.
Those that finished acme of their Europa League grouping, like West Ham, are non in the play-offs and get straight through to the circular of xvi.
If y'all've noticed this is a flake different from previous years, so well done! Y'all've been paying attention to UEFA'due south secondary competition in contempo years, which usually goes into a round of 32 at this phase. Just with the introduction of much-historic [subs please check] Europa Briefing League, which has reduced the number of Europa League groups, we have this new format this season.
No two teams from the same country tin be fatigued against each other in this round, so we won't be getting Real Betis or Real Sociedad against Barcelona or Sevilla, Braga confronting Porto, or Lazio/Napoli confronting Atalanta.
Back on the Champions League depict for a moment – did Manchester United go excluded from existence fatigued confronting Atletico Madrid by mistake? Information technology certainly looks like it. They and so got i of the toughest draws of the round...
The total story on the potential Champions League draw mistake is here.
The Europa League final this year is in Seville – then volition we get a Sevilla legend for the depict?
Castilian sides Barcelona and Sevilla are articulation favourites to elevator the trophy this yr, having both dropped into the contest after finishing third in their respective Champions League groups.
Betfair has them both at 6/1, and here's the other Europa League betting odds:
Barcelona - half dozen/1
Sevilla - six/1
Borussia Dortmund - 7/1
Napoli - 7/ane
Westward Ham - xi-1
RB Leipzig - eleven/1
Atalanta - 11/1
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The Sevilla legend helping option the balls out of the pot is former goalkeeper Andrés Palop, who made over 200 appearances for Sevilla and speaks Spanish at a truly frightening rate for translators.
We're ready to begin the draw!
The outset leg fixtures volition be played on February 17, with the second legs a calendar week later on February 24.
Unseeded clubs are drawn showtime – they will play outset legs at home.
Sevilla are fatigued outset! Wonder what Andres will make of their depict...
Outset confirmed game: Sevilla vs Dinamo Zagreb
Atalanta the next unseeded team fatigued.
2d confirmed game: Atalanta vs Olympiacos
Next unseeded team... RB Leipzig.
Third confirmed game: RB Leipzig vs Existent Sociedad
Barcelona drawn adjacent!
Quaternary confirmed game: Barcelona vs Napoli
The Maradona derby! That will be a peachy couple of fixtures.
Zenit St Petersburg at present drawn.
Fifth confirmed: Zenit St. petersburg vs Real Betis
Borussia Dortmund out the pot now...
Sixth confirmed game: Borussia Dortmund vs Rangers
The atmosphere at those games will exist amazing. Great draw.
Seventh confirmed game: Sheriff vs Braga
Eighth confirmed game: Porto vs Lazio
And that's it for the Europa League describe! Here'southward those fixtures in full:
Europa League knockout play-off fixtures
Rangers were the merely British team in that depict, with West Ham receiving a good day into the adjacent circular as group winners – but what a fixture the Scottish champions accept been thrown up.
They will play Borussia Dortmund, with the first leg at the Westfalenstadion on February 17, earlier playing at Ibrox on Feb 24.
Ii iconic stadiums renowned for their temper – a actually great tie for the neutrals. Hopefully Rangers fans aren't too put out they missed a run a risk to become to Sheriff Tiraspol in Moldova...
Barcelona vs Napoli is the other standout tie from the draw – famous teams with proud attacking identities, and one of them won't be making the final 16...
As an aside, here's what Barça looked similar the last time they got knocked out of the Champions League and into the then-UEFA Cup.
Aye that's Pep Guardiola and Pepe Reina. Yes, they have pilus.
Europa Conference League knockout play-off draw upward side by side. Get excited, Leicester fans. Be confused, Spurs fans.
Actually, Leicester fans, you can be confused, too.
This Homo United Champions League describe fault brouhaha (we need a catchier proper noun, incidentally. Does Ballgate work for everyone?) is rumbling on.
Co-ordinate to respected Spanish journalist Guillem Balague, Villarreal want the depict re-washed, though if it is, Existent Madrid want it to re-commencement after their fixture...
#RealMadrid will inquire @uefa, if they redo the draw, to start later their ball came upwardly (they accept Benfica). Mistake was fabricated after thatVia @AranchaMOBILEDecember xiii, 2022
Nosotros're all simply looking for the silliest and most exciting fairest decision, here.
Feels similar there'south a growing inevitability that, one way or another, Atletico are going to knock Man United out of the Champions League this season.December thirteen, 2022
Back to the Europa Conference League draw though, if we must.
Here are the teams they'll be pairing upwards today:
Europa Conference League play-off knockout teams
Seeded
Bodø/Glimt (NOR)
Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR)
PAOK (GRE)
Partizan (SRB)
Qarabağ (AZE)
Randers (DEN)
Slavia Praha (CZE)
Tottenham (ENG) / Vitesse (NED)
Unseeded
Celtic (SCO)
Fenerbahçe (TUR)
Leicester Urban center (ENG)
Marseille (FRA)
Midtjylland (DEN)
PSV Eindhoven (NED)
Rapid Wien (AUT)
Sparta Praha (CZE)
BREAKING: Champions League draw declared void
Big Ballgate news! (That is catching on, right?)
UEFA will redraw the whole Champions League concluding-16 draw later the hiccough with the Manchester United balls earlier today.
The draw will happen at 2pm, and you tin can follow information technology all here.
Kickoff, though, we've got the Europa Conference League describe, which is starting now – you can watch it here.
Like the Europa League play-offs, eight teams who finished 2nd in their Europa Conference League groups who go up against the viii teams who finished third in their Europa League groups.
Teams from the same state can't be drawn against ane another, so Randers can't play Midtjylland, for example, equally both are from Denmark. Just you knew that.
Tottenham will be in the draw, but may not play in this round. They currently stand 3rd in their Europa Conference League grouping behind Vitesse, merely their last game against grouping winers Rennes was postponed later on Spurs suffered a COVID-nineteen outreak.
The match has been cancelled with Spurs needing a win to qualify, and a determination hasn't all the same been made on what the official result of the game is.
They will be drawn as Tottenham/Vitesse for now, but who knows what UEFA will make up one's mind?
The Europa Briefing League terminal volition be held in Tirana, Albania, so they've got Lorik Cana in to aid pick the balls out of the pots.
Lorik Cana, if you're wondering, (Albanian pronunciation: [ˈlɔɾik ˈtsana]; born 27 July 1983) is an Albanian former professional footballer, who played for PSG, Sunderland, Galatasaray and Lazio, and FourFourTwo has not only Googled him, thanks very much.
These games volition be played beyond ii legs, on February 17 and February 24.
We're about to get-go.
Unseeded teams are picked showtime – that group has Leicester and Celtic in.
Marseille the first team fatigued. They can be drawn confronting anyone.
Commencement confirmed fixture: Marseille vs Qarabag
Now PSV Eindhoven have been picked.
2nd confirmed fixtures: PSV Eindhoven vs Maccabi Tel Aviv
Turkey's Fenerbahce now fatigued out.
Third confirmed fixture: Fenerbahce vs Slavia Prague
Midtjylland side by side out the pot. Tin can't be drawn against Randers, as we've covered.
Fourth confirmed fixture: Midtjylland vs PAOK
Leicester now out the pot! Here we become...
Fifth confirmed fixture: Leicester vs Randers
Celtic have been drawn now...
Sixth confirmed fixture: Celtic vs Bodo/Glimt
Technical effect at UEFA, so a bit of a wait for the seventh fixture. Hopefully no redraw needed...
Seventh confirmed fixture: Sparta Praha vs FK Partizan
8th confirmed fixture: Rapid Wien vs Tottenham or Vitesse
Celtic accept Bodo/Glimt in the play-off round – a Norwegian team not many had heard of until they dilapidated Jose Mourinho'due south Roma half dozen-1 in the Europa League grouping stage.
Leicester will have on Randers, from Kingdom of denmark, who have twice been managed by Colin Todd, bizarrely.
Here's the Europa Conference League knockout play-off fixtures in full. The first legs will be played on February 17 and the return legs on February 24.
Europa Conference League knockout play-off fixtures
Now we're back to the Champions League depict for the second time today, after the inital draw was alleged void by UEFA. The new draw will take place at 2pm GMT – just nether one-half an 60 minutes from now.
Confused? Allow us explain...
So, what's this Champions League ball fiasco – or Ballgate, as readers of this liveblog have come to know it – all about?
Why is the Champions League knockout draw happening over again?
The one-line explanation is that Manchester United were mistakenly excluded from part of the draw, meaning that there was no manner they could be fatigued against Atletico Madrid.
They were so drawn against Paris Saint-Germain, which is widely seen as a tougher fixture.
At which bespeak Manchester United went: "Er, hang on, this ain't correct."*
*Not a real quote, sadly.
So what happened?
This is FourFourTwo's understanding of the process:
For each potential fixture a tin can squad be drawn into, they receive a brawl, which unscrews and reveals a piece of newspaper with their proper noun on it. These are all kept in separate pots, conspicuously labelled with that teams name. When a fixture is being drawn, i ball from each eligible team is put into a new pot. Later on that fixture is fatigued, the excess assurance from that new pot are thrown away.
Information technology'due south done similar this because teams from the same country, or were in a group together, cannot be drawn against each other at this stage.
Chelsea, for example, finished second in their group so are 'unseeded'. Simply the 'seeded' teams include Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United (all English) and Juventus (who were in the same group), and so they can merely be drawn against Lille, Ajax, Bayern Munich or Real Madrid. Therefore, they only have four balls in the 'Chelsea' pot at the starting time.
When Villarreal were pulled out of the unseeded pot, no Manchester United ball should have been placed in the new pot to be drawn as their opponents, as they were in the grouping together. When they were, it seems to have created a Manchester United ball shortage, and they were missed out from the next draw, against Atletico Madrid, for which they would take been eligible.
The estimator for the describe picked up on this, wrongly showing on the screen that United were ineligible and that Liverpool were eligible when they shouldn't be. This an be seen on the left of this paradigm, taken from the UEFA broadcast earlier today:
This suggests that the mistake for putting Manchester United in the pot may have been a figurer mistake to outset with – that's certainly UEFA'south suggestion:
Following a technical trouble with the software of an external service provider that instructs the officials as to which teams are eligible to play each other, a fabric error occurred in the depict for the UEFA Champions League Circular of xvi.December 13, 2022
While the draws for the other fixtures appear to have been right, this would mean both the Villarreal and Atletico Madrid draws were wrong, voiding the process.
We now have a bit of delay before the start of the Champions League redraw. We're expecting information technology to offset whatsoever infinitesimal now...
A reminder of the teams going into this draw:
Champions League last-16 teams
Confirmed group winners (seeded)
Ajax (NED)
Bayern (GER)
Juventus (ITA)
Liverpool (ENG)
Lille (FRA)
Manchester City (ENG)
Manchester United (ENG)
Real Madrid (ESP)
Confirmed group runners-up (unseeded)
Atletico Madrid (ESP)
Benfica (POR)
Chelsea (ENG)
Inter (ITA)
Paris Saint-Germain (FRA)
Salzburg (AUT)
Sporting CP (POR)
Villarreal (ESP)
A re-cap of the rules, also (for your do good, UEFA, if y'all're watching):
A pretty elementary format here: seeded sides are drawn against non-seeded sides, and no two sides from the same state can be drawn against each other – so no risk of seeing Chelsea go upwardly against Liverpool, Manchester City or Manchester United, for case. And no 2 teams from the same grouping can exist fatigued confronting that, and so Manchester United vs Villarreal couldn't happen, for example.
Stop snickering at the dorsum.
UEFA restate their belief it was a software issue, and say everything will exist double-checked before teams are drawn.
Unseeded teams drawn commencement. This time information technology's Salzburg.
First confirmed fixture: Salzburg vs Bayern Munich
Side by side up is Sporting. They had Juventus final time.
2nd confirmed fixture: Sporting vs Manchester City
Easier draw for City than Atletico...
Third confirmed fixture: Benfica vs Ajax
Chelsea now out of the pot!
Fourth confirmed fixture: Chelsea vs Lille
Fifth confirmed fixture: Atletico Madrid vs Manchester United
Amazing.
Sixth confirmed fixture: Villarreal vs Juventus
Seventh confirmed fixture: Inter Milan vs Liverpool
Another trip to the San Siro for Liverpool...
Eighth confirmed fixture: PSG vs Existent Madrid
Existent Madrid – who wanted the redraw to be done with their initial fixture Benfica notwithstanding standing – will surely accept that well...
Here's the Champions League last-16 fixtures:
Salzburg vs Bayern Munich
Sporting vs Manchester City
Benfica vs Ajax
Chelsea vs Lille
Atletico Madrid vs Manchester United
Villarreal vs Juventus
Inter Milan vs Liverpool
Paris Saint-Germain vs Real Madrid
Posting this again, considering we're very proud of it.
Feels similar in that location's a growing inevitability that, one way or another, Atletico are going to knock Man United out of the Champions League this season.December 13, 2022
Some people have noticed that during the draw it was said that Villarreal couldn't be fatigued confronting Liverpool – this wasn't really a error, it's because that would have left Inter Milan upwards confronting either Juventus (same country) or Real Madrid (aforementioned grouping).
Winners and losers from the redraw?
Losers: Real Madrid won't exist happy. They've gone from facing Benfica to playing PSG. Sporting probably would have preferred their beginning opponents Juventus to Manchester City, too.
Winners: Manchester United switching from PSG to Atletico Madrid is surely an improvement, and Villarreal going from Manchester Urban center to Juventus isn't terrible, either.
Here we are again and then: the Champions League terminal-16 fixtures, which volition be played on February 15, 16, 22 and 23, with the 2d legs happening on March 8, nine, 15 and sixteen 2022.
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