2018–19 UEFA Champions League

2018–19 UEFA Champions League

The Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 26 June – 29 August 2018 Competition proper: 18 September 2018 – 1 June 2019
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 79 (from 54 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Liverpool (6th title)
Runners-up	Tottenham Hotspur
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	366 (2.93 per match)
Attendance	6,163,044 (49,304 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 12 goals
Best player(s)	Goalkeeper: Alisson (Liverpool)[1] Defender: Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)[2] Midfielder: Frenkie de Jong (Ajax)[3] Forward: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)[4]
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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. For the first time, the video assistant referee (VAR) system was used in the competition from the round of 16 onward.^[5]

The final was played at the Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid, Spain, between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool, in the second all-English final after Manchester United beat Chelsea in 2008.^[6] Liverpool won the match 2–0 to claim their sixth European Cup – becoming the third ever team to do so, behind Real Madrid in 1966, and Milan in 2003. The win gave Liverpool automatic qualification for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage and the right to play in the 2019 UEFA Super Cup and the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup, the latter two of which they won. As Chelsea and Arsenal also reached the 2019 UEFA Europa League final, this was the first season to have multiple finals of major European club competitions featuring teams from a single nation.^[7][8]

Defending champions Real Madrid, who had won four of the last five titles, including each of the last three, were eliminated by Ajax in the round of 16.^[9] Although Ajax was eliminated in the semi-finals, they had played more matches than any other team in the tournament due to entering in the second qualifying round.

On 9 December 2016, UEFA confirmed the reforming plan for the UEFA Champions League for the 2018–2021 cycle, which was announced on 26 August 2016.^[10][11] As per the new regulations, the previous season's UEFA Europa League winners will qualify automatically for the UEFA Champions League group stage (previously they would qualify for the play-off round, but would be promoted to the group stage only if the Champions League title holder berth was vacated, although this promotion to the group stage had been made in all three seasons since it was established from 2015–2016). Meanwhile, the top four teams from the leagues of the four top-ranked national associations in the UEFA country coefficients list will qualify automatically for the group stage as well.^[10] Only six teams will qualify for the group stage via the qualification rounds, down from ten in the previous season.^[12]

This was also the first year to feature a preliminary round, in which the representatives of the four bottom-ranked national associations in the UEFA country coefficients contested single-legged semi-finals and a final to determine the final team to enter the first qualifying round.

79 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2018–19 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:^[12][13]

• 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 2017–18 UEFA Champions League and 2017–18 UEFA Europa League were each given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.
  • The winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, qualified through their domestic league, meaning the additional entry for the Champions League title holders was not necessary.
  • The winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League, Atlético Madrid, qualified through their domestic league, meaning the additional entry for the Europa League title holders was not necessary.

For the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2017 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2012–13 to 2016–17.^[14]

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 the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League winners
• (UEL) – Additional berth for the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League winners

Association ranking for 2018–19 UEFA Champions League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1  Spain 104.998 4 2  Germany 79.498 3  England 75.962 4  Italy 73.332 5  France 56.665 3 6  Russia 50.532 7  Portugal 49.332 2 8  Ukraine 42.633 9  Belgium 42.400 10  Turkey 39.200 11  Czech Republic 33.175 12  Switzerland 32.075 13  Netherlands 31.063 14  Greece 27.900 15  Austria 25.350 16  Croatia 25.250 1 17  Romania 24.350 18  Denmark 24.000 19  Belarus 19.875

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 20  Poland 19.750 1 21  Sweden 19.725 22  Israel 19.375 23  Scotland 18.925 24  Cyprus 18.550 25  Norway 18.325 26  Azerbaijan 17.750 27  Bulgaria 15.875 28  Serbia 15.375 29  Kazakhstan 15.250 30  Slovenia 13.125 31  Slovakia 11.750 32  Liechtenstein 11.000 0 33  Hungary 9.500 1 34  Moldova 9.500 35  Iceland 8.375 36  Finland 7.650 37  Albania 6.625

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 38  Republic of Ireland 6.575 1 39  Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.500 40  Georgia 6.375 41  Latvia 6.125 42  Macedonia 5.625 43  Estonia 5.250 44  Montenegro 5.250 45  Armenia 5.125 46  Luxembourg 4.875 47  Northern Ireland 4.500 48  Lithuania 4.125 49  Malta 4.000 50  Wales 3.875 51  Faroe Islands 3.500 52  Gibraltar 2.500 53  Andorra 1.165 54  San Marino 0.333 55  Kosovo 0.000

In the default access list, the Champions League title holders qualified for the group stage.^[15][12] However, since Real Madrid already qualified for the group stage via their domestic league (as third place of the 2017–18 La Liga), the following changes to the access list were made:^[16]

• The champions of association 11 (Czech Republic) entered the group stage instead of the play-off round.
• The champions of association 13 (Netherlands) entered the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
• The champions of association 15 (Austria) entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.
• The champions of associations 18 (Denmark) and 19 (Belarus) entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.

In addition, the Europa League title holders qualified for the group stage.^[15] However, since Atlético Madrid, the Europa League champions, already qualified for the group stage via their domestic league (as second place of the 2017–18 La Liga), the following changes to the access list were made:^[16]

• The third-placed team of association 5 (France) entered the group stage instead of the third qualifying round.
• The runners-up of association 10 (Turkey) and 11 (Czech Republic) entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).^[17]

Qualified teams for 2018–19 UEFA Champions League (by entry round)
Group stage

Real MadridTH (3rd)	Borussia Dortmund (4th)	Roma (3rd)	Porto (1st)
Atlético MadridEL (2nd)	Manchester City (1st)	Inter Milan (4th)	Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)
Barcelona (1st)	Manchester United (2nd)	Paris Saint-Germain (1st)	Club Brugge (1st)
Valencia (4th)	Tottenham Hotspur (3rd)	Monaco (2nd)	Galatasaray (1st)
Bayern Munich (1st)	Liverpool (4th)	Lyon (3rd)	Viktoria Plzeň (1st)
Schalke 04 (2nd)	Juventus (1st)	Lokomotiv Moscow (1st)
TSG Hoffenheim (3rd)	Napoli (2nd)	CSKA Moscow (2nd)

Play-off round

Champions Path		League Path
Young Boys (1st)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)

Third qualifying round

Champions Path		League Path
AEK Athens (1st)	Red Bull Salzburg (1st)	Spartak Moscow (3rd)	Standard Liège (2nd)
		Benfica (2nd)	Fenerbahçe (2nd)
		Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)	Slavia Prague (2nd)

Second qualifying round

Champions Path		League Path
Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Midtjylland (1st)	Basel (2nd)	PAOK (2nd)
CFR Cluj (1st)	BATE Borisov (1st)	Ajax (2nd)	Sturm Graz (2nd)

First qualifying round

Legia Warsaw (1st)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)	Kukësi (2nd)[Note ALB]	Alashkert (1st)
Malmö FF (1st)	Astana (1st)	Cork City (1st)	F91 Dudelange (1st)
Hapoel Be'er Sheva (1st)	Olimpija Ljubljana (1st)	Zrinjski Mostar (1st)	Crusaders (1st)
Celtic (1st)	Spartak Trnava (1st)	Torpedo Kutaisi (1st)	Sūduva Marijampolė (1st)
APOEL (1st)	MOL Vidi (1st)	Spartaks Jūrmala (1st)	Valletta (1st)
Rosenborg (1st)	Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Shkëndija (1st)	The New Saints (1st)
Qarabağ (1st)	Valur (1st)	Flora Tallinn (1st)	Víkingur Gøta (1st)
Ludogorets Razgrad (1st)	HJK (1st)	Sutjeska Nikšić (1st)

Preliminary round

Lincoln Red Imps (1st)

FC Santa Coloma (1st)

La Fiorita (1st)

Drita (1st)

Notes

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).^[20]

From this season, there were staggered kick-off times in the group stage at 18:55 CET and 21:00 CET. Kick-off times starting from the knock-out phase were 21:00 CET.^[15]

In the qualifying and play-off rounds, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2018 UEFA club coefficients,^[21] and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties.

In the preliminary round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2018 UEFA club coefficients,^[21] and then drawn into one-legged semi-final and final ties. The draw for the preliminary round was held on 12 June 2018.^[22] The semi-final round was played on 26 June, and the final round was played on 29 June 2018, both at the Victoria Stadium in Gibraltar.^[23] The losers of both semi-final and final rounds entered the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.

Drita's win in the semi-final round was the first time that a team representing Kosovo had won a game in any UEFA competition.

Semi-final round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FC Santa Coloma	0–2 (a.e.t.)	Drita
La Fiorita	0–2	Lincoln Red Imps

Final round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Lincoln Red Imps	1–4 (a.e.t.)	Drita

The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 19 June 2018.^[24] The first legs were played on 10 and 11 July, and the second legs were played on 17 and 18 July 2018. The losers entered the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round, except one team were drawn to receive a bye to the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Torpedo Kutaisi	2–4	Sheriff Tiraspol	2–1	0–3
Shkëndija	5–4	The New Saints	5–0	0–4
Sūduva Marijampolė	3–2	APOEL	3–1	0–1
Olimpija Ljubljana	0–1	Qarabağ	0–1	0–0
F91 Dudelange	2–3	MOL Vidi	1–1	1–2
Drita	0–5	Malmö FF	0–3	0–2
Víkingur Gøta	2–5[A]	HJK	1–2	1–3
Ludogorets Razgrad	9–0	Crusaders	7–0	2–0
Cork City	0–4[B]	Legia Warsaw	0–1	0–3
Valur	2–3	Rosenborg	1–0	1–3
Kukësi	1–1 (a)	Valletta	0–0	1–1
Flora Tallinn	2–7	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1–4	1–3
Spartaks Jūrmala	0–2	Red Star Belgrade	0–0	0–2
Alashkert	0–6	Celtic	0–3	0–3
Spartak Trnava	2–1	Zrinjski Mostar	1–0	1–1
Astana	3–0	Sutjeska Nikšić	1–0	2–0

Notes

The second qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2018.^[24] The first legs were played on 24 and 25 July, and the second legs were played on 31 July and 1 August 2018. The losers from both Champions Path and League Path entered the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.

Champions Path

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Astana	2–1	Midtjylland	2–1	0–0
Ludogorets Razgrad	0–1	MOL Vidi	0–0	0–1
Kukësi	0–3	Qarabağ	0–0	0–3
CFR Cluj	1–2	Malmö FF	0–1	1–1
Dinamo Zagreb	7–2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	5–0	2–2
Red Star Belgrade	5–0	Sūduva Marijampolė	3–0	2–0
BATE Borisov	2–1	HJK	0–0	2–1
Shkëndija	1–0	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–0	0–0
Legia Warsaw	1–2	Spartak Trnava	0–2	1–0
Celtic	3–1	Rosenborg	3–1	0–0

League Path

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PAOK	5–1	Basel	2–1	3–0
Ajax	5–1	Sturm Graz	2–0	3–1

The third qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 23 July 2018.^[25] The first legs were played on 7 and 8 August, and the second legs were played on 14 August 2018. The losers from Champions Path entered the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League play-off round, while the losers from League Path entered the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage.

Champions Path

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Celtic	2–3	AEK Athens	1–1	1–2
Red Bull Salzburg	4–0	Shkëndija	3–0	1–0
Red Star Belgrade	3–2	Spartak Trnava	1–1	2–1 (a.e.t.)
Qarabağ	1–2	BATE Borisov	0–1	1–1
Astana	0–3	Dinamo Zagreb	0–2	0–1
Malmö FF	1–1 (a)	MOL Vidi	1–1	0–0

League Path

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Standard Liège	2–5	Ajax	2–2	0–3
Benfica	2–1	Fenerbahçe	1–0	1–1
Slavia Prague	1–3	Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	0–2
PAOK	3–2	Spartak Moscow	3–2	0–0

The play-off round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The draw for the play-off round was held on 6 August 2018.^[26] The first legs were played on 21 and 22 August, and the second legs were played on 28 and 29 August. The losers from both Champions Path and League Path entered the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage.

Champions Path

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Red Star Belgrade	2–2 (a)	Red Bull Salzburg	0–0	2–2
BATE Borisov	2–6	PSV Eindhoven	2–3	0–3
Young Boys	3–2	Dinamo Zagreb	1–1	2–1
MOL Vidi	2–3	AEK Athens	1–2	1–1

League Path

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Benfica	5–2	PAOK	1–1	4–1
Ajax	3–1	Dynamo Kyiv	3–1	0–0

Brugge

Viktoria

Liverpool

Manchester

Tottenham

Lyon

Monaco

PSG

Bayern

Dortmund

Hoffenheim

Schalke

AEK

Inter Milan

Juventus

Napoli

Roma

Ajax

PSV

Benfica

Porto

Moscow

Red Star

Barcelona

Madrid

Valencia

Young Boys

Galatasaray

Shakhtar

Madrid teams
Atlético Madrid
Real Madrid

Manchester teams
Manchester City
Manchester United

Moscow teams
CSKA Moscow
Lokomotiv Moscow

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Location of teams of the 2018–19 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 30 August 2018 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.^[27] 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 (introduced starting this season):^[13]

• Pot 1 contained 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 were 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 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2018 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 2018–19 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays were 18–19 September, 2–3 October, 23–24 October, 6–7 November, 27–28 November, and 11–12 December 2018.

The youth teams of the clubs that qualified for the group stage also participated in the 2018–19 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 fifteen national associations were represented in the group stage. TSG Hoffenheim, Red Star Belgrade (1991 European champions) and Young Boys made their debut appearances in the group stage (although Red Star Belgrade had appeared in the European Cup group stage).

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DOR	ATM	BRU	MON
1	Borussia Dortmund	6	4	1	1	10	2	+8	13[a]	Advance to knockout phase		—	4–0	0–0	3–0
2	Atlético Madrid	6	4	1	1	9	6	+3	13[a]			2–0	—	3–1	2–0
3	Club Brugge	6	1	3	2	6	5	+1	6	Transfer to Europa League		0–1	0–0	—	1–1
4	Monaco	6	0	1	5	2	14	−12	1			0–2	1–2	0–4	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	TOT	INT	PSV
1	Barcelona	6	4	2	0	14	5	+9	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	2–0	4–0
2	Tottenham Hotspur	6	2	2	2	9	10	−1	8[a]			2–4	—	1–0	2–1
3	Inter Milan	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8[a]	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	2–1	—	1–1
4	PSV Eindhoven	6	0	2	4	6	13	−7	2			1–2	2–2	1–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAR	LIV	NAP	RSB
1	Paris Saint-Germain	6	3	2	1	17	9	+8	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–1	2–2	6–1
2	Liverpool	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2	9[a]			3–2	—	1–0	4–0
3	Napoli	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9[a]	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	1–0	—	3–1
4	Red Star Belgrade	6	1	1	4	5	17	−12	4			1–4	2–0	0–0	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POR	SCH	GAL	LMO
1	Porto	6	5	1	0	15	6	+9	16	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	1–0	4–1
2	Schalke 04	6	3	2	1	6	4	+2	11			1–1	—	2–0	1–0
3	Galatasaray	6	1	1	4	5	8	−3	4	Transfer to Europa League		2–3	0–0	—	3–0
4	Lokomotiv Moscow	6	1	0	5	4	12	−8	3			1–3	0–1	2–0	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	AJX	BEN	AEK
1	Bayern Munich	6	4	2	0	15	5	+10	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	5–1	2–0
2	Ajax	6	3	3	0	11	5	+6	12			3–3	—	1–0	3–0
3	Benfica	6	2	1	3	6	11	−5	7	Transfer to Europa League		0–2	1–1	—	1–0
4	AEK Athens	6	0	0	6	2	13	−11	0			0–2	0–2	2–3	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MCI	LYO	SHK	HOF
1	Manchester City	6	4	1	1	16	6	+10	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–2	6–0	2–1
2	Lyon	6	1	5	0	12	11	+1	8			2–2	—	2–2	2–2
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	3	2	8	16	−8	6	Transfer to Europa League		0–3	1–1	—	2–2
4	TSG Hoffenheim	6	0	3	3	11	14	−3	3			1–2	3–3	2–3	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	ROM	PLZ	CSKA
1	Real Madrid	6	4	0	2	12	5	+7	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–0	2–1	0–3
2	Roma	6	3	0	3	11	8	+3	9			0–2	—	5–0	3–0
3	Viktoria Plzeň	6	2	1	3	7	16	−9	7[a]	Transfer to Europa League		0–5	2–1	—	2–2
4	CSKA Moscow	6	2	1	3	8	9	−1	7[a]			1–0	1–2	1–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JUV	MUN	VAL	YB
1	Juventus	6	4	0	2	9	4	+5	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–2	1–0	3–0
2	Manchester United	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10			0–1	—	0–0	1–0
3	Valencia	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8	Transfer to Europa League		0–2	2–1	—	3–1
4	Young Boys	6	1	1	4	4	12	−8	4			2–1	0–3	1–1	—

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 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 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).

	Round of 16							Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Tottenham Hotspur		3	1	4
	Borussia Dortmund		0	0	0
								Tottenham Hotspur (a)		1	3	4
								Manchester City		0	4	4
	Schalke 04		2	0	2
	Manchester City		3	7	10
															Tottenham Hotspur (a)		0	3	3
															Ajax		1	2	3
	Ajax		1	4	5
	Real Madrid		2	1	3
								Ajax		1	2	3
								Juventus		1	1	2
	Atlético Madrid		2	0	2
																						1 June – Madrid
	Juventus		0	3	3
																						Tottenham Hotspur		0
																						Liverpool		2
	Manchester United (a)		0	3	3
	Paris Saint-Germain		2	1	3
								Manchester United		0	0	0
								Barcelona		1	3	4
	Lyon		0	1	1
	Barcelona		0	5	5
															Barcelona		3	0	3
															Liverpool		0	4	4
	Liverpool		0	3	3
	Bayern Munich		0	1	1
								Liverpool		2	4	6
								Porto		0	1	1
	Roma		2	1	3
	Porto (a.e.t.)		1	3	4

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 17 December 2018.^[28] The first legs were played on 12, 13, 19 and 20 February, and the second legs were played on 5, 6, 12 and 13 March 2019.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Schalke 04	2–10	Manchester City	2–3	0–7
Atlético Madrid	2–3	Juventus	2–0	0–3
Manchester United	3–3 (a)	Paris Saint-Germain	0–2	3–1
Tottenham Hotspur	4–0	Borussia Dortmund	3–0	1–0
Lyon	1–5	Barcelona	0–0	1–5
Roma	3–4	Porto	2–1	1–3 (a.e.t.)
Ajax	5–3	Real Madrid	1–2	4–1
Liverpool	3–1	Bayern Munich	0–0	3–1

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 15 March 2019.^[29] The first legs were played on 9 and 10 April, and the second legs were played on 16 and 17 April 2019.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ajax	3–2	Juventus	1–1	2–1
Liverpool	6–1	Porto	2–0	4–1
Tottenham Hotspur	4–4 (a)	Manchester City	1–0	3–4
Manchester United	0–4[A]	Barcelona	0–1	0–3

Notes

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 15 March 2019 (after the quarter-final draw).^[29] The first legs were played on 30 April and 1 May, and the second legs were played on 7 and 8 May 2019.

Liverpool staged an improbable 4–0 comeback win against Barcelona in a return leg fixture at Anfield, having lost the first leg to the Spanish side 3–0 at the Camp Nou. Meanwhile, Ajax were winning 3–0 on aggregate by the 54th minute of the second leg against Tottenham Hotspur, yet Spurs made a similarly dramatic comeback; with Ajax seconds away from the final, Lucas Moura completed his hat-trick in the 96th minute to seal the tie on the away goals rule. Both semifinals are considered among the greatest Champions League comebacks of all time.^[30]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tottenham Hotspur	3–3 (a)	Ajax	0–1	3–2
Barcelona	3–4	Liverpool	3–0	0–4

The final was played on 1 June 2019 at the Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid. The nominal home team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.^[29]

1 June 2019 (2019-06-01)

21:00 CEST

Tottenham Hotspur	0–2	Liverpool
	Report	Salah 2' (pen.) Origi 87'

Metropolitano Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 63,272^[31]

Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Rank[32]	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	12	837
2	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	8	714
3	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	6	510
	Cristiano Ronaldo	Juventus		749
	Moussa Marega	Porto		840
	Dušan Tadić	Ajax		1080
7	Andrej Kramarić	TSG Hoffenheim	5	481
	Paulo Dybala	Juventus		518
	Neymar	Paris Saint-Germain		532
	Edin Džeko	Roma		570
	Lucas Moura	Tottenham Hotspur		725
	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur		778
	Raheem Sterling	Manchester City		871
	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool		1058

Rank	Player	Team	Assists	Minutes played
1	Leroy Sané	Manchester City	5	395
	Luis Suárez	Barcelona		900
	Jordi Alba	Barcelona		990
	Dušan Tadić	Ajax		1080
5	Kevin De Bruyne	Manchester City	4	247
	Riyad Mahrez	Manchester City		388
	Carlos Soler	Valencia		390
	Edin Džeko	Roma		570
	Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain		701
	Trent Alexander-Arnold	Liverpool		921

On 2 June 2019, the UEFA technical study group selected the following 20 players as the squad of the tournament.^[33]

Pos.	Player	Team
GK	Alisson