The Champions League is already in its decisive phase and eight teams will fight in the quarterfinals to take a giant step to win the maximum continental competition. Liverpool and Bayern Munich are the first two classified and are already waiting for their rivals ahead of the draw. A draw that will be pure, more complete than the previous one and that will be held once all the qualifiers conclude the week of March 18.
When is the Champions League quarter draw?
The draw will take place next Friday, March 18, starting at 12:00 at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland.
Format: how is the draw for the quarters, semifinals and final?
The draw will define all the remaining Champions League rounds. After its conclusion, the four quarter-final pairings, the routes leading to the semi-finals and which side of the draw plays home to the grand final will be known.
It will be a completely pure draw. Everyone can face everyone and the nationality or that they have coincided in the group in the first phase is indifferent, unlike the one held to define the second round. The one that will have the field factor, less decisive after the suppression of the double value of the goals in the opposite field, will be the one whose ball comes out in second position. The place in the second leg will be decided by chance and not by the classification of the group stage.
The only condition will not affect the pairings, but the schedules. UEFA, for security reasons in the case of the same city or fans in the case of the same country, will schedule the matches based on the results that are given. For example, Manchester United and Manchester City could not coincide on the day playing both at home. But that will not affect the extraction of the balls and it will be a calendar decision that will be made a posteriori. We could see, for example, a Real Madrid-Atlético, if both managed to qualify.
How to watch the Champions League draw on television?
As always, UEFA will broadcast the pairings through its official channels. In Spain, it can be followed live on Movistar Champions League and #Vamos, as Movistar is the platform that owns the rights to the competition. In AS, you will be able to live minute by minute everything that the draw in Nyon gives of itself.
Champions League Round of 16 Qualifiers*
BAYERN MUNICH 8- Salzburg 2 (1-1 in Austria and 7-1 in Germany)
LIVERPOOL 2- Inter 1 (0-2 in Italy and 0-1 in England)
PSG 1- Real Madrid 0
Sporting 0- Manchester City 5
Atletico Madrid 1- Manchester United 1
Benfica 2- Ajax 2
Chelsea 2- Lille 0
Villarreal 1-Juventus 1
*In capital letters, qualified team. In bold, tie already concluded. In italics, tie with the round pending.
Teams already qualified
Bayern Munich
Liverpool
Competition dates
-March 9: Round of 16.
-15 and 16 March: Round of 16.
-April 5 and 6: first leg.
-April 12 and 13: round of quarters.
-26 and 27 April: first leg of the semifinals.
-May 3 and 4: semi-final second leg.
-May 28: end.
Where will the final be played?
The Champions League final will be played on May 28 at the Parc des Princes. This was decided by UEFA, after removing such right from Saint Petersburg due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The choice of Paris is due to the fact that the organization considers that it is the most likely neutral territory, because France only had two representatives among the 16 best and, a priori, had fewer options to reach the decisive match with any of its teams. . Wembley also sounded strong, but it fell, since that weekend the promotion phase of the Championship is disputed.