Champions League last-16 draw: Who is in it, when it is, where it is and how it works (2023)
 Posted on : Dec 14, 2023, 10:54AM   14 total views  Category : Sports

Manchester City and Arsenal players celebrate

Manchester City and Arsenal are England's two representatives in the Champions League knockout stages

 

The Champions League last-16 draw takes place on Monday, 18 December, with two English clubs waiting to discover their fate.

 

Holders Manchester City, and Arsenal, won their groups to seal their passage into the knockout stages, while Newcastle, Manchester United and Scottish champions Celtic dropped out of Europe entirely.

 

BBC Sport gives you the lowdown on the draw.

 

Who has gone through?

Seeded: Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Real Sociedad.

Unseeded: Copenhagen, Inter Milan, Lazio, RB Leipzig, Napoli, Paris St-Germain, Porto, PSV Eindhoven.

 

When is the draw and where?

The Champions League last-16 draw will be held on Monday, 18 December at 11:00 GMT at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland.

 

How does the draw work?

Each group winner will be seeded and drawn against a team who finished second in another group, who are all unseeded. Teams cannot draw a club who are from the same country, or a team who were in the same group as them.

 

When is the last 16 played?

The first legs of the last 16 will be played across two weeks, 13-14 and 20-21 February 2024, with the second legs on 5-6 and 12-13 March.

 

The draws for the quarter-finals and semi-final will be done together on Friday, 15 March.

Read more here

 

-- Courtesy of BBC Sport

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