The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League is the 65th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 28th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
The final will be played at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey.[1] The winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup; they will also qualify for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar. They will also automatically qualify for the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage, and if they have already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved will be given to the champions of the 2019–20 Eredivisie, the 11th-ranked association according to next season's access list.
The video assistant referee (VAR) system will be used in the competition from the play-off round onwards.[2]
Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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Qualifying | Preliminary round | 11 June 2019 | 25 June 2019 (semi-final round) | 28 June 2019 (final round) |
First qualifying round | 18 June 2019 | 9–10 July 2019 | 16–17 July 2019 | |
Second qualifying round | 19 June 2019 | 23–24 July 2019 | 30–31 July 2019 | |
Third qualifying round | 22 July 2019 | 6–7 August 2019 | 13 August 2019 | |
Play-off | Play-off round | 5 August 2019 | 20–21 August 2019 | 27–28 August 2019 |
Group stage | Matchday 1 | 29 August 2019 (Monaco) |
17–18 September 2019 | |
Matchday 2 | 1–2 October 2019 | |||
Matchday 3 | 22–23 October 2019 | |||
Matchday 4 | 5–6 November 2019 | |||
Matchday 5 | 26–27 November 2019 | |||
Matchday 6 | 10–11 December 2019 | |||
Knockout phase | Round of 16 | 16 December 2019 | 18–19 & 25–26 February 2020 | 10–11 & 17–18 March 2020 |
Quarter-finals | 20 March 2020 | 7–8 April 2020 | 14–15 April 2020 | |
Semi-finals | 28–29 April 2020 | 5–6 May 2020 | ||
Final | 30 May 2020 at Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul |
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- Pot 1 contains the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2018 UEFA country coefficients. If one 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 contain the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients.[7]
The youth teams of the clubs that qualify for the group stage also participate in the 2019–20 UEFA Youth League on the same matchdays, where they compete in the UEFA Champions League Path (the youth domestic champions of the top 32 associations compete in a separate Domestic Champions Path until the play-offs).
A total of 16 national associations are represented in the group stage. Atalanta are set to make their debut appearance in the group stage.
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