The 2023–24 UEFA Champions League knockout phase will begin on 13 February with the round of 16 and end on 1 June 2024 with the final at the Wembley Stadium in London, England, to decide the champions of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League.^[1] A total of 16 teams will compete in the knockout phase.^[2]

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Qualified teams

The knockout phase involves the 16 teams which qualify as winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage.

Group	Winners (seeded in round of 16 draw)	Runners-up (unseeded in round of 16 draw)	Qualified (position TBD)
A	Bayern Munich
B	Arsenal	PSV Eindhoven
C	Real Madrid
D			Real Sociedad Inter Milan
E			Atlético Madrid Lazio
F			Borussia Dortmund
G	Manchester City	RB Leipzig
H			Barcelona

Format

Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the final, is played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scores more goals on aggregate over the two legs advances to the next round. If the aggregate score is level, then 30 minutes of extra time is played (the away goals rule is not applied). If the score is still level at the end of extra time, the winners are decided by a penalty shoot-out. In the final, which is played as a single match, if the score is level at the end of normal time, extra time is played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the score is still level.^[2] The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

• In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners are seeded, and the eight group runners-up are unseeded. The seeded teams are 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 and semi-finals, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals are held together before the quarter-finals are played, the identity of the quarter-final winners is not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw is also held to determine which semi-final winner is designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it is played at a neutral venue).

For the quarter-finals and semi-finals, teams from the same city, were not scheduled to play at home on the same day or consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control.^[3][4] To avoid such scheduling conflict, if the two teams were drawn to play at home for the same leg, the order of legs of the tie involving the team which was not titleholders of Champions League or Europa League (or lower-tier, if both were continental titleholders), or the team with the lower domestic ranking in the qualifying season (if neither team were continental title holder) was reversed from the original draw.^[5][6]

Schedule

The schedule is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).^[1]

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 will be held on 18 December 2023.^[1] The first legs will be played on 13, 14, 20 and 21 February, and the second legs will be played on 5, 6, 12 and 13 March 2024.

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals will be held on 15 March 2024.^[1] The first legs will be played on 9 and 10 April, and the second legs will be played on 16 and 17 April 2024.

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals will be held on 15 March 2024.^[1] The first legs will be played on 30 April and 1 May, and the second legs will be played on 7 and 8 May 2024.

Final

The final will be played on 1 June 2024 at the Wembley Stadium in London. A draw will be held on 15 March 2024, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.^[1]

1 June 2024 (2024-06-01)

21:00 (20:00 BST)

TBD	v	TBD

Wembley Stadium, London

Notes

References

External links

• Official website