[33] On 9 July 2020, UEFA announced that the remaining second legs would be held at the venues originally proposed. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was suspended in mid-March 2020 and resumed in August. ... Coman and the other French Champions League final scorers. [25] The UEFA technical study group selected the following 23 players as the squad of the tournament.[44]. In the preliminary round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients,[19] and then drawn into one-legged semi-final and final ties. 00:59 The first is to play the quarter-finals and semi-finals as two-legged matches as normal, in July and August. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the final stages of the competition would feature a format change. The losers of both semi-final and final rounds entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round. Bayern Munich defeated Paris Saint-Germain in the final, played at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, 1–0 and became the first European Cup winners to win all their matches during the tournament. 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The semi-final round was played on 25 June, and the final round on 28 June 2019, both at the Fadil Vokrri Stadium in Pristina, Kosovo. SAT 01 Jun 2019 Champions League - Final. However, since the Europa League title holders (. Teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn against each other. The matches were played on 18 and 19 August 2020. Following a mistake with the original draw not following the correct procedure, UEFA performed a re-draw to establish the home team for each leg in the Ferencváros-Ludogorets Razgrad tie. The matches were played from 12 to 15 August 2020. In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The error did not affect any other tie. Tottenham Tottenham Hotspur 0 Liverpool Liverpool 2. [5], The round of 16 ties were to be played across four weeks, with the first legs being played across two weeks in February and the second legs across two weeks in March. The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 22 July 2019, 12:00 CEST. [20] Pot 1 contains the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2018, Pot 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2019. Because of this, the first leg ties were unaffected by the pandemic, but the second leg ties were affected in different ways. The second would be for the games to be played as one-off fixtures after the end of the domestic seasons, potentially condensing the end of the competition into a week-long mini tournament. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. The losers entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round, except one team who was drawn to receive a bye to the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. The final was played at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon. UEFA Champions League. Watch the best moments of Arsenal striker Vivianne Miedema after she becomes the first player to reach 50 Women's Super League goals. ... UEFA Nations League; Baltic Cup; UEFA Champions League. In addition, the Germans secured their second continental treble, becoming only the second European club to do so, and became the first team to claim any European competition with a 100% winning record. The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League was 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 coaches were not allowed to vote for players from their own teams. That would mean the Champions League final taking place in Istanbul on 29 August, with the Europa League final in Gdansk three days earlier. [35][36][37] The second leg of the Atlético Madrid v Liverpool tie was similarly blamed for the sharp increase in coronavirus-related deaths in North West England.[38]. The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League was 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 matches will tentatively be played behind closed doors, though spectators could be allowed subject to a review of the situation and the decisions of the national and local government. Associations 1–4 each had four teams qualify. [23] The first legs were played on 9 and 10 July, and the second legs on 16 and 17 July 2019. Order of legs reversed after original draw. 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). In the default access list, the Europa League title holders qualified for the group stage. Fleet Street's first female football reporter, Julie Welch, tells Football Focus' Caroline de Moraes about the ups and downs of making her way in such a male-dominated industry. Several fans and players of Valencia also had positive diagnoses after returning from the game. 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. 01:00 23/08/2020 Live ... Men's Player of the Year 2019/20. [9], The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise). [45] The award winners were announced and presented during the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Switzerland on 1 October 2020. The losers from both Champions Path and League Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. [31], The draw for the round of 16 was held on 16 December 2019, 12:00 CET. 31 champions from associations 20–51 (except Liechtenstein), 16 winners from the first qualifying round, 10 winners from the second qualifying round (Champions Path), 2 winners from the second qualifying round (League Path), 6 winners from the third qualifying round (Champions Path), 4 winners from the third qualifying round (League Path), 5 third-placed teams from associations 1–5, 4 fourth-placed teams from associations 1–4, 4 winners from the play-off round (Champions Path), 2 winners from the play-off round (League Path), In the default access list, the Champions League title holders qualified for the group stage.