2019–20 UEFA Champions League

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.

2019–20 UEFA Champions League

The Estádio da Luz in Lisbon hosted the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 25 June – 28 August 2019 Competition proper: 17 September 2019 – 23 August 2020
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 79 (from 54 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Bayern Munich (6th title)
Runners-up	Paris Saint-Germain
Tournament statistics
Matches played	119
Goals scored	386 (3.24 per match)
Attendance	4,758,398 (39,987 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) 15 goals
Best player(s)	Goalkeeper: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich)[1] Defender: Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich)[2] Midfielder: Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)[3] Forward: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)[4]
← 2018–19 2020–21 →

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. 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. As winners, they earned the right to play against Sevilla, the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup, and also qualified for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar. They would go on to win both competitions. Since they had already qualified for the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage through their league performance, the berth originally reserved for the Champions League title holders was given to the team that was top of the 2019–20 Eredivisie (Ajax), the 11th-ranked association according to next season's access list, when it was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was suspended in mid-March 2020 and resumed in August. The quarter-finals onwards were played as single-match knockout ties at neutral venues in Lisbon, Portugal (Estádio da Luz and Estádio José Alvalade) behind closed doors from 12 to 23 August.^[5] In keeping with its introduction the campaign prior, the video assistant referee (VAR) system was in use from the play-off round onwards.^[6]

Liverpool were the defending champions,^[7] but were eliminated in the round of 16 by Atlético Madrid.

Association team allocation

A total of 79 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:^[8]

• Associations 1–4 each had four teams qualify.
• Associations 5–6 each had three teams qualify.
• Associations 7–15 each had two teams qualify.
• Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein) each had one team qualify.
• The winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League and 2018–19 UEFA Europa League were each given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League through their domestic leagues. However, both qualified through their domestic leagues, meaning the additional entries were not necessary.

Association ranking

For the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2018 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2013–14 to 2017–18.^[9]

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

• (UCL) – Additional berth for UEFA Champions League title holders
• (UEL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders

Association ranking for 2019–20 UEFA Champions League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1  Spain 106.998 4 2  England 79.605 3  Italy 76.249 4  Germany 71.427 5  France 56.415 3 6  Russia 53.382 7  Portugal 47.248 2 8  Ukraine 41.133 9  Belgium 38.500 10  Turkey 35.800 11  Austria 32.850 12  Switzerland 30.200 13  Czech Republic 30.175 14  Netherlands 29.749 15  Greece 28.600 16  Croatia 26.000 1 17  Denmark 25.950 18  Israel 21.750 19  Cyprus 21.550

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 20  Romania 20.450 1 21  Poland 20.125 22  Sweden 19.975 23  Azerbaijan 19.125 24  Bulgaria 19.125 25  Serbia 18.750 26  Scotland 18.625 27  Belarus 18.625 28  Kazakhstan 18.125 29  Norway 17.425 30  Slovenia 14.500 31  Liechtenstein 13.000 0 32  Slovakia 12.125 1 33  Moldova 10.000 34  Albania 8.500 35  Iceland 8.250 36  Hungary 8.125 37  North Macedonia 7.500

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 38  Finland 6.900 1 39  Republic of Ireland 6.700 40  Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.625 41  Latvia 5.625 42  Estonia 5.500 43  Lithuania 5.375 44  Montenegro 5.000 45  Georgia 5.000 46  Armenia 4.875 47  Malta 4.500 48  Luxembourg 4.375 49  Northern Ireland 4.250 50  Wales 3.875 51  Faroe Islands 3.750 52  Gibraltar 3.000 53  Andorra 1.331 54  San Marino 0.499 55  Kosovo 0.000

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.^[10]

Access list for 2019–20 UEFA Champions League

		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Preliminary round (4 teams)		4 champions from associations 52–55
First qualifying round (32 teams)		31 champions from associations 20–51 (except Liechtenstein)	1 winner from the preliminary round
Second qualifying round	Champions Path (20 teams)	4 champions from associations 16–19	16 winners from the first qualifying round
	League Path (4 teams)	4 runners-up from associations 12–15
Third qualifying round	Champions Path (12 teams)	2 champions from associations 14–15	10 winners from the second qualifying round (Champions Path)
	League Path (8 teams)	5 runners-up from associations 7–11 1 third-placed team from association 6	2 winners from the second qualifying round (League Path)
Play-off round	Champions Path (8 teams)	2 champions from associations 12–13	6 winners from the third qualifying round (Champions Path)
	League Path (4 teams)		4 winners from the third qualifying round (League Path)
Group stage (32 teams)		11 champions from associations 1–11 6 runners-up from associations 1–6 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)
Knockout phase (16 teams)			8 group winners from the group stage 8 group runners-up from the group stage

Changes were made to the default access list, if the Champions League and/or Europa League title holders qualified for the tournament via their domestic leagues. In any case where a spot in the Champions League was vacated, teams of the highest-ranked associations in earlier rounds of the appropriate path were promoted accordingly.

• In the default access list, the Champions League title holders qualified for the group stage. However, since the Champions League title holders (Liverpool) qualified via their domestic league (as second place in the 2018–19 Premier League), the following changes to the access list were made:
  • The champions of association 11 (Austria) entered the group stage instead of the play-off round.
  • The champions of association 13 (Czech Republic) entered the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
  • The champions of association 15 (Greece) entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.
  • The champions of associations 18 (Israel) and 19 (Cyprus) entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.
• In the default access list, the Europa League title holders qualified for the group stage. However, since the Europa League title holders (Chelsea) qualified for the group stage via their domestic league (as third place in the 2018–19 Premier League), the following changes to the access list were made:
  • The third-placed team of association 5 (France) entered the group stage instead of the third qualifying round.
  • The runners-up of associations 10 (Turkey) and 11 (Austria) entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).^[10]

Play-off round

Champions Path		League Path
Young Boys (1st)	Slavia Prague (1st)

Third qualifying round

Champions Path		League Path
Ajax (1st)	PAOK (1st)	Krasnodar (3rd)	Club Brugge (2nd)
		Porto (2nd)	İstanbul Başakşehir (2nd)
		Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)	LASK (2nd)

Second qualifying round

Champions Path		League Path
Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Maccabi Tel Aviv (1st)	Basel (2nd)	PSV Eindhoven (2nd)
Copenhagen (1st)	APOEL (1st)	Viktoria Plzeň (2nd)	Olympiacos (2nd)

Qualified teams for 2019–20 UEFA Champions League (by entry round)
Group stage

LiverpoolTH (2nd)	Tottenham Hotspur (4th)	RB Leipzig (3rd)	Benfica (1st)
ChelseaEL (3rd)	Juventus (1st)	Bayer Leverkusen (4th)	Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)
Barcelona (1st)	Napoli (2nd)	Paris Saint-Germain (1st)	Genk (1st)
Atlético Madrid (2nd)	Atalanta (3rd)	Lille (2nd)	Galatasaray (1st)
Real Madrid (3rd)	Inter Milan (4th)	Lyon (3rd)	Red Bull Salzburg (1st)
Valencia (4th)	Bayern Munich (1st)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (1st)
Manchester City (1st)	Borussia Dortmund (2nd)	Lokomotiv Moscow (2nd)

First qualifying round

CFR Cluj (1st)	Astana (1st)	Shkëndija (1st)	Saburtalo Tbilisi (1st)
Piast Gliwice (1st)	Rosenborg (1st)	HJK (1st)	Ararat-Armenia (1st)
AIK (1st)	Maribor (1st)	Dundalk (1st)	Valletta (1st)
Qarabağ (1st)	Slovan Bratislava (1st)	Sarajevo (1st)	F91 Dudelange (1st)
Ludogorets Razgrad (1st)	Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Riga (1st)	Linfield (1st)
Red Star Belgrade (1st)	Partizani (1st)	Nõmme Kalju (1st)	The New Saints (1st)
Celtic (1st)	Valur (1st)	Sūduva (1st)	HB (1st)
BATE Borisov (1st)	Ferencváros (1st)	Sutjeska (1st)

Preliminary round

Lincoln Red Imps (1st)

FC Santa Coloma (1st)

Tre Penne (1st)

Feronikeli (1st)

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).^[11]

The competition was suspended on 17 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.^[12] A working group was set up by UEFA to decide the calendar of the remainder of the season.^[13] On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced the revised schedule for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final of the competition, to be played in single-leg matches.^[5]

Schedule for 2019–20 UEFA Champions League

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
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 March & 7–8 August 2020
	Quarter-finals	10 July 2020	12–15 August 2020
	Semi-finals		18–19 August 2020
	Final		23 August 2020 at Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

The original schedule of the competition, as planned before the pandemic, was as follows.

Original schedule for 2019–20 UEFA Champions League

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
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

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

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. Because of this, the first leg ties were unaffected by the pandemic, but the second leg ties were affected in different ways. All of the four matches in the first week of fixtures went ahead but due to the increased severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain and France, Valencia's and PSG's home games were played behind closed doors.^[14][15] On 15 March, UEFA announced a halt to the competition meaning that the remaining second leg games would be postponed indefinitely.^[16][12] A taskforce was convened to reschedule the rest of the season.^[13] On 23 March, it was announced that the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey would no longer host the competition final, originally scheduled for 30 May, but would host the 2021 final instead.^[17] This was later postponed further to 2023.^[18]

On 17 June, it was announced that the Champions League would return on 7 August and conclude on 23 August,^[5] with the rest of the tournament to be held in Portugal, with the exception of the four unplayed round of 16 second legs, which would be played at their original venues.^[19] The last 8 of the competition would be played as a mini tournament, with the remaining fixtures to be played as single-legged ties. All remaining ties of the competition were played behind closed doors due to the remaining presence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.^[20]

Final tournament venues

Lisbon	Estádio da Luz Estádio José Alvalade Location of venues within Lisbon, Portugal	Lisbon
Estádio da Luz (final venue)		Estádio José Alvalade
Capacity: 64,642		Capacity: 50,095

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2019–20 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients,^[21] and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties.

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients,^[21] and then drawn into one-legged semi-final and final ties. The losers of both semi-final and final rounds entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round. The draw for the preliminary round was held on 11 June 2019, 12:00 CEST, to determine the matchups of the semi-finals and the administrative "home" team of each semi-final and final.^[22] 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.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Semi-final round
Feronikeli	1–0	Lincoln Red Imps
Tre Penne	0–1	FC Santa Coloma
Final round
Feronikeli	2–1	FC Santa Coloma

First qualifying round

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 draw for the first qualifying round was held on 18 June 2019, 14:30 CEST.^[23] The first legs were played on 9 and 10 July, and the second legs on 16 and 17 July 2019.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nõmme Kalju	2–2 (a)	Shkëndija	0–1	2–1
Sūduva	1–2	Red Star Belgrade	0–0	1–2
Ararat-Armenia	3–4	AIK	2–1	1–3
Astana	2–3	CFR Cluj	1–0	1–3
Ferencváros	5–3[a]	Ludogorets Razgrad	2–1	3–2
Partizani	0–2	Qarabağ	0–0	0–2
Slovan Bratislava	2–2 (2–3 p)	Sutjeska	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Sarajevo	2–5[b]	Celtic	1–3	1–2
Sheriff Tiraspol	3–4	Saburtalo Tbilisi	0–3	3–1
F91 Dudelange	3–3 (a)	Valletta	2–2	1–1
Linfield	0–6	Rosenborg	0–2	0–4
Valur	0–5	Maribor	0–3	0–2
Dundalk	0–0 (5–4 p)	Riga	0–0	0–0 (a.e.t.)
The New Saints	3–2	Feronikeli	2–2	1–0
HJK	5–2	HB	3–0	2–2
BATE Borisov	3–2	Piast Gliwice	1–1	2–1

Notes:

1. 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. As a result, the order of legs was reversed. The error did not affect any other tie.^[24]
2. Order of legs reversed after original draw; losers drawn to receive a bye to the Europa League third qualifying round.

Second qualifying round

The second qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from both Champions Path and League Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2019, 12:00 CEST.^[25] The first legs were played on 23 and 24 July, and the second legs on 30 and 31 July 2019.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Path
CFR Cluj	3–2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–0	2–2
BATE Borisov	2–3	Rosenborg	2–1	0–2
The New Saints	0–3	Copenhagen	0–2	0–1
Ferencváros	4–2	Valletta	3–1	1–1
Dundalk	1–4	Qarabağ	1–1	0–3
Saburtalo Tbilisi	0–5	Dinamo Zagreb	0–2	0–3
Celtic	7–0	Nõmme Kalju	5–0	2–0
Red Star Belgrade	3–2	HJK	2–0	1–2
Sutjeska	0–4	APOEL	0–1	0–3
Maribor	4–4 (a)	AIK	2–1	2–3 (a.e.t.)
League Path
Viktoria Plzeň	0–4	Olympiacos	0–0	0–4
PSV Eindhoven	4–4 (a)	Basel	3–2	1–2

Third qualifying round

The third qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from the Champions Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League play-off round, while the losers from the League Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage. The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 22 July 2019, 12:00 CEST.^[26] The first legs were played on 6 and 7 August, and the second legs on 13 August 2019.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Path
CFR Cluj	5–4	Celtic	1–1	4–3
APOEL	3–2	Qarabağ	1–2	2–0
PAOK	4–5	Ajax	2–2	2–3
Dinamo Zagreb	5–1	Ferencváros	1–1	4–0
Red Star Belgrade	2–2 (7–6 p)	Copenhagen	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Maribor	2–6	Rosenborg	1–3	1–3
League Path
İstanbul Başakşehir	0–3	Olympiacos	0–1	0–2
Krasnodar	3–3 (a)	Porto	0–1	3–2
Club Brugge	4–3	Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	3–3
Basel	2–5	LASK	1–2	1–3

Play-off round

Main article: 2019–20 UEFA Champions League play-off round

The play-off round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from both Champions Path and League Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage. From this stage, the video assistant referee was used. The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2019, 12:00 CEST.^[27] The first legs were played on 20 and 21 August, and the second legs on 27 and 28 August 2019.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Path
Dinamo Zagreb	3–1	Rosenborg	2–0	1–1
CFR Cluj	0–2	Slavia Prague	0–1	0–1
Young Boys	3–3 (a)	Red Star Belgrade	2–2	1–1
APOEL	0–2	Ajax	0–0	0–2
League Path
LASK	1–3	Club Brugge	0–1	1–2
Olympiacos	6–1	Krasnodar	4–0	2–1

Group stage

Main article: 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage

Salzburg

Genk

Brugge

Dinamo

Slavia

Man. City

Liverpool

London

PSG

Lille

Lyon

Bayern

Dortmund

Leipzig

Leverkusen

Olympiacos

Juventus

Napoli

Atalanta

Inter

Ajax

Benfica

Zenit

Lokomotiv

Red Star

Barcelona

Madrid

Valencia

Galatasaray

Shakhtar

London teams
Chelsea
Tottenham Hotspur

Madrid teams
Atlético Madrid
Real Madrid

Location of teams of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D;
Green: Group E; Blue: Group F; Purple: Group G; Pink: Group H.

The draw for the group stage was held on 29 August 2019, 18:00 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.^[28] The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on the following principles:^[29][30]

• Pot 1 contained 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) were also seeded into Pot 1.
• Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients.^[21]

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays were 17–18 September, 1–2 October, 22–23 October, 5–6 November, 26–27 November, and 10–11 December 2019.

The youth teams of the clubs that qualified for the group stage also participated in the 2019–20 UEFA Youth League on the same matchdays, where they competed in the UEFA Champions League Path (the youth domestic champions of the top 32 associations competed in a separate Domestic Champions Path until the play-offs).

A total of sixteen national associations were represented in the group stage. Atalanta made their debut appearance in the group stage.

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01):[8] Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Away goals scored in all group matches; Wins in all group matches; Away wins in all group matches; Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points); UEFA club coefficient.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAR	RMA	BRU	GAL
1	Paris Saint-Germain	6	5	1	0	17	2	+15	16	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–0	1–0	5–0
2	Real Madrid	6	3	2	1	14	8	+6	11			2–2	—	2–2	6–0
3	Club Brugge	6	0	3	3	4	12	−8	3	Transfer to Europa League		0–5	1–3	—	0–0
4	Galatasaray	6	0	2	4	1	14	−13	2			0–1	0–1	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	TOT	OLY	RSB
1	Bayern Munich	6	6	0	0	24	5	+19	18	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	2–0	3–0
2	Tottenham Hotspur	6	3	1	2	18	14	+4	10			2–7	—	4–2	5–0
3	Olympiacos	6	1	1	4	8	14	−6	4	Transfer to Europa League		2–3	2–2	—	1–0
4	Red Star Belgrade	6	1	0	5	3	20	−17	3			0–6	0–4	3–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MCI	ATA	SHK	DZG
1	Manchester City	6	4	2	0	16	4	+12	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	5–1	1–1	2–0
2	Atalanta	6	2	1	3	8	12	−4	7			1–1	—	1–2	2–0
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	3	2	8	13	−5	6	Transfer to Europa League		0–3	0–3	—	2–2
4	Dinamo Zagreb	6	1	2	3	10	13	−3	5			1–4	4–0	3–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JUV	ATM	LEV	LMO
1	Juventus	6	5	1	0	12	4	+8	16	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	3–0	2–1
2	Atlético Madrid	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3	10			2–2	—	1–0	2–0
3	Bayer Leverkusen	6	2	0	4	5	9	−4	6	Transfer to Europa League		0–2	2–1	—	1–2
4	Lokomotiv Moscow	6	1	0	5	4	11	−7	3			1–2	0–2	0–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LIV	NAP	SAL	GNK
1	Liverpool	6	4	1	1	13	8	+5	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	4–3	2–1
2	Napoli	6	3	3	0	11	4	+7	12			2–0	—	1–1	4–0
3	Red Bull Salzburg	6	2	1	3	16	13	+3	7	Transfer to Europa League		0–2	2–3	—	6–2
4	Genk	6	0	1	5	5	20	−15	1			1–4	0–0	1–4	—

Source: UEFA

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	DOR	INT	SLP
1	Barcelona	6	4	2	0	9	4	+5	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	2–1	0–0
2	Borussia Dortmund	6	3	1	2	8	8	0	10			0–0	—	3–2	2–1
3	Inter Milan	6	2	1	3	10	9	+1	7	Transfer to Europa League		1–2	2–0	—	1–1
4	Slavia Prague	6	0	2	4	4	10	−6	2			1–2	0–2	1–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RBL	LYO	BEN	ZEN
1	RB Leipzig	6	3	2	1	10	8	+2	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–2	2–2	2–1
2	Lyon	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8			2–2	—	3–1	1–1
3	Benfica	6	2	1	3	10	11	−1	7[a]	Transfer to Europa League		1–2	2–1	—	3–0
4	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	2	1	3	7	9	−2	7[a]			0–2	2–0	3–1	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. Tied on head-to-head points (3). Head-to-head goal difference: Benfica +1, Zenit Saint Petersburg −1.

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VAL	CHE	AJX	LIL
1	Valencia	6	3	2	1	9	7	+2	11[a]	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–2	0–3	4–1
2	Chelsea	6	3	2	1	11	9	+2	11[a]			0–1	—	4–4	2–1
3	Ajax	6	3	1	2	12	6	+6	10	Transfer to Europa League		0–1	0–1	—	3–0
4	Lille	6	0	1	5	4	14	−10	1			1–1	1–2	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Valencia 4, Chelsea 1.

Knockout phase

Main article: 2019–20 UEFA Champions League knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

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

For the quarter-finals and semi-finals, teams from the same city were not to be scheduled to play at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control.^[31] 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 were not titleholders of Champions League or Europa League, or the team with the lower domestic ranking in the qualifying season (if neither team were continental title holder) was to be reversed from the original draw.^[32]

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 quarter-finals, semi-finals and final would be played in a single-leg format from 12 to 23 August 2020 at the Estádio da Luz and Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon, Portugal. The matches were played behind closed doors, through the decisions of the national and local government.

Following the competition restart in August 2020, a maximum of five substitutions were allowed, with a sixth allowed in extra time. However, each team was only given three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time. This followed a proposal from FIFA and approval by IFAB to lessen the impact of fixture congestion.^[33]

Bracket

	Round of 16							Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
	Tottenham Hotspur		0	0	0
								13 August – Lisbon (Alvalade)
	RB Leipzig		1	3	4
								RB Leipzig		2
								Atlético Madrid		1
	Atlético Madrid (a.e.t.)		1	3	4
													18 August – Lisbon (Luz)
	Liverpool		0	2	2
													RB Leipzig		0
													Paris Saint-Germain		3
	Atalanta		4	4	8
								12 August – Lisbon (Luz)
	Valencia		1	3	4
								Atalanta		1
								Paris Saint-Germain		2
	Borussia Dortmund		2	0	2
																		23 August – Lisbon (Luz)
	Paris Saint-Germain		1	2	3
																		Paris Saint-Germain		0
																		Bayern Munich		1
	Real Madrid		1	1	2
								15 August – Lisbon (Alvalade)
	Manchester City		2	2	4
								Manchester City		1
								Lyon		3
	Lyon (a)		1	1	2
													19 August – Lisbon (Alvalade)
	Juventus		0	2	2
													Lyon		0
													Bayern Munich		3
	Napoli		1	1	2
								14 August – Lisbon (Luz)
	Barcelona		1	3	4
								Barcelona		2
								Bayern Munich		8
	Chelsea		0	1	1
	Bayern Munich		3	4	7

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 16 December 2019, 12:00 CET.^[34] The first legs were played as scheduled on 18, 19, 25 and 26 February, as were the first set of second legs on 10 and 11 March 2020. Due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the second set of second leg matches were postponed by UEFA on 13 March 2020.^[16] On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the second legs would be played on 7–8 August 2020, with the venue to be decided between the home team's stadium and a neutral stadium in Portugal (at the Estádio do Dragão in Porto and the Estádio D. Afonso Henriques in Guimarães).^[35] On 9 July 2020, UEFA announced that the remaining second legs would be held at the venues originally proposed.^[36]

The first leg of the Atalanta v Valencia tie was retrospectively blamed by local civic and medical authorities for contributing to the extremely high concentration of coronavirus cases in Atalanta's home city of Bergamo. Several fans and players of Valencia also had positive diagnoses after returning from the game.^[37][38][39] 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.^[40]

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Borussia Dortmund	2–3	Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	0–2
Real Madrid	2–4	Manchester City	1–2	1–2
Atalanta	8–4	Valencia	4–1	4–3
Atlético Madrid	4–2	Liverpool	1–0	3–2 (a.e.t.)
Chelsea	1–7	Bayern Munich	0–3	1–4
Lyon	2–2 (a)	Juventus	1–0	1–2
Tottenham Hotspur	0–4	RB Leipzig	0–1	0–3
Napoli	2–4	Barcelona	1–1	1–3

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals took place on 10 July 2020.^[16][41] The matches were played from 12 to 15 August 2020.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Manchester City	1–3	Lyon
RB Leipzig	2–1	Atlético Madrid
Barcelona	2–8	Bayern Munich
Atalanta	1–2	Paris Saint-Germain

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals took place on 10 July 2020 (after the quarter-final draw). The matches were played on 18 and 19 August 2020.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Lyon	0–3	Bayern Munich
RB Leipzig	0–3	Paris Saint-Germain

Final

Main article: 2020 UEFA Champions League final

The final was played at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.^[41]

Paris Saint-Germain	0–1	Bayern Munich
	Report	Coman 59'

23 August 2020 (2020-08-23)

20:00 UTC+1

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 0^{[42][note 1]}

Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski finished the tournament as the top goalscorer and joint top assist provider, having scored 15 goals and assisting 6.

Rank[43]	Player	Team(s)	Goals	Minutes played
1	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	15	887
2	Erling Haaland[note 2]	Red Bull Salzburg Borussia Dortmund	10	554
3	Serge Gnabry	Bayern Munich	9	767
4	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur	6	450
	Dries Mertens	Napoli		586
	Gabriel Jesus	Manchester City		590
	Memphis Depay	Lyon		594
	Raheem Sterling	Manchester City		599
9	Son Heung-min	Tottenham Hotspur	5	365
	Mauro Icardi	Paris Saint-Germain		480
	Josip Iličić	Atalanta		516
	Lautaro Martínez	Inter Milan		521
	Luis Suárez	Barcelona		567
	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid		643
	Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain		652

Top assists

Paris Saint-Germain's Ángel Di María finished the tournament as the joint top assist provider, having assisted 6 goals.

Rank[43]	Player	Team(s)	Assists	Minutes played
1	Ángel Di María	Paris Saint-Germain	6	750
	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich		887
3	Hakim Ziyech	Ajax	5	499
	Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain		652
	Houssem Aouar	Lyon		715
6	Corentin Tolisso	Bayern Munich	4	341
	Riyad Mahrez	Manchester City		572
	Neymar	Paris Saint-Germain		585
	Roberto Firmino	Liverpool		629
	Alphonso Davies	Bayern Munich		713

Squad of the season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following 23 players as the squad of the tournament.^[45]

Pos.	Player	Team(s)
GK	Manuel Neuer	Bayern Munich
	Jan Oblak	Atlético Madrid
	Anthony Lopes	Lyon
DF	Alphonso Davies	Bayern Munich
	Joshua Kimmich	Bayern Munich
	Virgil van Dijk	Liverpool
	Dayot Upamecano	RB Leipzig
	Angeliño[note 3]	Manchester City RB Leipzig
	David Alaba	Bayern Munich
MF	Thiago	Bayern Munich
	Kevin De Bruyne	Manchester City
	Houssem Aouar	Lyon
	Leon Goretzka	Bayern Munich
	Marcel Sabitzer	RB Leipzig
	Marquinhos	Paris Saint-Germain
	Alejandro Gómez	Atalanta
	Thomas Müller	Bayern Munich
FW	Serge Gnabry	Bayern Munich
	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich
	Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain
	Neymar	Paris Saint-Germain
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona
	Raheem Sterling	Manchester City

Players of the season

Main articles: UEFA Club Football Awards and UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award

Votes were cast for players of the season by coaches of the 32 teams in the group stage, together with 55 journalists selected by the European Sports Media (ESM) group, representing each of UEFA's member associations. The coaches were not allowed to vote for players from their own teams. Jury members selected their top three players, with the first receiving five points, the second three and the third one. The shortlist of the top three players was announced on 16 September 2020.^[46] The award winners were announced and presented during the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Switzerland on 1 October 2020.

Goalkeeper of the season Rank Player Team(s) Points Shortlist of top three 1 Manuel Neuer[1] Bayern Munich 376 2 Jan Oblak Atlético Madrid 92 3 Keylor Navas Paris Saint-Germain 89 Players ranked 4–10 4 Anthony Lopes Lyon 46 5 Alisson Liverpool 28 6 Thibaut Courtois Real Madrid 18 Marc-André ter Stegen Barcelona 8 Péter Gulácsi RB Leipzig 15 9 Wojciech Szczęsny Juventus 10 10 Ederson Manchester City 8

Defender of the season Rank Player Team(s) Points Shortlist of top three 1 Joshua Kimmich[2] Bayern Munich 161 2 Alphonso Davies Bayern Munich 138 3 David Alaba Bayern Munich 119 Players ranked 4–10 4 Virgil van Dijk Liverpool 79 5 Thiago Silva Paris Saint-Germain 54 6 Dayot Upamecano RB Leipzig 46 7 Sergio Ramos Real Madrid 35 8 Marquinhos Paris Saint-Germain 21 9 Trent Alexander-Arnold Liverpool 10 10 Matthijs de Ligt Juventus 8

Midfielder of the season Rank Player Team(s) Points Shortlist of top three 1 Kevin De Bruyne[3] Manchester City 171 2 Thiago Bayern Munich 169 3 Thomas Müller Bayern Munich 78 Players ranked 4–10 4 Serge Gnabry Bayern Munich 46 5 Marquinhos Paris Saint-Germain 44 6 Joshua Kimmich Bayern Munich 40 7 Leon Goretzka Bayern Munich 39 8 Houssem Aouar Lyon 22 9 Ángel Di María Paris Saint-Germain 20 10 Marcel Sabitzer RB Leipzig 18

Forward of the season Rank Player Team(s) Points Shortlist of top three 1 Robert Lewandowski[4] Bayern Munich 361 2 Kylian Mbappé Paris Saint-Germain 72 3 Neymar Paris Saint-Germain 62 Players ranked 4–10 4 Serge Gnabry Bayern Munich 46 5 Erling Haaland[note 2] Red Bull Salzburg Borussia Dortmund 33 Lionel Messi Barcelona 7 Thomas Müller Bayern Munich 29 8 Cristiano Ronaldo Juventus 18 9 Ángel Di María Paris Saint-Germain 9 10 Sadio Mané Liverpool 8 Notes

See also

• 2019–20 UEFA Europa League
• 2020 UEFA Super Cup
• 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2019–20 UEFA Futsal Champions League
• 2019–20 UEFA Youth League

Notes

1. The remainder of the competition, held in August 2020, was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.^[20]
2. Erling Haaland played for Red Bull Salzburg in the group stage and for Borussia Dortmund in the knockout stage, after his transfer during the January transfer window.^[44]
3. Angeliño played for Manchester City in the group stage and for RB Leipzig in the knockout stage, after his transfer during the January transfer window.^[44]