When is Champions League knockout draw? Time, date, TV channel and structure
When is Champions League knockout draw? Time, date, TV channel and structure
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The excitement is ramping up ahead of the new-look Champions League’s first ever knockout round play-offs. By the end of tonight’s matches, the teams that finish in the top eight slots in the Champions League league-phase table automatically go through to the last-16, after which the format will be the same as in previous years.
Crucially, those clubs will be joined by the eight winners of the upcoming play-off matches. The play-off round consists of eight two-legged ties between the sides that finished between ninth and 24th in the initial league phase, with eight of those teams being knocked out of the competition.
Mirror Football now brings you everything you need to know ahead of the draw for the revamped Champions League’s newly-formed round. The draw for the Champions League play-offs will take place in Switzerland on Friday, January 31, 2025. It will begin at 11am GMT.
The draw will be streamed live on the UEFA.com website. The teams that finished between ninth and 16th in the league standings will be seeded for the play-off draw. They will each be drawn against an unseeded team that finished between 17th and 24th in the table. The seeded team will, in principle, hold the slight advantage of playing the second leg at home.
Teams will also be paired together in the draw, meaning the two teams who finished ninth and 10th will be drawn against either the 23rd or 24th placed sides; the teams who finished 11th and 12th will be drawn against either the 21st or 22nd-placed sides, and so on. The procedure is repeated for the remaining pairings.
