Results of the draw for the playoffs of the Champions League and Europa League 2023/2024: several interesting pairings have been identified

The last draw for the 2nd final of the Cham­pi­ons League took place in the usu­al for­mat.

The final draw for the play­offs of the Cham­pi­ons League and Europa League in the clas­si­cal for­mat took place at the UEFA head­quar­ters. Next year every­thing will be dif­fer­ent. The last time 16 teams were dis­trib­uted with three con­di­tions:

  • Teams from the same group can­not play against each oth­er;
  • The group win­ners can­not meet each oth­er in the ⅛ finals;
  • Teams from the same asso­ci­a­tion will not be able to play each oth­er in the first round of the play­offs.

Results of the draw for the ⅛ final of the Champions League 2023–2024

VS
“Por­to”
“Arse­nal”
VS
“Napoli”
Barcelona
VS
“PSG”
Real Sociedad
VS
“Inter”
Atléti­co
VS
PSV
Borus­sia
VS
“Lazio”
“Bavaria”
VS
“Copen­hagen”
“Man­ches­ter city”
VS
RB Leipzig
“Real”

Results of the 2023–2024 Europa League playoff draw

VS
Feyeno­ord
“Roma”
VS
“Milan”
Rennes
VS
“Lance”
“Freiburg”
VS
“Young Boys”
“Sport­ing”
VS
Ben­fi­ca
“Toulouse”
VS
“Bra­ga”
“Karabakh”
VS
“Galatasaray”
“Spar­ta”
VS
“Min­er”
“Mar­seilles”

When will the first matches take place?

The first cou­ples will play on Feb­ru­ary 13, 14, 20 and 21, 2024. The return match­es will take place on March 4,6,12,13. The Cham­pi­ons League final will take place on 1 June 2024 at Lon­don’s Wem­b­ley Sta­di­um.

How will the draw take place in the new format?

  • At the draw stage, the group selec­tion sys­tem was can­celed: all teams will play 8 match­es accord­ing to the Swiss sys­tem. Thus, UEFA decid­ed to elim­i­nate dupli­cate match­es.
  • The sched­ule will be formed as the tour­na­ment pro­gress­es: the oppo­nent will be select­ed based on the avail­able results: instead of 96 games, 144 match­es will be played.