The UEFA Champions League's inaugural league phase concluded on January 29 with dozens of sides jockeying for their positions in the expanded knockout stages.In the new format for 2024/25, the 36-team ...

Instead of going straight into the traditional round of 16, the competition will feature a knockout phase play-off. In this stage, the teams that ... which won the tournament in 2023, struggled ...

The UEFA Champions League on Friday conducted the draw for the knockout stage, setting up the bracket for European soccer's ...

The March Madness-style single-knockout format that has been used since the event's debut in 2022 will be dropped for the Oct. 1-5 competition in Calgary. Instead of 16-team fields, only 10 ...

What are the Champions League knockout phase play-offs? The knockout phase play-offs are new to the competition in 2024/25. While the top eight sides in the league phase qualify automatically for ...

What are the Europa League knockout phase play-offs? While the top eight sides in the league phase qualify automatically for the round of 16, the teams finishing in ninth to 24th place kick off ...

The eight teams who advance from the knockout round will then face one of the teams who finished in positions 1-8 in the league phase in the Round of 16, and from then on the tournament will be a ...

9 through 24 in the league phase, with the Top 8 teams immediately advancing to the Round of 16. The two-legged knockout phase matches will be played Feb. 11 and12 and 18 and 19. Advertisement ...

Having expanded its wings from eight teams in the first edition ... moving from a direct knockout to a league-cum-knockout tournament featuring 12 sides in 2002. The event was rechristened the ...

The Europa League is set to enter the business end of the competition after concluding an exciting league phase that went right to the wire after eight teams qualified for the next round.