The 2022–23 UEFA Champions League knockout phase began on 14 February with the round of 16 and ended on 10 June 2023 with the final at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, to decide the champions of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League.[1] A total of 16 teams competed in the knockout phase.[2]
Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Qualified teams
The knockout phase involved the 16 teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage.
Format
Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the final, was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, then 30 minutes of extra time was played (the away goals rule was not applied). If the score was still level at the end of extra time, the winners were decided by a penalty shoot-out. In the final, which was played as a single match, if the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the score was still level.[2]
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 cannot 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 (e.g. A.C. Milan and Inter Milan, who share the same stadium), were not scheduled to play at home on the same day or consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control.[3] 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 was not titleholders of Champions League or Europa League (or lower-tier, if both were continental titleholders), or the team with the lower domestic ranking in the qualifying season (if neither team were continental title holder, e.g. Inter Milan for this season) was reversed from the original draw.[4][5]
Schedule
The schedule was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).[1]
Bracket
Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 7 November 2022, 12:00 CET.[6]
Summary
The first legs were played on 14, 15, 21 and 22 February, and the second legs were played on 7, 8, 14 and 15 March 2023.
The final was played on 10 June 2023 at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. A draw was held on 17 March 2023, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.[25]
^CET (UTC+1) for dates up to 25 March 2023 (round of 16), and CEST (UTC+2) for dates thereafter (quarter-finals, semi-finals and final).
^The Tottenham Hotspur v Milan match, originally scheduled to kick-off at 21:00 (20:00 GMT), was delayed by ten minutes due to the late arrival of the bus to the stadium carrying Milan's team.[14]
^The Chelsea v Borussia Dortmund match, originally scheduled to kick-off at 21:00 (20:00 GMT), was delayed by ten minutes due to the late arrival of the bus to the stadium carrying Borussia Dortmund's team.[19]
References
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^ a b"Regulations of the UEFA Champions League, 2022/23 Season". UEFA.com. Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
^Weeler, Toni (15 March 2023). "Italian Media Detail Scenario If Inter Milan & AC MIlan Both Drawn To Play Champions League Quarterfinal Leg At San Siro In Same Week". SempreInter.com. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
^"Champions League quarter-final draw: Real Madrid vs Chelsea, Man City vs Bayern". UEFA.com. 17 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
^Staff, The Athletic. "Champions League QF/SF draw: Real Madrid vs Chelsea in last eight". The Athletic. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
^"UEFA Champions League round of 16 draw". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 1st Leg – RB Leipzig v Manchester City" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 2nd Leg – Manchester City v RB Leipzig" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 14 March 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 1st Leg – Club Brugge v Benfica" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 15 February 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 2nd Leg – Benfica v Club Brugge" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 7 March 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 1st Leg – Liverpool v Real Madrid" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 21 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 2nd Leg – Real Madrid v Liverpool" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 15 March 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 1st Leg – Milan v Tottenham Hotspur" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 14 February 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
^"Tottenham vs AC Milan delayed after problems ahead of Champions League clash". Mirror.co.uk. 8 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 2nd Leg – Tottenham Hotspur v Milan" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 8 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 1st Leg – Eintracht Frankfurt v Napoli" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 21 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 2nd Leg – Napoli v Eintracht Frankfurt" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 15 March 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 1st Leg – Borussia Dortmund v Chelsea" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 15 February 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
^"Chelsea vs Dortmund clash delayed after team bus arrives late to ground". Mirror.co.uk. 7 March 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 2nd Leg – Chelsea v Borussia Dortmund" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 7 March 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 1st Leg – Internazionale v Porto" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 2nd Leg – Porto v Internazionale" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 14 March 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 1st Leg – Paris Saint-Germain v Bayern Munich" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 14 February 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Round of 16 2nd Leg – Bayern Munich v Paris Saint-Germain" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 8 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
^ a b c"UEFA Champions League quarter-final, semi-final and final draws". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations.
^"Full Time Summary Quarter-finals 1st Leg – Real Madrid v Chelsea" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 12 April 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Quarter-finals 2nd Leg – Chelsea v Real Madrid" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 18 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Quarter-finals 1st Leg – Benfica v Internazionale" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 11 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Quarter-finals 2nd Leg – Internazionale v Benfica" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 April 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Quarter-finals 1st Leg – Manchester City v Bayern Munich" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 11 April 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Quarter-finals 2nd Leg – Bayern Munich v Manchester City" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 April 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Quarter-finals 1st Leg – Milan v Napoli" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 12 April 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Quarter-finals 2nd Leg – Napoli v Milan" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 18 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Semi-finals 1st Leg – Milan v Internazionale" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 10 May 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Semi-finals 2nd Leg – Internazionale v Milan" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 16 May 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Semi-finals 1st Leg – Real Madrid v Manchester City" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 9 May 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
^"Full Time Summary Semi-finals 2nd Leg – Manchester City v Real Madrid" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
^"Full Time Report Final – Manchester City v Internazionale" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 10 June 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 June 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
