The remainder of this season’s Champions League and Europa League competitions will be completed in August with ‘final eight’ tournaments in Lisbon, Portugal and in cities across Germany.
Both competitions were suspended in March because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Champions League knockout games will be completed in a 12-day condensed tournament in Lisbon in August, UEFA has confirmed.
The four remaining last-16 second-leg matches, including Manchester City vs Real Madrid, will take place on August 7 and 8 while the eight teams remaining in the competition will take part in a straight knockout tournament between August 12 and 23.
Whether those matches will take place at the respective host stadiums, or in Portugal is yet to be determined by UEFA, but revealed a decision would be made before 10 July.
UEFA has also confirmed that all 12 original host cities will stage matches in the delayed Euro 2020 finals.
That competition will now start on 11 June 2021. The outstanding play-off matches will be staged during the international windows starting on 8 October and 12 November, respectively.
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Champions League schedule
- 7 August Last 16 second legs
- 8 August Last 16 second legs
- 12 August Quarter-final
- 13 August Quarter-final
- 14 August Quarter-final
- 15 August Quarter-final
- August Semi-final
- 19 August Semi-final
- 23 August Final
Paris Saint-Germain, Atalanta, Atletico Madrid, and RB Leipzig are the four clubs who have already guaranteed their respective places in the last eight.
Manchester City has yet to play their home leg against Real Madrid, Chelsea are away at Bayern Munich, Juventus are home to Lyon and Napoli are at Barcelona all still looking to make it to the last 8 of the competition.
Europa League schedule
- 5 August Last 16
- 6 August Last 16
- 10 August Quarter-final
- 11 August Quarter-final
- 16 August Semi-final
- 17 August Semi-final
- 21 August Final
The remaining games in the Europa League, the last eight, will take place across four venues in Germany between August 10 and 21.
Europa League last-16 ties still to be played
- FC Copenhagen (0) vs (1) Istanbul Basaksehir
- Wolves (1) vs (1) Olympiacos
- Bayer Leverkusen (3) vs (1) Rangers
- Shaktar Donetsk (2) vs (1) Wolfsburg
- FC Basel (3) vs (0) Eintracht Frankfurt
- Man Utd (5) vs (0) LASK Linz
- Inter Milan vs Getafe (Both legs yet to be played)
- Sevilla vs Roma (Both legs yet to be played)
Meanwhile, all remaining matches in the Women’s Champions League, where Arsenal and Glasgow City have already reached the last eight, will be played as a knockout tournament in Bilbao, Spain between August 21 and 30 with the finals of the coming years taking place in Gothenburg (2021), Turin (2022) and Eindhoven (2023) as originally planned.
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