After five months of league phase matches, it is finally time for the Champions League knockout stage. Before any of the teams can get to the Allianz Arena, though, they first must survive the ...

The field of knockout stage teams was confirmed with 24 teams moving on to the next phase of competition. Of those 24, eight teams secured direct berths to the round of 16 while the remaining 16 ...

The UEFA Champions League's first-ever league phase came to a dramatic close on Wednesday, setting up for an equally entertaining knockout stage that begins in two weeks' time. The introduction of ...

With the Champions League’s new league phase now over at long, long last, we can work out quite a few things from the finishing positions. Most straightforwardly, we know which eight teams have ...

Here's everything you need to know ahead of today's (Friday 31 January) UEFA Europa League knockout stage play-off round draw. Last night, we sealed our progress into the round of 16 with a top-eight ...

Thursday night's 3-2 win over TSG Hoffenheim in Sinsheim, Germany, saw us book a place in at least the knockout play-off round of this year's UEFA Europa League. With still one game to play - Thursday ...

Angelo Leo has reiterated his openness to facing ... recording a spectacular 10th-round knockout of Luis Alberto Lopez. Leo previously held the WBO junior featherweight belt for five months ...

The eight winners from the play-offs will meet the teams who finished in the top eight from the initial league phase in the last-16, where the familiar theme of knockout rounds will run all the ...

The draw for the knockout playoff round of the new-look UEFA Champions League is upon us. But who is taking part in this draw? Why are the league phase positions so important? And when is the next ...

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Norway's Bodo/Glimt eased into the knockout playoff stage of the Europa League thanks to a 1-1 draw away to French Ligue 1 side Nice on Thursday, with the Norwegians just missing out on qualifying ...