Champions League draw LIVE: Arsenal and Manchester City discover last-16 fates

Arsenal will face Porto in the Champions League last-16 while holders Manchester City take on FC Copenhagen.

The Gunners qualified as group winners after making an impressive return to Europe’s top club competition and will travel to Porto before hosting their first Champions League knockout tie in seven years at the Emirates.

Defending champions Manchester City were also handed a favourable draw as they play Danish side Copenhagen, who beat Manchester United in the group stages to qualify for the last-16.

There will be a clash between the Spanish champions and the Italian champions when Barcelona meet Napoli, while Paris Saint-Germain avoided a heavyweight draw after finishing as runners-up in Group F and were paired with Real Sociedad.

Last season’s runners-up Inter Milan will take on Atletico Madrid, themselves defeated finalists in 2014 and 2016, PSV will meet Borussia Dortmund and Harry Kane’s Bayern Munich face Lazio. Real Madrid will play RB Leipzig.

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Champions League last-16 draw

• The Champions League last-16 draw took place at Uefa’s headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland

• Arsenal draw Porto in the first fixture out of the hat

• Man City will face FC Copenhagen in the last 16

• Champions League last 16 draw in full

Europa League play-off round draw

12:24 , Mike Jones

So there you have it. The draws for both the Champions League last-16 and the Europa League play-off round.

There are some interesting match ups from both and no doubt the English clubs still in the Europa League will be keeping an eye on their possible opponents in the next round.

Europa League play-off round full draw

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Feyenoord vs Roma

AC Milan vs Rennes

Lens vs SC Freiburg

Young Boys vs Sporting

Benfica vs Toulouse

Braga vs Qarabag FK

Galatasaray vs Sparta Prague

Shakhtar Donetsk vs Marseilla

Europa League play-off round draw

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Finally, Shakhtar Donetsk will take on Marseille as they are the only two remaining teams.

Europa League play-off round draw

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Turkish club Galatasaray are next out, they dropped down from Manchester United’s group...

... Sparta Prague are their opponents!

Europa League play-off round draw

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The draw is quickly approaching it’s conclusion as Braga are drawn...

... they’ll be facing Qarabag FK from Azerbaijan.

Europa League play-off round draw

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Next out of the pot is Benfica...

... who will be playing Toulouse in the play-off round.

Europa League play-off round draw

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Swiss side, Young Boys, dropped into the Europa League play-off draw...

... to come up against Portugal’s Sporting!

Europa League play-off round draw

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Lens, from Arsenal’s Champions League group, come out next…

… they are facing SC Freiburg!

Europa League play-off round draw

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Next out of the pot of former Champions League clubs is AC Milan...

... Milan will go up against Rennes!

Europa League play-off round draw

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The first team out of the pot is Feyenoord...

... they are playing Roma!

Europa League play-off round draw

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The former Champions League clubs will be drawn out of the pots first with the Europa League clubs playing their home legs second.

Again, clubs from the same domestic leagues cannot play each other.

Europa League play-off round draw

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Two-time Europa League winner, Julien Escude, is the man who will be drawing the teams out of the pots. The Frenchman won the competition twice with Sevilla in consecutive seasons.

Europa League play-off round draw

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Here’s a reminder of the teams in the draw:

Seeded teamsFreiburg (GER)Marseille (FRA)Qarabağ (AZE)Rennes (FRA)Roma (ITA)Sparta Praha (CZE)Sporting CP (POR)Toulouse (FRA)

Unseeded teamsBenfica (POR)Braga (POR)Feyenoord (NED)Galatasaray (TUR)Lens (FRA)Milan (ITA)Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)Young Boys (SUI)

Europa League play-off round draw

12:02 , Mike Jones

Now it’s time for the Europa League play-off round draw. We’re back in Nyon for this one and are awaiting the arrival of Giorgio Marchetti again.

The 16 teams in this draw are being introduced before the Uefa Deputy Secretary General comes onto the stage.

Manchester United’s financial blow revealed after early exit from Europe

11:56 , Mike Jones

Manchester United could face a £40m hit to their income this season because they will play far fewer matches at Old Trafford after their early exits from Europe and the Carabao Cup.

United played a club record 33 home games in all competitions last season, bringing in their biggest ever matchday revenue of £136.4m – an average of more than £4m per match.

But this season United could play as few as 23 times at Old Trafford, depending on whether Erik ten Hag’s team, who are away at Wigan in the third round, get any home FA Cup ties, and will have a maximum of 26 matches at their own ground.

Manchester United’s financial blow revealed after early exit from Europe

When will the Europa League last-16 play-off ties be played?

11:52 , Mike Jones

The fixtures will take place across two legs on 15 and 22 February 2024. The draw for the round-of-16 knockout stage will take place the day after the play-off second legs, on 23 February.

Which clubs will be in the play-off draw?

11:48 , Mike Jones

The following teams finished second in their Europa League group:

Freiburg

Marseille

Sparta Prague

Sporting

Toulouse

Rennes

Roma

Qarabag FK

Which clubs will be in the play-off draw?

11:45 , Mike Jones

The following teams finished third in their Champions League group:

Galatasaray

Lens

Braga

Benfica

Feyenoord

Milan

Young Boys

Shakhtar Donetsk

When is the Europa League play-off draw?

11:41 , Mike Jones

The draw will take place on Monday 18 December in Nyon, Switzerland, with the start time set for noon, GMT.

The Europa League play-off draw will be streamed live on Uefa’s YouTube channel.

When is the Champions League last-16? Round dates, fixtures and more

11:39 , Mike Jones

Arsenal will face Porto in the Champions League last-16 while holders Manchester City take on FC Copenhagen.

The Gunners qualified as group winners after making an impressive return to Europe’s top club competition and will travel to Porto before hosting their first Champions League knockout tie in seven years at the Emirates.

Defending champions Manchester City were also handed a favourable draw as they play Danish side Copenhagen, who beat Manchester United in the group stages to qualify for the last-16.

When is the Champions League last-16? Round dates, fixtures and more

Champions League last-16 draw

11:29 , Mike Jones

How are the Arsenal and Manchester City fans feeling after that draw?

I’d expect both are very pleased. Porto can be tricky customers but Mikel Arteta will be confident of winning over two legs while Manchester City know they can beat FC Copenhagen having played them recently in European competition.

Champions League last-16 draw

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When will the last-16 fixtures take place?

The first legs will take place over two weeks in February2024, the 13th and 14th as well as 20th and 21st. The the second legs will be played in March, over the 5th, 6th, 12th and 13th.

Champions League last-16 full draw

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Porto vs Arsenal

Napoli vs Barcelona

PSG vs Real Sociedad

Inter Milan vs Atletico Madrid

PSV Eindhoven vs Borussia Dortmund

Lazio vs Bayern Munich

Copenhagen vs Man City

RB Leipzig vs Real Madrid

Champions League last-16 draw

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Finally, RB Leipzig are taking on Real Madrid.

Champions League last-16 draw

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The surprise team of the last-16 FC Copenhagen are drawn out next and can only face one team which is the reigning champions Manchester City.

Champions League last-16 draw

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Lazio, the quarter-finalists in 2000, can only be drawn against one club which means they are playing Bayern Munich.

Champions League last-16 draw

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Halfway through the draw now and next out is Dutch side PSV Eindhoven...

... they are facing Germany’s Borussia Dortmund!

Champions League last-16 draw

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The fourth unseeded team drawn is Inter Milan...

... last year’s runners-up with face Atletico Madrid!

Champions League last-16 draw

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Paris Saint-Germain, one of the more difficult unseeded teams to face, are next out...

... their opponents in the last-16 are Real Sociedad!

Champions League last-16 draw

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John Terry now pulls Napoli out of the unseeded pot...

... the Italian side will take on Barcelona!

Champions League last-16 draw

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The first team drawn out is FC Porto...

... they will be facing Arsenal!

Champions League last-16 draw

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The rules of the draw are now being explained.

Seeded teams are drawn against unseeded teams. Teams cannot face others from their own domestic leagues nor anyone they faced in the group stages.

Seeded teams, or group winners, will play their home leg second.

Champions League last-16 draw

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Uefa Deputy Secretary General Giorgio Marchetti is introduced to oversee the draw as he does with all the draws for European competitions.

Despite the previous video, he gives an opening speech recapping the group stages before explaining that this season was the last to feature a group stages ahead of the new format being introduced next year.

John Terry, the former Chelsea captain, will be helping out with the draw.

A reminder of the last 16 teams

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Group winners (seeded): Arsenal (ENG), Atlético de Madrid (ESP), Barcelona (ESP), Bayern Munich (GER), Borussia Dortmund (GER), Manchester City (ENG), Real Madrid (ESP), Real Sociedad (ESP)

Group runners-up (unseeded): FC Copenhagen (DEN), Inter Milan (ITA), Lazio (ITA), RB Leipzig (GER), Napoli (ITA), Paris Saint-Germain (FRA), Porto (POR), PSV Eindhoven (NED).

Champions League last-16 draw

11:02 , Mike Jones

Here we go then.

You can watch the draw for free on Uefa’s website or on TNT Sports 1 if you have a subscription. The representatives for all 16 clubs are waiting in Nyon.

A quick video is played recap how each of them reached the knockout rounds.

Champions League last-16 draw

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Almost time for the draw.

Arsenal break Brighton spell to set up early Premier League title showdown

10:55 , Mike Jones

Onto Liverpool. If Arsenal returning to the top of the Premier League table felt like a statement before Jurgen Klopp’s side were held by Manchester United in the final fixture of the weekend, it also sends a message ahead of what is shaping up to be one of the defining clashes of the campaign on the Saturday before Christmas. As Manchester City jet off to the Club World Cup amid their worst run of form in years under Pep Guardiola, it leaves a clear top two in the Premier League table: they meet at Anfield next weekend.

After defeat at Aston Villa, who may feel they should also be in the conversation after their late win at Brentford, returning to winning ways was the objective here for Mikel Arteta’s side. They managed to do so against a Brighton team whose struggles in the Premier League continued after hitting further heights in Europe in midweek. Arsenal had almost all the chances and almost all the shots against Roberto De Zerbi’s visitors and for the first time in 33 top-flight matches, Brighton failed to score.

Arsenal break Brighton spell to set up early Premier League title showdown

Arsenal‘s ‘positive' Champions League campaign

10:50 , Mike Jones

Mikel Arteta believes his Arsenal side have shown enough in the group stage to prove they can compete back in the Champions League.

“Overall, I think, very positive,” he said in his press conference when asked how Arsenal’s return to the Champions League had gone.

“Having not been in the competition for six or seven years and having a team that hasn’t got that much experience, I think we’ve competed really well.

“I really liked the approach of the team in every single game, the way we’ve tried to play. We had some big results and big experiences, like the one we had in Seville or Lens, or even today looking at how the team can act and how fair it is to give certain players that exposure when you make so many changes.

“Overall finishing first with a game to play we have to be really happy. Now we have to now close that chapter until February and make sure that when that chapter opens up again that we’re in the best place to compete against another top side.”

Man City faced with frustrating form irony just as they look to win crown of world’s best team

10:45 , Mike Jones

Manchester City have often been described as the best team in the world. The penultimate step to officially claiming that title falls on the 25th anniversary of a historic low. On 19 December 1998, City lost 2-1 to York: their fifth consecutive league game without a win left them 12th in the old Division 2, rendering them the 56th best team in England. On 19 December 2023, they face Urawa Red Diamonds in the semi-final of the Club World Cup. Win then and only Fluminense or Al Ahly stand in their way in Friday’s final.

“Years ago we could not imagine to be there and we are there,” said Pep Guardiola. “I’m very pleased and excited to go there to try and win it.” It has been a remarkable rise, albeit one facilitated by about £2bn of investment from Sheikh Mansour and one clouded by 115 Premier League charges. But now, a quarter of a century after City were 15 points behind Walsall, City have one of the greatest managers in history and a treble only previously achieved by Manchester United in a season when their neighbours were a third-tier club.

Now they arrived in Saudi Arabia as favourites to retain both the Premier League and the Champions League. And yet, for a club on the brink of adding a fifth trophy of 2023 and an achievement that would symbolise a time of dominance, at something of a low.

Man City faced with form irony as they look to win crown of world’s best team

Champions League more important than Club World Cup says Guardiola

10:40 , Mike Jones

Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola is excited to take his side to Saudi Arabia to participate in the Club World Cup but confirmed that the club’s priorities are on the mainstream competitions including the Champions League.

He said: “The Champions League is more important, absolutely.

“But to play this tournament that we have never played before – you need to be there. And we are going to fly there and see the environment, how it is, and play against Urawa the best as possible to deserve to get to the final.

“Of course, it’s nice. Years ago we could not imagine to be there and we are there.”

Pep Guardiola excited for Club World Cup

10:35 , Mike Jones

Pep Guardiola says he is “very pleased and excited” that Manchester City are taking part in the Club World Cup in Saudi Arabia over the coming days.

The treble winners go into the tournament after a slump in results, dropping points in five of their last six Premier League games to leave them fourth in the table.

Playing Club World Cup matches on Tuesday and Friday, they do not return to league action until December 27, by which time there could be a considerable gap between them and the top of the table.

Guardiola siad: “We love to go to play the (Club) World Cup. To go there you have to win the Champions League. I’m very pleased and excited to go there and try to win it, of course.

“The schedule is what it is, the results are what they are and you have to accept it.”

Another cruel comeback sees Newcastle perish in group of death

10:30 , Mike Jones

It was the sequel Newcastle United did not want, the second cruel comeback in as many Champions League games. For some 45 minutes, including half-time, they could savour the sight of a table that showed them in second, permitting them to imagine a date with Real Madrid or Bayern Munich in the knockout stages. And then, little more than half an hour, they were ejected from Europe altogether.

Christian Pulisic’s equaliser threatened to condemn them to the Europa League. Samuel Chukwueze’s winner instead meant that spot goes to AC Milan. The group of death went down to the dying minutes, but Newcastle have perished. They had savoured a return to Europe but there will be no continental trips for them in the spring of 2024.

Another cruel comeback sees Newcastle perish in group of death

The latest centurion

10:25 , Luke Baker

On the opening matchday of this year’s campaign Bayern Munich’s Thomas Müller became just the third player in history to record 100 Champions League wins (in 143 games).

Cristiano Ronaldo (115 wins in 183 games) and Iker Casillas (101 wins in 177 games) are the other two players to reach the landmark.

Bayern went unbeaten through the group stages and look like potential challengers for to claim the European title this year.

A surprise entry

10:20 , Mike Jones

FC Copenhagen have qualified from their Champions League group for the second time, having previously done so in 2010/11.

They are the only Danish club to have finished in the top two in a Champions League group having beaten out Manchester United and Galatasaray to finish behind Bayern Munich in Group A.

They are in the unseeded pot and could come up against Manchester City or Arsenal in the last-16.

How Manchester United’s worst-ever Champions League campaign unravelled — and who is to blame

10:15 , Mike Jones

As the final whistle blew on Manchester United’s European campaign, the cast list on the pitch included Jonny Evans, Kobbie Mainoo, Facundo Pellestri and Hannibal Mejbri. One represents the past, another may be the future, two are likely to be footnotes in any account of United. The understudies – in some cases, the unknowns – representing a club who have spent £400m in 18 months, some £1.5bn in 11 years since Sir Alex Ferguson retired were the unwitting indications of how plans went awry. They ended up beaten by Bayern Munich with the kind of line-up likelier to be found in a pre-season friendly.

In different ways, it had gone wrong for their supposed superiors. Marcus Rashford’s Champions League season was curtailed early: United were 2-0 up against FC Copenhagen, looking likely to qualify when his accidental stamp on Elias Jelert brought a sending off then a suspension, before illness ruled him out of the Bayern match. For Casemiro, too, his final contribution was a red card, sent off in the second game against Galatasaray, the victim of one of Andre Onana’s blunders, banned and then injured thereafter. So much for the idea a multiple Champions League winner could have the same effect at Old Trafford. His sidekick in success at Real Madrid, Raphael Varane was an unused substitute when United conceded three goals in Istanbul to take their destiny out of their own hands.

How Man Utd’s worst-ever Champions League campaign unravelled — and who is to blame

What are the rules of the draw?

10:10 , Mike Jones

The group winners are seeded and will be drawn against one of the eight runners-up.

Teams from the same countries cannot play each other in the last 16, and you cannot be drawn against a team you’ve already played in the group stages.

The group winners will be at home for the second leg.

What will the last-16 fixtures take place?

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First legs: 13/14/20/21 February 2024

Second legs: 5/6/12/13 March 2024

Champions League last-16 draw

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Manchester City and Arsenal are the only two Premier League representatives in the Champions League knockout rounds after both teams finished top of their groups.

Manchester United and Newcastle were both eliminated from Europe entirely due to fourth place finishes.

City and Arsenal’s positions are group winners mean they will be placed in the seeded pots and should, in theory, end up with a favourable draw for the last-16.

Who is through to the last-16?

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Runners-up:

• RB Leipzig

• PSV Eindhoven

• FC Copenhagen

• Napoli

• Inter Milan

• Porto

• Paris Saint-Germain

• Lazio

Who is through to the last-16?

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Group winners:

• Manchester City

• Bayern Munich

• Arsenal

• Real Sociedad

• Real Madrid

• Atletico Madrid

• Borussia Dortmund

• Barcelona

When is the Champions League last-16 draw?

09:45 , Mike Jones

The draw will take place on Monday 18 December. It will start from 11am GMT and will take place in Nyon, Switzerland.

Champions League last-16 draw

09:11 , Lawrence Ostlere

Follow all the latest updates from the Champions League round-of-16 draw right here ahead of the main event at 11am GMT.