2019–20 UEFA Champions League
The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League was the 65th season of Europe’s premier club football tournament organised by UEFA. Bayern Munich defeated Paris Saint-Germain in the final, played at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, 1–0. Liverpool were the defending champions, but they were eliminated in the round of 16. The competition was suspended on 17 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. A total of 79 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the competition.
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The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League was the 65th season of Europe’s premier club football tournament organised by UEFA. Bayern Munich defeated Paris Saint-Germain in the final, played at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, 1–0. Liverpool were the defending champions, but they were eliminated in the round of 16, following defeats to Atlético Madrid and RB Leipzig respectively. The competition was suspended on 17 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. The quarter-finals onwards were played as single-match knockout ties at neutral venues in Lisbon from 12 to 23 August. In keeping with its introduction the campaign prior, the video assistant referee system was in use from the play-off round onwards. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association. A total of 79 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the competition. The tournament was suspended in mid-March 2020 and resumed in August, with the last eight ties to be played as a mini-tournament style. All remaining ties of the competition were played behind closed doors due to the remaining presence of the CO VID-19 Pandemic. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced the revised schedule for the quarter-final, semi-finals and final of the tournament, to be Played in single-leg matches.
The last eight matches of the Champions League would be held in Portugal, with the exception of the four unplayed second legs, which would be played at their original venues. On 23 March, it was announced that the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey would no longer host the competition final, originally scheduled for 30 May, but host the 2021 UEFA Super Cup instead. The Champions League final would conclude on 7 and 7 August, instead of the original 7 and 8 August. The final was played in Lisbon on 23 August, and would be the first European Cup winners to win all their matches during the tournament. The Germans secured their second continental treble, becoming only the second European club to do so, and became the first team to claim any European competition with a 100% winning record. As winners, they earned the right to play against Sevilla, the winners of the 2019 20 UEFA Europa League, in the 2020 UEFA Super cup, which they would also win, and also qualified for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar. The teams were seeded and unseeded based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients, and then drawn into one-legged semi-final and final ties. In the preliminary round, teams were divided into unseeded teams based on their 2019 club coefficients.
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