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2020–21 UEFA Champions League

The Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid will host the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 26 June – 29 August 2018 Competition proper: 18 September 2018 – 1 June 2019
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 79 (from 54 associations)
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

The 2018–19 UEFA Champions League is the 64th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 27th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

The final will be played at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid, Spain. The winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League in the 2019 UEFA Super Cup. They will also automatically qualify for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage, and if they have already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved will be given to the champions of the 2018–19 Austrian Bundesliga, the 11th-ranked association according to next season's access list.

Real Madrid are the defending champions, having won the title for three successive seasons in 2015–16, 2016–17 and 2017–18.

Format changes

On 9 December 2016, UEFA confirmed the reforming plan for the UEFA Champions League for the 2018–2021 cycle, which was announced on 26 August 2016. As per the new regulations, the previous season's UEFA Europa League winners will qualify automatically for the UEFA Champions League group stage. Meanwhile, the top four teams from the leagues of the four top-ranked national associations in the UEFA country coefficients list will qualify automatically for the group stage as well. Only six teams will qualify for the group stage via the qualification rounds, down from ten in the previous season.

Association team allocation

79 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

• Associations 1–4 each have four teams qualify.
• Associations 5–6 each have three teams qualify.
• Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify.
• Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.
• The winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League and 2017–18 UEFA Europa League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.
  • The winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, have qualified through their domestic league, meaning the additional entry for the Champions League title holders is not necessary.
  • The winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League, Atlético Madrid, have qualified through their domestic league, meaning the additional entry for the Europa League title holders is not necessary.

Association ranking

For the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2017 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2012–13 to 2016–17.

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

• (UCL) – Additional berth for the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League winners
• (UEL) – Additional berth for the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League winners

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1 Spain 104.998* 7-4 2 Germany 79.498* 3 England 75.962* 4 Italy 73.332* 5 France 56.665* 6-3 6 Russia 50.532* 7 Portugal 49.332* 5-2 8 Ukraine 42.633* 9 Belgium 42.400* 10 Turkey 39.200* 11 Czech Republic 33.175* 12 Switzerland 32.075* 13 Netherlands 31.063* 14 Greece 27.900* 15 Austria 25.350* 16 Croatia 25.250* 4-1 17 Romania 24.350* 18 Denmark 24.000* 19 Belarus 19.875*

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 20 Poland 19.750* 4-1 21 Sweden 19.725* 22 Israel 19.375* 23 Scotland 18.925* 24 Cyprus 18.550* 25 Norway 18.325* 26 Azerbaijan 17.750* 27 Bulgaria 15.875* 28 Serbia 15.375* 29 Kazakhstan 15.250* 30 Slovenia 13.125* 31 Liechtenstein 13.500 0-1 32 Slovakia 13.125* 4-1 33 Hungary 8.875* 34 Macedonia 8.000* 35 Republic of Ireland 7.450* 36 Finland 7.275* 37 Albania 7.250*

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 38 Moldova 7.250* 4-1 39 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.000* 40 Iceland 7.000* 41 Lithuania 6.250* 42 Latvia 5.500* 43 Malta 4.125 44 Armenia 5.125* 45 Estonia 5.000 46 Georgia 4.500* 47 Luxembourg 4.250* 48 Wales 4.125* 49 Montenegro 4.125 50 Faroe Islands 4.000 51 Gibraltar 4.000 52 Northern Ireland 3.875 3-1 53 Kosovo 2.500 54 Andorra 1.831 55 San Marino 0.666 2-1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Real MadridTH (3rd)	423	254	74	95	942	458	+484	836	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Bayern Munich (1st)	333	191	69	73	665	334	+331	642
3	Barcelona (1st)	298	175	67	56	594	288	+306	592
4	Manchester Un(2nd)	270	150	65	55	496	253	+243	515
5	Juventus (1st)	261	130	67	64	413	255	+158	457
6	Benfica (2nd)	242	108	55	79	393	274	+119	379	Qualification for the Third qualifying round
7	Liverpool (4th)	196	109	45	42	369	172	+197	372	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
8	Porto (1st)	233	103	56	74	341	258	+83	365
9	Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)	231	100	49	82	330	275	+55	349	Qualification for the Third qualifying round
10	Celtic (1st)	204	96	34	74	306	240	+66	322
11	Ajax (2nd)	201	89	53	59	307	225	+82	320	Qualification for the Second qualifying round
12	Inter Milano (4th)	167	82	44	41	240	168	+72	290	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
13	PSV Eindhoven (1st)	167	61	39	67	215	205	+10	222	Qualification for the play-off round
14	Atlético MadridEL (2nd)	119	60	32	27	181	104	+77	212	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
15	Borussia Dortmund (4th)	130	62	26	42	227	166	+61	212
16	Lyon (3rd)	130	60	29	41	205	148	+57	209
17	Galatasaray (1st)	163	56	40	67	207	250	−43	208
18	Red Star Belgrade (1st)	117	61	21	35	229	145	+84	204
19	Valencia (4th)	114	52	31	31	172	109	+63	187	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
20	Paris Saint-Germain (1st)	96	51	19	26	185	112	+73	172
21	Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)	118	50	22	46	176	164	+12	172
22	Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	118	48	22	48	172	171	+1	166	Qualification for the Second qualifying round
23	Monaco (2nd)	106	44	21	41	173	137	+36	153	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
24	Spartak Moscow (3rd)	120	40	30	50	171	186	−15	150	Qualification for the Third qualifying round
25	Roma (3rd)	103	37	27	39	134	149	−15	138	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
26	BATE Borisov (1st)	92	33	28	31	102	126	−24	127	Qualification for the Second qualifying round
27	CSKA Moscow (2nd)	98	32	23	43	117	146	−29	119	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
28	Schalke 04 (2nd)	69	28	16	25	101	103	−2	100
29	Manchester C(1st)	62	27	13	22	108	84	+24	94
30	Napoli (2nd)	38	17	8	13	60	52	+8	59
31	Tottenham Hotspur(3rd)	34	16	7	11	70	46	+24	55
32	Lokomotiv Moscow (1st)	39	12	8	19	43	51	−8	44
33	1899 Hoffenheim (3rd)	2	0	0	2	3	6	−3	0

First match(es) will be played: 31 July 2018. Source: [1], [2] date team positions here-->
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Head-to-head away goals; 7) Goals scored; 8) Away goals scored; 9) Most goals scored in one league match; 10) Fair-play points

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Valencia (4th)	178	91	45	42	324	202	+122	318	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Sporting CP (3rd)	188	88	43	57	299	213	+86	307	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
3	Anderlecht (3rd)	166	86	35	45	304	190	+114	293
4	Ajax (2nd)	151	78	27	46	269	150	+119	261
5	PSV Eindhoven (1st)	146	72	33	41	239	147	+92	249	Qualification for the play-off round
6	Bordeaux (6th)	144	70	26	48	205	172	+33	236	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round)
7	Sevilla (7th)	123	68	28	27	210	109	+101	232
8	Lazio (5th)	125	62	32	31	203	139	+64	218	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
9	Benfica (2nd)	124	63	28	33	196	135	+61	217
10	PAOK (2nd)	141	55	41	45	193	166	+27	206
11	AZ (3rd)	122	58	31	33	207	156	+51	205	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round)
12	Feyenoord (CW)	131	57	28	46	196	160	+36	199	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round)
13	FCSB (2nd)	130	52	35	43	176	153	+23	191	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round)
14	Villarreal (5th)	100	56	22	22	177	103	+74	190	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
15	Milan (6th)	95	49	20	26	147	90	+57	167
16	Marseille (4th)	101	45	26	30	143	110	+33	161
17	Copenhagen (PW)	124	41	30	53	172	183	−11	153	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round)
18	Bayer Leverkusen (5th)	92	43	23	26	141	85	+56	152	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
19	Arsenal (6th)	63	32	12	19	121	63	+58	108
20	Chelsea (5th)	37	20	7	10	61	44	+17	67	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round)
21	CSKA Sofia (2nd)	98	34	30	34	130	122	+8	132	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round)
22	Basel (2nd)	114	46	23	45	164	183	−19	161
23	Rangers (3rd)	100	42	29	29	131	97	+34	155
24	Olympiacos (3rd)	161	56	30	75	191	250	−59	198
25	Rosenborg (1st)	145	53	30	62	210	228	−18	189

First match(es) will be played: 31 July 2018. Source: [3], [4] date team positions here-->

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Real Madrid (3rd)	423	254	74	95	942	458	+484	836

First match(es) will be played: 31 July 2018. Source: [5], [6]