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2019–20 UEFA Europa League knockout phase

The 2019–20 UEFA Europa League knockout phase began on 20 February with the round of 32 and ended on 21 August 2020 with the final at RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, Germany, to decide the champions of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League.[1] A total of 32 teams competed in the knockout phase.[2]

Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Qualified teams

The knockout phase involved 32 teams: the 24 teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the twelve groups in the group stage, and the eight third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage.

Europa League group stage winners and runners-up

Champions League group stage third-placed teams

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Wins; 6) Away wins; 7) Disciplinary points; 8) Club coefficient (UCL Regulations Article 16.04).[3]

Format

Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the final, was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then extra time was played. The away goals rule was again applied after extra time, i.e. if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team advanced by more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the winners were decided by a penalty shoot-out. In the final, which was played as a single match, if the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the score was still level.[2]

The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the final stages of the competition would feature a format change. The quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final would be played in a single-leg format from 10 to 21 August 2020 in the German cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf, Duisburg and Gelsenkirchen. The matches were tentatively played behind closed doors, though spectators could be allowed subject to a review of the situation and the decisions of the national and local government.

Following the competition restarts in August 2020, a maximum of five substitutions were allowed, with a sixth allowed in extra time. However, each team was only given three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time, and at half-time in extra time. This followed a proposal from FIFA and approval by IFAB to lessen the impact of fixture congestion.[4]

In the knockout phase, teams from the same or nearby cities (Porto and Braga) were not scheduled to play at home on the same day, due to logistics and crowd control. Consequently, UEFA adjusted to avoid such scheduling conflicts. For the round of 32, since both teams were seeded and play at home for the second leg, the home match of the team which was not domestic cup champions in the qualifying season, or the team with the lower domestic ranking (if neither team were the domestic cup champions, e.g. Braga for this season), was moved from Thursday to Wednesday. For the round of 16, quarter-finals, and semi-finals, if the two teams were drawn to play at home for the same leg, the order of legs of the tie involving the team with the lowest priority was reversed from the original draw.[5]

Schedule

The schedule was as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).[1]

Following the round of 16 first legs, the competition was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[6][7] The final, originally scheduled to take place on 27 May 2020, was officially postponed on 23 March 2020.[8] A working group was set up by UEFA to decide the calendar of the remainder of the season.[9]

  1. ^ The two round of 16 ties which did not play their first leg were played on 5–6 August 2020.
  2. ^ Round of 16 second legs originally scheduled for 19 March 2020
  3. ^ The quarter-final, semi-final, and final draws were originally scheduled for 20 March 2020
  4. ^ The quarter-final first legs were originally scheduled for 9 April, and second legs 16 April 2020
  5. ^ The semi-final first legs were originally scheduled for 30 April, and second legs 7 May 2020
  6. ^ The final was originally scheduled for 27 May 2020

Matches could also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Bracket

Round of 32

The draw for the round of 32 was held on 16 December 2019, 13:00 CET.[10]

Summary

The first legs were played on 20 February, and the second legs were played on 26, 27 and 28 February 2020.

Matches

Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton
Attendance: 30,435[11]
Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)
RCDE Stadium, Cornellà de Llobregat
Attendance: 14,525[12]
Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)

Wolverhampton Wanderers won 6–3 on aggregate.

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon
Attendance: 27,392[13]
Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)
Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium, Istanbul
Attendance: 5,892[14]
Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

İstanbul Başakşehir won 5–4 on aggregate.

Coliseum Alfonso Pérez, Getafe
Attendance: 14,039[15]
Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)
Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam
Attendance: 51,487[16]
Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

Getafe won 3–2 on aggregate.

BayArena, Leverkusen
Attendance: 26,839[17]
Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)
Estádio do Dragão, Porto
Attendance: 30,292[18]
Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

Bayer Leverkusen won 5–2 on aggregate.

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen
Attendance: 34,346[19]
Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)
Celtic Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 56,172[20]
Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

Copenhagen won 4–2 on aggregate.

GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Attendance: 8,191[21]
Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)
St. Jakob-Park, Basel
Attendance: 14,428[22]
Referee: Pavel Královec (Czech Republic)

Basel won 4–0 on aggregate.

Stadionul Dr. Constantin Rădulescu, Cluj-Napoca
Attendance: 14,820[23]
Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)
Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville
Attendance: 31,338[24]
Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)

1–1 on aggregate. Sevilla won on away goals.

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 31,456[25]
Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)
Emirates Stadium, London
Attendance: 60,242[26]
Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

2–2 on aggregate. Olympiacos won on away goals.

AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar
Attendance: 12,526[27]
Referee: Mattias Gestranius (Finland)
Linzer Stadion, Linz[note 2]
Attendance: 12,855[28]
Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

LASK won 3–1 on aggregate.

Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges
Attendance: 27,006[29]
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
Old Trafford, Manchester
Attendance: 70,397[30]
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

Manchester United won 6–1 on aggregate.

Huvepharma Arena, Razgrad
Attendance: 10,024[31]
Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)
San Siro, Milan
Attendance: 0[32][note 3]
Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)

Inter Milan won 4–1 on aggregate.

Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 47,000[34]
Referee: Ali Palabıyık (Turkey)
Stadion Wals-Siezenheim, Wals-Siezenheim
Attendance: 29,000[36]
Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)

Eintracht Frankfurt won 6–3 on aggregate.

Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv[note 5]
Attendance: 24,429[37]
Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)
Estádio da Luz, Lisbon
Attendance: 48,302[38]
Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Shakhtar Donetsk won 5–4 on aggregate.

Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg
Attendance: 13,801[39]
Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)
Eleda Stadion, Malmö
Attendance: 20,500[40]
Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)

VfL Wolfsburg won 5–1 on aggregate.

Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Attendance: 28,248[41]
Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)
Ghelamco Arena, Ghent
Attendance: 17,557[42]
Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain)

Roma won 2–1 on aggregate.

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
Attendance: 49,378[43]
Referee: Xavier Estrada Fernández (Spain)
Estádio Municipal, Braga
Attendance: 18,113[44]
Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)

Rangers won 4–2 on aggregate.

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 28 February 2020, 13:00 CET.[45]

Summary

Six of the eight first leg matches were played on 12 March, while the remaining first legs and all second leg fixtures were postponed by UEFA due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[6] On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the second legs would be played on 5–6 August 2020. In July 2020, they confirmed that the second legs would be played at the home team's stadium as normal. For the two ties that had not played their first legs, the matches were instead played in a single-leg format, at neutral venues in Germany.[46][47]

Matches

Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium, Istanbul
Attendance: 12,205[48]
Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)
Parken Stadium, Copenhagen
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

Copenhagen won 3–1 on aggregate.

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 0[49][note 9]
Referee: Clément Turpin (France)
Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

Wolverhampton Wanderers won 2–1 on aggregate.

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
Attendance: 47,494[51]
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)
BayArena, Leverkusen
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

Bayer Leverkusen won 4–1 on aggregate.

Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg
Attendance: 0[52][note 10]
Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)
NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv[note 5][note 11]
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

Shakhtar Donetsk won 5–1 on aggregate.

Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)
MSV-Arena, Duisburg
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)
Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 0[54][note 14]
Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)
St. Jakob-Park, Basel
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

Basel won 4–0 on aggregate.

Linzer Stadion, Linz[note 2]
Attendance: 0[55][note 15]
Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)
Old Trafford, Manchester
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

Manchester United won 7–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals took place on 10 July 2020.[6][56]

Summary

The matches were played on 10 and 11 August 2020.

Matches

Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Michael Oliver (England)
RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Clément Turpin (France)
Merkur Spiel-Arena, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)
MSV-Arena, Duisburg
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals took place on 10 July 2020 (after the quarter-final draw).

Summary

The matches were played on 16 and 17 August 2020.

Matches

RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)
Merkur Spiel-Arena, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 0[note 8]
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

Final

The final was played at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.[56]

RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne
Attendance: 0[57][note 16]
Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

Notes

  1. ^ CET (UTC+1) for dates up to 28 March 2020 (round of 32 and round of 16), and CEST (UTC+2) for dates thereafter (quarter-finals, semi-finals and final).
  2. ^ a b LASK played their home matches at Linzer Stadion, Linz, instead of their regular home stadium Waldstadion, Pasching.
  3. ^ The Inter Milan v Ludogorets Razgrad match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.[33]
  4. ^ The Red Bull Salzburg v Eintracht Frankfurt match, originally scheduled to be played on 27 February 2020, 21:00 CET, was postponed to 28 February 2020, 18:00 CET, due to a storm warning.[35]
  5. ^ a b Shakhtar Donetsk played their round of 32 home match at Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, and round of 16 home match at NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv, instead of their regular home stadium Donbass Arena, Donetsk, due to the war conditions in Eastern Ukraine.
  6. ^ The Braga v Rangers match was rescheduled to 26 February 2020 in order to avoid a scheduling conflict with the Porto v Bayer Leverkusen match.
  7. ^ a b c d e f All of the round of 16 second leg matches, originally scheduled to be played on 19 March 2020, were indefinitely postponed following the suspension of UEFA competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[6]
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n The match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic
  9. ^ The Olympiacos v Wolverhampton Wanderers match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece.[50]
  10. ^ The VfL Wolfsburg v Shakhtar Donetsk match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.[50]
  11. ^ The Shakhtar Donetsk v VfL Wolfsburg match, originally scheduled to be played at Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, prior to the suspension of the tournament, was later moved to NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv.
  12. ^ The first leg of the Inter Milan v Getafe tie, originally scheduled to be played on 12 March 2020, 21:00 CET at San Siro, Milan, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and subsequent travel restrictions.[53] The second leg, originally scheduled for 19 March 2020, 18:55 CET at Coliseum Alfonso Pérez, Getafe, was subsequently postponed. UEFA later decided to stage the tie as a single-leg match, to be played at a neutral venue in Germany.
  13. ^ The first leg of the Sevilla v Roma tie, originally scheduled to be played on 12 March 2020, 18:55 CET at Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, Seville, was postponed date due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain and subsequent travel restrictions.[53] The second leg, originally scheduled for 19 March 2020, 21:00 CET at Stadio Olimpico, Rome, was subsequently postponed. UEFA later decided to stage the tie as a single-leg match, to be played at a neutral venue in Germany.
  14. ^ The Eintracht Frankfurt v Basel match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.[50]
  15. ^ The LASK v Manchester United match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria.[50]
  16. ^ The remainder of the competition, held in August 2020, was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[58]

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