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2020–21 UEFA Champions League knockout phase

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

The knockout phase involves the sixteen teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage.

Group	Winners (seeded in round of 16 draw)	Runners-up (unseeded in round of 16 draw)
A	Bayern Munich	Atlético Madrid
B	Real Madrid	Borussia Mönchengladbach
C	Manchester City	Porto
D	Liverpool	Atalanta
E	Chelsea	Sevilla
F	Borussia Dortmund	Lazio
G	Juventus	Barcelona
H	Paris Saint-Germain	RB Leipzig

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 is 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 would be 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:

• In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner was designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it was played at a neutral venue).

For the quarter-finals and semi-finals, teams from the same city were not scheduled to play at home on the same day or consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control.^[3] To avoid such scheduling conflict, if the two teams were drawn to play at home for the same leg, the order of legs of the tie involving the team which was not titleholders of Champions League or Europa League (or lower-tier, if both were continental titleholders), or the team with the lower domestic ranking in the qualifying season (if neither team were continental title holder) was reversed from the original draw.^[4]

The schedule was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).^[5]

	Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final (29 May – Porto)
	Lazio	1	1	2
	Bayern Munich	4	2	6
							Bayern Munich	2	1	3
							Paris Saint-Germain (a)	3	0	3
	Barcelona	1	1	2
	Paris Saint-Germain	4	1	5
													Paris Saint-Germain	1	0	1
													Manchester City	2	2	4
	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0	0	0
	Manchester City	2	2	4
							Manchester City	2	2	4
							Borussia Dortmund	1	1	2
	Sevilla	2	2	4
	Borussia Dortmund	3	2	5
																			Manchester City	0
																			Chelsea	1
	Atalanta	0	1	1
	Real Madrid	1	3	4
							Real Madrid	3	0	3
							Liverpool	1	0	1
	RB Leipzig	0	0	0
	Liverpool	2	2	4
													Real Madrid	1	0	1
													Chelsea	1	2	3
	Porto (a.e.t.; a)	2	2	4
	Juventus	1	3	4
							Porto	0	1	1
							Chelsea	2	0	2
	Atlético Madrid	0	0	0
	Chelsea	1	2	3

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 14 December 2020, 12:00 CET.^[6]

The first legs were played on 16, 17, 23 and 24 February, and the second legs were played on 9, 10, 16 and 17 March 2021.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–4	Manchester City	0–2	0–2
Lazio	2–6	Bayern Munich	1–4	1–2
Atlético Madrid	0–3	Chelsea	0–1	0–2
RB Leipzig	0–4	Liverpool	0–2	0–2
Porto	4–4 (a)	Juventus	2–1	2–3 (a.e.t.)
Barcelona	2–5	Paris Saint-Germain	1–4	1–1
Sevilla	4–5	Borussia Dortmund	2–3	2–2
Atalanta	1–4	Real Madrid	0–1	1–3

Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–2	Manchester City
	Report	Silva 29' Gabriel Jesus 65'

Attendance: 0^{[14][note 3]}

Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

Manchester City	2–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach
De Bruyne 12' Gündoğan 18'	Report

Attendance: 0^{[15][note 3]}

Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

Manchester City won 4–0 on aggregate.

Lazio	1–4	Bayern Munich
Correa 49'	Report	Lewandowski 9' Musiala 24' Sané 42' Acerbi 47' (o.g.)

Attendance: 0^{[16][note 3]}

Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

Bayern Munich	2–1	Lazio
Lewandowski 33' (pen.) Choupo-Moting 73'	Report	Parolo 82'

Attendance: 0^{[17][note 3]}

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

Bayern Munich won 6–2 on aggregate.

Atlético Madrid	0–1	Chelsea
	Report	Giroud 68'

Attendance: 0^{[19][note 3]}

Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

Chelsea	2–0	Atlético Madrid
Ziyech 34' Emerson 90+4'	Report

Attendance: 0^{[20][note 3]}

Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

Chelsea won 3–0 on aggregate.

RB Leipzig	0–2	Liverpool
	Report	Salah 53' Mané 58'

Attendance: 0^{[21][note 3]}

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

Liverpool	2–0	RB Leipzig
Salah 70' Mané 74'	Report

Attendance: 0^{[22][note 3]}

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

Liverpool won 4–0 on aggregate.

Porto	2–1	Juventus
Taremi 2' Marega 46'	Report	Chiesa 82'

Attendance: 0^{[23][note 3]}

Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)

Juventus	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Porto
Chiesa 49', 63' Rabiot 117'	Report	Oliveira 19' (pen.), 115'

Attendance: 0^{[24][note 3]}

Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

4–4 on aggregate. Porto won on away goals.

Barcelona	1–4	Paris Saint-Germain
Messi 27' (pen.)	Report	Mbappé 32', 65', 85' Kean 70'

Attendance: 0^{[25][note 3]}

Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Paris Saint-Germain	1–1	Barcelona
Mbappé 31' (pen.)	Report	Messi 37'

Attendance: 0^{[26][note 3]}

Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)

Paris Saint-Germain won 5–2 on aggregate.

Sevilla	2–3	Borussia Dortmund
Suso 7' De Jong 84'	Report	Dahoud 19' Haaland 27', 43'

Attendance: 0^{[27][note 3]}

Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

Borussia Dortmund	2–2	Sevilla
Haaland 35', 54' (pen.)	Report	En-Nesyri 69' (pen.), 90+6'

Attendance: 0^{[28][note 3]}

Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

Borussia Dortmund won 5–4 on aggregate.

Atalanta	0–1	Real Madrid
	Report	Mendy 86'

Attendance: 0^{[29][note 3]}

Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)

Real Madrid	3–1	Atalanta
Benzema 34' Ramos 60' (pen.) Asensio 85'	Report	Muriel 83'

Attendance: 0^{[30][note 3]}

Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

Real Madrid won 4–1 on aggregate.

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 19 March 2021, 12:00 CET.^[31]

The first legs were played on 6 and 7 April, and the second legs were played on 13 and 14 April 2021.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Manchester City	4–2	Borussia Dortmund	2–1	2–1
Porto	1–2	Chelsea	0–2	1–0
Bayern Munich	3–3 (a)	Paris Saint-Germain	2–3	1–0
Real Madrid	3–1	Liverpool	3–1	0–0

Manchester City	2–1	Borussia Dortmund
De Bruyne 19' Foden 90'	Report	Reus 84'

Attendance: 0^{[32][note 3]}

Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

Borussia Dortmund	1–2	Manchester City
Bellingham 15'	Report	Mahrez 55' (pen.) Foden 75'

Attendance: 0^{[33][note 3]}

Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)

Manchester City won 4–2 on aggregate.

Porto	0–2	Chelsea
	Report	Mount 32' Chilwell 85'

Attendance: 0^{[35][note 3]}

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

Chelsea	0–1	Porto
	Report	Taremi 90+4'

Attendance: 0^{[36][note 3]}

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

Chelsea won 2–1 on aggregate.

Bayern Munich	2–3	Paris Saint-Germain
Choupo-Moting 37' Müller 60'	Report	Mbappé 3', 68' Marquinhos 28'

Attendance: 0^{[37][note 3]}

Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

Paris Saint-Germain	0–1	Bayern Munich
	Report	Choupo-Moting 40'

Attendance: 0^{[38][note 3]}

Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

3–3 on aggregate. Paris Saint-Germain won on away goals.

Real Madrid	3–1	Liverpool
Vinícius 27', 65' Asensio 36'	Report	Salah 51'

Attendance: 0^{[39][note 3]}

Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

Liverpool	0–0	Real Madrid
	Report

Attendance: 0^{[40][note 3]}

Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Real Madrid won 3–1 on aggregate.

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 19 March 2021, 12:00 CET, after the quarter-final draw.^[31]

The first legs were played on 27 and 28 April, and the second legs were played on 4 and 5 May 2021.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Paris Saint-Germain	1–4	Manchester City	1–2	0–2
Real Madrid	1–3	Chelsea	1–1	0–2

Paris Saint-Germain	1–2	Manchester City
Marquinhos 15'	Report	De Bruyne 64' Mahrez 71'

Attendance: 0^{[41][note 3]}

Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

Manchester City	2–0	Paris Saint-Germain
Mahrez 11', 63'	Report

Attendance: 0^{[42][note 3]}

Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Manchester City won 4–1 on aggregate.

Real Madrid	1–1	Chelsea
Benzema 29'	Report	Pulisic 14'

Attendance: 0^{[43][note 3]}

Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

Chelsea	2–0	Real Madrid
Werner 28' Mount 85'	Report

Attendance: 0^{[44][note 3]}

Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

Chelsea won 3–1 on aggregate.

The final was played on 29 May 2021 at the Estádio do DragãoinPorto. A draw was held on 19 March 2021, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.^[31]

Manchester City	0–1	Chelsea
	Report	Havertz 42'

Attendance: 14,110^[45]

Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

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