{"id":319974,"date":"2026-02-27T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319974\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:21:09","slug":"champions-league-draw-live-premier-league-clubs-to-find-out-their-opponents-for-the-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319974\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League draw LIVE: Premier League clubs to find out their opponents for the last-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does the knockout stage draw work?published at 10:58 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:58 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a152ffbd-69aa-4511-9a72-3e0d18403c77.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Champions League<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Champions League Round of 16 will witness the eight winners of the play-offs meeting the clubs who finished in the top eight in the league phase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As with the play-offs, teams&#8217; final ranking in the league phase will influence seeding in the last 16, with seeded sides &#8211; those that finished in the top eight of the league &#8211; being given the advantage of playing second legs at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is the first season that the position in which teams have placed in the league phase will also influence seeding for the quarter-final and semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teams finishing first to fourth at the end of the league phase will be seeded for the quarter-finals, and therefore given the home advantage in their quarter-final tie second legs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two sides who finish top and runner-up in the league will also be seeded for the semi-finals, earning them the benefit of playing the second leg of their semis at home should they reach that stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If a seeded team does not progress to the quarter or semi-finals, the team that knocks them out will inherit their seeding position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How does the knockout stage draw work?published at 10:58 GMT 10:58 GMT Champions League The Champions League Round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-319974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}