{"id":263369,"date":"2026-01-29T08:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263369\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:41:18","slug":"who-will-tottenham-face-in-champions-league-last-16-knockout-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263369\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will Tottenham face in Champions League last-16 knockout stage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tottenham<\/p>\n

In the new league phase format, which came into play last season, the top eight teams progress straight through to the last 16 and avoid a two-legged knockout play-off tie.<\/p>\n

Tottenham, despite their struggles in the Premier League and both domestic cup competitions this term, have been good in Europe and qualified for the knockout phase with a game to spare.<\/p>\n

In fact, Spurs<\/a> won all four home games under Thomas Frank<\/a> without conceding a single goal against Villarreal, FC Copenhagen, Slavia Prague and Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, two points from a possible nine on the road left Tottenham with a great chance of sealing a top-eight finish ahead of their final league phase fixture away at Eintracht Frankfurt, which they won 2-0 thanks to second-half goals from Randal Kolo Muani and Dominic Solanke.<\/p>\n

Who will Tottenham face in Champions League last 16?<\/p>\n

Tottenham\u2019s progression straight through to the last 16 means they will not face fixture congestion in February.<\/p>\n

The last-16 draw will take place on Friday, February 27. The first leg of those ties will be played on either March 10 or March 11, with the return fixtures a week later.<\/p>\n

As a result of finishing fourth in the league phase, Tottenham will either face the winners of the knockout phase play-off between the 19th and 20th seeds, or the 13th and 14th seeds.<\/p>\n

All will be confirmed after the knockout phase play-off draw on Friday, January 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the new league phase format, which came into play last season, the top eight teams progress straight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,79946,92027],"class_list":["post-263369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-spurs","tag-thomas-frank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}