2018–19 UEFA Champions League facts for kids

{{Infobox international football competition | tourney_name = UEFA Champions League | year = 2018–19 | image = Wanda-Metropolitano.jpg | size = 275 | caption = The Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid will host the final | dates = Qualifying:
26 June – 29 August 2018
Competition proper:
18 September 2018 – 1 June 2019 | num_teams = Competition proper: 32
Total: 79 | associations = 54 | champion_other = | count = | second_other = | matches = 32 | goals = 94 | attendance =

The 2018–19 UEFA Champions League will be 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 against the winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League in the 2019 UEFA Super Cup.

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).

Group stage
Barcelona (1st)	Borussia Dortmund (4th)	Roma (3rd)	Porto (1st)
Atlético Madrid (2nd)EL	Manchester City (1st)	Internazionale (4th)	Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)
Real Madrid (3rd)	Manchester United (2nd)	Paris Saint-Germain (1st)	Club Brugge (1st)
Valencia (4th)	Tottenham Hotspur (3rd)	Monaco (2nd)	Galatasaray (1st)
Bayern Munich (1st)	Liverpool (4th)	Lyon (3rd)	Viktoria Plzeň (1st)
Schalke 04 (2nd)	Juventus (1st)	Lokomotiv Moscow (1st)
1899 Hoffenheim (3rd)	Napoli (2nd)	CSKA Moscow (2nd)
Play-off round
Champions Path		League Path
Young Boys (1st)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)
Third qualifying round
Champions Path		League Path
AEK Athens (1st)	Red Bull Salzburg (1st)	Spartak Moscow (3rd)	Standard Liège (2nd)
		Benfica (2nd)	Fenerbahçe (2nd)
		Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)	(2nd)
Second qualifying round
Champions Path		League Path
CFR Cluj (1st)	Midtjylland (1st)	Basel (2nd)	PAOK (2nd)
Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	BATE Borisov (1st)	Ajax (2nd)	Sturm Graz (2nd)
First qualifying round
Legia Warsaw (1st)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)	Kukësi (2nd)	Alashkert (1st)
Malmö FF (1st)	Astana (1st)	Cork City (1st)	F91 Dudelange (1st)
Hapoel Be'er Sheva (1st)	(1st)	Zrinjski Mostar (1st)	Crusaders (1st)
Celtic (1st)	Spartak Trnava (1st)	Torpedo Kutaisi (1st)	Sūduva Marijampolė (1st)
APOEL (1st)	(1st)	Spartaks Jūrmala (1st)	Valletta (1st)
Rosenborg (1st)	Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Shkëndija (1st)	The New Saints (1st)
Qarabağ (1st)	Valur (1st)	Flora Tallinn (1st)	Víkingur Gøta (1st)
Ludogorets Razgrad (1st)	HJK (1st)	Sutjeska Nikšić (1st)
Preliminary round
Lincoln Red Imps (1st)	FC Santa Coloma (1st)	(1st)	Drita (1st)

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Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).

Stage	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Preliminary	Preliminary round	12 June 2018	26 June 2018 (semi-final round)	29 June 2018 (final round)
Qualifying	First qualifying round	19 June 2018	10–11 July 2018	17–18 July 2018
	Second qualifying round		24–25 July 2018	31 July – 1 August 2018
	Third qualifying round	23 July 2018	7–8 August 2018	14 August 2018
Play-off	Play-off round	6 August 2018	21–22 August 2018	28–29 August 2018
Group stage	Matchday 1	30 August 2018 (Monaco)	18–19 September 2018
	Matchday 2		2–3 October 2018
	Matchday 3		23–24 October 2018
	Matchday 4		6–7 November 2018
	Matchday 5		27–28 November 2018
	Matchday 6		11–12 December 2018
Knockout phase	Round of 16	17 December 2018	12–13 & 19–20 February 2019	5–6 & 12–13 March 2019
	Quarter-finals	15 March 2019	9–10 April 2019	16–17 April 2019
	Semi-finals	19 April 2019	30 April – 1 May 2019	7–8 May 2019
	Final		1 June 2019 at Wanda Metropolitano, Madrid

From this season, there will be staggered kick-off times – 18:55 CET and 21:00 CET.

Group stage

Main page: 2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage

The draw for the group stage will be held on 30 August 2018 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The 32 teams are drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams are seeded into four pots based on the following principles (introduced starting this season):

• Pot 1 contains the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2017 UEFA country coefficients. If either or both title holders are one of the champions of the top six associations, the champions of the next highest ranked association(s) are also seeded into Pot 1.
• Pot 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2018 UEFA club coefficients.

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams enter the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays are 18–19 September, 2–3 October, 23–24 October, 6–7 November, 27–28 November, and 11–12 December 2018.

A total of 32 teams play in the group stage: 26 teams which enter in this stage, and the six winners of the play-off round (four from Champions Path, two from League Path).

• Atlético Madrid CC: 140.000 (Pot 1)
• Bayern Munich CC: 135.000 (Pot 1)
• Barcelona CC: 132.000 (Pot 1)
• Juventus CC: 126.000 (Pot 1)
• Paris Saint-Germain CC: 109.000 (Pot 1)
• Manchester City CC: 100.000 (Pot 1)
• Lokomotiv Moscow CC: 22.500 (Pot 1)
• Real Madrid CC: TBD (160.000) (Pot 1 if Champions League title holders otherwise Pot 2)
• Borussia Dortmund CC: 89.000 (Pot 2)
• Porto CC: 86.000 (Pot 2)
• Manchester United CC: 82.000 (Pot 2)
• Shakhtar Donetsk CC: 81.000 (Pot 2)
• Napoli CC: 78.000 (Pot 2)
• Tottenham Hotspur CC: 67.000
• Roma CC: 64.000
• Liverpool CC: TBD (62.000) (Pot 1 if Champions League title holders)
• Schalke 04 CC: 62.000 (Pot 3)
• Lyon CC: 59.500 (Pot 3)
• Monaco CC: 57.000 (Pot 3)
• CSKA Moscow CC: 45.000 (Pot 3)
• Valencia CC: 36.000
• Viktoria Plzeň CC: 33.000
• Club Brugge CC: 29.500
• Galatasaray CC: 29.500
• Internazionale CC: 16.000 (Pot 4)
• 1899 Hoffenheim CC: 14.285 (Pot 4)

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DOR	ATM	BRU	MON
1	Borussia Dortmund	6	4	1	1	10	2	+8	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	4–0	0–0	3–0
2	Atlético Madrid	6	4	1	1	9	6	+3	13			2–0	—	3–1	2–0
3	Club Brugge	6	1	3	2	6	5	+1	6	Transfer to Europa League		0–1	0–0	—	1–1
4	Monaco	6	0	1	5	2	14	−12	1			0–2	1–2	0–4	—

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	TOT	INT	PSV
1	Barcelona	6	4	2	0	14	5	+9	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	2–0	4–0
2	Tottenham Hotspur	6	2	2	2	9	10	−1	8			2–4	—	1–0	2–1
3	Inter Milan	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	2–1	—	1–1
4	PSV Eindhoven	6	0	2	4	6	13	−7	2			1–2	2–2	1–2	—

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAR	LIV	NAP	ZVE
1	Paris Saint-Germain	6	3	2	1	17	9	+8	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–1	2–2	6–1
2	Liverpool	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2	9			3–2	—	1–0	4–0
3	Napoli	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	1–0	—	3–1
4	Red Star Belgrade	6	1	1	4	5	17	−12	4			1–4	2–0	0–0	—

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POR	SCH	GAL	LOM
1	Porto	6	5	1	0	15	6	+9	16	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	1–0	4–1
2	Schalke 04	6	3	2	1	6	4	+2	11			1–1	—	2–0	1–0
3	Galatasaray	6	1	1	4	5	8	−3	4	Transfer to Europa League		2–3	0–0	—	3–0
4	Lokomotiv Moscow	6	1	0	5	4	12	−8	3			1–3	0–1	2–0	—

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	AJX	BEN	AEK
1	Bayern Munich	6	4	2	0	15	5	+10	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	5–1	2–0
2	Ajax	6	3	3	0	11	5	+6	12			3–3	—	1–0	3–0
3	Benfica	6	2	1	3	6	11	−5	7	Transfer to Europa League		0–2	1–1	—	1–0
4	AEK Athens	6	0	0	6	2	13	−11	0			0–2	0–2	2–3	—

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MC	LYO	SHK	HOF
1	Manchester City	6	4	1	1	16	6	+10	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–2	6–0	2–1
2	Lyon	6	1	5	0	12	11	+1	8			2–2	—	2–2	2–2
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	3	2	8	16	−8	6	Transfer to Europa League		0–3	1–1	—	2–2
4	1899 Hoffenheim	6	0	3	3	11	14	−3	3			1–2	3–3	2–3	—

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	ROM	PLZ	CSKA
1	Real Madrid	6	4	0	2	12	5	+7	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–0	2–1	0–3
2	Roma	6	3	0	3	11	8	+3	9			0–2	—	5–0	3–0
3	Viktoria Plzeň	6	2	1	3	7	16	−9	7	Transfer to Europa League		0–5	2–1	—	2–2
4	CSKA Moscow	6	2	1	3	8	9	−1	7			1–0	1–2	1–2	—

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JUV	MU	VAL	YB
1	Juventus	6	4	0	2	9	4	+5	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–2	1–0	3–0
2	Manchester United	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10			0–1	—	0–0	1–0
3	Valencia	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8	Transfer to Europa League		0–2	2–1	—	3–1
4	Young Boys	6	1	1	4	4	12	−8	4			2–1	0–3	1–1	—

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

• In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners are seeded, and the eight group runners-up are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other.

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 will be held on 17 December 2018. The first legs will be played on 12, 13, 19 and 20 February, and the second legs will be played on 5, 6, 12 and 13 March 2019.

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals will be held on 15 March 2019. The first legs will be played on 9 and 10 April, and the second legs will be played on 16 and 17 April 2019.

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals will be held on 19 April 2019. The first legs will be played on 30 April and 1 May, and the second legs will be played on 7 and 8 May 2019.

Final

Main page: 2019 UEFA Champions League Final

The final will be played on 1 June 2019 at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) will be determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.