30.01.2025 08:00
The matches of the 8th week of the 36-team league stage in the UEFA Champions League have been completed. The teams in the top 8—Liverpool, Barcelona, Arsenal, Inter, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Lille, and Aston Villa—have directly advanced to the Round of 16. The teams ranked 9th to 24th have moved on to the playoff stage. Meanwhile, 12 teams have bid farewell to the UEFA Champions League. Here are the results of the night...
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The 36-team league stage, which was tried for the first time in the UEFA Champions League, ended with the matches of the 8th week.
THE TOP 8 TEAMS QUALIFIED DIRECTLY FOR THE LAST 16
After the end of the league stage, the first 8 teams, Liverpool, Barcelona, Arsenal, Inter, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Lille, and Aston Villa, qualified directly for the last 16 round.
Atalanta, Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Milan, PSV, Paris Saint-Germain, Benfica, Monaco, Brest, Feyenoord, Juventus, Celtic, Manchester City, Sporting Lisbon, and Club Brugge, which ranked 9th to 24th in the standings, were the teams that secured their names in the playoff stage. The 16 teams that will face each other in the playoff round will try to earn their tickets to the last 16 through a two-legged knockout format. The draw for the playoff round of the Champions League will be held tomorrow.
LIVERPOOL BECAME THE LEADER
The team that finished the league in first place after the eight-week marathon was the English team Liverpool. Although Liverpool lost its unbeaten title in the last week by losing 3-2 to the Dutch representative PSV after winning all its matches in the previous 7 weeks, it managed to finish the league in first place with 21 points.
Moreover, 3 of the teams that qualified directly for the last 16 round were from the English Premier League. In addition to the leader Liverpool, Arsenal in 3rd place and Aston Villa in 8th place continued their journey without going through the playoff stage. The Spanish team Barcelona became the highest-scoring team in the UEFA Champions League. The Catalans managed to score 28 goals against their opponents in the 8-week period while conceding 13 goals. The Italian representative Inter, on the other hand, conceded only 1 goal in the league stage.
12 TEAMS ELIMINATED
The teams that ranked 25th to 36th in the league said goodbye to the UEFA Champions League. Dinamo Zagreb, Stuttgart, Shakhtar Donetsk, Bologna, Red Star, Sturm Graz, Sparta Prague, Leipzig, Girona, and Salzburg managed to earn points in the 8-week marathon but did not gain the right to compete in the next round.
The Swiss team Young Boys, which eliminated Galatasaray in the UEFA Champions League qualifying, finished the league in last place without earning any points, while Slovakia's Slovan Bratislava team also bid farewell to Europe without any points.
The results of the matches played in the last week of the Champions League are as follows:
- Sporting (Portugal)-Bologna (Italy): 1-1
- PSV (Netherlands)-Liverpool (England): 3-2
- Young Boys (Switzerland)-Red Star (Serbia): 0-1
- Stuttgart (Germany)-Paris Saint-Germain (France): 1-4
- Sturm Graz (Austria)-Leipzig (Germany): 1-0
- Manchester City (England)-Club Brugge (Belgium): 3-1
- Bayern Munich (Germany)-Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia): 3-1
- Inter (Italy)-Monaco (France): 3-0
- Borussia Dortmund (Germany)-Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine): 3-1
- Barcelona (Spain)-Atalanta (Italy): 2-2
- Bayer Leverkusen (Germany)-Sparta Prague (Czech Republic): 2-0
- Juventus (Italy)-Benfica (Portugal): 0-2
- Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia)-Milan (Italy): 2-1
- Salzburg (Austria)-Atletico Madrid (Spain): 1-4
- Lille (France)-Feyenoord (Netherlands): 6-1
- Aston Villa (England)-Celtic (Scotland): 4-2
- Girona (Spain)-Arsenal (England): 1-2
- Brest (France)-Real Madrid (Spain): 0-3
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