Live draw at 18.00 this afternoon
Promotion rules The Champions League includes the following schedule: three qualifying rounds, one play-off round, group stage and four knockout rounds. Qualifying Round: In the three qualifying rounds and the play-off stage, teams will play one game at home and away against their opponents, and the team with more goals will qualify to advance to the next round. If two teams score the same number of goals, the team with more away goals will advance. Group Stage lt;/Bgt; There will be ten teams advancing from the play-offs to the group stage each day, five of which are from countries with higher league levels, and the other five are league champions from other countries. These ten teams will participate in the group stage together with the other 22 teams that advance directly. The teams will be divided into eight groups of four teams each. Between September and December, each team will play two home and away games against the other three opponents in the group, and the top two teams in the group will advance to the knockout stage. The third place in each group will directly advance to the Europa League round of 32. Knockout stage lt;/Bgt; From the top 16 to the semi-finals, each team will participate in two home and away games. The promotion rules are the same as those in the qualifying and play-off stages. Entering the top 16 stage, the group champion will avoid the teams in this group and compete with the runner-up of another group. There will no longer be such restrictions after entering the quarter-finals.?Final lt;/Bgt; The final adopts a one-match format. If the winner is not decided after 90 minutes, it will enter 30 minutes of overtime. If the winner is still not decided, the winner will be a penalty kick. UEFA Champions League knockout promotion rules The UEFA Champions League knockout competition adopts a home and away knockout system from the 1/8 finals to the semi-finals. The promotion rules are as follows: 1. The player with the higher total score advances; 2. The player with more away goals advances; 3. Overtime; Overtime Whoever wins the match will advance. If there is a tie, away goals will be counted as 2 and the visiting team will advance. If the game is 0-0, a penalty shootout will be held. 4. Penalty kick. The Champions League final adopts a single-game decider system. If the winner is not decided after 90 minutes, it will enter 30 minutes of overtime. If the winner is still not decided, the penalty kick will be decided. With qualifications for the Champions League qualifying rounds, the top three teams in the UEFA Champions League: La Liga, Premier League, and Serie A have 4 teams participating. The top 2 teams in the league will participate directly, and the 3rd and 4th teams will participate in the third round of qualifying first. . Countries ranked 4th to 6th: Bundesliga, Ligue 1, and Eredivisie have 3 teams participating. The top 2 in the league will directly participate, and the 3rd will participate in the third round of qualifying first. Countries ranked 7th to 9th: Portugal, Turkey, and Greece have 2 teams participating. The league champion will directly enter the group stage, and the runner-up will participate in the third round of qualifying. Countries ranked 10th to 15th: Russia, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Scotland, Belgium, and Austria have 2 teams participating. The league champion will participate in the third round of qualifying, and the league runner-up will start from the second round of qualifying. One team from each country ranked 16th to 27th will participate, and the league championship will start from the second round of qualifying. One team from each country ranked 28th to 47th will participate, and the league champion will start from the first round of qualifying. The points of each country are calculated based on the performance of the country's clubs in the two major European Cups in the past five seasons. The calculation method is: each team gets 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 1 point for entering the first stage of the Champions League and the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and finals of the two major cups; The scores of the participating teams are added up and divided by the number of teams participating in the two major cups of the country to generate the country's score for the current season; the score for this season plus the scores for the past four seasons is the country's total score. The results of the two major cup qualifying matches are bonus points at half the rate (1 point for a win, 0.5 points for a draw), and the Toto Cup is not included in the calculation.