Europe's Premier Club Competitions reach Knockout Stages

The group stages of the Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League have now concluded, confirming the teams that have progressed to the knockout stages, the playoff rounds, or have been eliminated.

Champions League

The following eight teams have secured automatic qualification to the Round of 16 by finishing in the top eight:

  • Liverpool
  • Barcelona
  • Arsenal
  • Inter Milan
  • Atletico Madrid
  • Bayer Leverkusen
  • Lille
  • Aston Villa

Teams that finished between 9th and 24th place will enter the playoff round to compete for a place in the knockout stages:

  • Borussia Dortmund
  • Real Madrid
  • Bayern Munich
  • AC Milan
  • Paris Saint-Germain
  • Monaco
  • Juventus
  • Celtic
  • Manchester City
  • Sporting CP

The following teams have been eliminated from the competition after failing to finish within the top 24:

  • Dinamo Zagreb
  • Stuttgart
  • Shakhtar Donetsk
  • Red Star Belgrade
  • Sparta Prague
  • RB Leipzig
  • Girona

Europa League

The eight teams that have automatically qualified for the knockout stages are:

  • Lazio
  • Athletic Bilbao
  • Tottenham Hotspur
  • Manchester United
  • Eintracht Frankfurt
  • Olympique Lyon
  • Olympiakos
  • Rangers

The teams that finished between 9th and 24th place and will enter the playoff round are:

  • Anderlecht
  • Ajax
  • Real Sociedad
  • Galatasaray
  • AS Roma
  • Porto
  • AZ Alkmaar
  • PAOK
  • FC Twente
  • Fenerbahce

The following teams have been knocked out due to their failure to finish within the top 24:

  • Braga
  • Elfsborg
  • Hoffenheim
  • Besiktas
  • Slavia Prague
  • Malmo
  • Dynamo Kyiv
  • OGC Nice

Conference League

The teams that have automatically qualified for the knockout stages by finishing in the top eight are:

  • Chelsea
  • Vitória SC
  • Fiorentina
  • Rapid Vienna
  • Djurgården
  • Lugano
  • Legia Warsaw
  • Cercle Brugge

The teams that finished between 9th and 24th place and have qualified for the playoff round are:

  • Shamrock Rovers
  • APOEL
  • Pafos
  • Panathinaikos
  • Real Betis
  • Copenhagen
  • Omonia
  • Molde

The following teams have been eliminated from the competition:

  • Hearts
  • Istanbul Basaksehir
  • The New Saints
  • Larne
  • LASK

The playoff rounds for the teams who finished between 8th and 24th in each competition will take place this month with the winners of each of these playoffs progressing to the round of 16 to take on the other tams who finished within the top eight.

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