OFFICIAL: UEFA confirms Final Eight format

The Final Eight of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League will take place in Portugal and Germany respectively, it has been confirmed.

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This following statement was released by UEFA with regard to the Champions League:

“The 2019/20 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, semi-finals and final will be played as a straight knockout tournament in Lisbon, Portugal in August. All these ties will be single-leg fixtures.

“A decision is pending on whether the four remaining round of 16 second legs will take place at the home team’s stadium or in Portugal.

“The quarter-finals, semi-finals and final will be split between Benfica's Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Sporting CP's Estádio José Alvalade. The Estádio do Dragão in Porto and the Estádio D. Afonso Henriques in Guimarães will host the four outstanding round of 16 second legs if required.

“The 2019/20 UEFA Champions League has been on hold since Wednesday 11 March due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

“The revised schedule to conclude this season's competition was confirmed following Wednesday's UEFA Executive Committee meeting.

“2019/20 UEFA Champions League schedule

“7-8 August: Round of 16 second legs (venues to be confirmed)

“12-15 August: Quarter-finals (Lisbon)

“18-19 August: Semi-finals (Lisbon)

“23 August: Final (Lisbon)

“All fixtures will kick off at 21:00 CET. The date for the quarter-final and semi-final draws will be communicated in due course; the exact match schedule will then follow.

“The 2019/20 final was due to be held at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul which will now instead stage the 2020/21 showpiece. The three subsequent final venues have also agreed to host a year later than originally planned.

“2020: Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica or Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal

“2021: Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey

“2022: Saint Petersburg Stadium, Saint Petersburg, Russia

“2023: Football Arena Munich, Munich, Germany

“2024: Wembley Stadium, London, England.”

UEFA also confirmed that the Final Eight of the Europa League will be held across four German cities:

“The 2019/20 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, semi-finals and final will be played as a straight knockout tournament across four cities in Germany in August: Cologne, Duisburg, Düsseldorf and Gelsenkirchen. All these ties will be single-leg fixtures.

“A decision is pending on whether the round of 16 second legs will take place at the home team's stadium or in Germany. The ties where the first leg was also postponed – namely Inter vs Getafe and Sevilla vs Roma – will be played as a single leg at a venue to be confirmed.

“The 2019/20 UEFA Europa League has been on hold since Thursday 12 March due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

“The revised schedule to conclude this season's competition was confirmed following Wednesday's UEFA Executive Committee meeting.

“2019/20 UEFA Europa League schedule

“5–6 August: Round of 16 (venues to be confirmed)

“10–11 August: Quarter-finals (Cologne, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen)

“16–17 August: Semi-finals (venues to be confirmed)

“21 August: Final (Cologne)

“Round of 16 fixtures will kick off at either 18:55 CET or 21:00 CET, with all subsequent fixtures beginning at 21:00 CET. The date for the quarter-final and semi-final draws will be communicated in due course; the exact match schedule will then follow.

“The 2019/20 final was due to be held at the Gdańsk Stadium in Poland which will now instead stage the 2020/21 showpiece. The two subsequent final venues have also agreed to host a year later than originally planned.

“2020: Stadion Köln, Cologne, Germany

“2021: Gdańsk Stadium in Gdańsk, Poland

“2022: Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, Sevilla, Spain

“2023: Puskás Aréna, Budapest, Hungary.”

Olympiacos are the last remaining Greek representatives in the 2019/2020 European season. In March, the Erythrolefki played to a 1-1 draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the first leg of their Europa League Last 16 tie at the Karaiskakis Stadium, with Youssef El Arabi and Pedro Neto trading goals. It remains to be seen whether the decisive second match takes place in either England or Germany.

The Piraeus-based organisation had famously defeated Arsenal in the Round of 32 of the Europa League after dropping down from the UEFA Champions League. Olympiacos initially began their continental campaign last summer in the second qualifying round of the Champions League, subsequently defeating Viktoria Plzen, Basaksehir and FC Krasnodar to reach the coveted group stages.

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