For example, depending on how the knockout draw plays out, Newcastle United and Chelsea face the prospect of playing an English team all the way to the final. They could play each other in the round of 16, then the winners may meet Liverpool or Tottenham Hotspur in the quarter-final, and Arsenal or Manchester City in the semi-final and final.

With just 16 teams remaining in the 2025/26 Champions League competition vying for the European crown, the time has come to set the bracket for the tournament.

The conclusion of Wednesday's Champions League play-off round means we finally have our Round of 16 contenders.

From Monaco to Ajax and La Remontada to Glimt, the Champions League’s greatest shocks remind us giants always fall eventually

Two German clubs – Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen – will be in action as the 2025/26 Champions League continues with the second leg of the knockout phase play-off ties this midweek. Below, we’ve compiled the predicted lineups for all eight upcoming fixtures in Europe’s premier club competition.

It's difficult to know quite what will happen next with the Blues, but if you take things at face value, they are into the UCL last 16 and are the third-best English team in the competition based on their Premier League placing. That certainly helps in Power Ranking terms.

Monaco, Porto, Roma, Villarreal, Ajax and Bodø/Glimt are among those to feature as we recall the Champions League's biggest upsets from the knockout phase.