2016–17 UEFA Champions League
 The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff hosted the final | |
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | Qualifying: 28 June – 24 August 2016 Competition proper: 13 September 2016 – 3 June 2017 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 32 Total: 78 (from 53 associations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Real Madrid (12th title) |
| Runners-up |  Juventus |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 125 |
| Goals scored | 380 (3.04 per match) |
| Attendance | 5,399,802 (43,198 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Cristiano Ronaldo (12 goals) |
| Best player(s) |
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The 2016–17 UEFA Champions League was the 62nd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 25th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
The final was played between Juventus and Real Madrid at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.[5][6] It was the second time that the two teams faced each other in the competition's decisive match, having previously met in the 1998 final. Real Madrid, the defending champions, beat Juventus 4–1 to win a record-extending 12th title. With this victory, Real Madrid became the first team to successfully defend their title in the Champions League era, and the first to successfully defend a European Cup since Milan in 1990.
As winners, Real Madrid qualified as the UEFA representative for the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, Manchester United, in the 2017 UEFA Super Cup, ultimately triumphing in both competitions.
Association team allocation
A total of 78 teams from 53 of the 55 UEFA member associations were expected to participate in the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league, and Kosovo, whose participation was not accepted in their first attempt as UEFA members). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[7]
- Associations 1–3 each had four teams qualify.
- Associations 4–6 each had three teams qualify.
- Associations 7–15 each had two teams qualify.
- Associations 16–54 (except Liechtenstein) each had one team qualify.
- The winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League and 2015–16 UEFA Europa League were each given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league. Because a maximum of five teams from one association can enter the Champions League, if both the Champions League title holders and the Europa League title holders were from the same top three ranked association and finish outside the top four of their domestic league, the fourth-placed team of their association would be moved to the Europa League.[8] For this season:
- The winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, qualified through their domestic league, meaning the additional entry for the Champions League title holders was not necessary.
- The winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, Sevilla, did not qualify through their domestic league, meaning the additional entry for the Europa League title holders was necessary.
Association ranking
For the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2015 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2010–11 to 2014–15.[9][10]
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
- (EL) – Additional berth for Europa League title holders
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- Notes
- ^ Kosovo (KOS): Kosovo became a UEFA member on 3 May 2016.[11] UEFA decided that their domestic champions could participate in the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League only if they could meet licensing criteria under article 15 of the UEFA Club Licensing & Financial Fair Play regulations, which would be confirmed following the assessment made by the UEFA administration within the deadline of 31 May 2016.[12] However, Kosovo's entry, Feronikeli (as the champions of the 2015–16 Football Superleague of Kosovo), was denied by UEFA in June due to the club failing licensing requirements, and also because the club could not provide a suitable stadium and UEFA did not allow them to play their home matches in a foreign country.[13][14]
Distribution
In the default access list, the Champions League title holders enter the group stage.[7][15] However, since Real Madrid already qualified for the group stage (as the runners-up of the 2015–16 La Liga), the Champions League title holders berth in the group stage is given to the Europa League title holders, Sevilla.[16][17][18]
| Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from previous round | ||
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| Third qualifying round | Champions Route (20 teams) |
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| League Route (10 teams) |
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| Play-off round | Champions Route (10 teams) |
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| League Route (10 teams) |
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| Group stage (32 teams) |
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| Knockout phase (16 teams) |
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Teams
League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses, except Sevilla which qualified as Europa League title holders (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).[19][20][21]
- Notes
- ^ Albania (ALB): Skënderbeu would have qualified for the Champions League second qualifying round as the champions of the 2015–16 Albanian Superliga, but were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by UEFA for match-fixing.[22][23] They appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and UEFA agreed to suspend the exclusion and Skënderbeu were included in the second qualifying round draw.[24] The final decision to exclude Skënderbeu was made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on 6 July 2016, before the second qualifying round was played.[25][26] As a result, the berth was given to the runners-up Partizani.[27]
- ^ France (FRA): Monaco are a club based in Monaco (which is not a UEFA member), but participate in the Champions League through one of the berths for France as they finished third in the 2015–16 Ligue 1 (any coefficient points they earn count toward France).
Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).[7][28][29]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 20 June 2016 | 28–29 June 2016 | 5–6 July 2016 |
| Second qualifying round | 12–13 July 2016 | 19–20 July 2016 | ||
| Third qualifying round | 15 July 2016 | 26–27 July 2016 | 2–3 August 2016 | |
| Play-off | Play-off round | 5 August 2016 | 16–17 August 2016 | 23–24 August 2016 |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 25 August 2016 (Monaco) |
13–14 September 2016 | |
| Matchday 2 | 27–28 September 2016 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 18–19 October 2016 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 1–2 November 2016 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 22–23 November 2016 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 6–7 December 2016 | |||
| Knockout phase | Round of 16 | 12 December 2016 | 14–15 & 21–22 February 2017 | 7–8 & 14–15 March 2017 |
| Quarter-finals | 17 March 2017 | 11–12 April 2017 | 18–19 April 2017 | |
| Semi-finals | 21 April 2017 | 2–3 May 2017 | 9–10 May 2017 | |
| Final | 3 June 2017 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff | |||
Qualifying rounds
In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2016 UEFA club coefficients,[30][31][32] and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
First qualifying round
The draws for the first and second qualifying rounds were held on 20 June 2016.[33][34] The first legs were played on 28 June, and the second legs were played on 5 and 6 July 2016.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Flora Tallinn 
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2–3 |  Lincoln Red Imps
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2–1 | 0–2 |
The New Saints 
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5–1 |  Tre Penne
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2–1 | 3–0 |
Valletta 
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2–2 (a) |  B36 Tórshavn
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1–0 | 1–2 |
FC Santa Coloma 
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0–3 |  Alashkert
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0–0 | 0–3 |
Second qualifying round
The first legs were played on 12 and 13 July, and the second legs were played on 19 and 20 July 2016.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Qarabağ 
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3–1 |  F91 Dudelange
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2–0 | 1–1 |
Hapoel Be'er Sheva 
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3–2 |  Sheriff Tiraspol
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3–2 | 0–0 |
Olimpija Ljubljana 
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6–6 (a) |  Trenčín
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3–4 | 3–2 |
Red Bull Salzburg 
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3–0 |  Liepāja
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1–0 | 2–0 |
Vardar 
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3–5 |  Dinamo Zagreb
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1–2 | 2–3 |
| The New Saints
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0–3 |  APOEL
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0–0 | 0–3 |
Zrinjski Mostar 
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1–3 |  Legia Warsaw
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1–1 | 0–2 |
Ludogorets Razgrad 
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5–0 |  Mladost Podgorica
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2–0 | 3–0 |
Dinamo Tbilisi 
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3–1 | Alashkert
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2–0 | 1–1 |
Žalgiris Vilnius 
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1–2 |  Astana
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0–0 | 1–2 |
Partizani 
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2–2 (3–1 p) |  Ferencváros
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1–1 | 1–1 (a.e.t.) |
BATE Borisov 
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4–2 |  SJK
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2–0 | 2–2 |
| Valletta
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2–4 |  Red Star Belgrade
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1–2 | 1–2 |
Rosenborg 
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5–4 |  IFK Norrköping
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3–1 | 2–3 |
Dundalk 
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3–3 (a) |  FH
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1–1 | 2–2 |
| Lincoln Red Imps
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1–3 |  Celtic
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1–0 | 0–3 |
Crusaders 
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0–9 |  Copenhagen
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0–3 | 0–6 |
Third qualifying round
The third qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Route (for league champions) and League Route (for league non-champions). The losing teams in both sections entered the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League play-off round.
The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 15 July 2016.[35][36] The first legs were played on 26 and 27 July, and the second legs were played on 2 and 3 August 2016.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Rosenborg
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2–4 | APOEL
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2–1 | 0–3 |
| Dinamo Zagreb
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3–0 | Dinamo Tbilisi
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2–0 | 1–0 |
Olympiacos 
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0–1 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva
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0–0 | 0–1 |
| Astana
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2–3 | Celtic
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1–1 | 1–2 |
| Trenčín
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0–1 | Legia Warsaw
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0–1 | 0–0 |
Viktoria Plzeň 
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1–1 (a) | Qarabağ
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0–0 | 1–1 |
Astra Giurgiu 
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1–4 | Copenhagen
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1–1 | 0–3 |
| BATE Borisov
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1–3 | Dundalk
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1–0 | 0–3 |
| Ludogorets Razgrad
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6–4 | Red Star Belgrade
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2–2 | 4–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Partizani
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0–3 | Red Bull Salzburg
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0–1 | 0–2 |
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Ajax 
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3–2 | PAOK
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1–1 | 2–1 |
| Sparta Prague
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1–3 | Steaua București
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1–1 | 0–2 |
Shakhtar Donetsk 
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2–2 (2–4 p) |  Young Boys
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2–0 | 0–2 (a.e.t.) |
Rostov 
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4–2 |  Anderlecht
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2–2 | 2–0 |
Fenerbahçe 
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3–4 |  Monaco
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2–1 | 1–3 |
Play-off round
The play-off round was split into two separate sections: Champions Route (for league champions) and League Route (for league non-champions). The losing teams in both sections entered the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League group stage.
The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2016.[37][38] The first legs were played on 16 and 17 August, and the second legs were played on 23 and 24 August 2016.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Ludogorets Razgrad
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4–2 | Viktoria Plzeň
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2–0 | 2–2 |
| Celtic
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5–4 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva
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5–2 | 0–2 |
| Copenhagen
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2–1 | APOEL
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1–0 | 1–1 |
| Dundalk
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1–3 | Legia Warsaw
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0–2 | 1–1 |
| Dinamo Zagreb
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3–2 | Red Bull Salzburg
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1–1 | 2–1 (a.e.t.) |
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Steaua București
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0–6 |  Manchester City
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0–5 | 0–1 |
| Porto
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4–1 | Roma
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1–1 | 3–0 |
| Ajax
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2–5 | Rostov
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1–1 | 1–4 |
| Young Boys
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2–9 |  Borussia Mönchengladbach
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1–3 | 1–6 |
| Villarreal
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1–3 | Monaco
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1–2 | 0–1 |
Group stage
Atlético Madrid
Real MadridLondon teams
Arsenal
Tottenham HotspurLisbon teams
Benfica Sporting CP Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; 
Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D; Green: Group E; Blue: Group F; 
Purple: Group G; 
Pink: Group H.The draw for the group stage was held on 25 August 2016, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.[39] The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on the following principles (introduced starting 2015–16 season):[40][41]
- Pot 1 contained the title holders and the champions of the top seven associations based on their 2015 UEFA country coefficients.[9][10][7]
- Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2016 UEFA club coefficients.[30][31][32]
In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams enter the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays are 13–14 September, 27–28 September, 18–19 October, 1–2 November, 22–23 November, and 6–7 December 2016.
The youth teams of the clubs that qualify for the group stage also play in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League on the same matchdays, where they compete in the UEFA Champions League Path (the youth domestic champions of the top 32 associations compete in a separate Domestic Champions Path until the play-offs).
A total of 17 national associations are represented in the group stage. Leicester City and Rostov made their debut appearances in the group stage.[42] For the first time since the 2002–03 edition, England's Chelsea did not qualify for the group stage.
| Tiebreakers |
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The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied in the order given to determine the rankings (regulations Article 17.01):[7]
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Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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Group F
Template:2016–17 UEFA Champions League Group F table
Group G
Template:2016–17 UEFA Champions League Group G table
Group H
Template:2016–17 UEFA Champions League Group H table
Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:
- In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners are seeded, and the eight group runners-up are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
- In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other.
Bracket
| Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||
| Benfica
| 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Borussia Dortmund
| 0 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Borussia Dortmund
| 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Monaco
| 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Manchester City
| 5 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Monaco (a)
| 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Monaco
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Juventus
| 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Porto
| 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Juventus
| 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Juventus
| 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Barcelona
| 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Paris Saint-Germain
| 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Barcelona
| 0 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Juventus
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Real Madrid
| 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bayern Munich
| 5 | 5 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Arsenal
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bayern Munich
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Real Madrid (a.e.t.)
| 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Real Madrid
| 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Napoli
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Real Madrid
| 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Atlético Madrid
| 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bayer Leverkusen
| 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Atlético Madrid
| 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Atlético Madrid
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leicester City
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sevilla
| 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leicester City
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 12 December 2016.[43] The first legs were played on 14, 15, 21 and 22 February, and the second legs were played on 7, 8, 14 and 15 March 2017.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Manchester City
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6–6 (a) | Monaco
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5–3 | 1–3 |
| Real Madrid
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6–2 | Napoli
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3–1 | 3–1 |
| Benfica
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1–4 | Borussia Dortmund
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1–0 | 0–4 |
| Bayern Munich
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10–2 | Arsenal
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5–1 | 5–1 |
| Porto
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0–3 | Juventus
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0–2 | 0–1 |
| Bayer Leverkusen
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2–4 | Atlético Madrid
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2–4 | 0–0 |
| Paris Saint-Germain
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5–6 | Barcelona
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4–0 | 1–6 |
| Sevilla
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2–3 | Leicester City
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2–1 | 0–2 |
Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 17 March 2017.[44] The first legs were played on 11 and 12 April, and the second legs were played on 18 and 19 April 2017.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Atlético Madrid
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2–1 | Leicester City
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1–0 | 1–1 |
| Borussia Dortmund
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3–6 | Monaco
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2–3 | 1–3 |
| Bayern Munich
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3–6 | Real Madrid
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1–2 | 2–4 (a.e.t.) |
| Juventus
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3–0 | Barcelona
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3–0 | 0–0 |
Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 21 April 2017.[45] The first legs were played on 2 and 3 May, and the second legs were played on 9 and 10 May 2017.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Real Madrid
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4–2 | Atlético Madrid
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3–0 | 1–2 |
| Monaco
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1–4 | Juventus
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0–2 | 1–2 |
Final
The final was played on 3 June 2017 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.[5][6][46] The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.
| Juventus | 1–4 | Real Madrid |
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Mandžukić  27' |
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Statistics
Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.
Top goalscorers
| Rank[48] | Player | Team | Goals | Minutes played |
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| 1 | Cristiano Ronaldo
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Real Madrid
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12 | 1200 |
| 2 |  Lionel Messi
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Barcelona
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11 | 810 |
| 3 |  Edinson Cavani
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 Paris Saint-Germain
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8 | 720 |
| Robert Lewandowski
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Bayern Munich
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794 | ||
| 5 |  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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Borussia Dortmund
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7 | 708 |
| 6 | Kylian Mbappé
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Monaco
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6 | 536 |
| Antoine Griezmann
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Atlético Madrid
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1068 | ||
| 8 | Sergio Agüero
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Manchester City
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5 | 541 |
| Dries Mertens
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Napoli
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571 | ||
 Radamel Falcao
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Monaco
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666 | ||
| Karim Benzema
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Real Madrid
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954 | ||
| Gonzalo Higuaín
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Juventus
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1039 |
Top assists
| Rank[49] | Player | Team | Assists | Minutes played |
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| 1 |  Neymar
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Barcelona
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8 | 797 |
| 2 | Cristiano Ronaldo
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Real Madrid
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6 | 1200 |
| 3 | Ousmane Dembélé
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Borussia Dortmund
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5 | 769 |
| Dani Carvajal
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Real Madrid
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975 | ||
| 5 | Benjamin Mendy
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Monaco
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4 | 525 |
| Raheem Sterling
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Manchester City
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577 | ||
| Eduardo Salvio
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Benfica
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628 | ||
| Thomas Lemar
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Monaco
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895 |
Squad of the season
The UEFA technical study group selected the following 18 players as the squad of the tournament.[50]
Players of the season
New UEFA Champions League Goalkeeper of the Season, Defender of the Season, Midfielder of the Season, and Forward of the Season positional awards were introduced for the 2016–17 season.[51] Votes were cast by coaches of the 32 teams in the group stage, together with 55 journalists selected by the European Sports Media (ESM) group, representing each of UEFA's member associations. The coaches were not allowed to vote for players from their own teams. Jury members selected their top three players, with the first receiving five points, the second three and the third one. The shortlist of the top three players were announced on 4 August 2017.[52] The award winners were announced and presented during the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on 24 August 2017.[53][54]
Goalkeeper of the season
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See also
- 2016–17 UEFA Europa League
- 2017 UEFA Super Cup
- 2017 FIFA Club World Cup
- 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League
- 2016–17 UEFA Youth League
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