Elsewhere, Barcelona will face Newcastle, Tottenham will face Atletico Madrid and Arsenal will face Bayer Leverkusen.
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Published February 27, 2026
Real Madrid will face Manchester City, while defending champions Paris Saint-Germain will face Chelsea in the remaining 16-game draw for the 2025/26 Champions League, after the draw was held by UEFA in Nyon, Switzerland.
City will face Madrid in the Champions League finals for the fourth straight season after the draw for European football’s biggest club competition was held on Friday.
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Meanwhile, PSG and Chelsea will be repeating the FIFA 2025 Club World Cup final, which the Premier League side won 3-0.
Elsewhere, Barcelona will face Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur will face Atletico Madrid and Arsenal will face Bayer Leverkusen.
Liverpool resume their rivalry with Galatasaray in a rematch of the league match that the Turkish giants won 1-0 in Istanbul.
Norway’s weaker side will face Portugal’s Sporting Lisbon, while the only Italian team remaining in the competition will face a tough matchup against German champions Bayern Munich.
The first leg will be played on March 10th and 11th, and the second leg will be played on March 17th and 18th.
The eight seeded teams that finished in the top eight in the league will play the second game at home against the eight teams that made it through the playoff round.
All draws of the last 16 games:
Paris Saint-Germain vs Chelsea Galatasaray vs Liverpool Real Madrid vs Manchester City Atalanta vs Bayern Munich Newcastle vs Barcelona Atletico Madrid vs Tottenham Hotspur Bodo/Glimt vs Sporting Bayer Leverkusen vs Arsenal
familiar enemy
Real Madrid eliminated City in the last 16 last season, in the quarter-finals in 2024 and in the semi-finals in 2022.
City won the Champions League trophy for the first time in 2023, defeating Madrid in the semi-finals.
The two clubs have met 15 times so far, with both teams winning five games and drawing the rest.
City and Madrid have already met in the league stage this season, with City coming from behind to win 2-1 in December.
PSG will be hoping to get revenge on Chelsea after the Blues overpowered the French champions in an awkward game last year to win their first Club World Cup.
The two clubs have faced each other in the Champions League before, with Chelsea winning in the quarter-finals in 2014 and PSG eliminating the Blues in the last 16 in 2015 and 2016.
Friday’s draw also revealed a possible route to the final, to be held in Budapest on May 30, as each team knows their quarter-final and semi-final opponents.
In the quarter-finals, City or Madrid will face the winner of Bayern Munich vs. Atalanta, while PSG or Chelsea will face Liverpool or Galatasaray.
Quarterfinal draw
Paris Saint-Germain or Chelsea vs Liverpool or Galatasaray Real Madrid or Manchester City vs Bayern Munich or Atalanta Newcastle or Barcelona vs Tottenham or Atletico Madrid Sporting Lisbon or Bodo/Glimt vs Arsenal or Bayer Leverkusen
semi-final draw
Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, Liverpool or Galatasaray vs Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayern Munich or Atalanta Newcastle, Barcelona, Tottenham or Atlético Madrid vs Sporting Lisbon, Bodo/Glimt, Arsenal or Bayer Leverkusen
Champions League final tournament schedule:
Best 16: March 10-11, 2026, March 17-18 Quarterfinals: April 7-8, 2026, April 14-15 Semi-finals: April 28-29, 2026 April, May 5-6, 2026 Final: May 30, 2026
Europa League last 16 draw
Ferencvaros vs Braga Panathinaikos vs Real Betis Genk vs Freiberg Celta Vigo vs Lyon Stuttgart vs Porto Nottingham Forest vs Central Jylan Bologna vs Rome Lille vs Aston Villa
