UCL Quarter-Finals 2025-26
The final eight clubs battle over two legs for a place in the Champions League semi-finals. Arsenal vs Sporting CP. Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich. Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid. PSG vs Liverpool. Four epic ties that will define the 2025-26 UCL season.
Quarter-Final Matchups
Arsenal face a tricky two-leg challenge against Sporting CP. The Gunners travel to the José Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon for the first leg — a hostile atmosphere away from home — before hosting the return at the Emirates. Arteta's side targeting their first UCL semi-final in two decades.
Full Matchup Hub →The UCL tie everyone feared. Real Madrid — 15-time European champions — face Bayern Munich at the Santiago Bernabéu in the first leg. Mbappé vs Kane. Ancelotti's European pedigree versus Kompany's attack-first Bayern. A match-up that defines the tournament.
Full Matchup Hub →The all-Spanish derby taken to European stage. Hansi Flick's Barcelona — led by Lamine Yamal and Pedri — host Diego Simeone's ferocious Atletico at the Spotify Camp Nou in the first leg. A rivalry that needs no introduction, on the biggest club stage in the world.
Full Matchup Hub →PSG host Liverpool at the Parc des Princes in the first leg — Luis Enrique's rebuilt side against Arne Slot's free-scoring Liverpool. The Reds travel to Paris knowing Anfield awaits for the return. Salah, Díaz and Núñez vs PSG's fearless new generation. A tie dripping with drama.
Full Matchup Hub →QF Schedule & Format
Played across two nights in April 2026. Higher-seeded clubs host the second leg — giving them potential home advantage in the crucial return fixture.
Return fixtures one week later. Aggregate score determines the winner — or penalties if the tie is level after 90 minutes of the second leg with no away goals rule.
No away goals rule since 2021-22. If aggregate is level after second leg: 30 minutes of extra time, then penalty shoot-out if still level. Four teams progress to the semi-finals.
The four QF winners are drawn in the semi-final after all quarter-final second legs are concluded. No re-seeding — any team can face any other team in the last four.