Man City draw Real Maldrid in Champions League play-offs

Manchester City will play 15-time European Cup winners Real Madrid while Celtic will face Bayern Munich in the Champions League play-off round.

City, the 2023 Champions League winners, will host Madrid at Etihad Stadium on 11 or 12 February before travelling to Spain for the second leg the following week.

Celtic, the first British club to win the trophy when they did so in 1967, will face Bayern Munich at Celtic Park before the Bundesliga club host Brendan Rodgers’ side at Allianz Arena in the second leg.

The winners of City’s tie against Madrid and Celtic’s meeting with Bayern will face either German side Bayer Leverkusen or Spanish club Atletico Madrid in the last 16.

The draw for the last 16 is on 21 February, following the conclusion of the play-off ties, but some elements of that draw are pre-determined.

Play-off draw explained

Clubs that finished in the top eight of the 36-team Champions League group table progressed directly to the last 16. The teams in the bottom eight were eliminated.

The remaining 16 teams that finished between ninth and 24th place progressed into the play-offs.

Of those 16 teams, the clubs that finished ninth to 16th in the league phase were seeded into four pairs for the play-off draw.

Those that finished from 17th to 24th were put into four unseeded pairs.

Unseeded teams were drawn against one of two seeded teams, with seeded teams hosting the second leg of the play-off as they finished higher in the first phase table.

Champions League play-off draw in full

Brest v Paris St-Germain

Club Brugge v Atalanta

Manchester City v Real Madrid

Juventus v PSV Eindhoven

Monaco v Benfica

Sporting v Borussia Dortmund

Celtic v Bayern Munich

Feyenoord v AC Milan