Should they progress past Barcelona, Newcastle will face either Atletico Madrid or Tottenham in the quarter-finals. As Newcastle are the 12th seeds, having come through the play-offs, they will play their first leg at home and the second leg away in the last-16. That would also be the case in the quarter-finals, unless they are the higher seed.

Liverpool don’t return to Champions League action until next month, but their potential pathway through the knockout stages has become a little clearer over the past 24 hours. While the Reds managed to avoid the knockout play-off round by virtue of ...

All remaining Champions League sides know their paths to the showpiece event.

We're into the thick of it now, with six Premier League teams still alive for the European Cup in the chase to unseat PSG and take a place in the throne room come May 31 in Budapest, Hungary.

The League Path, on the other hand, is for strong teams that didn’t win their league but still finished high enough to compete for a group stage spot, teams like Fenerbahçe, Benfica, Feyenoord, Nice, Panathinaikos, and Club Brugge. This system was introduced in 2010, supposedly to give more countries representation in the Champions League.