Eight-team tournament to be held in Lisbon

Uefa has confirmed that the culmination of this year’s Champions League will be played out as an eight-team tournament in Lisbon.

The eight teams in the competition after the last 16 is complete will take part in a straight knockout tournament between August 12 and 23.

The four remaining last 16 second leg matches, including Manchester City versus Real Madrid, will take place on August 7 and 8.

The Premier League champions lead 2-1 from the first leg in the Bernabeu in February.

Uefa is yet to determine whether those matches will take place at the respective host stadiums, or in Portugal.

In addition, the culmination of this season’s Europa League from the last eight onwards will take place across four venues in Germany between August 10 and 21.

Rangers will play the second leg of their last-16 clash with Bayer Leverkusen on August 5/6 as they look to overturn a 3-1 deficit from the first leg at Ibrox in March.

Uefa confirmed that all 12 original host cities will stage matches in the delayed Euro 2020 finals, which will start on June 11 next year.

The outstanding play-off matches will be staged on October 8 and November 12 respectively.

Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said: “I am delighted that we are able to resume almost all of our competitions.

“I am confident that we will not have to endure the fans’ absence for long and that they will be allowed into stadiums sooner rather than later.

“Uefa took a bold decision when it decided to postpone Euro 2020. But in doing so, we created the space which has allowed domestic club competitions across the continent to resume, where possible, and play to a conclusion.

“While the game has suffered huge difficulties as a result of the pandemic, those blows would have landed much harder if we had not shown leadership in those early days.”