UEFA Champions League Round of 16: Liverpool face Real Madrid, PSG take on Bayern Munich

draws for 2022/23 UEFA Champions League Round of 16 took place on Monday at European football body's hequarters in Nyon, Switzerland. draw was held to decide opponents for each team for last 16 round. Big names like Chelsea FC, Liverpool, Manchester City, Real Mrid, and Paris Saint Germain are teams who are part of kckout st, draw for which was held today. 

Round of 16 ties

Liverpool will face defending champions Real Mrid in round of 16, while AC Milan will lock horns against Tottenham Hotspur. Paris-Saint Germain and Bayern Munich will face each or in kckout st and Manchester City will play Leipzig. 

Leipzig vs Manchester City

Club Brugge vs Benfica

Liverpool vs Real Mrid

AC Milan vs Tottenham

Frankfurt vs Napoli

Dortmund vs Chelsea

Internazionale vs Porto

PSG vs Bayern Munich

UEFA Champions League: Schedule

last-16 first leg is slated to take place on 14-15 and 21-22 February next year, with second leg taking place on 7-8 and 14-15 March. 2022/23 UEFA Champions League final is scheduled to be held at Istanbul's Ataturk Olympic Stium on June 10, 2023. Liverpool have fond memories of playing re as y h won 2005 Champions League final after defeating AC Milan at same stium. 

UEFA Champions League Round of 16

PSG got a blockbuster draw at this st for second straight season. French champion's quest for a first European title was ended in March by Karim Benzema’s stunning late hat trick for eventual champion Mrid.

PSG was unseeded in this draw and left exposed to facing Bayern because a stopp-time goal for Benfica in a 6-1 win last week at Maccabi Haifa meant Portuguese club topped ir group.

Benfica was rewarded Monday with a pairing against Club Brugge, 15th-ranked team in draw.

lowest-ranked team, AC Milan, will be at home against Tottenham in first leg in its return to Champions League kckout rounds after a nine-year gap.

Manchester City was paired with Leipzig, and Chelsea was drawn to face Borussia Dortmund in Premier League vs. Bundesliga clashes.

Napoli, top scoring team in group st, will play Eintracht Frankfurt, and Inter Milan is at home first against Porto.

Teams from same country or who played each or in group st could t be paired toger in round of 16.

First-leg games are played from Feb. 14-22. Return games are from March 7-15.

unusually long wait of more than three months between group and kckout sts was caused by World Cup in Qatar being played in vember and December.

congested season meant six-round group st started earlier than usual in September and was completed in just nine weeks.

(with AP inputs)