2019–20 UEFA Champions League#Second qualifying round

A total of 79 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:{{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/Regulations/uefaorg/Regulations/02/60/37/12/2603712_DOWNLOAD.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912201302/https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/Regulations/uefaorg/Regulations/02/60/37/12/2603712_DOWNLOAD.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 September 2019|title=Regulations of the UEFA Champions League 2019/20|publisher=UEFA}}

• Associations 1–4 each had four teams qualify.
• Associations 5–6 each had three teams qualify.
• Associations 7–15 each had two teams qualify.
• Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein) each had one team qualify.
• The winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League and 2018–19 UEFA Europa League were each given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League through their domestic leagues. However, both qualified through their domestic leagues, meaning the additional entries were not necessary.

For the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2018 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2013–14 to 2017–18.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017043203/http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2018 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 October 2013 |title=Country coefficients 2017/18 |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=10 August 2018 |access-date=10 August 2018}}

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

• {{small|(UCL)}} – Additional berth for UEFA Champions League title holders
• {{small|(UEL)}} – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders

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The following is the access list for this season.{{cite news |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0242-0e16a85014cb-5ffe48223b95-1000--champions-league-and-europa-league-changes-next-season/ |title=Champions League and Europa League changes next season |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=27 February 2018 |access-date=27 February 2018}}

Changes were made to the default access list, if the Champions League and/or Europa League title holders qualified for the tournament via their domestic leagues. In any case where a spot in the Champions League was vacated, teams of the highest-ranked associations in earlier rounds of the appropriate path were promoted accordingly.

• In the default access list, the Champions League title holders qualified for the group stage. However, since the Champions League title holders (Liverpool) qualified via their domestic league (as second place in the 2018–19 Premier League), the following changes to the access list were made:
• The champions of association 11 (Austria) entered the group stage instead of the play-off round.
• The champions of association 13 (Czech Republic) entered the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
• The champions of association 15 (Greece) entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.
• The champions of associations 18 (Israel) and 19 (Cyprus) entered the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.
• In the default access list, the Europa League title holders qualified for the group stage. However, since the Europa League title holders (Chelsea) qualified for the group stage via their domestic league (as third place in the 2018–19 Premier League), the following changes to the access list were made:
• The third-placed team of association 5 (France) entered the group stage instead of the third qualifying round.
• The runners-up of associations 10 (Turkey) and 11 (Austria) entered the third qualifying round instead of the second qualifying round.

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).{{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/024d-0e99583e3e43-c276425e876b-1000--2019-20-champions-league-match-and-draw-calendar/|title=2019/20 Champions League match and draw calendar|publisher=UEFA|date=14 January 2019}}

The competition was suspended on 17 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. A working group was set up by UEFA to decide the calendar of the remainder of the season.{{cite news |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/025b-0f8e76b585dc-2d8b4cc9af94-1000--resolution-of-the-european-football-family-on-a-coordinated/ |title=Resolution of the European football family on a coordinated response to the impact of the COVID-19 on competitions |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=17 March 2020 |access-date=17 March 2020}} On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced the revised schedule for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final of the competition, to be played in single-leg matches.

The original schedule of the competition, as planned before the pandemic, was as follows.

The round of 16 ties were to be played across four weeks, with the first legs being played across two weeks in February and the second legs across two weeks in March. Because of this, the first leg ties were unaffected by the pandemic, but the second leg ties were affected in different ways. All of the four matches in the first week of fixtures went ahead but due to the increased severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain and France, Valencia's and PSG's home games were played behind closed doors.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/uefa-champions-league/story/4070952/coronavirus-psg-dortmund-champions-league-clash-to-be-played-behind-closed-doors|title=Champions League, Ligue 1 hit by coronavirus|date=9 March 2020|website=ESPN.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.co.uk/football/uefa-champions-league/story/4066185/coronavirus-valencia-vs-atalanta-champions-league-clash-behind-closed-doors|title=Virus to keep fans from Valencia-Atalanta match|date=3 March 2020|website=ESPN.com}} On 15 March, UEFA announced a halt to the competition meaning that the remaining second leg games would be postponed indefinitely.{{cite news |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/025b-0f8e76ab25ae-3c76085ee109-1000--all-of-this-week-s-uefa-matches-postponed/ |title=All of this week's UEFA matches postponed |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=15 March 2020 |access-date=15 March 2020}}{{cite news|date=17 March 2020|title=UEFA postpones EURO 2020 by 12 months|website=UEFA|publisher=Union of European Football Associations|url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/025b-0f8e76aef315-8506a9de10aa-1000--uefa-postpones-euro-2020-by-12-months/|access-date=17 March 2020}} A taskforce was convened to reschedule the rest of the season. On 23 March, it was announced that the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey would no longer host the competition final, originally scheduled for 30 May, but would host the 2021 final instead.{{cite news |url=https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/mediaservices/mediareleases/newsid=2641114.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330160259/https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/mediaservices/mediareleases/newsid=2641114.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 March 2020 |title=UEFA Club Finals postponed |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=23 March 2020 |access-date=23 March 2020}} This was later postponed further to 2023.{{cite news |title=Istanbul to host 2023 Champions League final, Munich moved to 2025 |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/026b-12c54d8f10cb-315086fbb6f8-1000--istanbul-to-host-2023-champions-league-final-munich-moved-to-20/ |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=16 July 2021 |access-date=3 July 2022 }}

On 17 June, it was announced that the Champions League would return on 7 August and conclude on 23 August, with the rest of the tournament to be held in Portugal, with the exception of the four unplayed round of 16 second legs, which would be played at their original venues.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/champions-league-final-to-be-held-in-lisbon-cologne-gets-europa-league/a-53846514|title=European finals to be held in Lisbon and Cologne|website=amp.dw.com}} The last 8 of the competition would be played as a mini tournament, with the remaining fixtures to be played as single-legged ties. All remaining ties of the competition were played behind closed doors due to the remaining presence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.

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In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties.

In the preliminary round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients,{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/club/#/yr/2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131101185912/http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/club/#/yr/2019 |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 November 2013 |title=Club coefficients 2018/19 |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=10 August 2018 |access-date=10 August 2018}} and then drawn into one-legged semi-final and final ties. The losers of both semi-final and final rounds entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.

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The losers entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round, except one team who was drawn to receive a bye to the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.

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The second qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from both Champions Path and League Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.

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The third qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from the Champions Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League play-off round, while the losers from the League Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage.

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The play-off round was split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from both Champions Path and League Path entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage. From this stage, the video assistant referee was used.

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The draw for the group stage was held on 29 August 2019, 18:00 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.{{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/draws/2020/2001140/|title=UEFA Champions League group stage draw|publisher=UEFA}} The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on the following principles:{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29562047|title=Champions League: Domestic title winners to receive top-seed status|publisher=BBC Sport|date=9 October 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0220-0e15f38d3608-4437365f0e2f-1000--champions-bonus-for-group-stage-draw/|title=Champions' bonus for group stage draw|publisher=UEFA|date=24 April 2015}}

• Pot 1 contained the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2018 UEFA country coefficients. If one or both title holders were one of the champions of the top six associations, the champions of the next highest ranked association(s) were also seeded into Pot 1.
• Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2019 UEFA club coefficients.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams entered the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays were 17–18 September, 1–2 October, 22–23 October, 5–6 November, 26–27 November, and 10–11 December 2019.

The youth teams of the clubs that qualified for the group stage also participated in the 2019–20 UEFA Youth League on the same matchdays, where they competed in the UEFA Champions League Path (the youth domestic champions of the top 32 associations competed in a separate Domestic Champions Path until the play-offs).

A total of sixteen national associations were represented in the group stage. Atalanta made their debut appearance in the group stage.

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In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.{{#lst:2019–20 UEFA Champions League knockout phase|Format}}

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Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

File:2019147200143 2019-05-27 Fussball 1.FC Kaiserslautern vs FC Bayern München - Sven - 1D X MK II - 2462 - B70I0762 (cropped) (cropped).jpg's Robert Lewandowski finished the tournament as the top goalscorer and joint top assist provider, having scored 15 goals and assisting 6.]]

File:PSG-Shakhter15 (2).jpg's Ángel Di María finished the tournament as the joint top assist provider, having assisted 6 goals.]]

The UEFA technical study group selected the following 23 players as the squad of the tournament.{{cite news |title=UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0260-103d6b6179e6-7a1932c7a58c-1000--uefa-champions-league-squad-of-the-season |website=UEFA|publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=28 August 2020 |access-date=28 August 2020}}

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Votes were cast for players of the season by coaches of the 32 teams in the group stage, together with 55 journalists selected by the European Sports Media (ESM) group, representing each of UEFA's member associations. The coaches were not allowed to vote for players from their own teams. Jury members selected their top three players, with the first receiving five points, the second three and the third one. The shortlist of the top three players was announced on 16 September 2020.{{cite news|title=Champions League positional awards nominees announced|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0261-106373591a82-66a6281a4bea-1000--champions-league-positional-awards-nominees-announced/|website=UEFA|publisher=Union of European Football Associations|access-date=17 September 2020|date=16 September 2020}} The award winners were announced and presented during the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Switzerland on 1 October 2020.

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• 2019–20 UEFA Europa League
• 2020 UEFA Super Cup
• 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2019–20 UEFA Futsal Champions League
• 2019–20 UEFA Youth League

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