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The knockout stage of the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League began on 6 March 1996 and ended with the final at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on 22 May 1996. The top two teams from each of the four groups in the group stage competed in the knockout stage. The quarter-finals were predetermined with pairings being Group A vs Group B and Group C vs. Group D. A group winner played the runners-up from the other group, with the group winner host the second leg. For the semi-final, the fixtures were also predetermined, with the ties containing the group winners of A and D playing each other, as well as those of groups B and C. The order of matches from the semifinals onward was decided by a draw.

Qualified teams

The knockout stage involved the eight teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of all four groups in the group stage.

Group	Winners (seeded in quarter-final draw)	Runners-up (unseeded in quarter-final draw)
A	Panathinaikos	Nantes
B	Spartak Moscow	Legia Warsaw
C	Juventus	Borussia Dortmund
D	Ajax	Real Madrid

Format

Each quarter-final and semi-final was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home; the team that scored the most goals over the two legs qualified for the following round. In the event that the two teams scored the same number of goals over the two legs, the team that scored more goals away from home qualified for the next round; if both teams scored the same number of away goals, matches would go to extra time and then penalties if the teams could not be separated after extra time.

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Borussia Dortmund		0	0	0
	Ajax		2	1	3
								Ajax		0	3	3
								Panathinaikos		1	0	1
	Legia Warsaw		0	0	0
															22 May – Rome
	Panathinaikos		0	3	3
															Ajax		1 (2)
															Juventus (p)		1 (4)
	Real Madrid		1	0	1
	Juventus		0	2	2
								Juventus		2	2	4
								Nantes		0	3	3
	Nantes		2	2	4
	Spartak Moscow		0	2	2

Quarter-finals

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	1–2	Juventus	1–0	0–2
Nantes	4–2	Spartak Moscow	2–0	2–2
Borussia Dortmund	0–3	Ajax	0–2	0–1
Legia Warsaw	0–3	Panathinaikos	0–0	0–3

Matches

Real Madrid	1–0	Juventus
Raúl 20'	Report

Juventus	2–0	Real Madrid
Del Piero 17' Padovano 53'	Report

Juventus won 2–1 on aggregate.

Nantes	2–0	Spartak Moscow
N'Doram 28' Ouédec 67'	Report

Spartak Moscow	2–2	Nantes
Nikiforov 32', 38'	Report	Ouédec 63', 86'

Nantes won 4–2 on aggregate.

Borussia Dortmund	0–2	Ajax
	Report	Davids 8' Kluivert 85'

Ajax	1–0	Borussia Dortmund
Musampa 75'	Report

Ajax won 3–0 on aggregate.

Legia Warsaw	0–0	Panathinaikos
	Report

Panathinaikos	3–0	Legia Warsaw
Warzycha 33', 57' Borrelli 71'	Report

Panathinaikos won 3–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Juventus	4–3	Nantes	2–0	2–3
Ajax	3–1	Panathinaikos	0–1	3–0

Matches

Juventus	2–0	Nantes
Vialli 49' Jugović 66'	Report

Nantes	3–2	Juventus
Capron 44' N'Doram 69' Renou 82'	Report	Vialli 17' Sousa 50'

Juventus won 4–3 on aggregate.

Ajax	0–1	Panathinaikos
	Report	Warzycha 87'

Panathinaikos	0–3	Ajax
	Report	Litmanen 4', 77' Wooter 86'

Ajax won 3–1 on aggregate.

Final

The final was played on 22 May 1996 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy.

Ajax	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Juventus
Litmanen 41'	Report	Ravanelli 12'
Penalties
Davids Litmanen Scholten Silooy	2–4	Ferrara Pessotto Padovano Jugović

References

1. ^ UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook Season 1996/97. Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 1996. p. 282.
2. "2. Finals" (PDF). UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2016/17. Nyon, Switzerland: Union of European Football Associations. 2017. p. 1. Retrieved 22 April 2017.

External links

• Knockout phase at UEFA.com

• 1995–96 UEFA Champions League
• UEFA Champions League knockout phases