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The knockout stage of the 1996–97 UEFA Champions League began on 5 March 1997 and ended with the final at the Olympiastadion in Munich on 28 May 1997. The top two teams from each of the four groups in the group stage competed in the knockout stage. The draw for the quarter-finals was performed before the start of the group stage, with the winners of each group played against the runners-up from another; Group A vs. Group B, and Group C vs. Group D, with the group winner hosting the second leg. For the semi-finals, the winners of each tie between teams from groups A and B played against the winners of the corresponding tie between teams from groups C and D.

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	Auxerre	Ajax
B	Atlético Madrid	Borussia Dortmund
C	Juventus	Manchester United
D	Porto	Rosenborg

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 golden goal extra time and then a penalty shoot-out if the teams could not be separated after extra time.

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Borussia Dortmund		3	1	4
	Auxerre		1	0	1
								Borussia Dortmund		1	1	2
								Manchester United		0	0	0
	Manchester United		4	0	4
															28 May – Munich
	Porto		0	0	0
															Borussia Dortmund		3
															Juventus		1
	Ajax (a.e.t.)		1	3	4
	Atlético Madrid		1	2	3
								Ajax		1	1	2
								Juventus		2	4	6
	Rosenborg		1	0	1
	Juventus		1	2	3

Quarter-finals

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Borussia Dortmund	4–1	Auxerre	3–1	1–0
Manchester United	4–0	Porto	4–0	0–0
Ajax	4–3	Atlético Madrid	1–1	3–2 (a.e.t.)
Rosenborg	1–3	Juventus	1–1	0–2

Matches

Borussia Dortmund	3–1	Auxerre
Riedle 12' Schneider 54' Möller 83'	Report	Lamouchi 75'

Auxerre	0–1	Borussia Dortmund
	Report	Ricken 61'

Borussia Dortmund won 4–1 on aggregate.

Manchester United	4–0	Porto
May 22' Cantona 34' Giggs 61' Cole 80'	Report

Porto	0–0	Manchester United
	Report

Manchester United won 4–0 on aggregate.

Ajax	1–1	Atlético Madrid
Kluivert 53'	Report	Esnáider 8'

Atlético Madrid	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Ajax
Kiko 29' Pantić 105' (pen.)	Report	R. de Boer 49' Dani 100' Babangida 119'

Ajax won 4–3 on aggregate.

Rosenborg	1–1	Juventus
Soltvedt 51'	Report	Vieri 53'

Juventus	2–0	Rosenborg
Zidane 29' Amoruso 89' (pen.)	Report

Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Borussia Dortmund	2–0	Manchester United	1–0	1–0
Ajax	2–6	Juventus	1–2	1–4

Matches

Borussia Dortmund	1–0	Manchester United
Tretschok 76'	Report

Manchester United	0–1	Borussia Dortmund
	Report	Ricken 8'

Borussia Dortmund won 2–0 on aggregate.

Ajax	1–2	Juventus
Litmanen 66'	Report	Amoruso 14' Vieri 41'

Juventus	4–1	Ajax
Lombardo 34' Vieri 36' Amoruso 79' Zidane 80'	Report	Melchiot 75'

Juventus won 6–2 on aggregate.

Final

The final was played on 28 May 1997 at the Olympiastadion in Munich, Germany.

Borussia Dortmund	3–1	Juventus
Riedle 29', 34' Ricken 71'	Report	Del Piero 65'

References

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

• 1996–97 UEFA Champions League
• UEFA Champions League knockout phases