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2016–17 UEFA Champions League

The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 28 June – 24 August 2016 Competition proper: 13 September 2016 – 3 June 2017
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 78 (from 53 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (12th title)
Runners-up	Juventus
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	380 (3.04 per match)
Attendance	5,399,802 (43,198 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 12 goals
Best player(s)	Goalkeeper: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus) Defender: Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) Midfielder: Luka Modrić (Real Madrid) Forward: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
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The 2016–17 UEFA Champions League was the 62nd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 25th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

The final was played between Juventus and Real Madrid at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. It was the second time that the two teams faced each other in the competition's decisive match, having previously met in the 1998 final. Real Madrid, the defending champions, beat Juventus 4–1 to win a record-extending 12th title. With this victory, Real Madrid became the first team to successfully defend their title in the Champions League era, and the first to successfully defend a European Cup since Milan in 1990.

As winners, Real Madrid qualified as the UEFA representative for the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, Manchester United, in the 2017 UEFA Super Cup, ultimately triumphing in both competitions.

Association team allocation

A total of 78 teams from 53 of the 55 UEFA member associations were expected to participate in the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league, and Kosovo, whose participation was not accepted in their first attempt as UEFA members). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

• Associations 1–3 each had four teams qualify.
• Associations 4–6 each had three teams qualify.
• Associations 7–15 each had two teams qualify.
• Associations 16–54 (except Liechtenstein) each had one team qualify.
• The winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League and 2015–16 UEFA Europa League were each given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league. Because a maximum of five teams from one association can enter the Champions League, if both the Champions League title holders and the Europa League title holders were from the same top three ranked association and finish outside the top four of their domestic league, the fourth-placed team of their association would be moved to the Europa League. For this season:
  • The winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, qualified through their domestic league, meaning the additional entry for the Champions League title holders was not necessary.
  • The winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, Sevilla, did not qualify through their domestic league, meaning the additional entry for the Europa League title holders was necessary.

Association ranking

For the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2015 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2010–11 to 2014–15.

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

• (EL) – Additional berth for Europa League title holders

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1  Spain 99.999 4 +1(EL) 2  England 80.391 3  Germany 79.415 4  Italy 70.510 3 5  Portugal 61.382 6  France 52.416 7  Russia 50.498 2 8  Ukraine 45.166 9  Netherlands 40.979 10  Belgium 37.200 11  Switzerland 34.375 12  Turkey 32.600 13  Greece 31.900 14  Czech Republic 29.125 15  Romania 26.299 16  Austria 25.675 1 17  Croatia 23.500 18  Cyprus 22.300 19  Poland 21.500

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 20  Israel 21.000 1 21  Belarus 20.750 22  Denmark 19.800 23  Scotland 17.900 24  Sweden 17.725 25  Bulgaria 16.750 26  Norway 14.375 27  Serbia 13.875 28  Slovenia 13.625 29  Azerbaijan 12.500 30  Slovakia 11.250 31  Hungary 11.000 32  Kazakhstan 10.375 33  Moldova 10.000 34  Georgia 9.375 35  Finland 8.200 36  Iceland 8.000 37  Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.500

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 38  Liechtenstein 6.000 0 39  Macedonia 5.875 1 40  Republic of Ireland 5.750 41  Montenegro 5.625 42  Albania 5.375 43  Luxembourg 5.125 44  Northern Ireland 4.875 45  Lithuania 4.500 46  Latvia 4.250 47  Malta 4.208 48  Estonia 3.500 49  Faroe Islands 3.500 50  Wales 2.875 51  Armenia 2.750 52  Andorra 0.833 53  San Marino 0.499 54  Gibraltar 0.250 55  Kosovo 0.000 0

Notes

1. Kosovo (KOS): Kosovo became a UEFA member on 3 May 2016. UEFA decided that their domestic champions could participate in the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League only if they could meet licensing criteria under article 15 of the UEFA Club Licensing & Financial Fair Play regulations, which would be confirmed following the assessment made by the UEFA administration within the deadline of 31 May 2016. However, Kosovo's entry, Feronikeli (as the champions of the 2015–16 Football Superleague of Kosovo), was denied by UEFA in June due to the club failing licensing requirements, and also because the club could not provide a suitable stadium and UEFA did not allow them to play their home matches in a foreign country.

Distribution

In the default access list, the Champions League title holders enter the group stage. However, since Real Madrid already qualified for the group stage (as the runners-up of the 2015–16 La Liga), the Champions League title holders berth in the group stage is given to the Europa League title holders, Sevilla. and the following changes to the default allocation system are made:

• The third-placed teams of associations 4 (Italy) and 5 (Portugal) are promoted from the third qualifying round to the play-off round.

Teams

League positions of the previous season qualified via league position shown in parentheses. Sevilla qualified as Europa League title holders. (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).

Group stage
Real Madrid (2nd)	Tottenham Hotspur (3rd)	Benfica (1st)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)
Barcelona (1st)	Bayern Munich (1st)	Sporting CP (2nd)	Club Brugge (1st)
Atlético Madrid (3rd)	Borussia Dortmund (2nd)	Paris Saint-Germain (1st)	Basel (1st)
Sevilla (EL)	Bayer Leverkusen (3rd)	Lyon (2nd)	Beşiktaş (1st)
Leicester City (1st)	Juventus (1st)	CSKA Moscow (1st)
Arsenal (2nd)	Napoli (2nd)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)
Play-off round
Champions Route	League Route
	Villarreal (4th)	Borussia Mönchengladbach (4th)	Porto (3rd)
	Manchester City (4th)	Roma (3rd)
Third qualifying round
Champions Route	League Route
Olympiacos (1st)	Monaco (3rd)	Anderlecht (2nd)	Sparta Prague (2nd)
Viktoria Plzeň (1st)	Rostov (2nd)	Young Boys (2nd)	Steaua București (2nd)
Astra Giurgiu (1st)	Shakhtar Donetsk (2nd)	Fenerbahçe (2nd)
	Ajax (2nd)	PAOK (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Red Bull Salzburg (1st)	IFK Norrköping (1st)	Astana (1st)	Mladost Podgorica (1st)
Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Ludogorets Razgrad (1st)	Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Partizani (2nd)
APOEL (1st)	Rosenborg (1st)	Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)	F91 Dudelange (1st)
Legia Warsaw (1st)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)	SJK (1st)	Crusaders (1st)
Hapoel Be'er Sheva (1st)	Olimpija Ljubljana (1st)	FH (1st)	Žalgiris Vilnius (1st)
BATE Borisov (1st)	Qarabağ (1st)	Zrinjski Mostar (1st)	Liepāja (1st)
Copenhagen (1st)	Trenčín (1st)	Vardar (1st)
Celtic (1st)	Ferencváros (1st)	Dundalk (1st)
First qualifying round
Valletta (1st)	B36 Tórshavn (1st)	Alashkert (1st)	Tre Penne (1st)
Flora Tallinn (1st)	The New Saints (1st)	FC Santa Coloma (1st)	Lincoln Red Imps (1st)

Notes

1. Albania (ALB): Skënderbeu would have qualified for the Champions League second qualifying round as the champions of the 2015–16 Albanian Superliga, but were excluded from participating in the 2016–17 European competitions by UEFA for match-fixing. They appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and UEFA agreed to suspend the exclusion and Skënderbeu were included in the second qualifying round draw. The final decision to exclude Skënderbeu was made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on 6 July 2016, before the second qualifying round was played. As a result, the berth was given to the runners-up Partizani.
2. France (FRA): Monaco are a club based in Monaco (which is not a UEFA member), but participate in the Champions League through one of the berths for France as they finished third in the 2015–16 Ligue 1 (any coefficient points they earn count toward France).

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).

Qualifying rounds

In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2016 UEFA club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.

First qualifying round

The draws for the first and second qualifying rounds were held on 20 June 2016. The first legs were played on 28 June, and the second legs were played on 5 and 6 July 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Flora Tallinn	2–3	Lincoln Red Imps	2–1	0–2
The New Saints	5–1	Tre Penne	2–1	3–0
Valletta	2–2 (a)	B36 Tórshavn	1–0	1–2
FC Santa Coloma	0–3	Alashkert	0–0	0–3

Second qualifying round

The first legs were played on 12 and 13 July, and the second legs were played on 19 and 20 July 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Qarabağ	3–1	F91 Dudelange	2–0	1–1
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	3–2	Sheriff Tiraspol	3–2	0–0
Olimpija Ljubljana	6–6 (a)	Trenčín	3–4	3–2
Red Bull Salzburg	3–0	Liepāja	1–0	2–0
Vardar	3–5	Dinamo Zagreb	1–2	2–3
The New Saints	0–3	APOEL	0–0	0–3
Zrinjski Mostar	1–3	Legia Warsaw	1–1	0–2
Ludogorets Razgrad	5–0	Mladost Podgorica	2–0	3–0
Dinamo Tbilisi	3–1	Alashkert	2–0	1–1
Žalgiris Vilnius	1–2	Astana	0–0	1–2
Partizani	2–2 (3–1 p)	Ferencváros	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
BATE Borisov	4–2	SJK	2–0	2–2
Valletta	2–4	Red Star Belgrade	1–2	1–2
Rosenborg	5–4	IFK Norrköping	3–1	2–3
Dundalk	3–3 (a)	FH	1–1	2–2
Lincoln Red Imps	1–3	Celtic	1–0	0–3
Crusaders	0–9	Copenhagen	0–3	0–6

Third qualifying round

The third qualifying round was split into two separate sections: Champions Route (for league champions) and League Route (for league non-champions). The losing teams in both sections entered the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League play-off round.

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 15 July 2016. The first legs were played on 26 and 27 July, and the second legs were played on 2 and 3 August 2016.

Champions Route

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rosenborg	2–4	APOEL	2–1	0–3
Dinamo Zagreb	3–0	Dinamo Tbilisi	2–0	1–0
Olympiacos	0–1	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	0–0	0–1
Astana	2–3	Celtic	1–1	1–2
Trenčín	0–1	Legia Warsaw	0–1	0–0
Viktoria Plzeň	1–1 (a)	Qarabağ	0–0	1–1
Astra Giurgiu	1–4	Copenhagen	1–1	0–3
BATE Borisov	1–3	Dundalk	1–0	0–3
Ludogorets Razgrad	6–4	Red Star Belgrade	2–2	4–2 (a.e.t.)
Partizani	0–3	Red Bull Salzburg	0–1	0–2

League Route

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ajax	3–2	PAOK	1–1	2–1
Sparta Prague	1–3	Steaua București	1–1	0–2
Shakhtar Donetsk	2–2 (2–4 p)	Young Boys	2–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Rostov	4–2	Anderlecht	2–2	2–0
Fenerbahçe	3–4	Monaco	2–1	1–3

Play-off round

The play-off round was split into two separate sections: Champions Route (for league champions) and League Route (for league non-champions). The losing teams in both sections entered the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League group stage.

The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2016. The first legs were played on 16 and 17 August, and the second legs were played on 23 and 24 August 2016.

Champions Route

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ludogorets Razgrad	4–2	Viktoria Plzeň	2–0	2–2
Celtic	5–4	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	5–2	0–2
Copenhagen	2–1	APOEL	1–0	1–1
Dundalk	1–3	Legia Warsaw	0–2	1–1
Dinamo Zagreb	3–2	Red Bull Salzburg	1–1	2–1 (a.e.t.)

League Route

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Steaua București	0–6	Manchester City	0–5	0–1
Porto	4–1	Roma	1–1	3–0
Ajax	2–5	Rostov	1–1	1–4
Young Boys	2–9	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–3	1–6
Villarreal	1–3	Monaco	1–2	0–1

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 25 August 2016, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. 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 (introduced starting 2015–16 season):

• Pot 1 contained the title holders and the champions of the top seven associations based on their 2015 UEFA country coefficients.
• Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2016 UEFA club coefficients.

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams enter the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays are 13–14 September, 27–28 September, 18–19 October, 1–2 November, 22–23 November, and 6–7 December 2016.

The youth teams of the clubs that qualify for the group stage also play in the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League on the same matchdays, where they compete in the UEFA Champions League Path (the youth domestic champions of the top 32 associations compete in a separate Domestic Champions Path until the play-offs).

A total of 17 national associations are represented in the group stage. Leicester City and Rostov made their debut appearances in the group stage. For the first time since the 2002–03 edition, England's Chelsea did not qualify for the group stage.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	PAR	LUD	BSL
1	Arsenal	6	4	2	0	18	6	+12	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–2	6–0	2–0
2	Paris Saint-Germain	6	3	3	0	13	7	+6	12			1–1	—	2–2	3–0
3	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	0	3	3	6	15	−9	3	Transfer to Europa League		2–3	1–3	—	0–0
4	Basel	6	0	2	4	3	12	−9	2			1–4	1–2	1–1	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NAP	BEN	BES	DKV
1	Napoli	6	3	2	1	11	8	+3	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	4–2	2–3	0–0
2	Benfica	6	2	2	2	10	10	0	8			1–2	—	1–1	1–0
3	Beşiktaş	6	1	4	1	9	14	−5	7	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	3–3	—	1–1
4	Dynamo Kyiv	6	1	2	3	8	6	+2	5			1–2	0–2	6–0	—

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	MCI	BMG	CEL
1	Barcelona	6	5	0	1	20	4	+16	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	4–0	4–0	7–0
2	Manchester City	6	2	3	1	12	10	+2	9			3–1	—	4–0	1–1
3	Borussia Mönchengladbach	6	1	2	3	5	12	−7	5	Transfer to Europa League		1–2	1–1	—	1–1
4	Celtic	6	0	3	3	5	16	−11	3			0–2	3–3	0–2	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ATM	BAY	RST	PSV
1	Atlético Madrid	6	5	0	1	7	2	+5	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	2–1	2–0
2	Bayern Munich	6	4	0	2	14	6	+8	12			1–0	—	5–0	4–1
3	Rostov	6	1	2	3	6	12	−6	5	Transfer to Europa League		0–1	3–2	—	2–2
4	PSV Eindhoven	6	0	2	4	4	11	−7	2			0–1	1–2	0–0	—

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MON	LEV	TOT	CSKA
1	Monaco	6	3	2	1	9	7	+2	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	2–1	3–0
2	Bayer Leverkusen	6	2	4	0	8	4	+4	10			3–0	—	0–0	2–2
3	Tottenham Hotspur	6	2	1	3	6	6	0	7	Transfer to Europa League		1–2	0–1	—	3–1
4	CSKA Moscow	6	0	3	3	5	11	−6	3			1–1	1–1	0–1	—

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DOR	RMA	LEG	SPO
1	Borussia Dortmund	6	4	2	0	21	9	+12	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–2	8–4	1–0
2	Real Madrid	6	3	3	0	16	10	+6	12			2–2	—	5–1	2–1
3	Legia Warsaw	6	1	1	4	9	24	−15	4	Transfer to Europa League		0–6	3–3	—	1–0
4	Sporting CP	6	1	0	5	5	8	−3	3			1–2	1–2	2–0	—

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LEI	POR	CPH	BRU
1	Leicester City	6	4	1	1	7	6	+1	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	1–0	2–1
2	Porto	6	3	2	1	9	3	+6	11			5–0	—	1–1	1–0
3	Copenhagen	6	2	3	1	7	2	+5	9	Transfer to Europa League		0–0	0–0	—	4–0
4	Club Brugge	6	0	0	6	2	14	−12	0			0–3	1–2	0–2	—

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JUV	SEV	LYO	DZG
1	Juventus	6	4	2	0	11	2	+9	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–0	1–1	2–0
2	Sevilla	6	3	2	1	7	3	+4	11			1–3	—	1–0	4–0
3	Lyon	6	2	2	2	5	3	+2	8	Transfer to Europa League		0–1	0–0	—	3–0
4	Dinamo Zagreb	6	0	0	6	0	15	−15	0			0–4	0–1	0–1	—

Knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

• In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners are seeded, and the eight group runners-up are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other.

Bracket

	Round of 16							Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Benfica		1	0	1
	Borussia Dortmund		0	4	4
								Borussia Dortmund		2	1	3
								Monaco		3	3	6
	Manchester City		5	1	6
	Monaco (a)		3	3	6
															Monaco		0	1	1
															Juventus		2	2	4
	Porto		0	0	0
	Juventus		2	1	3
								Juventus		3	0	3
								Barcelona		0	0	0
	Paris Saint-Germain		4	1	5
																						3 June – Cardiff
	Barcelona		0	6	6
																						Juventus		1
																						Real Madrid		4
	Bayern Munich		5	5	10
	Arsenal		1	1	2
								Bayern Munich		1	2	3
								Real Madrid (a.e.t.)		2	4	6
	Real Madrid		3	3	6
	Napoli		1	1	2
															Real Madrid		3	1	4
															Atlético Madrid		0	2	2
	Bayer Leverkusen		2	0	2
	Atlético Madrid		4	0	4
								Atlético Madrid		1	1	2
								Leicester City		0	1	1
	Sevilla		2	0	2
	Leicester City		1	2	3

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 12 December 2016. The first legs were played on 14, 15, 21 and 22 February, and the second legs were played on 7, 8, 14 and 15 March 2017.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Manchester City	6–6 (a)	Monaco	5–3	1–3
Real Madrid	6–2	Napoli	3–1	3–1
Benfica	1–4	Borussia Dortmund	1–0	0–4
Bayern Munich	10–2	Arsenal	5–1	5–1
Porto	0–3	Juventus	0–2	0–1
Bayer Leverkusen	2–4	Atlético Madrid	2–4	0–0
Paris Saint-Germain	5–6	Barcelona	4–0	1–6
Sevilla	2–3	Leicester City	2–1	0–2

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 17 March 2017. The first legs were played on 11 and 12 April, and the second legs were played on 18 and 19 April 2017.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Madrid	2–1	Leicester City	1–0	1–1
Borussia Dortmund	3–6	Monaco	2–3	1–3
Bayern Munich	3–6	Real Madrid	1–2	2–4 (a.e.t.)
Juventus	3–0	Barcelona	3–0	0–0

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 21 April 2017. The first legs were played on 2 and 3 May, and the second legs were played on 9 and 10 May 2017.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	4–2	Atlético Madrid	3–0	1–2
Monaco	1–4	Juventus	0–2	1–2

Final

The final was played on 3 June 2017 at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.

Juventus	1–4	Real Madrid
Mandžukić 27'	Report	Ronaldo 20', 64' Casemiro 61' Asensio 90'

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	12	1200
2	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	11	810
3	Edinson Cavani	Paris Saint-Germain	8	720
	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich		794
5	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Borussia Dortmund	7	708
6	Kylian Mbappé	Monaco	6	536
	Antoine Griezmann	Atlético Madrid		1068
8	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	5	541
	Dries Mertens	Napoli		571
	Radamel Falcao	Monaco		666
	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid		954
	Gonzalo Higuaín	Juventus		1039

Top assists

Rank	Player	Team	Assists	Minutes played
1	Neymar	Barcelona	8	797
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	6	1200
3	Ousmane Dembélé	Borussia Dortmund	5	769
	Dani Carvajal	Real Madrid		975
5	Benjamin Mendy	Monaco	4	525
	Raheem Sterling	Manchester City		577
	Eduardo Salvio	Benfica		628
	Thomas Lemar	Monaco		895

Squad of the season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following 18 players as the squad of the tournament.

Pos.	Player	Team
GK	Gianluigi Buffon	Juventus
	Jan Oblak	Atlético Madrid
DF	Diego Godín	Atlético Madrid
	Leonardo Bonucci	Juventus
	Dani Carvajal	Real Madrid
	Sergio Ramos	Real Madrid
	Marcelo	Real Madrid
MF	Casemiro	Real Madrid
	Toni Kroos	Real Madrid
	Luka Modrić	Real Madrid
	Isco	Real Madrid
	Miralem Pjanić	Juventus
	Tiémoué Bakayoko	Monaco
FW	Antoine Griezmann	Atlético Madrid
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona
	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid
	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich
	Kylian Mbappé	Monaco

Players of the season

New UEFA Champions League Goalkeeper of the Season, Defender of the Season, Midfielder of the Season, and Forward of the Season positional awards were introduced for the 2016–17 season. Votes were cast 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 were announced on 4 August 2017. The award winners were announced and presented during the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on 24 August 2017.

Goalkeeper of the season Rank Player Team Points Shortlist of top three 1 Gianluigi Buffon Juventus 342 2 Jan Oblak Atlético Madrid 128 3 Manuel Neuer Bayern Munich 105 Players ranked 4–10 4 Keylor Navas Real Madrid 67 5 Kasper Schmeichel Leicester City 16 6 Marc-André ter Stegen Barcelona 7 7 Danijel Subašić Monaco 6 8 Anthony Lopes Lyon 5 9 Roman Bürki Borussia Dortmund 1 Iker Casillas Porto Ederson Benfica Hugo Lloris Tottenham Hotspur Pepe Reina Napoli

Defender of the season Rank Player Team Points Shortlist of top three 1 Sergio Ramos Real Madrid 206 2 Leonardo Bonucci Juventus 150 3 Marcelo Real Madrid 109 Players ranked 4–10 4 Giorgio Chiellini Juventus 71 5 Dani Alves Juventus 50 6 Diego Godín Atlético Madrid 16 7 Philipp Lahm Bayern Munich 14 8 Dani Carvajal Real Madrid 13 9 Gerard Piqué Barcelona 12 10 Benjamin Mendy Monaco 9

Midfielder of the season Rank Player Team Points Shortlist of top three 1 Luka Modrić Real Madrid 225 2 Toni Kroos Real Madrid 164 3 Casemiro Real Madrid 38 Players ranked 4–10 4 Miralem Pjanić Juventus 33 5 Thiago Alcântara Bayern Munich 25 6 Bernardo Silva Monaco 21 7 Andrés Iniesta Barcelona 15 8 Fabinho Monaco 12 9 Isco Real Madrid 10 Arturo Vidal Bayern Munich

Forward of the season Rank Player Team Points Shortlist of top three 1 Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid 359 2 Lionel Messi Barcelona 147 3 Paulo Dybala Juventus 64 Players ranked 4–10 4 Kylian Mbappé Monaco 58 5 Robert Lewandowski Bayern Munich 24 6 Neymar Barcelona 21 7 Antoine Griezmann Atlético Madrid 14 8 Gonzalo Higuaín Juventus 8 9 Edinson Cavani Paris Saint-Germain 6 10 Mario Mandžukić Juventus 5

See also

• 2016–17 UEFA Europa League
• 2017 UEFA Super Cup
• 2017 FIFA Club World Cup
• 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2016–17 UEFA Youth League

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External links

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