2014–15 UEFA Youth League knockout phase

The 2014–15 UEFA Youth League knockout phase began on 27 January with the round of 16 and concluded with the final on 13 April 2015 at Colovray Stadium in Nyon, Switzerland, to decide the champions of the 2014–15 UEFA Youth League.^[1]

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA.

Qualified teams

Group	Winners (seeded in round of 16 draw)	Runners-up (unseeded in round of 16 draw)
A	Atlético Madrid	Olympiacos
B	Real Madrid	Liverpool
C	Benfica	Zenit Saint Petersburg
D	Anderlecht	Arsenal
E	Manchester City	Roma
F	Ajax	Barcelona
G	Chelsea	Schalke 04
H	Shakhtar Donetsk	Porto

Format

Each tie in the knockout phase was played as a single match. If the score was level at the end of normal time, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (no extra time was played).^[1]

The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the match. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other.
In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other. The draw also decided the home team for each quarter-final, and the "home" team for administrative purposes for each semi-final and final (which were played on neutral ground).

Schedule

The schedule was as follows.^[2]^[3]

Round	Draw date	Match date(s)
Round of 16	15 December 2014	17–18 & 24–25 February 2015
Quarter-finals		10–11 & 17–18 March 2015
Semi-finals		10 April 2015 at Colovray Stadium, Nyon
Final		13 April 2015 at Colovray Stadium, Nyon

Bracket

The draw for the knockout phase was held on 15 December 2014, 14:00 CET, at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[2]^[4]^[5] On 17 July 2014, the UEFA emergency panel ruled that Ukrainian and Russian clubs would not be drawn against each other "until further notice" due to the political unrest between the countries.^[6] Therefore, Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk and Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg could not be drawn against each other in the round of 16. The winners of the ties involving these two clubs could also not be drawn against each other in the quarter-finals.

Anderlecht

1

Barcelona

0

Anderlecht

5

Porto

0

Real Madrid

1(1)

Porto (p)

1(3)

Anderlecht

1

Shakhtar Donetsk

3

Benfica

2

Liverpool

1

Benfica

1(4)

Shakhtar Donetsk (p)

1(5)

Shakhtar Donetsk (p)

1(5)

Olympiacos

1(4)

Shakhtar Donetsk

2

Chelsea

3

Ajax

0(5)

Roma (p)

0(6)

Roma

2

Manchester City

1

Manchester City (p)

1(3)

Schalke 04

1(1)

Roma

0

Chelsea

4

Chelsea

3

Zenit Saint Petersburg

1

Chelsea

2

Atlético Madrid

0

Atlético Madrid

1

Arsenal

0

Round of 16

Summary

The round of 16 matches were played on 27 January, 17, 23, 24 and 25 February 2015.

Home	Score	Away
Atlético Madrid	1–0	Arsenal
Real Madrid	1–1 (1–3 p)	Porto
Shakhtar Donetsk	1–1 (5–4 p)	Olympiacos
Anderlecht	1–0	Barcelona
Benfica	2–1	Liverpool
Manchester City	1–1 (3–1 p)	Schalke 04
Ajax	0–0 (5–6 p)	Roma
Chelsea	3–1	Zenit Saint Petersburg

Matches

27 January 2015

19:00

Atlético Madrid	1–0	Arsenal
Diedhiou 1'	Report

Ciudad Deportiva Cerro Del Espino, Majadahonda

Attendance: 902

Referee: Hugo Miguel (Portugal)

17 February 2015

18:00

Real Madrid	1–1	Porto
Mayoral 60'	Report	Leonardo 81' (pen.)
Penalties
Cedrés Mayoral Febas Lienhart	1–3	Johansen Cardoso Leonardo

Alfredo di Stéfano, Madrid

Attendance: 660

Referee: Adrien Jaccottet (Switzerland)

23 February 2015

11:00

Shakhtar Donetsk	1–1	Olympiacos
Vachiberadze 27' (pen.)	Report	Vergos 12'
Penalties
Zubkov Boryachuk Shtander Kovalenko Vachiberadze Arendaruk	5–4	Vergos Vatousiadis Saliakas Laçi Ignatidis Toli