UEFA Champions League Reveals Schedule of Dates, Format for Return amid COVID-19

UEFA announced Wednesday that its Champions League will resume in August with the quarterfinals, semifinals and final all being played in Lisbon, Portugal.

It was also announced that each of the remaining rounds will be single-leg fixtures. Usually, the quarterfinals and semifinals are two-legged fixtures, with teams advancing on aggregate if they split the matches.

Four of the eight round-of-16 fixtures have been completed, but the other four each have one leg remaining after getting interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. It has yet to be determined if those matches will take place in the Portuguese capital or at the stadium of the home teams as originally intended.

The round-of-16 legs will be played on Aug. 7-8, followed by the quarterfinals Aug. 12-15, the semifinals Aug. 18-19 and the final Aug. 23.

Benfica's Estadio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Sporting CP's Estadio Jose Alvalade will be the host venues for the quarterfinals, semifinals and final. Should the remaining round-of-16 fixtures need to be played in Portugal, they will emanate from Estadio do Dragao in Porto or Estadio D. Afonso Henriques in Guimaraes.

Thus far, Paris Saint-Germain, Atletico Madrid, Leipzig and Atalanta have all advanced to the final eight. The remaining fixtures in the round of 16 are Juventus vs. Lyon, Manchester City vs. Real Madrid, Bayern Munich vs. Chelsea and Barcelona vs. Napoli.

On aggregate, Lyon leads Juventus 1-0, Manchester City leads Real Madrid 2-1, Bayern Munich leads Chelsea 3-0 and Barcelona and Napoli are tied 1-1.

It is already guaranteed that there will be two new teams in the final this year, as both reigning champion Liverpool and reigning runner-up Tottenham Hotspur were eliminated in the round of 16 by Atletico Madrid and by Leipzig, respectively.

The original plan was for the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League final to occur at Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, but it will host next year's final instead. As a result, St. Petersburg, Munich and London were each pushed back one year as host cities to 2022, 2023 and 2024, respectively.

Most of the biggest soccer leagues in the world have resumed play in recent weeks with no fans in attendance because of COVID-19, including the Bundesliga, English Premier League, La Liga and Serie A. Ligue 1 has yet to resume, however, which could put PSG and Lyon in a difficult spot in terms of preparation.

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Bleacher Report's David Gardner interviews athletes and other sports figures for the podcast How to Survive Without Sports.