2017–18 UEFA Champions League

79 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated (the exception being Liechtenstein, which did not organise a domestic league).[8] The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[9]

• 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 16–55 (except Liechtenstein) each had one team qualify.
• The winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League and 2016–17 UEFA Europa League were each given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league. Because a maximum of five teams from one association could 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 finished outside the top four of their domestic league, the fourth-placed team of their association was moved to the Europa League.[10] For this season:
  • The winners of the 2016–17 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 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, Manchester United, did not qualify through their domestic league, meaning the additional entry for the Europa League title holders was necessary.

Kosovo, who became a UEFA member on 3 May 2016, made their debut in the UEFA Champions League.[11][12]

Association ranking

For the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2016 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2011–12 to 2015–16.[13][14]

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

• (UEL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1 Spain 105.713 4 2 Germany 80.177 3 England 76.284 +1 (UEL) 4 Italy 70.439 3 5 Portugal 53.082 6 France 52.749 7 Russia 51.082 2 8 Ukraine 44.883 9 Belgium 40.000 10 Netherlands 35.563 11 Turkey 34.600 12 Switzerland 33.775 13 Czech Republic 32.925 14 Greece 29.700 15 Romania 25.383 16 Austria 25.100 1 17 Croatia 23.875 18 Poland 22.500 19 Cyprus 22.175

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 20 Belarus 20.000 1 21 Sweden 19.875 22 Norway 19.250 23 Israel 18.625 24 Denmark 18.600 25 Scotland 17.300 26 Azerbaijan 14.875 27 Serbia 14.625 28 Kazakhstan 14.125 29 Bulgaria 13.125 30 Slovenia 13.125 31 Slovakia 12.000 32 Liechtenstein 10.500 0 33 Hungary 9.875 1 34 Moldova 9.125 35 Iceland 8.750 36 Georgia 8.125 37 Finland 7.400

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 38 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.125 1 39 Albania 6.625 40 Macedonia 6.000 41 Republic of Ireland 5.450 42 Latvia 5.375 43 Luxembourg 5.250 44 Montenegro 4.875 45 Lithuania 4.625 46 Northern Ireland 4.500 47 Estonia 4.250 48 Armenia 4.125 49 Faroe Islands 3.625 50 Malta 3.583 51 Wales 3.500 52 Gibraltar 1.000 53 Andorra 0.999 54 San Marino 0.333 55 Kosovo 0.000

Teams

League positions of the previous season qualified via league position shown in parentheses. Manchester United qualified as Europa League title holders. (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).[19][20]

Group stage
Real MadridTH (1st)	Borussia Dortmund (3rd)	Benfica (1st)	Anderlecht (1st)
Manchester United (EL)	Chelsea (1st)	Porto (2nd)	Feyenoord (1st)
Barcelona (2nd)	Tottenham Hotspur (2nd)	Monaco (1st)[Note FRA]	Beşiktaş (1st)
Atlético Madrid (3rd)	Manchester City (3rd)	Paris Saint-Germain (2nd)	Basel (1st)
Bayern Munich (1st)	Juventus (1st)	Spartak Moscow (1st)
RB Leipzig (2nd)	Roma (2nd)	Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)
Play-off round
Champions Route	League Route
	Sevilla (4th)	Liverpool (4th)	Sporting CP (3rd)
	1899 Hoffenheim (4th)	Napoli (3rd)
Third qualifying round
Champions Route	League Route
Slavia Prague (1st)	Nice (3rd)	Ajax (2nd)	AEK Athens (2nd)
Olympiacos (1st)	CSKA Moscow (2nd)	İstanbul Başakşehir (2nd)	FCSB (2nd)
Viitorul Constanța (1st)	Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)	Young Boys (2nd)
	Club Brugge (2nd)	Viktoria Plzeň (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Red Bull Salzburg (1st)	Copenhagen (1st)	Honvéd (1st)	Dundalk (1st)
Rijeka (1st)	Celtic (1st)	Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Spartaks Jūrmala (1st)
Legia Warsaw (1st)	Qarabağ (1st)	FH (1st)	F91 Dudelange (1st)
APOEL (1st)	Partizan (1st)	Samtredia (1st)	Budućnost Podgorica (1st)
BATE Borisov (1st)	Astana (1st)	IFK Mariehamn (1st)	Žalgiris Vilnius (1st)
Malmö FF (1st)	Ludogorets Razgrad (1st)	Zrinjski Mostar (1st)
Rosenborg (1st)	Maribor (1st)	Kukësi (1st)
Hapoel Be'er Sheva (1st)	Žilina (1st)	Vardar (1st)
First qualifying round
Linfield (1st)	Víkingur Gøta (1st)	Europa FC (1st)	Trepça'89 (1st)
FCI Tallinn (1st)	Hibernians (1st)	FC Santa Coloma (1st)
Alashkert (1st)	The New Saints (1st)	La Fiorita (1st)

Notes

1. ^
   France (FRA): AS Monaco are a club based in Monaco (which is not a UEFA member), but participated in the Champions League through one of the berths for France (any coefficient points they earned counted towards France's total).

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).[12][21][22]

In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2017 UEFA club coefficients,[23][24][25] 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 draw for the first qualifying round was held on 19 June 2017, 12:00 CEST.[26] The first legs were played on 27 and 28 June, and the second legs were played on 4 July 2017.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Víkingur Gøta	6–2	Trepça'89	2–1	4–1
Hibernians	3–0	FCI Tallinn	2–0	1–0
Alashkert	2–1	FC Santa Coloma	1–0	1–1
The New Saints	4–3	Europa	1–2	3–1 (a.e.t.)
Linfield	1–0	La Fiorita	1–0	0–0

Second qualifying round

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 19 June 2017, 12:00 CEST (after the completion of the first qualifying round draw).[26] The first legs were played on 11, 12 and 14 July, and the second legs were played on 18 and 19 July 2017.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
APOEL	2–0	F91 Dudelange	1–0	1–0
Žalgiris Vilnius	3–5	Ludogorets Razgrad	2–1	1–4
Qarabağ	6–0	Samtredia	5–0	1–0
Partizan	2–0	Budućnost Podgorica	2–0	0–0
Hibernians	0–6	Red Bull Salzburg	0–3	0–3
Sheriff Tiraspol	2–2 (a)	Kukësi	1–0	1–2
Spartaks Jūrmala	1–2[A]	Astana	0–1	1–1
BATE Borisov	4–2	Alashkert	1–1	3–1
Žilina	3–4	Copenhagen	1–3	2–1
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	5–3	Honvéd	2–1	3–2
Rijeka	7–1	The New Saints	2–0	5–1
Malmö FF	2–4	Vardar	1–1	1–3
Zrinjski Mostar	2–3	Maribor	1–2	1–1
Dundalk	2–3	Rosenborg	1–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
FH	3–1	Víkingur Gøta	1–1	2–0
Linfield	0–6	Celtic	0–2	0–4
IFK Mariehamn	0–9	Legia Warsaw	0–3	0–6

Notes

1. ^
   Order of legs reversed after original draw.

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 2017–18 UEFA Europa League play-off round. The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 14 July 2017, 12:00 CEST.[27] The first legs were played on 25 and 26 July, and the second legs were played on 1 and 2 August 2017.

Champions Route

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Slavia Prague	2–2 (a)	BATE Borisov	1–0	1–2
Astana	3–2	Legia Warsaw	3–1	0–1
Maribor	2–0	FH	1–0	1–0
Vardar	2–4[B]	Copenhagen	1–0	1–4
Celtic	1–0	Rosenborg	0–0	1–0
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	3–3 (a)	Ludogorets Razgrad	2–0	1–3
Viitorul Constanța	1–4	APOEL	1–0	0–4 (a.e.t.)
Red Bull Salzburg	1–1 (a)	Rijeka	1–1	0–0
Qarabağ	2–1	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–0	2–1
Partizan	3–5	Olympiacos	1–3	2–2

League Route

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FCSB	6–3	Viktoria Plzeň	2–2	4–1
Nice	3–3 (a)	Ajax	1–1	2–2
Dynamo Kyiv	3–3 (a)	Young Boys	3–1	0–2
AEK Athens	0–3	CSKA Moscow	0–2	0–1
Club Brugge	3–5	İstanbul Başakşehir	3–3	0–2

Notes

2. ^
   Order of legs reversed after original draw.

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 2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage. The draw for the play-off round was held on 4 August 2017, 12:00 CEST.[28] The first legs were played on 15 and 16 August, and the second legs were played on 22 and 23 August 2017.

Champions Route

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Qarabağ	2–2 (a)	Copenhagen	1–0	1–2
APOEL	2–0	Slavia Prague	2–0	0–0
Olympiacos	3–1	Rijeka	2–1	1–0
Celtic	8–4	Astana	5–0	3–4
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	2–2 (a)	Maribor	2–1	0–1

League Route

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
İstanbul Başakşehir	3–4	Sevilla	1–2	2–2
Young Boys	0–3	CSKA Moscow	0–1	0–2
Napoli	4–0	Nice	2–0	2–0
1899 Hoffenheim	3–6	Liverpool	1–2	2–4
Sporting CP	5–1	FCSB	0–0	5–1

Qarabağ

Anderlecht

APOEL

London

Manchester

Liverpool

Monaco

PSG

Bayern

Dortmund

Leipzig

Olympiacos

Juventus

Napoli

Roma

Feyenoord

Lisbon

Porto

Moscow

Celtic

Maribor

Madrid

Barcelona

Sevilla

Basel

Beşiktaş

Shakhtar

Lisbon teams
Benfica
Sporting CP

London teams
Chelsea
Tottenham Hotspur

Madrid teams
Atlético Madrid
Real Madrid

Manchester teams
Manchester City
Manchester United

Moscow teams
CSKA Moscow
Spartak Moscow

Location of teams of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D;
Green: Group E; Blue: Group F; Purple: Group G; Pink: Group H.

The draw for the group stage was held on 24 August 2017, 18:00 CEST, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.[29] 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):[30][31]

• Pot 1 contained the title holders and the champions of the top seven associations based on their 2016 UEFA country coefficients.[13][14] As the title holders, Real Madrid, were one of the champions of the top seven associations, the champions of the association ranked eighth (Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk) were also seeded into Pot 1 (regulations Article 13.05).[9]
• Pot 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2017 UEFA club coefficients.[23][24][25]

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams entered the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays were 12–13 September, 26–27 September, 17–18 October, 31 October – 1 November, 21–22 November, and 5–6 December 2017.

The youth teams of the clubs that qualified for the group stage also participated in the 2017–18 UEFA Youth League on the same matchdays, where they competed in the UEFA Champions League Path (the youth domestic champions of the top 32 associations competed in a separate Domestic Champions Path until the play-offs).

Seventeen national associations were represented in the group stage. Qarabağ and RB Leipzig made their debut appearances in the group stage. Qarabağ were the first team from Azerbaijan to play in the Champions League group stage.[32] For the first time since the 1997–98 edition, England's Arsenal did not qualify for the group stage. Qarabag, Basel, Anderlecht, Spartak Moscow, Maribor, Feyenoord and APOEL made their final appearances in the Champions League Group Stage as of the 2023–24 season.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MU	BSL	CSKA	BEN
1	Manchester United	6	5	0	1	12	3	+9	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–0	2–1	2–0
2	Basel	6	4	0	2	11	5	+6	12			1–0	—	1–2	5–0
3	CSKA Moscow	6	3	0	3	8	10	−2	9	Transfer to Europa League		1–4	0–2	—	2–0
4	Benfica	6	0	0	6	1	14	−13	0			0–1	0–2	1–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAR	BAY	CEL	AND
1	Paris Saint-Germain	6	5	0	1	25	4	+21	15[lower-alpha 1]	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–0	7–1	5–0
2	Bayern Munich	6	5	0	1	13	6	+7	15[lower-alpha 1]			3–1	—	3–0	3–0
3	Celtic	6	1	0	5	5	18	−13	3[lower-alpha 2]	Transfer to Europa League		0–5	1–2	—	0–1
4	Anderlecht	6	1	0	5	2	17	−15	3[lower-alpha 2]			0–4	1–2	0–3	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. Head-to-head results: Paris Saint-Germain 3–0 Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich 3–1 Paris Saint-Germain.
2. Head-to-head results: Anderlecht 0–3 Celtic, Celtic 0–1 Anderlecht.

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ROM	CHL	ATL	QRB
1	Roma	6	3	2	1	9	6	+3	11[lower-alpha 1]	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–0	0–0	1–0
2	Chelsea	6	3	2	1	16	8	+8	11[lower-alpha 1]			3–3	—	1–1	6–0
3	Atlético Madrid	6	1	4	1	5	4	+1	7	Transfer to Europa League		2–0	1–2	—	1–1
4	Qarabağ	6	0	2	4	2	14	−12	2			1–2	0–4	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. Head-to-head results: Chelsea 3–3 Roma, Roma 3–0 Chelsea.

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	JUV	SPO	OLY
1	Barcelona	6	4	2	0	9	1	+8	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–0	2–0	3–1
2	Juventus	6	3	2	1	7	5	+2	11			0–0	—	2–1	2–0
3	Sporting CP	6	2	1	3	8	9	−1	7	Transfer to Europa League		0–1	1–1	—	3–1
4	Olympiacos	6	0	1	5	4	13	−9	1			0–0	0–2	2–3	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LIV	SEV	SPM	MRB
1	Liverpool	6	3	3	0	23	6	+17	12	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–2	7–0	3–0
2	Sevilla	6	2	3	1	12	12	0	9			3–3	—	2–1	3–0
3	Spartak Moscow	6	1	3	2	9	13	−4	6	Transfer to Europa League		1–1	5–1	—	1–1
4	Maribor	6	0	3	3	3	16	−13	3			0–7	1–1	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MC	SHK	NAP	FEY
1	Manchester City	6	5	0	1	14	5	+9	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	2–1	1–0
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	4	0	2	9	9	0	12			2–1	—	2–1	3–1
3	Napoli	6	2	0	4	11	11	0	6	Transfer to Europa League		2–4	3–0	—	3–1
4	Feyenoord	6	1	0	5	5	14	−9	3			0–4	1–2	2–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BES	POR	RBL	MON
1	Beşiktaş	6	4	2	0	11	5	+6	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	2–0	1–1
2	Porto	6	3	1	2	15	10	+5	10			1–3	—	3–1	5–2
3	RB Leipzig	6	2	1	3	10	11	−1	7	Transfer to Europa League		1–2	3–2	—	1–1
4	Monaco	6	0	2	4	6	16	−10	2			1–2	0–3	1–4	—

Source: UEFA

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		TOT	RM	DOR	APO
1	Tottenham Hotspur	6	5	1	0	15	4	+11	16	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	3–1	3–0
2	Real Madrid	6	4	1	1	17	7	+10	13			1–1	—	3–2	3–0
3	Borussia Dortmund	6	0	2	4	7	13	−6	2[lower-alpha 1]	Transfer to Europa League		1–2	1–3	—	1–1
4	APOEL	6	0	2	4	2	17	−15	2[lower-alpha 1]			0–3	0–6	1–1	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. Head-to-head results: APOEL 1–1 Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Dortmund 1–1 APOEL (tied on head-to-head results, ranked on total goal difference).

In the knockout phase, teams played 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 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 second leg. 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.

Bracket

	Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Sevilla	0	2	2
	Manchester United	0	1	1
							Sevilla	1	0	1
							Bayern Munich	2	0	2
	Bayern Munich	5	3	8
	Beşiktaş	0	1	1
													Bayern Munich	1	2	3
													Real Madrid	2	2	4
	Juventus	2	2	4
	Tottenham Hotspur	2	1	3
							Juventus	0	3	3
							Real Madrid	3	1	4
	Real Madrid	3	2	5
	Paris Saint-Germain	1	1	2
																			Real Madrid	3
																			Liverpool	1
	Porto	0	0	0
	Liverpool	5	0	5
							Liverpool	3	2	5
							Manchester City	0	1	1
	Basel	0	2	2
	Manchester City	4	1	5
													Liverpool	5	2	7
													Roma	2	4	6
	Chelsea	1	0	1
	Barcelona	1	3	4
							Barcelona	4	0	4
							Roma (a)	1	3	4
	Shakhtar Donetsk	2	0	2
	Roma (a)	1	1	2

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 11 December 2017, 12:00 CET.[33] The first legs were played on 13, 14, 20 and 21 February, and the second legs were played on 6, 7, 13 and 14 March 2018.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Juventus	4–3	Tottenham Hotspur	2–2	2–1
Basel	2–5	Manchester City	0–4	2–1
Porto	0–5	Liverpool	0–5	0–0
Sevilla	2–1	Manchester United	0–0	2–1
Real Madrid	5–2	Paris Saint-Germain	3–1	2–1
Shakhtar Donetsk	2–2 (a)	Roma	2–1	0–1
Chelsea	1–4	Barcelona	1–1	0–3
Bayern Munich	8–1	Beşiktaş	5–0	3–1

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 16 March 2018, 12:00 CET.[34][35] The first legs were played on 3 and 4 April, and the second legs were played on 10 and 11 April 2018.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Barcelona	4–4 (a)	Roma	4–1	0–3
Sevilla	1–2	Bayern Munich	1–2	0–0
Juventus	3–4	Real Madrid	0–3	3–1
Liverpool	5–1	Manchester City	3–0	2–1

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 13 April 2018, 13:00 CEST.[36] The first legs were played on 24 and 25 April, and the second legs were played on 1 and 2 May 2018.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	3–4	Real Madrid	1–2	2–2
Liverpool	7–6	Roma	5–2	2–4

Final

Main article: 2018 UEFA Champions League Final

The final was played at the NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kyiv on 26 May 2018. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.[36]

26 May 2018 (2018-05-26)

21:45 EEST

Real Madrid	3–1	Liverpool
Benzema 51' Bale 63', 83'	Report	Mané 55'

NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 61,561[37]

Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo finished the tournament as the top goalscorer, having scored 15 goals.

Rank[38]	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	15	1170
2	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	10	930
	Sadio Mané	Liverpool		940
	Roberto Firmino	Liverpool		1056
5	Wissam Ben Yedder	Sevilla	8	651
	Edin Džeko	Roma		1078
7	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur	7	597
	Edinson Cavani	Paris Saint-Germain		680
9	Neymar	Paris Saint-Germain	6	630
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona		783

Top assists

Liverpool's James Milner finished the tournament as the top assist provider, having assisted 9 goals.

Rank[38]	Player	Team	Assists	Minutes played
1	James Milner	Liverpool	9[40]	874
2	Roberto Firmino	Liverpool	8	1056
3	Luis Suárez	Barcelona	5	884
4	Eden Hazard	Chelsea	4	611
	Neymar	Paris Saint-Germain		630
	Kevin De Bruyne	Manchester City		667
	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool		930
8	16 players		3	—

Squad of the season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following 18 players as the squad of the tournament.[41]

Pos.	Player	Team
GK	Keylor Navas	Real Madrid
	Alisson	Roma
DF	Joshua Kimmich	Bayern Munich
	Sergio Ramos	Real Madrid
	Marcelo	Real Madrid
	Giorgio Chiellini	Juventus
	Virgil van Dijk	Liverpool
	Raphaël Varane	Real Madrid
MF	Kevin De Bruyne	Manchester City
	Casemiro	Real Madrid
	Luka Modrić	Real Madrid
	Toni Kroos	Real Madrid
	James Rodríguez	Bayern Munich
FW	Edin Džeko	Roma
	Roberto Firmino	Liverpool
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona
	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid
	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool

Players of the season

Main articles: UEFA Club Football Awards and UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award

Votes were cast for players of the season 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 9 August 2018.[42] The award winners were announced and presented during the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on 30 August 2018.

Goalkeeper of the season Rank Player Team Points Shortlist of top three 1 Keylor Navas[1] Real Madrid 222 2 Alisson Roma 197 3 Gianluigi Buffon Juventus 92 Players ranked 4–10 4 Marc-André ter Stegen Barcelona 47 5 Thibaut Courtois Chelsea 28 6 Ederson Manchester City 26 7 Hugo Lloris Tottenham Hotspur 18 8 Jan Oblak Atlético Madrid 16 9 David de Gea Manchester United 7 10 Sven Ulreich Bayern Munich 5

Defender of the season Rank Player Team Points Shortlist of top three 1 Sergio Ramos[2] Real Madrid 184 2 Raphaël Varane Real Madrid 167 3 Marcelo Real Madrid 145 Players ranked 4–10 4 Giorgio Chiellini Juventus 40 5 Dejan Lovren Liverpool 37 6 Virgil van Dijk Liverpool 24 7 Diego Godín Atlético Madrid 15 8 Joshua Kimmich Bayern Munich 14 9 Mats Hummels Bayern Munich 13 10 Gerard Piqué Barcelona 10

Midfielder of the season Rank Player Team Points Shortlist of top three 1 Luka Modrić[3] Real Madrid 347 2 Kevin De Bruyne Manchester City 114 3 Toni Kroos Real Madrid 69 Players ranked 4–10 4 Casemiro Real Madrid 40 5 James Milner Liverpool 18 6 Andrés Iniesta Barcelona 16 7 Ivan Rakitić Barcelona 9 8 Isco Real Madrid 6 Sadio Mané Liverpool Miralem Pjanić Juventus James Rodríguez Bayern Munich

Forward of the season Rank Player Team Points Shortlist of top three 1 Cristiano Ronaldo[4] Real Madrid 287 2 Mohamed Salah Liverpool 218 3 Lionel Messi Barcelona 43 Players ranked 4–10 4 Kylian Mbappé Paris Saint-Germain 17 5 Edin Džeko Roma 15 Harry Kane Tottenham Hotspur 7 Roberto Firmino Liverpool 13 8 Gareth Bale Real Madrid 12 Antoine Griezmann Atlético Madrid Sadio Mané Liverpool

• 2017–18 UEFA Europa League
• 2018 UEFA Super Cup
• 2018 FIFA Club World Cup
• 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2017–18 UEFA Youth League

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