All you need to know about the Champions League last-16 draw

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The Champions League last-16 draw takes place on Monday, 18 December, with two English clubs waiting to discover their fate.

Holders Manchester City, and Arsenal, won their groups to seal their passage into the knockout stages, while Newcastle, Manchester United and Scottish champions Celtic dropped out of Europe entirely.

BBC Sport gives you the lowdown on the draw.

Who has gone through?

Seeded: Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Real Sociedad.

Unseeded: Copenhagen, Inter Milan, Lazio, RB Leipzig, Napoli, Paris St-Germain, Porto, PSV Eindhoven.

When is the draw and where?

The Champions League last-16 draw will be held on Monday, 18 December at 11:00 GMT at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland.

How does the draw work?

Each group winner will be seeded and drawn against a team who finished second in another group, who are all unseeded. Teams cannot draw a club who are from the same country, or a team who were in the same group as them.

When is the last 16 played?

The first legs of the last 16 will be played across two weeks, 13-14 and 20-21 February 2024, with the second legs on 5-6 and 12-13 March.

The draws for the quarter-finals and semi-final will be done together on Friday, 15 March.

How the group stage finished

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1Bayern Munich6510616
2FC Copenhagen622208
3Galatasaray6123-35
4Manchester United6114-34

Manchester United finished last in Group A after four defeats from their six group matches.

It was the sixth time the Red Devils have failed to progress to the knockout stages of the Champions League and the first time they have finished bottom of their group in the competition since 2005-06.

Bayern Munich reached the last 16 as group winners with two matches to spare, while Copenhagen advanced to the knockout stages for the first time since 2010-11.

Galatasaray dropped into the Europa League knockout play-off round.

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1Arsenal64111212
2PSV Eindhoven6231-28
3Lens6222-55
4Sevilla6024-52

Arsenal won the group with a game to spare with PSV Eindhoven also wrapping up the runners-up spot after five matches.

Lens avoided defeat by Sevilla in their final match to secure a Europa League spot.

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1Real Madrid6600918
2Napoli6312110
3Sporting Braga6114-64
4Union Berlin6024-42

Real Madrid reached the knockout stages for a 26th consecutive season, completing Group C with a perfect record of six wins from six.

Napoli secured second with a win over Sporting Braga on matchday six, with the Portuguese side dropping into the Europa League.

Union Berlin finished last in Group C in the club's first Champions League season.

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1Real Sociedad6330512
2Inter Milan6330312
3Salzburg6114-44
4Benfica6114-41

Real Sociedad topped Group D ahead of Inter Milan on goal difference with the pair having an identical head-to-head record.

Benfica took third spot away from Red Bull Salzburg after a late Arthur Cabral goal secured a 3-1 win for the Portuguese champions on the final matchday.

It meant both sides finished level on points, level on head-to-head record and level on goal difference.

But Benfica secured third thanks to goals scored - Roger Schmidt's side scored seven goals to Salzburg's four.

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1Atletico Madrid64201114
2Lazio6312010
3Feyenoord6204-16
4Celtic6114-104

Atletico Madrid beat Lazio 2-0 in the final game to seal top spot.

Feyenoord drop into the Europa League and Celtic are out.

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1Borussia Dortmund6321311
2Paris St-Germain622218
3AC Milan6222-38
4Newcastle6123-15

Newcastle were 45 minutes away from the Champions League knockout stages, but ended up exiting Europe entirely with a 2-1 home defeat by AC Milan, who pipped them to the Europa League spot.

Borussia Dortmund finished top, with Paris St-Germain second, after they drew their final game 1-1.

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1Manchester City66001118
2RB Leipzig6302312
3Young Boys6114-64
4Red Star Belgrade6015-81

Group winners Manchester City and runners-up RB Leipzig reached the last 16 with two matches to spare.

Young Boys finished third with bottom side Red Star Belgrade failing to win a game.

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1Barcelona6402612
2FC Porto6402712
3Shakhtar Donetsk6303-29
4Royal Antwerp6105-113

Barcelona are in the knockout stages for the first time in three seasons.

Porto joined them in the last 16 with a 5-3 win over Shakhtar Donetsk, who finish third.

Royal Antwerp finished bottom.

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