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Champions Cup Knockout phase
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 Quarter Finals, the 4 group winners were seeded, and the 4 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 semi-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other.

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Euro Super Cup Knockout phase
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 6 group winners along with the top 2 3rd place Group finishers from the Champions Cup were seeded, and the 6 group runners-up along with the bottom 2 3rd place Group finishers from the Champions Cup 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.

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Amir Saidani
Amir Othman Saidani, Baron Saidani, (born 23 March 1995) is a British football manager and Labour politician. He is currently manager of Premier League club Everton. On 7th November 2032 he was created a life peer, taking the title Baron Saidani, of Park Royal in the London Borough of Brent and Walton in the County of Lancashire.

His career began managing the New Zealand national football team after first working within the youth set up at Celtic and the first team at Glasgow University. He took the team to the 2017 Confederations Cup in which he triumphed against many other established squads, also making him the youngest manager to ever win a major competition. He then moved to the MLS managing New York Red Bulls winning 4 MLS Cups, as well as breaking the record points haul in the MLS Supporters Shield in his unbeaten season (2018-19). He rose to further success with the winning of 3 North American Champions League titles and became the first North American side to win the FIFA Club World Cup. He moved to current side Everton in 2022 and has become the youngest winner of the Premier League as well as the first English manager to win the competition, his side broke a 25 year point record set by Chelsea in 2004/05 Season.

His involvement in Politics started at his time in Glasgow University becoming president of the GU Labour Society, He has consistently during his footballing career been a vocal supporter of Socialist Politics and became an advisor the New Zealand Government Sports Ministry. Since returning to the UK in 2022 he has been a prominent supporter of the Labour Party and gave several speeches in the successful 2022 General Election. He was appointed a life peer in November 2032. He came out as gay in 2020, becoming the first gay football manager, and the most prominent gay sports person in the UK.

Personal life
Saidani met his husband The Hon. Nicholas Leigh, born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, when they were students in Glasgow, and the couple married in 2020. Their first child, daughter Niamh, was born through surrogacy in 2021 in New York and they had their first son, Youness in 2024 in London.

Nicholas is the son of Conservative peer The Lord Leigh of Gainsborough, he is brother of Tamara Leigh MP and Permanent Secretary to the Department for International Development Dame Natalia Leigh.

Through his parentage Nicholas is a relation of the House of Golitsyn on his fathers side and a great great grandson of Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Lady Ottoline Morrell on his mothers side. He is a direct descendant from the Empress of Russia Catherine II and Princess Augusta of Great Britain, a sister of King George III.

Saidani has three siblings, a maternal half brother; Sam Merrett MP and two sister, a paternal half sister Aida, and a full sister Nadia.

Widely known for his strong personality, refined dress sense Saidani has experienced fame outside of football circles, featuring in European advertisement campaigns for New Balance, Red Bull, Braun, Jaguar and Adidas, amongst others.

Amir has been widely renowned for his academic achievements and has written books on the juxtaposition of sport and socialism and as has been given honorary doctorates from the University of Wellington, New York University and the University of Bristol.

Baron Saidani topped the 2021 Rainbow List and has been widely celebrated for his work in removing the stigmatism of homosexuality in sport and has been seen as a catalyst for a wider number of comings out in the sport.

Managerial

 * New Zealand
 * Oceania Nations Cup: 2016
 * Confederations Cup: 2017


 * New York Red Bulls
 * MLS Cup: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
 * U.S. Open Cup: 2018, 2020, 2021
 * MLS Eastern Conference: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
 * MLS Supporters' Shield: 2019, 2021
 * North American Champions League: 2018, 2021, 2022
 * FIFA Club World Cup: 2021


 * Everton
 * Premier League: 2022–23, 2024–25, 2025–26, 2026–27, 2027-28, 2028-29, 2029-30, 2030-31, 2031-32, 2033-34, 2034-35, 2035-36,
 * FA Cup: 2024, 2025, 2028, 2032
 * EFL Cup: 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2030, 2033, 2037
 * Community Shield: 2025, 2026, 2027, 2030, 2031, 2034, 2035
 * UEFA Champions League: 2027-28, 2028-29, 2029-30, 2032-33,
 * UEFA Super Cup: 2028, 2029, 2030, 2033
 * FIFA Club World Cup: 2028, 2029, 2030, 2033


 * England
 * FIFA World Cup: 2030

Individual

 * FIFA World Coach of the Year: 2017, 2021, 2025, 2026, 2027
 * Premier League Manager of the Year: 2022–23, 2024–25, 2025–26, 2026–27
 * Premier League Manager of the Month: December 2022, March 2023, January 2024, January 2025, August 2025, December 2025, August 2026, September 2026, October 2026, November 2026
 * MLS Coach of the Year: 2018, 2021
 * World Soccer Magazine World Manager of the Year: 2017, 2021, 2025, 2026, 2027
 * BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award: 2017, 2021, 2027
 * English Football Hall of Fame: Inducted in 2027
 * European Coach of the Season: 2026–27
 * LMA Manager of the Year: 2022–23, 2025–26, 2026–27

Others

 * Order of New Zealand ribbon.png Honorary member of the Order of New Zealand
 * Order BritEmp (civil) rib.PNG Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Personnel and kits
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