No weekend switch for Champions League

Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin has dismissed the idea of Champions League knockout matches being played on weekends.

Reports had suggested that from 2021 the last-eight stage of the competition onwards could be switched to weekends. That would probably put Uefa on a collision course with the Premier League, although the fixture congestion created could be eased by the Champions League losing its last-16 stage, which is played across four weeks.

However, Ceferin told reporters after a Uefa executive committee meeting in Cardiff that the Champions League would continue to be played on its traditional Tuesday and Wednesday dates.