The UEFA Champions League league phase reached its climax in thrilling fashion, with drama in the races for the eighth and 24th places.

It's decision day in the Champions League. Your mileage might vary on the success of the new league phase format but one thing that cannot be denied is that there are plenty of games with actual stakes when 36 become 24 on Wednesday night.

Tottenham Hotspur finished 4th in the Champions League, so we look back at 3 winners and 2 losers from Spurs' very successful European campaign to date.

Eight teams are through to the round of 16: Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Barcelona, Chelsea, Sporting CP and Manchester City. The teams that finished between ninth and 24th await Friday's play-off draw. The event will stream live on UEFA's official site at 6 a.m. ET.

The final day of the UEFA Champions League league phase has arrived.

All 36 teams play in an epic UEFA Champions League league phase finale, and here are the permutations for who can make the knockout rounds.

Last season’s league phase felt relatively exciting because two of the favourites — Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain — struggled to reach the knockout stage. But this was surely an anomaly: it owed little to the competition’s setup, and the switch to eight matches rather than six offers less chance of surprises.

England is top of UEFAs coefficient table and on track to clinch a fifth Champions League place for the second consecutive year; all nine of Englands clubs are still active in Europe; Arsenal, Liverpool,

Only 24 teams survived an action-packed league phase.

The league phase of the UEFA Champions League is over and it's time to look ahead