The 2018–19 UEFA Europa League knockout phase began on 12 February and ended on 29 May 2019 with the final at the Olympic Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan, to decide the champions of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League.^[1] A total of 32 teams competed in the knockout phase.^[2]

For the first time, the video assistant referee (VAR) system was used in the competition, where it was implemented in the final.^[3]

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

The schedule was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).^[1]

Matches could also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the final, was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then extra time was played. The away goals rule was again applied after extra time, i.e. if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team advanced by more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie was decided by penalty shoot-out. In the final, which was played as a single match, if the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time would be played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the score remained tied.^[2]

The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

• In the draw for the round of 32, the twelve group winners and the four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage with the better group records were seeded, and the twelve group runners-up and the other four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage 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 round of 16, quarter-finals, and semi-finals, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner was designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it was played at a neutral venue).

In the knockout phase, teams from the same city (Chelsea and Arsenal, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe, and Real Betis and Sevilla) were not scheduled to play at home on the same day, due to logistics and crowd control. To avoid such scheduling conflict, an adjustment had to be made to UEFA. For the round of 32, since both teams were drawn to play at home in a given leg, the home match of the team which was not domestic cup champions in the qualifying season, or the team with the lower domestic ranking (if neither team were the domestic cup champions, i.e. Arsenal, Fenerbahçe, and Sevilla for this season), was moved to an earlier time on Thursday or a different day.^[4] For the round of 16, quarter-finals, and semi-finals if the two teams were drawn to play at home for the same leg, the order of legs of the tie involving the team with the lowest priority was reversed from the original draw.^[5][6]

On 17 July 2014, the UEFA emergency panel ruled that Ukrainian and Russian clubs would not be drawn against each other "until further notice" due to the political unrest between the countries.^[7]

The knockout phase involved 32 teams: the 24 teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the twelve groups in the group stage, and the eight third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage.

Group	Winners (seeded in round of 32 draw)	Runners-up (unseeded in round of 32 draw)
A	Bayer Leverkusen	Zürich
B	Red Bull Salzburg	Celtic
C	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Slavia Prague
D	Dinamo Zagreb	Fenerbahçe
E	Arsenal	Sporting CP
F	Real Betis	Olympiacos
G	Villarreal	Rapid Wien
H	Eintracht Frankfurt	Lazio
I	Genk	Malmö FF
J	Sevilla	Krasnodar
K	Dynamo Kyiv	Rennes
L	Chelsea	BATE Borisov

Seed	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Seeding
1	C	Napoli	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9	Seeded in round of 32 draw
2	H	Valencia	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8
3	B	Inter Milan	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8
4	E	Benfica	6	2	1	3	6	11	−5	7
5	G	Viktoria Plzeň	6	2	1	3	7	16	−9	7	Unseeded in round of 32 draw
6	A	Club Brugge	6	1	3	2	6	5	+1	6
7	F	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	3	2	8	16	−8	6
8	D	Galatasaray	6	1	1	4	5	8	−3	4

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Viktoria Plzeň	2	0	2
	Dinamo Zagreb	1	3	4
							Dinamo Zagreb	1	0	1
							Benfica (a.e.t.)	0	3	3
	Galatasaray	1	0	1
	Benfica	2	0	2
													Benfica	4	0	4
													Eintracht Frankfurt (a)	2	2	4
	Shakhtar Donetsk	2	1	3
	Eintracht Frankfurt	2	4	6
							Eintracht Frankfurt	0	1	1
							Inter Milan	0	0	0
	Rapid Wien	0	0	0
	Inter Milan	1	4	5
																			Eintracht Frankfurt	1	1	2 (3)
																			Chelsea (p)	1	1	2 (4)
	Lazio	0	0	0
	Sevilla	1	2	3
							Sevilla	2	3	5
							Slavia Prague (a.e.t.)	2	4	6
	Slavia Prague	0	4	4
	Genk	0	1	1
													Slavia Prague	0	3	3
													Chelsea	1	4	5
	Malmö FF	1	0	1
	Chelsea	2	3	5
							Chelsea	3	5	8
							Dynamo Kyiv	0	0	0
	Olympiacos	2	0	2
	Dynamo Kyiv	2	1	3
																									Chelsea	4
																									Arsenal	1
	Rennes	3	3	6
	Real Betis	3	1	4
							Rennes	3	0	3
							Arsenal	1	3	4
	BATE Borisov	1	0	1
	Arsenal	0	3	3
													Arsenal	2	1	3
													Napoli	0	0	0
	Zürich	1	0	1
	Napoli	3	2	5
							Napoli	3	1	4
							Red Bull Salzburg	0	3	3
	Club Brugge	2	0	2
	Red Bull Salzburg	1	4	5
																			Arsenal	3	4	7
																			Valencia	1	2	3
	Fenerbahçe	1	1	2
	Zenit Saint Petersburg	0	3	3
							Zenit Saint Petersburg	1	1	2
							Villarreal	3	2	5
	Sporting CP	0	1	1
	Villarreal	1	1	2
													Villarreal	1	0	1
													Valencia	3	2	5
	Celtic	0	0	0
	Valencia	2	1	3
							Valencia	2	1	3
							Krasnodar	1	1	2
	Krasnodar (a)	0	1	1
	Bayer Leverkusen	0	1	1

The draw for the round of 32 was held on 17 December 2018, 13:00 CET.^[9]

The first legs were played on 12 and 14 February, and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 February 2019.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Viktoria Plzeň	2–4	Dinamo Zagreb	2–1	0–3
Club Brugge	2–5	Red Bull Salzburg	2–1	0–4
Rapid Wien	0–5	Inter Milan	0–1	0–4
Slavia Prague	4–1	Genk	0–0	4–1
Krasnodar	1–1 (a)	Bayer Leverkusen	0–0	1–1
Zürich	1–5	Napoli	1–3	0–2
Malmö FF	1–5	Chelsea	1–2	0–3
Shakhtar Donetsk	3–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2	1–4
Celtic	0–3	Valencia	0–2	0–1
Rennes	6–4	Real Betis	3–3	3–1
Olympiacos	2–3	Dynamo Kyiv	2–2	0–1
Lazio	0–3	Sevilla	0–1	0–2
Fenerbahçe	2–3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–0	1–3
Sporting CP	1–2	Villarreal	0–1	1–1
BATE Borisov	1–3	Arsenal	1–0	0–3
Galatasaray	1–2	Benfica	1–2	0–0

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

21:00

Viktoria Plzeň	2–1	Dinamo Zagreb
Pernica 54', 83'	Report	Olmo 41'

Doosan Arena, Plzeň

Attendance: 9,731^[10]

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

18:55

Dinamo Zagreb	3–0	Viktoria Plzeň
Oršić 15' Dilaver 34' Petković 73'	Report

Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb

Attendance: 25,860^[11]

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

Dinamo Zagreb won 4–2 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

21:00

Club Brugge	2–1	Red Bull Salzburg
Denswil 64' Wesley 81'	Report	Junuzović 17'

Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges

Attendance: 16,457^[12]

Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

18:55

Red Bull Salzburg	4–0	Club Brugge
Schlager 17' Daka 29', 43' Dabbur 90+4'	Report

Stadion Wals-Siezenheim, Salzburg

Attendance: 24,717^[13]

Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)

Red Bull Salzburg won 5–2 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

18:55

Rapid Wien	0–1	Inter Milan
	Report	Martínez 39' (pen.)

Allianz Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 23,850^[14]

Referee: Tobias Stieller (Germany)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

21:00

Inter Milan	4–0	Rapid Wien
Vecino 11' Ranocchia 18' Perišić 80' Politano 87'	Report

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 32,158^[15]

Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

Inter Milan won 5–0 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

18:55

Slavia Prague	0–0	Genk
	Report

Sinobo Stadium, Prague

Attendance: 18,125^[16]

Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

21:00

Genk	1–4	Slavia Prague
Trossard 10'	Report	Coufal 23' Traoré 54' Škoda 64', 69'

Luminus Arena, Genk

Attendance: 13,688^[17]

Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)

Slavia Prague won 4–1 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

18:55 (20:55 MSK)

Krasnodar	0–0	Bayer Leverkusen
	Report

Krasnodar Stadium, Krasnodar

Attendance: 34,827^[18]

Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

21:00

Bayer Leverkusen	1–1	Krasnodar
Aránguiz 87'	Report	Suleymanov 84'

BayArena, Leverkusen

Attendance: 16,084^[19]

Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)

1–1 on aggregate; Krasnodar won on away goals.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

21:00

Zürich	1–3	Napoli
Kololli 83' (pen.)	Report	Insigne 12' Callejón 21' Zieliński 77'

Letzigrund, Zürich

Attendance: 24,000^[20]

Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

18:55

Napoli	2–0	Zürich
Verdi 43' Ounas 75'	Report

Stadio San Paolo, Naples

Attendance: 17,579^[21]

Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

Napoli won 5–1 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

21:00

Malmö FF	1–2	Chelsea
Christiansen 80'	Report	Barkley 30' Giroud 58'

Stadion, Malmö

Attendance: 20,312^[22]

Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

21:00 (20:00 GMT)

Chelsea	3–0	Malmö FF
Giroud 55' Barkley 74' Hudson-Odoi 84'	Report

Stamford Bridge, London

Attendance: 39,813^[23]

Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

Chelsea won 5–1 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

21:00 (22:00 EET)

Shakhtar Donetsk	2–2	Eintracht Frankfurt
Marlos 10' (pen.) Taison 67'	Report	Hinteregger 7' Kostić 50'

Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 13,059^[24]

Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

18:55

Eintracht Frankfurt	4–1	Shakhtar Donetsk
Jović 23' Haller 27' (pen.), 80' Rebić 88'	Report	Júnior Moraes 64'

Waldstadion, Frankfurt

Attendance: 47,000^[25]

Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

Eintracht Frankfurt won 6–3 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

21:00 (20:00 GMT)

Celtic	0–2	Valencia
	Report	Cheryshev 42' Sobrino 49'

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 57,430^[26]

Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

18:55

Valencia	1–0	Celtic
Gameiro 70'	Report

Mestalla, Valencia

Attendance: 36,619^[27]

Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)

Valencia won 3–0 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

18:55

Rennes	3–3	Real Betis
Hunou 2' García 10' (o.g.) Ben Arfa 45+3' (pen.)	Report	Lo Celso 32' Sidnei 62' Lainez 90'

Roazhon Park, Rennes

Attendance: 28,656^[28]

Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

21:00

Real Betis	1–3	Rennes
Lo Celso 41'	Report	Bensebaini 22' Hunou 30' Niang 90+4'

Benito Villamarín, Seville

Attendance: 43,623^[29]

Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

Rennes won 6–4 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

18:55 (19:55 EET)

Olympiacos	2–2	Dynamo Kyiv
Hassan 9' Dias 40'	Report	Buyalskyi 27' Verbič 89'

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 31,020^[30]

Referee: Craig Pawson (England)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

21:00 (22:00 EET)

Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	Olympiacos
Sol 32'	Report

NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 48,902^[31]

Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

Dynamo Kyiv won 3–2 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

18:55

Lazio	0–1	Sevilla
	Report	Ben Yedder 22'

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 19,766^[32]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

20 February 2019 (2019-02-20)^{[note 3]}

18:00

Sevilla	2–0	Lazio
Ben Yedder 20' Sarabia 78'	Report

Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville

Attendance: 34,521^[33]

Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)

Sevilla won 3–0 on aggregate.

12 February 2019 (2019-02-12)^{[note 4]}

18:55 (20:55 TRT)

Fenerbahçe	1–0	Zenit Saint Petersburg
Slimani 21'	Report

Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 36,572^[34]

Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

18:55 (20:55 MSK)

Zenit Saint Petersburg	3–1	Fenerbahçe
Ozdoyev 4' Azmoun 37', 76'	Report	Topal 43'

Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg

Attendance: 50,448^[35]

Referee: Michael Oliver (England)

Zenit Saint Petersburg won 3–2 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

21:00 (20:00 WET)

Sporting CP	0–1	Villarreal
	Report	Pedraza 3'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 27,134^[36]

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

18:55

Villarreal	1–1	Sporting CP
Fornals 80'	Report	Fernandes 45+1'

Estadio de la Cerámica, Villarreal

Attendance: 14,098^[37]

Referee: Pavel Královec (Czech Republic)

Villarreal won 2–1 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

18:55 (20:55 FET)

BATE Borisov	1–0	Arsenal
Drahun 45'	Report

Borisov Arena, Barysaw

Attendance: 12,527^[38]

Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

18:55 (17:55 GMT)

Arsenal	3–0	BATE Borisov
Volkov 4' (o.g.) Mustafi 39' Papastathopoulos 60'	Report

Emirates Stadium, London

Attendance: 58,812^[39]

Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

Arsenal won 3–1 on aggregate.

14 February 2019 (2019-02-14)

18:55 (20:55 TRT)

Galatasaray	1–2	Benfica
Luyindama 54'	Report	Salvio 27' (pen.) Seferovic 64'

Türk Telekom Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 42,722^[40]

Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)

21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

21:00 (20:00 WET)

Benfica	0–0	Galatasaray
	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 49,545^[41]

Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

Benfica won 2–1 on aggregate.

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 22 February 2019, 13:00 CET.^[42]

The first legs were played on 7 March, and the second legs were played on 14 March 2019.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chelsea	8–0	Dynamo Kyiv	3–0	5–0
Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	Inter Milan	0–0	1–0
Dinamo Zagreb	1–3	Benfica	1–0	0–3 (a.e.t.)
Napoli	4–3	Red Bull Salzburg	3–0	1–3
Valencia	3–2	Krasnodar	2–1	1–1
Sevilla	5–6	Slavia Prague	2–2	3–4 (a.e.t.)
Rennes	3–4[A]	Arsenal	3–1	0–3
Zenit Saint Petersburg	2–5	Villarreal	1–3	1–2

Notes

7 March 2019 (2019-03-07)

21:00 (20:00 GMT)

Chelsea	3–0	Dynamo Kyiv
Pedro 17' Willian 65' Hudson-Odoi 90'	Report

Stamford Bridge, London

Attendance: 37,280^[43]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

14 March 2019 (2019-03-14)

18:55 (19:55 EET)

Dynamo Kyiv	0–5	Chelsea
	Report	Giroud 5', 33', 59' Alonso 45+1' Hudson-Odoi 78'

NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 64,830^[44]

Referee: Tobias Stieller (Germany)

Chelsea won 8–0 on aggregate.

7 March 2019 (2019-03-07)

18:55

Eintracht Frankfurt	0–0	Inter Milan
	Report

Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt

Attendance: 48,000^[45]

Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)

14 March 2019 (2019-03-14)

21:00

Inter Milan	0–1	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Report	Jović 6'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 49,866^[46]

Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

Eintracht Frankfurt won 1–0 on aggregate.

7 March 2019 (2019-03-07)

18:55

Dinamo Zagreb	1–0	Benfica
Petković 38' (pen.)	Report

Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb

Attendance: 29,704^[47]

Referee: Michael Oliver (England)

14 March 2019 (2019-03-14)

21:00 (20:00 WET)

Benfica	3–0 (a.e.t.)	Dinamo Zagreb
Jonas 71' Ferro 94' Grimaldo 105'	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 47,808^[48]

Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)

Benfica won 3–1 on aggregate.

7 March 2019 (2019-03-07)

21:00

Napoli	3–0	Red Bull Salzburg
Milik 10' Fabián 18' Onguéné 58' (o.g.)	Report

Stadio San Paolo, Naples

Attendance: 32,579^[49]

Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

14 March 2019 (2019-03-14)

18:55

Red Bull Salzburg	3–1	Napoli
Dabbur 25' Gulbrandsen 65' Leitgeb 90+2'	Report	Milik 14'

Stadion Wals-Siezenheim, Salzburg

Attendance: 29,520^[50]

Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)

Napoli won 4–3 on aggregate.

7 March 2019 (2019-03-07)

21:00

Valencia	2–1	Krasnodar
Rodrigo 12', 24'	Report	Claesson 63'

Mestalla, Valencia

Attendance: 36,274^[51]

Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

14 March 2019 (2019-03-14)

18:55 (20:55 MSK)

Krasnodar	1–1	Valencia
Suleymanov 85'	Report	Guedes 90+3'

Krasnodar Stadium, Krasnodar

Attendance: 35,074^[52]

Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)

Valencia won 3–2 on aggregate.

7 March 2019 (2019-03-07)

18:55

Sevilla	2–2	Slavia Prague
Ben Yedder 1' Munir 28'	Report	Stoch 25' Král 39'

Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville

Attendance: 30,698^[53]

Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)

14 March 2019 (2019-03-14)

21:00

Slavia Prague	4–3 (a.e.t.)	Sevilla
Ngadeu-Ngadjui 15' Souček 47' (pen.) Van Buren 102' Traoré 119'	Report	Ben Yedder 44' (pen.) Munir 54' Vázquez 98'

Sinobo Stadium, Prague

Attendance: 19,020^[54]

Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

Slavia Prague won 6–5 on aggregate.

7 March 2019 (2019-03-07)

18:55

Rennes	3–1	Arsenal
Bourigeaud 42' Monreal 65' (o.g.) Sarr 88'	Report	Iwobi 4'

Roazhon Park, Rennes

Attendance: 29,100^[55]

Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

14 March 2019 (2019-03-14)

21:00 (20:00 GMT)

Arsenal	3–0	Rennes
Aubameyang 5', 72' Maitland-Niles 15'	Report

Emirates Stadium, London

Attendance: 59,453^[56]

Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)