As the European club competition season reaches its closing stages, UEFA's House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland, will host the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League.

The UEFA Champions League draw will be made at 12.00CET (1pm South African time) and will be conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and the ambassador for the Rome final, Bruno Conti. The UEFA Cup draw will follow at 13.00CET and will be carried out by Mr Taylor and the ambassador for the Istanbul final, Can Bartu.

The eight winners of the ties played in the first knockout round of the UEFA Champions League will contest the quarter–finals, with the pairings determined by an open draw. This means that clubs from the same national association may be drawn against each other.

The quarter-finals are played on a home-and–
away basis, with the first legs scheduled for Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 April and the return legs for Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 April. The four winning teams will, at that stage, know who they will meet in the semi-finals, as the pairings will also be decided during the draw ceremony.

The first legs of the semi-finals will be played just two weeks later, on Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 April, with the second legs to be staged on Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 May.

A further small draw ceremony will also define whether the winner of semi-final 1 or the winner of semi-final 2 will be considered, for administrative purposes, as the 'home' team at the final to be held on Wednesday 27 May at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome from 20.45CET (21h45 South Africna time).

Liverpool can play anyone in the draw, including their English counterparts.

The remaining clubs are:

Liverpool
Arsenal
Chelsea
Man Utd
Porto
Villareal
Barcelona
Bayern Munich