Quiz! Can you name all 67 teams to ever play a Champions League knockout game?

Playing in the round robin group stage of European football’s elite competition is all well and good. Yet we all know that the real cut and thrust occurs after the winter break as the two-legged knockout ties begin.

Of course, back in the European Cup era, pre-Champs League, teams went straight into a knockout dogfight (after perhaps a qualifying round, but that was about it). But in the modern era with so many teams, well, teeming for entry, even making it to the Last 16 is a badge of honour.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.