Champions League Round Of 16 Draw: Time, Teams, Live Stream info For First Knockout Round

Topping your group is often seen as a prerequisite to success in the Champions League, earning a round of 16 meeting with a runner-up and in theory a more straightforward path to the tournament’s latter stages. This season that idea is not nearly so straightforward.

Lurking in the list of group runners-up are several teams that no group winner will want to be drawn against on Monday. That field is led by holder and 11-time winner Real Madrid, but also includes five-time champion Bayern Munich as well as last season’s semi-finalists Manchester City and French champion Paris Saint-Germain.

Even with the restriction that teams from the same group or national association cannot face off in the last 16, there promises to be some heavyweight contests when the knockout phase gets underway in February.

For Arsenal, the sight of so many big-hitters among the group runners-up will be a particularly worrying site. The Premier League side has paid the price for finishing second in its group over the past four seasons, drawing the likes of Barcelona and Bayern Munich and going out in the first knockout round on each occasion.

Arsene Wenger’s side finally managed to top its group this time around, yet could still meet its old nemesis Bayern or even a Real Madrid side currently on a club-record run of 34 matches unbeaten.

That record wasn’t enough, though, to top Borussia Dortmund in the group stage. The Bundesliga side came back from a two-goal deficit to claim a crucial point in the Bernabeu on Wednesday and could now fancy its chances of matching its achievements of 2013 and going all the way to the final.

Atletico Madrid also topped a giant in the group stage, having dropped just two points to finish ahead of Bayern Munich. And Diego Simeone’s side, runner-up in two of the last three seasons, appears determined to go all the way this time around.

Indeed, this may be an open a Champions League as there has been for several seasons. While Barcelona is the bookmakers’ favorite, the five-time winner has been in poor form of late. Bayern, too, semifinalists for the last five seasons has yet to fully get into gear under new coach Carlo Ancelotti.

Perhaps there could even be an opportunity for Leicester City to perform another miracle. While Claudio Ranieri’s men are making a limp defense of their Premier League title, it has been a different story in the Champions League, where they won their first four matches to breeze through to the last 16 in their first season in Europe’s premier competition.

Group Winners: Arsenal (Group A, England), Napoli (Group B, Italy), Barcelona (Group C, Spain), Atletico Madrid (Group D, Spain), Monaco (Group E, France), Borussia Dortmund (Group F, Germany), Leicester City (Group G, England), Juventus (Group H, Italy)

Group Runners-Up: Paris Saint-Germain (Group A, France), Benfica (Group B, Portugal), Manchester City (Group C, England), Bayern Munich (Group D, Germany), Bayer Leverkusen (Group E, Germany), Real Madrid (Group F, Spain), Porto (Group G, Portugal), Sevilla (Group H, Spain)

Draw Time: 6 a.m. EST
TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
Live Stream: Uefa.com