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Uefa Champions League
... Champions LeagueThe UEFA Champions League (usually referred to as simply the Champions League or historically as the European Cup) is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. The final of the competition is the most watched...

Champions League History
... tournament was inaugurated in 1955, at the suggestion of the French sports journalist and editor of L'Équipe Gabriel Hanot,[3] who conceived the idea after receiving reports from his journalists over the highly successful Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones of 1948.[4] As a reaction to a...

Uefa Champions League Anthem
... Champions League Anthem The UEFA Champions League anthem, officially titled simply as "Champions League", is an adaptation by Tony Britten of George Frideric Handel's Zadok the Priest from the Coronation Anthems. UEFA commissioned Britten in 1992 to arrange their anthem, and the piece was performed...

Champions League - Format
... of 2009, the UEFA Champions League commences with a round-robin group stage of 32 teams, which is preceded by two qualification 'streams' for teams that do not receive direct entry to the tournament proper. The two streams are divided between teams qualified by virtue of...

Champions League - The Prize
... money   UEFA awards €2.1 million to each team in the play-offs round. For reaching the Group Stage, UEFA awards €3.8 million plus €0.55 million for each match in the Group Stage. A win in the campaign is awarded €0.8 million and a draw is awarded €0.4 million.     In addition, UEFA pays team...

Champions League - Referee
... Ranking The UEFA Refereeing Unit is broken down into five experience based categories in which a referee is ranked; (from highest to lowest rank) Elite Category, Premier Category, Category 2, Category 3, and Category 4. Upon certification, an international referee is placed into Category 4...

Champions League - Sponsorship
... the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Champions League is sponsored by a group of multinational corporations, in contrast to the single main sponsor of the Barclays Premier League, the Ligue 1 or Serie A TIM. When the Champions League was created in 1992, it was decided that a maximum of eight...

Champions League - Early Tournaments
... tournaments     Club competitions between teams from different European countries can trace their origins back as far as 1897, when the Challenge Cup was founded as a competition between clubs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that under normal circumstances would not meet in competition. This...

Champions League - 1986 To 1993
... to 1988 — Steaua, Porto and PSV   With English clubs banned from participating in European football, the spell of dominance was well and truly over. In the few years that followed the Heysel Disaster, the European Cup was contested between other clubs. 1986, 1987 and 1988 saw the trophy lifted...

Champions League - 1994 To 1996
... to 1996 — Italian consistency Juventus   Serie A clubs reached the final in seven consecutive seasons, winning twice.     In 1994, A.C. Milan reclaimed the trophy by comprehensively beating a star-studded Barcelona side, 4–0, in what many have hailed as one of the finest European Cup Final...

Champions League - 1997 To 2002
... to 2002 — Spanish & German Prominence   Borussia Dortmund achieved a significant upset by winning the Champions League in 1997 when they beat holders Juventus in the final having gone into the game as significant underdogs by a score 3-1. BVB coach Ottmar Hitzfeld was able to lift the cup for...

Champions League - 2003 To 2004
... Unexpected endings Part 2     2003 — "Il Ritorno del Milan"     The next season saw Italian clubs return to the top of the European table. Juventus also made history in the European group stage by defeating Olmpiakos 7 - 0, also David Trezeguet scored the fastest goal ever in the Champions...

Champions League - 2005 To 2010
... to 2010 — Liverpool, Barcelona and Milan Triumphs, Manchester United reaches back-to-back finals   2005: The miracle of Istanbul   There was a similar surprise in 2005. This time it involved two of Europe's most successful clubs. Six-time European Champions A.C. Milan faced four-time winners...

Manchester United At Champions League
... 1878European Cup Winners: 1968,1999,2008Cup-Winners Cup Winners: 1991UEFA Cup Winners: English Champions: 1908,1911,1952,1956,1957,1965,1967,1993,1994,1996,1997,1999,2000,2001,2003,2007,2008,200921st Century European seasons:2000 - Champions League Quarter-Final2001 - Champions League...