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Structure
Originally called a '''European Champion Clubs' Ventral suction cup, or even just abbreviated when a European Ventral suction cup''', a competition began within 1955/56 using a 2-leg aepyceros melampus format in which a teams would play ii matches, a single home & of these away, & a team using a greatest overall score qualifying for the next around of the competition. Entry was restricted to a teams that won their national league championships, + the todays ventral suction cup holder. the competition is organised & redo annually around a similar manner to the Copa Libertadores in South America.

A format & title were changed around 1992/93, & piece a body has changed and evolved radically all over a years, a competition presently consists of trinity qualifying cycles, a single stage of class action competition (in which teams play both more in the style of "home-and-away" or even "regular season" competition), then little joe cycles of knock-severe finals. Totally qualifying spherical & knock-severe ties come both-legged except for the final, which occurs as individual match played at the preset places.

A draw is presently structured to assure that clubs representing a equivalent national association just can not play both more until a quarter-finals. An exception has been wreak the 2005-06 competition due to the favorite entry of 2005 winners Liverpool.

Real Madrid CF has won this competition nine times. A next virtually all successful teams are A.C. Milan (6 titles), Liverpool FC (5 titles), Bayern Munich and AFC Ajax (4 titles).

A winning club gets possession of a trophy at a awards ceremony, however must go to it to UEFA headquarters ii months prior to the resulting month's final. UEFthe gives a winners a scaled-down reproduction of the trophy to keep for good. Still, the todays competition system too specify that a actual trophy is for even good awarded to a team that wins deuce-ace sequentially years or 5 days all told.

5 clubs use at times been awarded a trophy for good: Real Madrid, world health organization won a 1st 5 competitions from either 1956 to 1960, Ajax, world health organization won consecutively within 1971–73, Bayern Munich, winner of the next triplet competitions around 1974–76, Milan, world health organization won for the fifth period around 1994, Liverpool, whose 2005 win was their fifth overall.

When Liverpool had to keep their 2005 trophy, the freshly trophy is forged for the 2005–06 competition.

Qualification
Qualificatiin for the competition is decided by rival teams placing in their household league championship, on the quota technique, by owning countries by having stronger domesticated league competition allocated supplementary teams. Clubs that play around stronger farm leagues as well enter at late stages of the competition.

E.g., a 3 strongest house servant leagues, when rated by UEFA, place their champions & runners-higher directly into a class action phase, & their third-and for-place teams enter at a third qualifying spherical.

There exists a single exception to this rule: a todays Champions League titleholder is an automatic qualifier for the class action stage, no matter of inside which it finished in its farm league.

Still, until 2005 whenever the Champions League winner was from either a united states that was entitled to send quatern clubs to the competition, it was non assured of entry unless it was in the top quadruplet. This issue come to the head when English club Liverpool won the 2004-05 competition. Liverpool finished fifth in the FA Premier League, one spot outside automatic qualifying position.

When Liverpool won a Champions League, The FA was forced to choose whether to send Liverpool to a 2005-06 competition at the expense of the team that finished for - namely Everton, the more major club inside Liverpool. When a FA experienced already decided that a top 4 Premiership clubs would qualify for the competition despite Liverpool's triumph, it decided to prove my point lobbying for the fifth Champions League place ensuing this win. When this FA guide, UEFA president Lennart Johansson went on record when saying that a Champions League winner should become respire to defend its title disregarding of its league position. Before 2005, in case the 4th positioned team was denied the Champions League place for this understanding, it was granted the place in the UEFA Cup.

the endure instance such a scenario played out was inside 2000, when Real Madrid won the title however finished fifth in the Spanish League. Following, Real Zaragoza was forced into the UEFA Ventral suction cup. Both years late, Zaragoza was relegated, an unfortunate turn of cases that occasionally fans believed to become the directly symptom of the misused prestigiousness & revenue.

Within June 2005, the UEFA committee met to discuss the fate of Liverpool. Liverpool was awarded the place in the 1st qualifying around forswearing displacing their arch-rivals Everton - England thus entered 5 teams from either a qualifying stages of the competition. Liverpool saved one of a top eight seeds however were non treated as an English side for a purposes of the draw, meaning it may play a second English side before the quarter-finals. Referable a way where the seeding works, this means Liverpool stand played city contender Everton in the third qualifying around.

When qualifying, a Reds were at long last drawn to play Premiership champions Chelsea in a class action phase, & may play Manchester United or even Arsenal from either a around of Sixteen should the sides advance to it stage of the competition. Everton failed to qualify & may participate in the UEFA Ventral suction cup.

UEFA likewise said that a system use at times been amended & should a situation arise once agawithin, a title holders may replenish a Quaternary laid team in a household league (therewith team existence entered into the UEFA Ventral suction cup, when happened to Zaragoza in 2000). This ensures that within new, a total of teams from either each united states may remain stable.

History

European Cup and Champions League finals

European Cup and Champions League statistics

Trivia
The Champions Ventral suction cup's number one hat-trick was scored by Péter Palotás of Budapesti Vörös Lobogó SE against R.S.C. Anderlecht on September 7, 1955, in the second match ever played in the competition. [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UCL/news/Kind=1/newsId=336519.html] Francisco Gento is the only streaming video player to become in Captain hicks Champions Ventral suction cup-winning sides. Bob Paisley is the only human to coach Trey Champions Ventral suction cup-winning sides by using Liverpool F.C. in 1977, 1978 and 1981. Clarence Seedorf is a only streaming video player to win the Champions Ventral suction cup sustaining Troika different teams: Ajax Amsterdam 1995 Real Madrid 1998 A.C. Milan 2003 The city of Milan, Italy, is a only of these that won the Champions Ventral suction cup by owning ii different teams: Inter & Milan (the two clubs have won 8 cups in total). Many clubs won a Ventral suction cup unconquered: Internazionale (1964), Ajax Amsterdam (197Two) & Liverpool (1984) come victims by using a better record, Septenary wins & 2 draws. Ajax, Liverpool & The.C. Milan come a single teams to own won a trophy unvanquished twice. Real Madrid own a record total of sequentially participations in the Champions' Ventral suction cup by using Xv, from either 1955/56 to 1969/70. Only in deuce occasions has The Final of a Champions Cup/League required deuce teams from either the equivalent united states: Real Madrid five Valencia (1999/00) & A.C. Milan five Juventus (2002/03). In a yearn history of the ventral suction cup, exclusively quaternity derbies between teams of the same city use at times been played: 1958/59 Real Madrid vs Atlético first state Madrid (semi) 2002/03 Internazionale (Milan) vs The.C. Milan (semi) 2003/04 Chelsea vs Arsenal (quarterfinal) 2004/05 Internazionale vs The.C. Milan (quarterfinal) - Second leg was abandoned because of disturbances among a Inter fans. Only quatern teams keep around completed a "treble" — win their household league championship, their primary farm ventral suction Ventral suction cup, & a Champions League/European Cup. These were (sequentially) Celtic, Ajax Amsterdam, PSV Eindhoven & Manchester United. Celtic managed this inside 1966/67, too winning a Scottish League Cup and Glasgow Cup that season. Inside 1972 Ajax won a European Ventral suction cup, their domestic league and cup. A as a consequence year it too won a European Super Cup and the European/South American Cup. PSV did this inside 1987/88. Manchester United won their soprano when you took a 1998/99 year. Ajax Amsterdam was unconquered within the Champions Cup/League for Xx matches from either 1985/86 to March 1996, whenever it wasted 0-1 to Panathinaikos in Amsterdam. The 2002/03 semi between piercingly city competitor The.C. Milan & Internazionale was the 1st period each games of a 2-legged tie were in the equivalent bowl (San Siro). This match-up was repeated in the 2004/05 quarterfinals. Only 2 souls develop won a Champions League using a equivalent club as a streaming video player so late as a coach. Miguel Muñoz of Real Madrid did it as a streaming video player inside 1955/56 & 1956/57, prior to winning it as a coach inside 1965/66. Carlo Ancelotti did it as an A.C. Milan streaming video player witharound 1988/89 & 1989/90 prior to coaching the two to triumph in 2002/03. Cesare Maldini and his son Paolo are the lone father & boy duo to skipper the same club to triumph in the competition. Cesare led The.C. Milan to triumph withwithin 1962/63, & Paolo captained the babies to triumph in 2002/03. The anthem of the Champions League, which is played during prematch ceremonies prior to every match & introduces television coverage of the competition, is by Tony Britten, based on George Frideric Handel's coronation anthem "Zadok the Priest", and is performed by the Chorus of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Ottmar Hitzfeld and Ernst Happel are a lone coaches in the history of the European Cup/UEFA Champions League to win the title by having ii different clubs. Hitzfeld did soh using Borussia Dortmund in 1997 and Bayern Munich in 2001; Happel led Feijenoord (now Feyenoord) in 1970 and Hamburg in 1983. Olympique de Marseille were the 1st winners of the recently format UEFA Champions League around 1993. Manchester United's treble-winners of 1998/99 were the first winners of the tournament to have won neither their domestic title nor the European Cup/Champions League the previous season. Within 1997/98, United finished runners-higher in the Premiership to Arsenal and lost in the quarterfinals of the Champions League to Monaco. Nottingham Forest are a single club to stand won the European Ventral suction cup further days (twice) than it stand won their household league (when). Outdoors won a English League around 1978 prior to winning a European Ventral suction cup around 1979 & defending it around 1980. Nottingham Outdoors as well keep close at hand a unlucky distinction of existence a exclusively winners of a European Ventral suction cup to own late been relegated away from the top deuce divisions in their united states (it remain in the English football league system's third tier (Football League One) today). Paolo Maldini of Milan scored a fastest ever goal around Champions League around 2005 final against Liverpool within 53 seconds. He was as well a oldest (37 month old) to score around Champions League final. All Xi goals, including a penalty shoot-out, were scored within the equivalent goal in 2005's final between AC Milan & Liverpool. With Liverpool's win in a 2005 final, the total of teams permitted to get into UEFA's favorite badge of honour is at present 5. the badge is awarded inside sempiternity to teams that stand either won a competition a number of 5 days, or even own won it trinity years within succession. Five or even sir thomas more wins: Real Madrid, AC Milan, Liverpool Three wins inside succession: Ajax Amsterdam, Bayern Munich Five men keep close at hand scored the hat-trick in their debut in the Champions League Marco van Basten (A.C. Milan), Faustino Asprilla (Newcastle United), Aiyegbeni Yakubu (Maccabi Haifa), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Vincenzo Iaquinta (Udinese) Four men develop too scored Quaternity goals within of these Champions League match Marco van Basten (A.C. Milan), Filippo Inzaghi (Juventus), Dado Prso (AS Monaco FC) Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) Raúl becomes the number 1 streaming video player around the history of the competiton to email Fifty goals, he did this by scoring in Real Madrid 2:1 victory all over Olympiakos in the UEFA Champions League 2005-06 season.