UEFA Champions League News, Stats, Scores

Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal’s world-renowned striker, came out of the game due to injury in the 25th minute. They were joint hosts Poland and Ukraine, the winners and the highest ranked second-placed team from the nine qualifying groups as well as the winners of four play-off matches between the runners-up of the other groups. These sixteen teams were divided equally into four groups, A, B, C and D, each consisting of four teams. The seeded teams being the host nations, the reigning champions, should they qualify, and those with the best points per game coefficients over the qualifying phase of the tournament and the previous World Cup qualifying.

The qualifying phase is played in a group format, the composition of the groups is determined through means of a draw of teams from pre-defined seeded bowls. For UEFA Euro 2020, the group qualifying phase consisted of ten groups; five of six teams and the remainder of five teams each. To qualify, a team must finish in one of the qualifying spots or win a play-off. After this, a team proceeds to the finals round in the host country, although hosts qualify for the tournament automatically. The qualifying phase begins in the autumn after the preceding FIFA World Cup, almost two years before the finals.

Ziyech started his professional career at Dutch club Heerenveen in 2012 and signed for fellow Dutch club Twente two years later. In 2016, he signed for Ajax on a five-year deal, with a reported transfer fee of €11m.[8][9] The 2018–19 season was the most prolific season in Ziyech’s career, as he scored 16 goals and provided 13 assists in the Eredivisie.[10] He joined Premier League club Chelsea in the 2020–21 season. The winners of the ties advanced to the Champions Path second qualifying round. The losers were transferred to the Europa Conference League Champions Path second qualifying round. Chelsea were the defending champions, but they were eliminated in the quarter-finals by eventual winners Real Madrid. The 2021–22 UEFA Champions League was the 67th season of Europe’s premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 30th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs’ Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

For the 2008 tournament, the Henri Delaunay Trophy was remodelled to make it larger, as the old trophy was overshadowed by UEFA’s other trophies such as the new European Champion Clubs’ Cup. The new trophy, which is made of sterling silver, now weighs 8 kilograms (18 lb) and is 60 centimetres (24 in) tall, being 2 kilograms (4.4 lb) heavier and 18 centimetres (7.1 in) longer than the old one. The names of the winning countries that had appeared on the plaques glued to the plinth are now engraved on the back of the trophy,[74] under the word Coupe Henri Delaunay and are written in English rather than French its predecessor had.

It was designed by Jürg Stadelmann, a jeweller from Bern, Switzerland, after the original was given https://sbotopbet.net/blog/premier-league-2023/ to Real Madrid in 1966 in recognition of their six titles to date, and cost 10,000 Swiss francs.

The competition has been won by 23 clubs, 13 of which have won it more than once, and eight successfully defended their title.[9] Real Madrid is the most successful club in the tournament’s history, having won it 14 times.[10] Manchester City are the current European champions, having beaten Inter Milan 1–0 in the 2023 final for their first title. The UEFA Champions League begins with a double round-robin group stage of 32 teams, which since the 2009–10 season 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 being league champions, and those qualified by virtue of finishing second or third in their national championship. Before entering the tournament, all teams other than the host nations (which qualify automatically) compete in a qualifying process. Until 2016, the championship winners could compete in the following year’s FIFA Confederations Cup, but were not obliged to do so.[3] From the 2020 edition onwards, the winner competes in the CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions.

• Scheduled to be in the even-numbered year between FIFA World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the European Nations’ Cup before changing to its current name in 1968.
• Thibaut Courtois has ruled out returning to international duty in time for Euro 2024 as he recovers from injury, criticising Belgium coach Domenico Tedesco’s handling of the row which saw the goalkeeper walk out on the national team.
• The UEFA Intertoto Cup was a summer competition, previously operated by several Central European football associations, which was relaunched and recognised as official UEFA club competition by UEFA in 1995.[25] The last Intertoto Cup took place in 2008.
• The tournament proper begins with a group stage of 32 teams, divided into eight groups of four.[80] The draw to determine which teams go into each group is seeded based on teams’ performance in UEFA competitions, and no group may contain more than one club from each nation.
• The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round were divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).

His son Pierre was in charge of creating the trophy.[73] Since the first tournament it has been awarded to the winning team for them to keep for four years, until the next tournament. This trophy bore the words Coupe d’Europe (“European Cup”), Coupe Henri Delaunay (“Henri Delaunay Cup”), and Championnat d’Europe (“European Championship”) on the front and a juggling boy on the back. The number of teams that each association enters into the UEFA Champions League is based upon the UEFA coefficients of the member associations. These coefficients are generated by the results of clubs representing each association during the previous five Champions League, UEFA Cup/Europa League, and UEFA Europa Conference League seasons. The higher an association’s coefficient, the more teams represent the association in the Champions League, and the fewer qualification rounds the association’s teams must compete in.

However, 6 other associations which were not present were still recognised as founding members, bringing the total of founding associations to 31.[7] UEFA grew to more than 50 members by the mid-1990s, as new associations were born out of the fragmentation of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia into their constituent states. England players hoping to compete at next year’s Euros will have to ensure their fitness is up to the mark, manager Gareth Southgate has said. Italy secured their Euro 2024 spot with Monday’s 0-0 draw against Ukraine, giving them a chance to defend their crown.

All English clubs were banned for five years (Liverpool for six years) following the 1985 European Cup final due to the Heysel Stadium disaster. For each tournament, the flag of the host country and the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown. In the January transfer window, Ziyech could not move to Paris Saint-Germain on loan as his parent club submitted the wrong documents before the deadline which were rejected by the LFP.[126] However, he ended the season with 24 appearances in all competitions.