Go to report. David Lange. Contact Get in touch with us. We are happy to help. Vianny Gutierrez-Cruz. Sales Manager — Contact United States. Ziyan Zhang. Customer Relations — Contact Asia. Kisara Mizuno. Customer Success Manager — Contact Asia. Lodovica Biagi. Director of Operations — Contact Europe. Catalina Rodriguez. Yes, let me download! On several occasions has the competition expanded to include more clubs — the initial 8 have become 32 qualification stage excluded. The Champions League trophy can be kept permanently by a club that win the tournament five times or three times in a row since the rule changed in it is only a replica.
Plus other key facts about the tournament. If the precessor, European Cup, is not counted the Champions League started in Although, when statistics are presented for Champions League it is common that Champions League and European League are accumulated.
What distinguish the Champions League from European Cup is for many the group play instead of the round-robin format.
The fact is, however, that a group stage was introduced already in , but the reshaping became formalised by the name shift. In the development of the competition a hybrid-form of group play and round-robin has evolved. The tournaments have so far been dominated by the top European clubs and few surprise victories have occurred. Perhaps Porto's victory in should be counted as the biggest surprise.
Potential sensations that could have happened was Nantes in that almost managed to go through Juventus in the semi-finals lost on aggregate. Over the decades, UEFA has developed from a mainly administrative body into a pro-active and dynamic organisation that is in tune with the vast requirements of modern-day football.
UEFA is a sporting authority which does not have the powers of a government; it represents Europe's national football associations, and acts in accordance with the wishes of these associations.
When UEFA was founded, the body comprised 25 national associations. The number of member associations rose gradually until the beginning of the s, when political developments in eastern Europe and the fragmentation of the USSR led to a rapid growth in the number of new associations.
The period leading up to the FIFA World Cup final round in Switzerland, when the world body FIFA celebrated its 50th birthday, was a crucial stage in moves towards the foundation of an umbrella body for European football.
The three men held a first round of talks in Zurich in May , and informal discussions took place in Paris and Helsinki However, the movement in support of a body bringing together the European national football associations gathered real pace after FIFA had approved the statutory basis for the creation of continental football confederations at its Extraordinary Congress in Paris in
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