Minggu, 10 Juli 2011

Unique and Important Facts About Champions League












1. UEFA Champions League is a football club's annual championship among clubs in European football's most successful, and often regarded as trophies of the most prestigious club level in Europe.
2. This championship was first coined by one of the French sports magazine.
3. Cup-shaped trophy is nicknamed "The Big Ears" (Big Ears), and the first trophy contested different from those now made by Stadellman.
4. Cup at stake now is the 6th edition. Initially fighting championship trophy called the European Club Champions Cup or the European Champion Clubs' Cup, which is usually abbreviated to European Cup (European Cup, and is different from the European Cup as it is known in Indonesia today which refers to the European Championship).
5. This championship began in the 1955/56 season with a straight knockout tournament over two legs, ie each team plays two games, one away and one at home, and the team with the highest average scores advance to the next round. Only the champions league teams in each country, coupled with the holder of champions at the time, the right to join this competition.
6. Format and her name later changed to the 1992/93 season. From then on, the championship has three qualifying rounds, one round of group competition (teams play in the form of "away-home" like a regular competition), and then four final round with a knockout.
7. All qualifying and knockout matches to be held with two legs, except the final which is a single match held in a place that has been determined by the UEFA.
8. Real Madrid CF have won this competition nine times and became the largest in all of Europe. The teams are the next most successful is AC Milan (seven-time champion), Liverpool FC (5 times champion), FC Bayern Munich and AFC Ajax (4-time champion), Manchester United, Internazionale Milan and FC Barcelona (3 time champion)
9. The music that accompanies the start of each television broadcast the championship composed by Tony Britten, based on songs composed by George Frideric Handel's Zadok the Priest, entitled, and performed by the Chorus of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
10. The team has ever won the Champions League is at least 5 times in a row or 3 times in a row, on the left sleeve there will be the Champions League logo and written a number of trophies collected. Are like Ajax, for example, because the champion in 1971, 1972 and 1973 on the left sleeve there is a logo of the Champions League trophy is accompanied by the number obtained.
11. The team, wearing the logo on the sleeve of Champions: Real Madrid (champions nine times), AC Milan (champion seven times), Liverpool (5 times champion), Bayer Munich (title 74, 75 and 76) and Ajax (won 71, 72, and 73).
12. In the last 19 seasons, there was only one team to successfully defend the Champions League title (then the format and its name is still the Champions Cup) for two consecutive seasons, the AC Milan at that time was predicated The Dream Team. However, having changed its format to the Champions League, no one timpun champion who successfully defended his title. Milan and Juventus are a team in 15 seasons who won the finals in three consecutive times. Milan (1993, 1994 (champion), and 1995) and Juventus (1996 (champion), 1997, and 1998).
13. At the end of the 2004/05 season there is a problem. Liverpool won the Champions League that season qualify directly into the play-offs next season, but Liverpool in the domestic league was ranked fifth. Everton, which is ranked fourth protest, so that Liverpool and Everton remain the Champions League next season (Everton through qualifying) and the UK also have five teams into the Champions League (the most in a single country).
14. Qualification for the Champions League is determined by the position of teams in the domestic league and through the quota system; countries that have a stronger domestic leagues are given more space. Clubs that play in stronger domestic leagues also began to participate in a more final round. For example, the three strongest leagues, according to UEFA's rankings, will see the champion and runner-up straight into a round group phase, and ranked third and fourth entry in the third qualifying round.
15. Defending champions automatically qualify for the Champions League group stage to final position without depending on domestic league. In a turnaround Champions league clubs fight fiercely to occupy the top position so it is worth taking part of this championship.

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