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The UEFA Champions League is a seasonal football competition established in 1955. [1] Prior to the 1992–93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. [1] The UEFA Champions League is open to the league champions of all UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) member associations (except Liechtenstein, which has no league competition), as well as to the clubs finishing from ...
Cristiano Ronaldo is the competition's all-time top scorer with 140 goals. The UEFA Champions League, known until 1992 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or colloquially as the European Cup, is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955. Originally a straight knockout competition open only to champion clubs ...
Benfica forward Vangelis Pavlidis scored the third-fastest hat trick at the start of a Champions League game on Tuesday, against Barcelona. The Greece international scored two minutes into the ...
Like the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Champions League is sponsored by a group of multinational corporations, in contrast to the single main sponsor typically found in national top-flight leagues. When the Champions League was created in 1992, it was decided that a maximum of eight companies should be allowed to sponsor the event, with each ...
Real Madrid playing Liverpool in the Champions League has twice in recent years been a final between arguably the two best teams in the competition. It is not defending champion Madrid on top ...
Arsenal can inch closer to the knockout rounds of the UEFA Champions League with a win over Sevilla
The most goals scored in a single match in the Champions League era is twelve, which occurred when Borussia Dortmund beat Legia Warsaw 8–4 in the group stage in 2016–17. Bayern Munich beat Barcelona 8–2 in the quarter-finals in 2019–20. With ten goals, this is the highest-scoring individual knockout game in the Champions League era. [16]
Yet two of the superclubs are now scrambling to get into the top 24. The champions of France and England kick off in 26th and 24th place, respectively. “The match comes at a tough time in terms ...