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The 2008–09 UEFA Champions League was the 54th edition of Europe's premier club football tournament and the 17th edition under the current UEFA Champions League format. The final was played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy, on 27 May 2009. [ 1 ]
The French second division Champions are the winners of the second highest league of football in France, Ligue 2. The winner also earns promotion to the first division Ligue 1, as do the second-place and third-place finisher. Ligue 2 was inaugurated in the 1933–34 season under the authority of the French Football Federation.
On 12 May, it was announced that the 2009 Trophée des Champions will be played, for the first time, on international soil at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada.The match will contest the winners of the 2008–09 Coupe de France, Guingamp, and the 2008–09 Ligue 1 champions, Bordeaux, with the objective being to promote French professional football abroad.
The French football champions are the winners of the highest league of football in France, Ligue 1.Since the National Council of the French Football Federation voted in support of professionalism in French football in 1930, the professional football championship of France has been contested through Ligue 1, formerly known as Division 1 from 1933 to 2002.
The group stage featured the 22 automatic qualifiers and the 10 winners of the play-off round (five through the Champions Path, five through the Non-Champions Path). After the completion of the group stage, the top two teams in each group advanced to play in the first knockout round , while the third-placed teams dropped down to the UEFA Europa ...
RC Lens, RC Strasbourg and FC Metz were relegated to the 2008–09 Ligue 2 after finishing in the bottom three spots of the table at the end of the 2007–08 season.Lens were relegated to the Ligue 2 after 17 seasons of continuous membership in the top football league of France, while Strasbourg and Metz made their immediate return to the second level.
This article details the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round. There were two paths: Champions Path , which included all domestic champions which did not automatically qualify for the group stage.
Teams relegated to Ligue 2. FC Metz, relegated after losing to Olympique Marseille on 12 April 2008. RC Strasbourg, relegated after losing to SM Caen on 10 May 2008. RC Lens, relegated after drawing with FC Girondins de Bordeaux on 17 May 2008. Teams promoted to Ligue 1. Le Havre AC, promoted after drawing with CS Sedan on 22 April 2008.