INTRODUCTION Soccer or football as it is known almost everywhere else in the world is truly a universal game Nowhere is the play more competitive than in Europe Almost every European country has its own league and generally that league has several divisions A typical season lasts eight or nine months from late summer to mid spring Every team in each level plays all other teams in its level twice once at home and once on the other team's pitch At the end of the season the bottommost teams in one division are relegated moved down to the next lower division with the same number of topmost teams from that lower division promoted to replace them Such a system ensures that a high level of competition is maintained and that late season games between teams with losing records remain important as they seek to avoid relegation Individual countries also feature their own tournaments such as England's FA Cup and Spain's Copa del Rey In theory these tournaments allow almost any team the opportunity to win the championship but in reality the best clubs dominate the competition An assortment of European wide tournaments complement individual nations league and cup play The most prestigious is the Union of European Football Associations UEFA Champions League Known as the European Cup until
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1993 the Champions League a single championship game at is a tournament consisting a neutral site The tournament of 32 teams drawn primarily runs concurrently with league from the highest finishers in play beginning in September the strongest national leagues and concluding in May Teams Other teams can play their way into the that win their league their national cup tournament in preliminary rounds It and the Champions League during the originated in 1954 when the otherwise same season are said to have won the obscure Wolverhampton Wanderers Continental Treble certainly the most of England defeated Honved the difficult feat in all of professional sports top rated Hungarian side prompting The winner of the Champions League Wanderers manager Stan Cullis to declare is eligible for the FIFA Club World Cup his team Champions of the World an annual seven team tournament that Noted French soccer journalist Gabriel originated in 2000 It also includes teams Hanot disagreed and helped organize a from the Americas and Caribbean Africa continent wide competition that began Asia Oceania and the host nation in 1956 The other major European club The Champions League starts with championship is the UEFA Europa eight four team pools which play two League founded in 1971 and known as games with one another The top two the UEFA Cup until the 2009 10 season teams from each pool begin a series of The winners of these two tournaments knockout rounds also contested on a play for the UEFA Super Cup usually two game basis The last two teams play held in
Stadio Giuseppe Meazza San Siro ALL TIME CHAMPIONS LEAGUE RECORDS OF THE TOP 10 CLUBS AS OF 2014 Winner Runner up Real Madrid Spain 10 AC Milan Italy 7 4 Bayern Munich Germany Liverpool England 5 2 Barcelona Spain Ajax Netherlands Manchester United England Inter Milan Italy Benfica Portugal Juventus Italy 0 e w A A a un a un n n n w N un N w 2 taldi 14 VALENT BAGAJ CONTINENTAL TREBLE WINNERS Celtic Scotland 1966 67 Ajax Netherlands 1971 72 PSV Netherlands 1987 88 Manchester United England 1998 99 Barcelona Spain 2008 09 Inter Milan Italy 2009 10 Bayern Munich Germany 2012 13 San Til 19 www stampareingrandeiread
