In this website there will be information on the history of the Champions League. There will be information on the teams that have won the event since 1955 including the nine time winners Real Madrid. There will be a list of all the top goal scorers and all the teams, results and fixtures and team news from this years UEFA Champions League.
The Champions League first started in 1955. It was evolved from the European Champion Clubs Cup. The tournament that played through the season were 32 of Europe's top teams compete in. The competition has been organised by UEFA since 1992 (or overall in its older format 1995)
The European Champion Clubs cup is commonly known as the European cup.
The tournament has many stages. In present years it began in mid-July with three knockout qualifying rounds. The last 16 teams joined 16 seeded teams in the group stage and there are eight groups which had 4 teams each. The eight group winners and eight runners-up enter the final kockout stages and it all ends at the final in May. Years ago the champions of each European league could only compete in the compitition but it was changed in 1997 so that runners-up of the league could also compete in the competition.
History
The Champions League started in 1955 when a French sports journalist and editor of L'Equipe Gabriel Hanot that there should be tournament for the winners of the European Leagues.
The first Champions League started in 1955-56. The rules of the the stages were that two of the 32 teams would play each other in two-leg knockout, the teams would play the maxemum of two matches, one match at home and one match away and after the matches were played the team with the highest score of the two games would qualify for the next round. Right up until 1992 only European teams that won their league and the current European champions could enter the Champions League. That rule was changed in the 1992-1993 season and there was a group stage added to the competition and the tournament was renamed the UEFA Champions League. In 1997 the competition included runners-up from some European leagues meaning that agroup stage had to take place before the knockout rounds. Some of the lower teams from the league had to play qualifying matches before making it into the Champions League.
In this website there will be information on the history of the Champions League. There will be information on the teams that have won the event since 1955 including the nine time winners Real Madrid. There will be a list of all the top goal scorers and all the teams, results and fixtures and team news from this years UEFA Champions League.
The Champions League first started in 1955. It was evolved from the European Champion Clubs Cup. The tournament that played through the season were 32 of Europe's top teams compete in. The competition has been organised by UEFA since 1992 (or overall in its older format 1995)
The European Champion Clubs cup is commonly known as the European cup.
The tournament has many stages. In present years it began in mid-July with three knockout qualifying rounds. The last 16 teams joined 16 seeded teams in the group stage and there are eight groups which had 4 teams each. The eight group winners and eight runners-up enter the final kockout stages and it all ends at the final in May. Years ago the champions of each European league could only compete in the compitition but it was changed in 1997 so that runners-up of the league could also compete in the competition.
History
The Champions League started in 1955 when a French sports journalist and editor of L'Equipe Gabriel Hanot that there should be tournament for the winners of the European Leagues.
The first Champions League started in 1955-56. The rules of the the stages were that two of the 32 teams would play each other in two-leg knockout, the teams would play the maxemum of two matches, one match at home and one match away and after the matches were played the team with the highest score of the two games would qualify for the next round. Right up until 1992 only European teams that won their league and the current European champions could enter the Champions League. That rule was changed in the 1992-1993 season and there was a group stage added to the competition and the tournament was renamed the UEFA Champions League. In 1997 the competition included runners-up from some European leagues meaning that agroup stage had to take place before the knockout rounds. Some of the lower teams from the league had to play qualifying matches before making it into the Champions League.