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Founded in 1955 as the European Champions Clubs' Cup, the Champions League is Europe's most prestigious football competition.

Last season, the Red and Blue have been facing Dortmund, AC Milan and Newcastle, within one of the most prestigious group.

After eliminating Real Sociedad and FC Barcelona, the parisians were defeated by Borussia Dortmund in the semi-finals.

Champions League 2024/25

Consecutive to the draw made on August 29 in Monaco, Paris Saint-Germain know now their 8 rivals of the league stage.

The Red and Blue will be receiving: Manchester City, Atletico de Madrid, PSV Eindhoven and FC Girona.
Marquinhos' teammates will be travelling to: Bayern Munchen, Arsenal, Stuttgart and Salzburg.

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UEFA Champions League

Founded in 1955 by UEFA, the Champions League is a competition between the 32 best soccer clubs on the European continent. The Champions League begins each year in September with the first group stage matches and ends at the end of May with the grand final played in one of the most prestigious stadiums in Europe.

The classic format of this competition is divided into two phases: the 32 teams are first divided into 8 groups of four within which the clubs meet in round-trip matches in the form of a mini championship. The first two teams in the group qualify for the round of 16 of the competition, while the third team is sent to the Europa League. This is followed by a knockout phase in which the clubs play each other in 1/8, 1/4 and ½ finals in home and away matches. As for the final, it is played in a single match.

Only clubs that have won the competition 5 times or 3 times in a row are entitled to keep the trophy permanently

2024/25: a new format

From the 2024/25 season, the UEFA Champions League will adopt a new format, according to reforms announced by the UEFA Executive Committee.

The main change is the abolition of the group stage system. Whereas previously 32 teams were divided into eight groups of four, from now on 36 clubs will participate directly in a single league phase. This gives four more teams the chance to compete against Europe's top clubs.

In this new league phase, each team will play eight matches. Unlike the previous format, in which they played three opponents home and away, they will now play eight different teams, with four matches at home and four away. Opponents will be determined by drawing teams from four pools.

The top eight teams in this phase will automatically qualify for the Round of 16. Teams ranked between 9th and 24th will take part in a two-legged play-off round to guarantee their qualification. Teams below 25th place will be eliminated from the UEFA Europa League.

From the Round of 16 onwards, the competition will follow the usual format of two-legged knockout matches, culminating in the final at a neutral venue chosen by UEFA.

This new format will also apply to the two other UEFA competitions: the Europa League and the Europa Conference League.

Its stakes

Broadcast in almost every country in the world, the Champions League is every year one of the most watched sports events on the planet. Its final has already gathered nearly 340 million European, American, African and Asian viewers, all sharing the same fervor for this unique competition. This competition, founded in 1955, represents a lot for the participating clubs, beyond the simple sporting and prestigious aspect that it arouses.

A participation in the Champions League represents a major financial stake for the qualified clubs. From TV rights, ticketing, participation and performance bonuses to matchday revenues, a Champions League campaign brings in millions for the participating clubs. These revenues can be a great asset in the construction of a mercato budget during the transfer period, especially for clubs in full development.

Beyond the financial power that a participation in the Champions League brings, the competition offers a strong attractiveness to the clubs that are engaged in it. Visibility, prestige and top matches, all the elements that a football player would like to experience in his career are combined in this same competition. The clubs that qualify for the Champions League have a decisive advantage in attracting the world's biggest stars, international players or future talent of European soccer to their ranks.

Participation in the Champions League also means exposure to the 5 continents. It is when the UEFA anthem resounds, which has become mythical over the years, that clubs can give themselves the opportunity to showcase themselves and shine on the European stage... watched by fans from all over the world. When a club performs well in the Champions League, its whole institution is impacted. Its brand image is enhanced, its notoriety improved, and this is how clubs build powerful sporting identities becoming brands remaining over time.

This is the case of Real Madrid, FC Barcelona or Manchester United, whose C1 victories have been echoed throughout the world and have resulted in the construction of communities that go far beyond the borders of their countries. These fans are at the origin of the numerous sales of shirts, merchandising and television rights and constitute the very value of these sports entities. Today, the biggest European clubs playing in C1 compete with the great American sports franchises such as the New Yorks Yankees (MLB), the Dallas Coboys (NFL), or the New York Knicks (NBA).

His highlights

May 18, 1960: On top of Europe

Real Madrid was the first club to be crowned European champion at the end of the first edition of the European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1955, and won the next three editions under the presidency of Santiago Bernabéu.

On May 18, 1960, Real Madrid played its 5th European Cup final against Eintracht Frankfurt in the mythical Hampden Park in Glasgow, in front of more than 127,000 spectators. Carried by an immense Puskas and a great Di Stefano, scoring for the one a quadruple and for the other a triple, Real Madrid won its fifth European champion title in 1960.

May 29, 1985: The drama of Heysel

On May 29, 1985, the 30th European Champion Clubs' Cup final was held at the Heysel stadium in Brussels, between Liverpool FC and Juventus of Turin. From 19:00, tensions rise in the stand between supporters of both sides located nearby. A few minutes later, a hundred English hooligans invaded the Juve stand: in a crowd movement, hundreds of panicked Italian fans tried to access the field and found themselves amassed against gates and a low wall that eventually gave way.

Following this sad event, which left 39 dead and hundreds injured, the English clubs were excluded from European competitions for 5 years. Liverpool 10 years. Platini offered the first C1 in the history of Juve to the Bianconeri people in a final disputed despite the disastrous circumstances.

May 26, 1999: A treble for history

Winning the Cup and the championship that year, Manchester United played on May 26, 1999 the second C1 final in its history against Bayern Munich. While preparations were underway for Bayern's 1-0 lead in the 90th minute, the Camp Nou spectators did not expect to witness one of the most resounding feats in football history a few minutes later. At the end of the added time that made the legend of Fergie Time, the Bavarian players were in tears.

David Beckham's teammates had just won a second European Championship and had achieved a historic treble of Cup, Championship and European Championship. A feat that no other English club has yet achieved, making the legend of the Mancunian club. A few days later, Alex Ferguson was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II who granted him the title of Sir.

May 25, 2005: The miracle of Istanbul

May 25, 2005, Istanbul is the scene of the 50th C1 final between two prestigious clubs of the Old Continent: Paolo Maldini's AC Milan is opposed to Steven Gerrard's Liverpool. But in the 44th minute, the Reds' hopes were almost shattered when Crespo scored twice to make the score 3-0 in favor of Milan. The 15-minute break changed the course of this legendary final forever.

Rafa Benitez's speech merge into a more melancholic You'll Never Walk Alone than usual, echoing at the other end of the tunnel. Transcended and carried by an extra soul, the impossible became reality: Liverpool had just equalized in the 60th. An hour later, Liverpool won the 5th C1 of its history after a memorable penalty shootout.

May 24, 2014: The decima

On May 24, 2014, Real Madrid has an appointment with its history to try to win a 10th European title, more than 50 years after winning its first C1 in 1955. As a symbol, this final pits them against their eternal rival: Atletico Madrid. Leading 1-0 and on the verge of winning their first European title, the Colchoneros locked up the match at the end of the game with Diego Simeone's famous Cholismo.

Real, without a solution until the 93rd, relied on a corner from Modric for Ramos, who delivered his side with a raging header to send the Merengues into extra time. At the final whistle, Real Madrid won the 10th Champions League in its history, after winning 4-1 in this historic derby.

April 3, 2018: Feet in the stars

On an April night in 2018, Zinedine Zidane's Real Madrid were traveling to Juventus Stadium for a Champions League quarterfinal first leg. In this match between giants of the old contains, lightning struck the Italian night when Dani Carvajal placed a floating cross back that looked harmless for the bianconeri. With his back to goal and seeing the ball sailing through the Turin sky, Cristiano Ronaldo tried the impossible by raising his feet to a height of 2.30 meters before propelling the ball with an acrobatic return of anthology.

Shocked, the Turin public warmly greeted the performance of the all-time best scorer of the competition. A few months later, the Merengue legend returned to Turin to wear the bianconeri shirt.

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The history of the competition

In the post-war years, professional soccer in Europe was reduced to the existence of national championships and prestigious midweek friendlies. Some competitions between Western European clubs (Latin Cup) and Central European clubs (Mitropa Cup) were played at that time but no competition between the best clubs of the continent existed yet.

In 1954, when the English club Wolverhampton was crowned champion of England, it met Racing of Avellaneda, Spartak Moscow and Budapest Honvéd in friendly matches between world clubs. Wolves were far from the favorites, but they managed to beat all three teams and the Daily Mail declared Wolverhampton "World Club Champions".

Gabriel Hanot, editor-in-chief of the newspaper L'Equipe at the time, responded by pointing out to the English press and to the whole of Europe the presence of many prestigious clubs such as Real Madrid or AC Milan capable of competing with Wolves. Under the impulse of the French daily newspaper, a project of European Interclub Cup was launched, which met with positive reactions throughout Europe. On February 3, 1955, the newspaper L'Equipe unveiled the list of 16 clubs invited to compete in the first edition of this competition.

While the organization of this European interclub competition was intended for the newspaper l'Equipe, FIFA finally pushed the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), founded only one year earlier, to take over the organization of this competition. On September 4, 1955, Sporting Portugal hosted the Yugoslavian team Patizan Belgrade in Lisbon in front of 30,000 spectators curious to discover this new competition and their European neighbors. This was the birth of the European Champion Clubs' Cup. A few months later, the final of the first edition was held between Di Stefano's Real Madrid and Raymond Kopa's Stade de Reims. That evening in June 1956, the Madrid club became the first club in history to win the C1 with a 4-3 victory at the Parc des Princes.

Real Madrid are the most successful club in the history of the competition with 14 trophies won

The first edition of the competition was a real success and UEFA imposed that only the winners of European championships should be allowed to take part in the next edition. English clubs did not take part in the first edition, but the following year the Red Devils of Manchester United joined the competition. In the following years, more and more teams were invited to take part in the European Champion Clubs' Cup. French clubs such as OGC Nice and then ASSE, AS Monaco and FC Nantes took their turn in the competition. It was only a few years after its creation that clubs such as Barcelona, Juventus and Inter Milan made their appearance in the competition, which had only one representative per country.

More than 35 years after its creation in 1955, the 38th edition of the UEFA Champions League, in 1992/93, marked a real turning point in the history of this prestigious competition. The historic European Champion Clubs' Cup would henceforth be known as the Champions League and the UEFA anthem composed by Tony Britten would be played for the first time in a European stadium. The group stages were introduced in the previous edition, replacing the lifelong quarter- and semi-finals. In that first UEFA Champions League, Olympique de Marseille beat AC Milan 1-0 at the Stadion Olimpico in Munich to become the first French club to win the most prestigious competition.

The lyrics of the C1 anthem mix English, French and German, the three official languages of UEFA

The 2019/20 edition was and will remain a unique edition in the history of the Champions League. Despite the particular health context, a Final 8 is organised in Lisbon to determine a winner among the 8 teams that will face each other in a knockout match. After an epic quarter-final where PSG overturned Atalanta Bergamo in the last minutes of the game, Neymar and Mbappé's teammates faced Leipzig to try to offer the club from the capital, a first final in its history in the most prestigious of competitions

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