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In the Benfica vs Man Utd match, why did the referee point to his watch after the goal?
The UEFA Champion's League uses goal-line technology.
This is an automated system which detects the moment the ball has crossed the goal-line under the crossbar. It sends a signal to the referee via ...
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Is Ajax the first team not to qualify for the next stage (because they ended up 3rd) with as much as 10 points?
It's mathematically impossible not to qualify with 11 points
That is not correct.
Is Ajax the first team not to qualify for the next stage with as much
as 10 points?
No.
During the 2013-2014 ...
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In the Benfica vs Man Utd match, why did the referee point to his watch after the goal?
The watch is the part of Goal Line Technology system,
Under IFAB LAW 1 - THE FIELD OF PLAY,
GOAL LINE TECHNOLOGY (GLT)
The indication of whether a goal has been scored must be immediate and ...
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Was Cristiano Ronaldo's 100th Champions League goal offside or not?
Laws of The Game; Law 11 - Offside; 1. Offside Position state that:
A player is in an offside position if:
...
any part of the head, body
or feet is nearer to the opponents’ goal line than both the ...
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How many Premier League teams will play in the 17-18 Champions League?
No more than five clubs can enter the UEFA Champions League from one national association.
Regarding the top three associations (currently Spain, Germany and
England): if two clubs from one of ...
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What Champions League winners had the largest and smallest overall margins during the tournament?
I've spent a good part of my day analyzing the matches documented in individual CL tournament wiki pages and RSSF, and here are the results of the greatest/smallest goal differential (per game) stats ...
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Why Atlético Madrid has to play in the Europa league and not in the Champions league the next year if they were in the top 3 past year in la liga?
In which European competition a team starts to play is determined by the results of the team in the previous season of their domestic league. Which means, as in the season 2016-17 Atlético became ...
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Why aren't UEFA Champions Leage group matches synchronized?
The relevant rules are in 2019/2020 UEFA Champions League Regulations:
Article 23 Confirmation of fixtures and automatic reversals
23.01 The venues, dates (in accordance with the calendar in Annex C)...
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If Liverpool FC win the Champions League does that mean Coutinho wins it as well or if FC Barcelona win Champions league will Coutinho win it as well?
UEFA Champions League regulations include a section on Trophy and medals, which has three subsections. The only part that directly speaks to medals is 11.03, saying that
[t]he winning team is ...
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In UEFA Champions League, how is it ensured that two teams from the same Country aren't drawn into the same group?
Shortly:
A team is drawn by a human (generally a famous player).
The computer indicates the possible groups in which that team can be drawn.
A human puts the corresponding balls of possible groups ...
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UEFA Champions League Group Stage When Even on Points
First, it should be pointed out that until all matches have played, it might be impossible to apply some of the tie-breakers. For this reason, I would consider tables with only 5 matches of 6 played ...
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If Arsenal wins the 2019 UEFA Europa League final, which teams will represent England in the Champions League next year?
The English Premier League is guaranteed at least four, and may earn a total of five, places at the next Champions League group stage.
They are assigned in the following priority order.
The previous ...
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For an average Champions League team, is it financially more worth it to go through to knockout stages or drop down in to Europa League?
Reaching the eighth-finals of Champions League and being eliminated: worst case scenario
Finishing second with four draws and two loses will grant you 4x0.9 = 3.6 million euros.
For reaching the ...
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Undefeated Champions League Eliminations
There is one more case of a team eliminated unbeaten in the Champions League. Yet this didn't happen due to the away goal rule in the knock out stage, but after the group stage.
In Season 2002-03 AEK ...
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Undefeated Champions League Eliminations
Chelsea were the last team to go out of the Champions League without losing a match. It was during 2014-15 season.
this was their group stage performance.
the above one, their Round of 16 ...
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Which team has scored the most goals during the group stage of a single UEFA Champions League?
According to UEFA themselves, at December 6, 2017 this is indeed the greatest number of goals scored in a campaign, and is therefore the greatest number of goals scored in the group stage, by a single ...
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Under a financial point of view which is better for a low-intermediate club, to go to the Champions or Europa League?
Champions League.
According to this source entering CL group stage alone was worth $17.74 million (~16.8 million €) in 2022. The same source also lists the prize money for the Europa League.
In order ...
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Which team has scored the most goals during a single whole UEFA Champions League season?
From UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE STATISTICS HANDBOOK 2017/18 Facts and Figures (pg. no. 11)
Most goals scored in a season:
45 from 16 games (av. 2.81) FC Barcelona 1999/00
41 from 13 games (av. 3.15) Real ...
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What teams have won the Champions League the season after winning the Europa League?
It happened only to Porto
Porto
2002/2003 Europa League winner
2003/2004 Champions League winner
Those are the table of Champions League finals and Europa League finals
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Champions League qualification from Premier League
As far as I understand, you're right, in this case, Tottenham will be transferred to the Europa League. This situation is specifically covered in 2018/19 UEFA Champions League regulations:
3.07 If ...
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How many Africans have won the UEFA Champions League?
European Cup winners
Bruce Grobbelaar (Zimbabwe1, 1984 with Liverpool)
Rabah Madjer (Algeria, 1987 with Porto)
UEFA Champions League Winners
Abedi Pele (Ghana, 1993 with Marseille)
Finidi George ...
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Champions League team distribution
@Martin shared a great reference in the comments.
The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association...
It ...
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A UEFA Champions League/Europa League final between two teams who already played against one another in the group stage of either competition?
Europa League: No.
Champions League: Yes, twice.
1994/95: Ajax - Milan (1-0)
Ajax won both games in the group stage 2-0
1998/99: Manchester United - Bayern (2-1)
Both group stage games ended in a ...
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What will champions league authority do if the champions don't qualify for the next season's tournament?
This has happened before. Liverpool won the champions league in 2004-05 season, but finished 5th in the EPL. They were given an exemption by UEFA and added to the first round of the qualifying rounds....
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How many European cup finals have been played in the stadium of one of the finalists?
In the European Cup/Champions League, this has happened four times:
In 1957, Real Madrid played Fiorentina at their home stadium, the Santiago Bernabéu. Real Madrid won 2-0.
In 1965, Inter Milan ...
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Players who have won Champions League / Copa Libertadores and World Cup in the same year
There are 11 players who have won the Champions League (including the European Cup) and the World Cup in the same year:
1974: West Germany and Bayern Munich:
Uli Hoeness, Gerd Muller, Franz ...
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What teams have won the Europa League the season after winning the Champions League?
It happened only to Chelsea
Chelsea
2011/2012 Champions League winner
2012/2013 Europa League winner
Those are the table of Champions League finals and Europa League finals
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What happens if the last two teams from the UCL pot are draw together in the round of 16, but they are from the same country/group?
The Round of 16 draw is not like any other draw you might know.
The draw will be held as follows:
Every group winner has a dedicated bowl containing 8 balls with their name in it.
There is one bowl ...
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Can Liechtensteiner clubs compete in the UEFA Champions League?
Since Liechtenstein does not have a domestic league, they do not have a spot in the UEFA Champions League. Instead, the Liechtenstein Football Cup winner qualifies to the UEFA Europa Conference League....
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Undefeated Champions League Eliminations
For questions like this, it might be reasonable to create a CW answer where users of this site might add occurrences they are able to find.
We are looking for teams which did not lose any game ...
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