Champions League is the most important competition in the football that is held every year. It starts in September (Middle of it) and ends in June. The Champion of Champions League 2019 became Liverpool. This is their sixth Champions League title and their result is 3rd. 2nd is AC Milan with 7 UCL (Uefa Champions League) title and 1st is Real Madrid C.F. with 13 title.
The system of UCL.
There is 3 main stage. Qualification, group and Knock-out.
Qualifications is for teams from bad divisions. For example, 3 teams from Spain division, La Liga (1st division in the Europe) qualifies in the group stage without qualification, but team from Sweden (This country has lower position in leagues) has to play qualification.
There are 8 Group with 4 teams. (A to H)
2 teams qualify with the highest points from each group.
3rd team in group stage qualifies in Europe League 1/16 Final.
16 teams in Knock-out plays with Olympic system (But with Home-Away system too, that means they play 2 matches, away and home and best qualifies)
Final is held in Neutral Stadium and it is just one match.
History of UEFA Champions League
First UEFA Champions League was held in 1955/56 (Under the name of UEFA Champions Cup, not League) and Real Madrid C.F. managed to win it. In addition, Real Madrid managed to win it 5 times in a row. After several years, they changed name of a tournament and called that UEFA Champions League. After that, no one ever could win that title twice in a row, but again Real Madrid C.F managed to do it and they won 3 in a row 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18. They won 4 titles in 5 years.
Player with the most goals is Cristiano Ronaldo with 126 goals (Formal Real Madrid C.F. player, now he plays for Juventus F.C.)
Me and Champions League
First time when I watched UEFA Champions League was in 2010, I was 9 years old. I was fan of Bayern Munich and they managed to go to the Final, but Inter won final 2-0, Diego Milito scored 2 goals in the final. In 2011, Barcelona won the UCL title, they beat Manchester United in the final, 3-1.
I forgot to mention that after Bayern Munich lost the final, I became fan of Real Madrid C.F. in 2012 Chelsea won the final, they beat Bayern Munich 1-1 Full time (3-4 in penalties). in 2013 Bayern Munich won the final, they beat Borrusia Dortmund in the final 2-1 with last minute goal by Arien Robben. In 2014 started domination of Spanish Clubs. Real Madrid won the final against Athletico Madrid 4-1 in Extra Time. Real Madrid was losing the match, but Sergio Ramos scored equalizer for Real Madrid in the last minutes of the match. 2015 Barcelona managed to win it. They won 3-1 against Juventus in the final. 2016 was year of Real Madrid. They won final against Athletico Madrid again, 1-1 Full Time (5-3 in penalties). In 2017 Real Madrid won 4-1 against Juventus in the final. In 2018 Real Madrid won again against Liverpool 3-1. And 2019 was perfect year for English teams, because both teams in final was from English (In the final of Europa League, both teams were from LONDON!!!). Liverpool won 2-0 against Tottenham Hotspur.
Season 2018/19 of Champions League.
I think that this tournament was one of the best tournament ever! There were so many comebacks in knockout stage and the champion, Liverpool almost failed to qualify group stage! Liverpool lost 3-0 against Barcelona first match in Barcelona, but they managed to win 4-0 (aggregate 4-3). It was sensational, but even worse happened for Tottenham Hotspur. They lost first match 1-0 in London (home) against Ajax Amsterdam and they were losing the match in Amsterdam (away) too 2-0, but in the second half of that match Lucas Moura managed to score hat-trick (3 goals) and Tottenham Hotspur qualified into the final because they scored more goal in the away match (Rule of UCL).
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Good myTake!
I admit that although I don't really watch football, I really enjoyed reading it!
I admit the only name I recognized was Jürgen Klopp, because he did that Volkswagen spot 😅😅!
Anyhow, it's really well written and detailed, I'm sure sport fan and aficionados will really appreciate it!
Keep up the good work, my friend!
Thank you so much!
Good myTake! Liverpool did everything right, they took advantage of every opportunity they had. I was hoping F. C. Barcelona wouldn’t repeat the same story this year but they did! 🤦🏻♀️ They underestimated Liverpool and the coach 😡 and Dembele 🤬😂, they really messed up the last game. Hopefully next year they will have a triplet again! 🥺🙏🏼
Hahaha, they almost got Triplet (Treble), but instead of it, they got La Liga hahahah
And, to be honest, I didn't like final match. So boring match for me.
Jo, for me is a “triplete” 😂 La Liga is not what I was hoping for Barcelona! At least they did better than Real Madrid! 😂 The kings of Spain got nothing! 🤣🤣🤣
Yes it was, that’s what I mean by Liverpool taking advantage of every opportunity.
After 3 Champions League in a row, it's impossible to have successful 4th season.
It’s impossible to win the 4th without C Ronaldo, and Zidane has not being the very assertive. 😂😂😂😂 Personally I am glad when things don’t go well for RM, that club is so shady and using its power to oppress the catalanes and using its shady money to buy the most expensive players, I’m just glad it’s not working for them even with all their money. It keeps the sport fair as it should be. ¡Ahh Madrilistas! 🤣🤣
300 millions for Coutinho and Dembele ;) 96M for C. Ronaldo ;)
And Barcelona can't win 1 with the best player in the world... sooo
Listen, I’ll never defend the Barcelona we have now! 🤦🏻♀️ I am realistic about it and I accept the flaws of my team. The whole team plays for Messi and that’s not teamwork, it’s like he is the only one that feels the responsibility to shoot in front of the goal and the rest hesitate! Notice my initial answer, I’m not showing satisfaction with Dembele! That’s the worse investment ever, even though I have the hots for Coutinho, he is another player that was not there 100%. Barcelona is a club that spends lots of money in ok/bad players. Madrid makes huge investment in “great” players but something is not working for them. + if CR7 was so inexpensive, why let him go? That was a huge mistake from the Madrilistas? Just saying! 🤷🏻♀️
That take reminds me to sing with you " You'll never walk alone"