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With Walter Samuel grounded and goalkeeper Julio Cesar a bemused onlooker, Gareth Bale scores the first Tottenham Hotspur FC goal against FC Internazionale Milano at San Siro. The UEFA Champions League newcomers came back from 4-0 down at half-time to lose 4-3; Bale performed the rare feat of hitting a hat-trick for a side playing with 10 men; and it allowed English clubs to take over from Italy at the top of the hat-trick chart.
PHOTO: CLIVE ROSE / GETTY IMAGES Season 2011/2012
Contents
Competition records 4 Sequence records 7 Goal scoring records – All hat-tricks 8 Fastest hat-tricks 11 Most goals in a season 12 Fastest goal in a game 13 Fastest own goals 13 The Landmark Goals 14 Fastest red cards 15 Fastest yellow cards 16 Youngest and Oldest Players 17 Goalkeeping records 20 Goalless draws 22 Record for each finalist 27 Biggest Wins 28 Lowest Attendances 30 Milestones 32 UEFA Super Cup 34
3 UEFA Champions League Records
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE COMPETITION RECORDS
MOST APPEARANCES MOST GAMES PLAYED
16 Manchester United FC 176 Manchester United FC 15 FC Porto, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid CF 163 Real Madrid CF 159 FC Barcelona 14 AC Milan, FC Bayern München 149 FC Bayern München 13 FC Dynamo Kyiv, PSV Eindhoven, Arsenal FC 139 AC Milan 12 Juventus, Olympiacos FC 129 Arsenal FC 126 FC Porto 11 Rosenborg BK, Olympique Lyonnais 120 Juventus 10 Galatasaray AS, FC Internazionale Milano, 101 Chelsea FC FC Spartak Moskva, Rangers FC
MOST WINS SUCCESSIVE APPEARANCES 96 Manchester United FC 15 Manchester United FC (1996/97 - 2010/11) 89 FC Barcelona 89 Real Madrid CF 14 Real Madrid CF (1997/98 - 2010/11) 73 FC Bayern München 13 Arsenal FC (1998/99 - 2010/11) 66 AC Milan 12 PSV Eindhoven (1997/98 - 2008/09) 59 Arsenal FC 57 Juventus 11 Olympiacos FC (1997/98 - 2007/08) 51 FC Porto 11 Olympique Lyonnais (2000/01 - 2010/11) 50 Chelsea FC 10 FC Bayern München (1997/98 - 2006/07) 47 Olympique Lyonnais 9 FC Internazionale Milano (2002/03 - 2010/11) 46 FC Internazionale Milano 39 Liverpool FC 8 Rosenborg BK (1995/96 - 2002/03) 35 Valencia CF 8 FC Dynamo Kyiv (1997/98 - 2004/05) 33 AFC Ajax 8 Chelsea FC (2003/04 - 2010/11) 30 PSV Eindhoven 7 Galatasaray AS (1997/98 - 2003/04)
MOST DEFEATS BEST DEBUTS 45 FC Dynamo Kyiv WINNERS 43 FC Porto Olympique de Marseille (1992/93) 42 PSV Eindhoven AFC Ajax (1994/95) 40 Real Madrid CF Juventus (1995/96) 37 Olympiacos FC 37 Rosenborg BK RUNNERS-UP 36 Arsenal FC AC Milan (1992/93) 36 Galatasaray AS FC Barcelona (1993/94) 36 FC Bayern München Valencia CF (1999/00) 35 Manchester United FC SEMI-FINALS 33 AC Milan AS Monaco FC (1993/94) 33 Panathinaikos FC FC Bayern München (1994/95) 33 FC Spartak Moskva Paris Saint-Germain FC (1994/95) 31 Juventus FC Nantes Atlantique (1995/96) 30 RSC Anderlecht Panathinaikos FC (1995/96) Leeds United AFC (2000/01) Villarreal CF (2005/06) 4 MOST DRAWS HIGHEST POINTS AVERAGE PER GAME
45 Manchester United FC Qualification: minimum of ten matches 42 FC Barcelona 1.384 FC Barcelona 40 FC Bayern München 1.375 Sevilla FC 40 AC Milan 1.347 Manchester United FC 34 Arsenal FC 1.301 Real Madrid CF 34 Real Madrid CF 1.287 Chelsea FC 32 Juventus 1.248 FC Bayern München 32 FC Porto 1.244 Liverpool FC 30 Chelsea FC 1.226 BV Borussia Dortmund 1.223 AC Milan 1.217 Juventus MOST GOALS SCORED 1.206 FC Internazionale Milano 1.205 Valencia CF 313 Real Madrid CF 306 FC Barcelona 304 Manchester United FC HIGHEST GOAL AVERAGE PER GAME 244 FC Bayern München 198 Arsenal FC Qualification: minimum of 50 goals scored 195 AC Milan 189 Juventus 1.925 goals per game FC Barcelona 167 Olympique Lyonnais 1.920 Real Madrid CF 1.795 AS Monaco FC 1.727 Manchester United FC BEST WIN PERCENTAGE 1.704 Olympique Lyonnais 1.638 FC Bayern München Qualification: minimum of ten victories 1.575 Juventus 1.535 Arsenal FC 62.5% Sevilla FC (10 wins from 16 games) 1.525 Chelsea FC 56.0% FC Barcelona (89/159) 1.512 Liverpool FC 54.6% Real Madrid CF (89/163) 1.509 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 54.5% Manchester United FC (96/176) 1.500 S.S. Lazio 49.5% Chelsea FC (50/101) 1.500 Paris Saint-Germain FC 49.1% BV Borussia Dortmund (26/53) 1.500 SV Werder Bremen 49.0% FC Bayern München (73/149) 48.3% FC Internazionale Milano (42/87) 48.0% Olympique Lyonnais (47/98) MOST GOALS CONCEDED
185 Real Madrid CF MOST GOALS ON A SINGLE MATCHDAY 161 Manchester United FC NB: all from 16 games in group stage 160 FC Bayern München 159 FC Barcelona 63 MD 1 2000/01 144 FC Porto 57 MD 4 1999/00 140 FC Dynamo Kyiv 54 MD 3 2000/01 134 Arsenal FC 54 MD 2 2004/05 129 Olympiacos FC 54 MD 6 2004/05 129 Rosenborg BK 53 MD 2 1999/00 129 PSV Eindhoven 53 MD 3 2008/09 125 Juventus 53 MD 4 2010/11 122 AC Milan 52 MD 4 2005/06 118 FC Spartak Moskva 52 MD 5 2007/08 115 Galatasaray AS 50 MD 5 2000/01 115 Olympique Lyonnais 50 MD 1 2002/03 107 FC Internazionale Milano 50 MD 6 2002/03 104 Panathinaikos FC 5 UEFA Champions League Records
MOST POINTS
237 from 176 games (av 1.347) Manchester United FC 220 from 159 games (av 1.384) FC Barcelona 212 from 163 games (av 1.301) Real Madrid CF 186 from 149 games (av 1.248) FC Bayern München 170 from 139 games (av 1.223) AC Milan 152 from 129 games (av 1.178) Arsenal FC 146 from 120 games (av 1.217) Juventus 134 from 126 games (av 1.063) FC Porto 130 from 101 games (av 1.287) Chelsea FC 117 from 98 games (av 1.194) Olympique Lyonnais 117 from 97 games (av 1.206) FC Internazionale Milano 102 from 82 games (av 1.244) Liverpool FC
MOST GOALS SCORED IN A SEASON
45 from 16 games (av. 2.81) FC Barcelona 1999/00 35 from 17 games (av. 2.06) Real Madrid CF 2001/02 35 from 16 games (av. 2.19) Real Madrid CF 2000/01 35 from 17 games (av. 2.06) Real Madrid CF 1999/00 33 from 16 games (av. 2.06) Real Madrid CF 2002/03 32 from 13 games (av. 2.46) FC Barcelona 2008/09 32 from 14 games (av. 2.28) Manchester United FC 2002/03 31 from 16 games (av. 1.94) Manchester United FC 2001/02 30 from 13 games (av. 2.31) FC Barcelona 2010/11 30 from 17 games (av. 1.76) Juventus 2002/03 29 from 10 games (av. 2.90) Olympique Lyonnais 2004/05 29 from 11 games (av. 2.64) Manchester United FC 1998/99 29 from 12 games (av. 2.42) Liverpool FC 2007/08 29 from 17 games (av. 1.70) Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2001/02
FEWEST WINS
AEK Athens FC (1994/95, 2002/03, 2003/04) failed to win in 18 games in the group stage (D 10 L 8) spread over three participations. They finally recorded their first victory, at the 22nd attempt, in the competition proper on Matchday 4 of the 2006/07 season, beating LOSC Lille Métropole 1-0 after a run of 11 draws and 10 defeats. AEK then beat AC Milan by the same score on Matchday 5 and now have a record of 2 wins from 24 group games SK Rapid Wien [D 2 L 10] (1996/97, 2005/06) and FK Partizan [D 3 L 9] (2003/04, 2010/11) failed to win in 12 games in the group stage spread over two series 1. FC Košice (1997/98), K. Lierse SK (1997/98), AIK Solna (1999/00), Willem II (1999/00), KRC Genk (2002/03), PFC Levski Sofia (2006/07), FC BATE Borisov (2008/09), APOEL FC, AZ Alkmaar, Debreceni VSC (2009/10) and MŠK Žilina, Bursaspor (2010/11) all failed to record a single victory in their only appearance in the group stage
FEWEST GOALS SCORED
All 119 teams who have taken part in the UEFA Champions League since 1992/93 have scored at least one goal. PFC Levski Sofia (1 goal), NK Maribor, 1.FC Košice, KRC Genk, Bursaspor (2 goals each) share the record for the fewest goals scored in their six group games.
6 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – SEQUENCE RECORDS
SUCCESSIVE WINS
FC Barcelona 9 wins 18.09.02 - 18.02.03
Note: FC Barcelona won 11 successive European matches during the 2002/03 season. The run began in the third qualifying round against Polish side Legia Warszawa before continuing into the competition proper. The sequence finally ended when they were held to a 0-0 draw at FC Internazionale Milano during the second Group Phase
BV Borussia Dortmund 8 wins 04.12.96 - 01.10.97
SUCCESSIVE DEFEATS
RSC Anderlecht 12 defeats 10.12.03 - 23.11.05 SK Rapid Wien 9 defeats 30.10.96 - 07.12.05 (ongoing)
SUCCESSIVE DRAWS
AEK Athens FC 7 draws 17.09.02 - 17.09.03 Rangers FC 6 draws 19.10.05 - 07.03.06
MOST GAMES WITHOUT DEFEAT
AFC Ajax 19 games (W 14 D 5) 14.09.94 - 20.03.96 FC Bayern München 19 games (W 13 D 6) 14.03.01 - 02.04.02
MOST GAMES WITHOUT A WIN
FC Spartak Moskva 22 games (D 5 L 17) 05.12.00 - 22.11.06 AEK Athens FC 21 games (D 11 L 10) 14.09.94 - 17.10.06
SUCCESSIVE HOME WINS
Manchester United FC 12 games (F 30 A 7) 13.09.06 - 29.04.08
MOST HOME GAMES WITHOUT DEFEAT
FC Bayern München 29 games (W 23 D 6) 04.03.98 - 02.04.02
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GOALSCORING RECORDS
TOP GOALSCORER IN EACH SEASON
1992/93 Franck SAUZÉE (Olympique de Marseille) 5 goals (7 appearances) 1993/94 Hristo STOITCHKOV (FC Barcelona) 5 goals (6 appearances) 1994/95 George WEAH (Paris Saint-Germain FC) 7 goals (10 appearances) 1995/96 Jari LITMANEN (AFC Ajax) 9 goals (10 appearances) 1996/97 Milinko PANTIC (Club Atlético de Madrid) 5 goals (8 appearances) 1997/98 Alessandro DEL PIERO (Juventus) 10 goals (10 appearances) 1998/99 Andriy SHEVCHENKO (FC Dynamo Kyiv) 8 goals (10 appearances) Dwight YORKE (Manchester United FC) 8 goals (11 appearances) 1999/00 Mário JARDEL (FC Porto) 10 goals (13 appearances) RIVALDO (FC Barcelona) 10 goals (14 appearances) RAÚL González (Real Madrid CF) 10 goals (15 appearances) 2000/01 RAÚL González (Real Madrid CF) 7 goals (12 appearances) 2001/02 Ruud van NISTELROOY (Manchester United FC) 10 goals (14 appearances) 2002/03 Ruud van NISTELROOY (Manchester United FC) 12 goals (9 appearances) 2003/04 Fernando MORIENTES (AS Monaco FC) 9 goals (12 appearances) 2004/05 Ruud van NISTELROOY (Manchester United FC) 8 goals (7 appearances) 2005/06 Andriy SHEVCHENKO (AC Milan) 9 goals (12 appearances) 2006/07 Ricardo KAKÁ (AC Milan) 10 goals (13 appearances) 2007/08 Cristiano RONALDO (Manchester United FC) 8 goals (11 appearances) 2008/09 Lionel MESSI (FC Barcelona) 9 goals (12 appearances) 2009/10 Lionel MESSI (FC Barcelona) 8 goals (11 appearances) 2010/11 Lionel MESSI (FC Barcelona) 12 goals (13 appearances)
MOST GOALS IN A UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MATCH
FOUR GOALS Marco van BASTEN AC Milan v IFK Göteborg 4-0 25.11.92 (33, 53 pen, 61, 62 = 29 minutes) Simone INZAGHI S.S. Lazio v Olympique de Marseille 5-1 14.03.00 (17, 37, 38, 71 = 54 minutes) Dado PRŠO AS Monaco FC v RC Deportivo La Coruña 8-3 05.11.03 (26, 30, 45, 49 = 23 minutes) Ruud van NISTELROOY Manchester United FC v AC Sparta Praha 4-1 03.11.04 (14, 25 pen, 60, 90 = 76 minutes) Andriy SHEVCHENKO Fenerbahçe SK v AC Milan 0-4 23.11.05 (16, 52, 70, 76 = 60 minutes) Lionel MESSI FC Barcelona v Arsenal FC (QF 2nd leg) 4-1 06.04.10 (21, 37, 42, 88 = 67 minutes)
THREE GOALS Franck SAUZÉE Olympique de Marseille v PFC CSKA Moskva 6-0 17.03.93 (4 pen, 34, 48 = 44 minutes) Jari LITMANEN Ferencvárosi TC v AFC Ajax 1-5 27.09.95 (57, 79 pen, 87 = 30 minutes) RAÚL González Real Madrid CF v Ferencvárosi TC 6-1 18.10.95 (24, 25, 84 = 60 minutes) Mike NEWELL Blackburn Rovers FC v Rosenborg BK 4-1 06.12.95 (31, 37, 40 = 9 minutes) 8 Marco SIMONE Rosenborg BK v AC Milan 1-4 25.09.96 (6, 23, 25 = 19 minutes) Faustino ASPRILLA Newcastle United FC v FC Barcelona 3-2 17.09.97 (22 pen, 31, 49 = 27 minutes) Andrew COLE Feyenoord v Manchester United FC 1-3 05.11.97 (31, 44, 75 = 44 minutes) Andriy SHEVCHENKO FC Barcelona v FC Dynamo Kyiv 0-4 05.11.97 (9, 32, 44 pen = 35 minutes) Filippo INZAGHI FC Dynamo Kyiv v Juventus (QF 2nd leg) 1-4 18.03.98 (29, 65, 73 = 44 minutes) Alessandro DEL PIERO Juventus v AS Monaco FC (SF 1st leg) 4-1 01.04.98 (34, 45 pen, 62 pen = 28 minutes) Sigurd RUSHFELDT Rosenborg BK v Galatasaray AS 3-0 21.10.98 (69, 86, 90 = 21 minutes) Ruud van NISTELROOY HJK Helsinki v PSV Eindhoven 1-3 25.11.98 (30, 67, 82 pen = 52 minutes) Uwe RÖSLER 1. FC Kaiserslautern v HJK Helsinki 5-2 09.12.98 (43, 61, 80 = 37 minutes) Andrei TIKHONOV Willem II v FC Spartak Moskva 1-3 15.09.99 (27 pen, 37, 53 pen = 26 minutes) GERARD López Segú Valencia CF v S.S. Lazio (QF 1st leg) 5-2 05.04.00 (4, 40, 80 = 76 minutes) Andrew COLE Manchester United FC v RSC Anderlecht 5-1 13.09.00 (15, 50, 72 = 57 minutes) Filippo INZAGHI Hamburger SV v Juventus 4-4 13.09.00 (36, 52, 88 pen = 52 minutes) Frode JOHNSEN Rosenborg BK v Helsingborgs IF 6-1 26.09.00 (21, 29, 79 = 58 minutes) Marco SIMONE AS Monaco FC v SK Sturm Graz 5-0 27.09.00 (13, 38, 41 = 28 minutes) RIVALDO AC Milan v FC Barcelona 3-3 18.10.00 (19, 43, 68 = 49 minutes) Claudio LÓPEZ S.S. Lazio v FC Shakhtar Donetsk 5-1 25.10.00 (48, 68, 90 = 42 minutes) Walter PANDIANI RC Deportivo La Coruña v Paris Saint-Germain FC 4-3 07.03.01 (57, 76, 84 = 27 minutes) Predrag DJORDJEVIC Olympiacos FC v Bayer 04 Leverkusen 6-2 18.09.02 (44, 64 pen, 73 = 29 minutes) Roy MAKAAY FC Bayern München v RC Deportivo La Coruña 2-3 18.09.02 (12, 45, 77 = 65 minutes) Yakubu AYEGBENI Maccabi Haifa FC v Olympiacos FC 3-0 24.09.02 (27 pen, 60, 86 = 59 minutes) Filippo INZAGHI RC Deportivo La Coruña v AC Milan 0-4 24.09.02 (33, 55, 62 = 29 minutes) Michael OWEN FC Spartak Moskva v Liverpool FC 1-3 22.10.02 (29, 70, 90 = 61 minutes) Thierry HENRY AS Roma v Arsenal FC 1-3 27.11.02 (6, 70, 75 = 69 minutes) Alan SHEARER Newcastle United FC v Bayer 04 Leverkusen 3-1 26.02.03 (5, 11, 36 pen = 31 minutes) RONALDO Manchester United FC v Real Madrid CF (QF 2nd leg) 4-3 23.04.03 (12, 50, 59 = 47 minutes) Didier DROGBA Olympique de Marseille v FK Partizan 3-0 01.10.03 (62, 68, 85 = 23 minutes)
9 UEFA Champions League Records
Roy MAKAAY FC Bayern München v AFC Ajax 4-0 28.09.04 (28, 44, 51 pen = 23 minutes) Wayne ROONEY Manchester United FC v Fenerbahçe SK 6-2 28.09.04 (17, 28, 54 = 37 minutes) Ivan KLASNIC SV Werder Bremen v RSC Anderlecht 5-1 02.11.04 (2, 16, 79 = 77 minutes) Sergey SEMAK Paris Saint-Germain FC v PFC CSKA Moskva 1-3 07.12.04 (28, 64, 70 = 42 minutes) TUNCAY SANLI Fenerbahçe SK v Manchester United FC 3-0 08.12.04 (47, 62, 90 = 43 minutes) Sylvain WILTORD Olympique Lyonnais v SV Werder Bremen (KO 2nd leg) 7-2 08.03.05 (8, 55, 64 = 56 minutes) ADRIANO FC Internazionale Milano v FC Porto (KO 2nd leg) 3-1 15.03.05 (6, 63, 87 = 81 minutes) Vincenzo IAQUINTA Udinese Calcio v Panathinaikos FC 3-0 14.09.05 (28, 73, 76 = 48 minutes) RONALDINHO FC Barcelona v Udinese Calcio 4-1 27.09.05 (13, 32, 90 pen = 77 minutes) Samuel ETO’O FC Barcelona v Panathinaikos FC 5-0 02.11.05 (14, 40, 65 = 51 minutes) Levan KOBIASHVILI FC Schalke 04 v PSV Eindhoven 3-0 23.11.05 (18 pen, 72, 79 pen = 61 minutes) ADRIANO FC Internazionale Milano v FC Artmedia Petržalka 4-0 23.11.05 (41, 59, 74 = 33 minutes) Fernando MORIENTES Olympiacos FC v Valencia CF 2-4 12.09.06 (34, 39, 90 = 56 minutes) Didier DROGBA PFC Levski Sofia v Chelsea FC 1-3 27.09.06 (39, 52, 68 = 29 minutes) KAKÁ AC Milan v RSC Anderlecht 4-1 01.11.06 (6 pen, 22, 56 = 50 minutes) Yossi BENAYOUN Liverpool FC v Beşiktaş JK 8-0 06.11.07 (32, 53, 56 = 24 minutes) Joseba LLORENTE Villarreal CF v Aalborg BK 6-3 21.10.08 (67, 70, 84 = 17 minutes) JADSON FC Shakhtar Donetsk v FC Basel 1893 5-0 26.11.08 (32, 65, 72 = 40 minutes) GRAFITE VfL Wolfsburg v PFC CSKA Moskva 3-1 15.09.09 (36, 41 pen, 87 = 51 minutes) Michael OWEN VfL Wolfsburg v Manchester United FC 1-3 08.12.09 (44, 83, 90 = 46 minutes) Nicklas BENDTNER Arsenal FC v FC Porto (KO 2nd leg) 5-0 09.03.10 (10, 25, 90 pen = 80 minutes) Ivica OLIĆ Olympique Lyonnais v FC Bayern München (SF 2nd leg) 0-3 27.04.10 (26, 67, 78 = 52 minutes) Samuel ETO’O FC Internazionale Milano v SV Werder Bremen 4-0 29.09.10 (21, 27, 81 = 60 minutes) Gareth BALE FC Internazionale Milan v Tottenham Hotspur FC 4-3 20.10.10 (52, 90, 90+1 = 39 minutes) Mario GOMEZ CFR 1907 Cluj v FC Bayern München 0-4 03.11.10 (12, 24, 71 = 59 minutes) André-Pierre GIGNAC MŠK Žilina v Olympique de Marseille 0-7 03.11.10 (12, 21, 54 = 42 minutes) Karim BENZEMA Real Madrid CF v AJ Auxerre 4-0 08.12.10 (12, 72, 88 = 76 minutes)
10 FASTEST HAT-TRICKS
Mike NEWELL 9 mins (Blackburn Rovers FC 4 Rosenborg BK 1) 06.12.95 Joseba LLORENTE 17 mins (Villarreal CF 6 Aalborg BK 3) 21.10.08 Marco SIMONE 19 mins (Rosenborg BK 1 AC Milan 4) 25.09.96 Dado PRSO 19 mins (AS Monaco FC 8 RC Deportivo La Coruña 3) 05.11.03 Sigurd RUSHFELDT 21 mins (Rosenborg BK 3 Galatasaray AS 0) 21.10.98 Simone INZAGHI 21 mins (S.S. Lazio 5 Olympique de Marseille 1) 14.03.00 Lionel MESSI 21 mins (FC Barcelona 4 Arsenal FC 1) 06.04.10 Didier DROGBA 23 mins (Olympique de Marseille 3 FK Partizan 0) 01.10.03 Roy MAKAAY 23 mins (FC Bayern München 4 AFC Ajax 0) 28.09.04
MOST HAT-TRICKS IN A CAREER
Filippo INZAGHI 3 (Juventus 2 / AC Milan 1) ADRIANO 2 (FC Internazionale Milano 2) Andrew COLE 2 (Manchester United FC) Roy MAKAAY 2 (RC Deportivo La Coruña 1 / FC Bayern München 1) Andriy SHEVCHENKO 2 (FC Dynamo Kyiv 1 / AC Milan 1) Marco SIMONE 2 (AC Milan 1 / AS Monaco FC 1) Ruud van NISTELROOY 2 (PSV Eindhoven 1 / Manchester United FC 1) Didier DROGBA 2 (Olympique de Marseille 1 / Chelsea FC 1) Michael OWEN 2 (Liverpool FC 1 / Manchester United FC 1) Samuel ETO’O 2 (FC Barcelona 1 / FC Internazionale Milano 1)
CLUBS WITH THE MOST HAT-TRICK SCORERS
AC Milan 5 Manchester United FC 5 FC Barcelona 4 FC Bayern München 3 FC Internazionale Milano 3 Juventus 3 Olympique de Marseille 3 Real Madrid CF 3
NATIONS WITH THE MOST HAT-TRICK SCORERS
ITALY 14 (5 clubs) (AC Milan [5]; Juventus [3]; FC Internazionale Milano [3]; S.S. Lazio [2]; Udinese Calcio [1]) ENGLAND 14 (7 clubs) (Manchester United FC [5]; Arsenal FC [2]; Liverpool FC [2]; Newcastle United FC [2]; Blackburn Rovers FC [1]; Chelsea FC [1]; Tottenham Hotspur FC [1]) SPAIN 12 (5 clubs) (FC Barcelona [4]; Real Madrid CF [3]; RC Deportivo La Coruña [2]; Valencia CF [2]; Villarreal CF [1]) GERMANY 7 (5 clubs) (FC Bayern München [3]; 1. FC Kaiserslautern [1]; FC Schalke 04 [1]; SV Werder Bremen [1]; VfL Wolfsburg [1]) FRANCE 6 (3 clubs) (Olympique de Marseille [3]; AS Monaco FC [2]; Olympique Lyonnais [1])
11 UEFA Champions League Records
MOST GOALS IN A SEASON
TWELVE Ruud van NISTELROOY (Manchester United FC) 2002/03 Lionel MESSI (FC Barcelona) 2010/11
TEN Alessandro DEL PIERO (Juventus) 1997/98 Mário JARDEL (FC Porto) 1999/00 RIVALDO (FC Barcelona) 1999/00 RAÚL González (Real Madrid CF) 1999/00 Ruud van NISTELROOY (Manchester United FC) 2001/02 Filippo INZAGHI (AC Milan) 2002/03 KAKÁ (AC Milan) 2006/07
NINE Jari LITMANEN (AFC Ajax) 1995/96 Simone INZAGHI (S.S. Lazio) 1999/00 Roy MAKAAY (RC Deportivo La Coruña) 2002/03 RAÚL González (Real Madrid CF) 2002/03 Hernán CRESPO (FC Internazionale Milano) 2002/03 Fernando MORIENTES (AS Monaco FC) 2003/04 Andriy SHEVCHENKO (AC Milan) 2005/06 Lionel MESSI (FC Barcelona) 2008/09
EIGHT Andriy SHEVCHENKO (FC Dynamo Kyiv) 1998/99 Dwight YORKE (Manchester United FC) 1998/99 Tore André FLO (Chelsea FC) 1999/00 Serhii REBROV (FC Dynamo Kyiv) 1999/00 David TREZEGUET (Juventus) 2001/02 Jan KOLLER (BV Borussia Dortmund) 2002/03 Ruud van NISTELROOY (Manchester United FC) 2004/05 Cristiano RONALDO (Manchester United FC) 2007/08 Lionel MESSI (FC Barcelona) 2009/10 Samuel ETO’O (FC Internazionale Milano) 2010/11 Mario GÓMEZ (FC Bayern München) 2010/11
SEVEN George WEAH (Paris Saint-Germain FC) 1994/95 Thierry HENRY (AS Monaco FC) 1997/98 Zlatko ZAHOVIC (FC Porto) 1998/99 Patrick KLUIVERT (FC Barcelona) 1999/00 PAULO SERGIO (FC Bayern München) 1999/00 RAÚL González (Real Madrid CF) 2000/01 Ole Gunnar SOLSKJÆR (Manchester United FC) 2001/02 Thierry HENRY (Arsenal FC) 2001/02 Thierry HENRY (Arsenal FC) 2002/03 Javier SAVIOLA (FC Barcelona) 2002/03 Dado PRSO (AS Monaco FC) 2003/04 ADRIANO (FC Internazionale Milano) 2004/05 Roy MAKAAY (FC Bayern München) 2004/05 RONALDINHO (FC Barcelona) 2005/06 Steven GERRARD (Liverpool FC) 2008/09 Miroslav KLOSE (FC Bayern München) 2008/09 Cristiano RONALDO (Real Madrid CF) 2009/10 Ivica OLIĆ (FC Bayern München) 2009/10 Nicolas ANELKA (Chelsea FC) 2010/11
12 FASTEST GOAL IN A GAME
10.12 seconds Roy MAKAAY (FC Bayern München 2 Real Madrid CF 1) 07.03.07 20.07 GILBERTO SILVA (PSV Eindhoven 0 Arsenal FC 4) 25.09.02 20.12 Alessandro DEL PIERO (Manchester United FC 3 Juventus 2) 01.10.97 21.06 Clarence SEEDORF (FC Schalke 04 2 AC Milan 2) 28.09.05 25.20 Marek KINCL (Club Brugge KV 3 SK Rapid Wien 2) 02.11.05 25.54 Dejan STANKOVIC (FC Internazionale Milano 2 FC Schalke 04 5) 05.04.11 28.21 Mariano BOMBARDA (Willem II 3 AC Sparta Praha 4) 20.10.99 28.46 Alexandros ALEXOUDIS (Panathinaikos FC 2 Aalborg BK 0) 22.11.95 30.08 DECO (FC Porto 3 Molde FK 1) 26.10.99 31.04 Christian GIMÉNEZ (FC Basel 1893 1 Manchester United FC 3) 26.11.02 35.10 Andy van der MEYDE (AS Roma 1 AFC Ajax 1) 19.03.03 37.04 Andreas MÖLLER (BV Borussia Dortmund 1 Juventus 3) 13.09.95 40.20 Mark van BOMMEL (FC Barcelona 5 Panathinaikos FC 0) 02.11.05 42.58 Vratislav LOKVENC (AC Sparta Praha 5 FC Spartak Moskva 2) 03.11.99 43.25 Pavel NEDVED (S.S. Lazio 1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1) 27.10.99 44.00 Kakha KALADZE (RSC Anderlecht 4 FC Dynamo Kyiv 2) 18.10.00 44.05 Diego FORLÁN (FC Internazionale Milano 2 Villarreal CF 1) 29.03.06 50.75 Sonny ANDERSON (FC Barcelona 3 Manchester United FC 3) 25.11.98 51.20 Paolo MALDINI (AC Milan 3 Liverpool FC 3 - final) 25.05.05 58.25 CLAYTON (FC Porto 3 Celtic FC 0) 17.10.01 59.43 Julio CRUZ (FC Spartak Moskva 0 FC Internazionale Milano 1) 31.10.06 64.75 Wayne ROONEY (FC Bayern München 2 Manchester United FC 1) 30.03.10
FASTEST OWN GOALS
The fastest own goal in the UEFA Champions League was scored by RICARDO Vilana Gomez, the Brazilian midfielder with FC Unirea Urziceni, in the 2nd minute against Rangers FC at Ibrox Stadium.
The quickest own goals 2 mins RICARDO Vilana (FC Unirea Urziceni) for Rangers FC 20.10.09 3 mins Scott MINTO (SL Benfica) for HJK Helsinki 04.11.98 3 mins Silvan AEGERTER (FC Zürich) for Olympique de Marseille 03.11.09 4 mins Tomáš HUBOČAN (FC Zenit St Petersburg) for Real Madrid CF 30.09.08 6 mins Michaël CIANI * (FC Girondins de Bordeaux) for FC Bayern München 21.10.09 10 mins Max HOUTTUIN (SC Heerenveen) for Olympique Lyonnais 12.09.00 10 mins Vladislav VASCHUK (FC Dynamo Kyiv) for RSC Anderlecht 18.10.00 10 mins Gary CALDWELL (Celtic FC) for SL Benfica 01.11.06 11 mins José SARRIEGI (Panathinaikos FC) for Anorthosis Famagusta FC 01.10.08 12 mins Ulrich van GOBBEL (Feyenoord) for FC Bayern München 23.10.01 12 mins FERNANDO MEIRA (VfB Stuttgart) for Chelsea FC 25.02.04 12 mins Peter WISGERHOF (FC Twente) for Tottenham Hotspur FC 07.12.10 12 mins Petri PASANEN (SV Werder Bremen) for Tottenham Hotspur FC 14.09.10 * Michaël Ciani scored at both ends
The fastest known own goal in top-football was scored after 5 seconds – by the FC Kuressaare defender Jaanis Kriska in the 8-0 defeat against Levadia in the Estonian Premier League on 13 September 2009.
On 3 January 1977, an own goal was scored after 8 seconds (some say 6 seconds) when a Cambridge United player booted the ball up-field from the kick-off and it went in off the head of the Torquay United defender Tony Kruse.
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THE LANDMARK GOALS
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 1992-2011
The format of the UEFA Champions League has fluctuated between the 25-game campaign in its inaugural year to the 157 fixtures when two group stages were played and, in recent years, the 125-match season from group stage to final. The scoring rate increased during the 2010/11 campaign but it has basically stabilised at a level which permits a thousand goals to be added to the total in just over three years. After Daniel Amokachi’s historic opener in 1992, it wasn’t until the competition’s seventh season that the 1,000-goal landmark was reached, The 2010/11 campaign kicked-off just a few strikes short of the 5,000 mark, with, including Amokachi, 50 names on the list of players who had laid milestones. Curiously, on the opening day of the season, the two games in Group B proved to be a battleground to decide who would go into the history books as the scorer of the 5,000th goal, with two Brazilians, Michel Bastos and Anderson Luís da Silva ‘Luisão’ opening the score for Olympique Lyonnais and SL Benfica respectively in the 21st minute of their matches. It took something approaching rocket science to separate the contenders, with Bastos hitting goal number 4,999 and Luisão the 5,000th just 0.14 seconds later. The 2010/11 milestone-layers perpetuated a recent trend. Whereas the early part of the list reads like a who’s who of specialised strikers, goal - scoring patterns have varied, allowing defenders like Luisão, Younes Kaboul or Marcelo to share the limelight with the front men.
Goal Player Date Min. Score Res. 1 Daniel Amokachi 25.11.92 17 Club Brugge KV 1 CSKA Moskva 0 1-0 100 Romário da Souza 16.03.94 86 * FC Barcelona 5 FC Spartak Moskva 1 5-1 200 Jesper Blomqvist 23.11.94 11 IFK Göteborg 1 Manchester United 0 3-1 300 Iván Zamorano 27.09.95 69 Real Madrid CF 1 Grasshopper-Club 0 2-0 400 Raúl González 06.03.96 20 Real Madrid CF 1 Juventus 0 1-0 500 Zlatko Zahović 30.10.96 32 FC Porto 1 Rosenborg BK 0 3-0 600 Yuri Maksimov 17.09.97 33 PSV Eindhoven 0 FC Dynamo Kyiv 1 1-3 700 Roberto Carlos 22.10.97 90 Real Madrid CF 5 Olympiacos FC 1 5-1 800 Andriy Husin 04.03.98 57 Juventus 1 FC Dynamo Kyiv 1 1-1 900 Roy Keane 21.10.98 55 Brøndby IF 1 Manchester United FC 4 2-6 1,000 Dmitri Khokhlov 09.12.98 41 PSV Eindhoven 1 SL Benfica 0 2-2 1,100 Esquerdinha 21.09.99 06 FC Porto 1 Olympiacos FC 0 2-0 1,200 Maksim Shatskikh 19.10.99 36 FC Dynamo Kyiv 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1 4-1 1,300 Edin Mujçin 02.11.99 42 Olympique Marseille 0 NK Dinamo Zagreb 1 2-2 1,400 Rivaldo 07.03.99 59 FC Porto 0 FC Barcelona 2 0-2 1,500 Giovane Elber 09.05.00 54 FC Bayern München 2 Real Madrid CF 1 2-1 1,600 Giovanni van Bronckhorst 20.09.00 08 AS Monaco FC 0 Rangers FC 1 0-1 1,700 Rivaldo 18.10.00 43 AC Milan 0 FC Barcelona 1 3-3 1,800 Mário Jardel 21.11.00 39 AC Milan 0 Galatasaray AS 1 2-2 1,900 Walter Pandiani 07.03.01 84 RC Deportivo La Coruña 4 Paris Saint-Germain 3 4-3 2,000 Erwin Sánchez 19.09.01 04 Boavista FC 1 FC Dynamo Kyiv 0 3-1 2,100 Giovane Elber 17.10.01 33 FC Bayern München 3 FC Spartak Moskva 0 5-1 2,200 Sidney Govou 31.10.01 81 Bayer Leverkusen 2 Olympique Lyonnais 4 2-4 2,300 Claudio Pizarro 19.03.02 87 FC Bayern München 2 FC Nantes Atlantique 1 2-1
14 2,400 Marco Di Vaio 24.09.02 14 Juventus 1 FC Dynamo Kyiv 0 5-0 2,500 Zlatan Ibrahimovic 22.10.02 41 AFC Ajax 1 Rosenborg BK 0 1-1 2,600 Cihan Haspolatli 13.11.02 20 FC Barcelona 1 Galatasaray AS 1 3-1 2,700 Alan Shearer 26.02.03 11 Newcastle United FC 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0 3-1 2,800 Juanfran 16.09.03 84 * Club Brugge KV 1 RC Celta de Vigo 1 1-1 2,900 Wesley Sonck 04.11.03 53 RC Celta de Vigo 2 AFC Ajax 1 3-2 3,000 David Trezeguet 10.12.03 25 Juventus 3 Olympiacos FC 0 7-0 3,100 Ezequiel González 14.09.04 79 Panathinaikos FC 2 Rosenborg BK 0 2-1 3,200 Matuzalém 20.10.04 57 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 1 Celtic FC 0 3-0 3,300 Obafemi Martins 07.12.04 63 FC Internazionale 3 RSC Anderlecht 0 3-0 3,400 Andriy Shevchenko 12.04.05 30 FC Internazionale 0 AC Milan 1 0-3 ** 3,500 Juan Román Riquelme 18.10.05 72 * Villarreal CF 1 SL Benfica 0 1-1 3,600 Luís Figo 23.11.05 28 FC Internazionale 1 FC Artmedia Petržalka 0 4-0 3,700 Ludovic Giuly 18.04.06 57 AC Milan 0 FC Barcelona 1 0-1 3,800 Valentin Badea 17.10.06 64 FC Steaua Bucureşti 1 Real Madrid CF 3 1-4 3,900 Roman Pavlyuchenko 05.12.06 07 Sporting Clube Portugal 0 FC Spartak Moskva 1 1-3 4,000 Peter Crouch 11.04.07 67 Liverpool FC 1 PSV Eindhoven 0 1-0 4,100 Gerard Piqué 23.10.07 34 AS Roma 0 Manchester United FC 1 1-1 4,200 Carlos Tévez 27.11.07 61 Manchester United FC 1 Sporting CP 1 2-1 4,300 Dani Alves 04.03.08 05 Sevilla FC 2 Fenerbahçe SK 0 3-2 ° 4,400 Maicon 01.10.08 13 FC Internazionale 1 SV Werder Bremen 0 1-1 4,500 Pavel Pogrebnyak 05.11.08 34 FC BATE Borisov 0 FC Zenit St. Petersburg 1 0-2 4,600 Miroslav Klose 25.02.09 57 Sporting CP 0 FC Bayern München 2 0-5 4,700 Luís Fabiano 16.09.09 45+3 Sevilla FC 1 FC Unirea Urziceni 0 2-0 4,800 Miloš Krasić 03.11.09 31 Manchester United FC 1 PFC CSKA Moskva 2 3-3 4,900 Yossi Benayoun 09.12.09 43 Liverpool FC 1 ACF Fiorentina 0 1-2 5,000 Luisão 14.09.10 21 SL Benfica 1 Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC 0 2-0 5,100 Eduardo 19.10.10 82 Arsenal FC 5 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 1 5-1 5,200 Younes Kaboul 24.11.10 6 Tottenham Hotspur FC 1 SV Werder Bremen 0 3-0 5,300 Marcelo 16.03.11 37 Real Madrid CF 1 Olympique Lyonnais 0 3-0
* Penalty ** Match abandoned ° Sevilla won 3-2 on penalties
FASTEST RED CARDS
Min Player Team Date 5 Valérien ISMAÏL SV Werder Bremen v FC Internazionale Milano 14.09.2004 5 Craig BELLAMY Newcastle United FC v FC Internazionale Milano 27.11.2002 6 Frédéric DÉHU RC Lens v FC Dynamo Kyiv 09.12.1998 7 Kees VAN WONDEREN Feyenoord v Olympique de Marseille 07.12.1999 8 János HRUTKA 1. FC Kaiserslautern v FC Bayern München 17.03.1999 8 Heurelho GOMES Tottenham Hotspor FC v FC Internazionale Milano 20.10.2010 11 Ashley COLE Arsenal FC v RCD Mallorca 11.09.2001 11 Sascha KIRSCHSTEIN Hamburger SV v Arsenal FC 13.09.2006 13 Vasileios TOROSIDIS Olympiacos FC v Real Madrid CF 24.10.2007
The fastest-ever known sending-off of a substitute took place even before the ball was rolling again: Walter Boyd of Swansea Town FC got the red card against Darlington – for hitting an opponent as he entered the pitch.
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FASTEST YELLOW CARDS
BATUHAN Karadeniz came on as an 84th-minute substitute for Beşiktaş JK in their 1-0 win against Manchester United FC at Old Trafford on 25 November 2009 – and earned a yellow card after 14 seconds. The first time he touched the ball, he shot at goal from a position outside the penalty box and close to the touchline some seconds after the referee had blown his whistle for offside. He also caught attention during the Final Tourna ment of the European Under-17 Championship in Antalya in 2008. During the shoot-out against France, he strolled up to take his penalty, orange boots glinting in the sun; stopped to salute his fan club in the stand; looked at the French goalkeeper; pointed to the top right corner of the net; took a 10-metre run-up; and shot straight at the keeper.
Yellow Cards given in the first minute of a UEFA Champions League match Player Teams Offence Date Akyl FATIH Galatasaray AS v AC Sparta Praha Holding back opponent 05.11.1997 Robert JARNI Real Madrid CF v FC Dynamo Kyiv Foul play 17.03.1999 Albert FERRER Chelsea FC v FC Barcelona Ungentlemanly conduct 19.04.2000 John O’SHEA Manchester United FC v Rangers FC Foul play 22.10.2003 Laurent ROBERT SL Benfica v Liverpool FC Foul play 08.03.2006 Banel NICOLITA FC Steaua Bucureşti v ACF Fiorentina Unsporting behaviour 10.12.2008 PAULO JORGE APOEL FC v Club Atlético de Madrid Unsporting behaviour 25.11.2009
The probably fastest-ever yellow card in top-level football was given in an English FA Cup-tie between Chelsea FC and Sheffield United FC to Vinnie Jones – 3 seconds after kick-off.
MOST GOALS IN A GROUP ON A SINGLE MATCH-DAY
15 MD 1 (Group F) 18.09.2002 Manchester United FC 5 Maccabi Haifa FC 2 & Olympiacos FC 6 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2 13 MD 3 (Group B) 02.10.2002 Liverpool FC 5 FC Spartak Moskva 0 & Valencia CF 6 FC Basel 1893 2 13 MD 4 (Group C) 05.11.2003 AS Monaco FC 8 RC Deportivo La Coruña 3 & PSV Eindhoven 2 AEK Athens FC 0
FEWEST GOALS IN A GROUP ON A SINGLE MATCH-DAY
0 MD 1 (Group C) 14.09.1994 HNK Hajduk Split 0 SL Benfica 0 & RSC Anderlecht 0 FC Steaua Bucureşti 0 0 MD 3 (Group D) 19.10.1994 FC Salzburg 0 AFC Ajax 0 & AEK Athens FC 0 AC Milan 0 0 MD 5 (Group D) 22.11.2005 Manchester United FC 0 Villarreal CF 0 & LOSC Lille Métropole 0 v SL Benfica 0 0 MD 6 (Group B) 07.12.2005 AC Sparta Praha 0 FC Thun 0 & Arsenal FC 0 AFC Ajax 0 0 MD 1 (Group C) 12.09.2006 Galatasaray AS 0 FC Girondins de Bordeaux 0 & PSV Eindhoven 0 Liverpool FC 0 0 MD 1 (Group E) 17.09.2008 Manchester United FC 0 Villarreal CF 0 & Celtic FC 0 Aalborg BK 0
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YOUNGEST PLAYERS TO SCORE IN UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Player and his team are indicated in bold
Peter OFORI-QUAYE (21.03.80) Rosenborg BK v Olympiacos FC 5-1 01.10.97 17 years and 195 days - scored nine minutes (69th minute) after appearing as a substitute Francesc FABREGAS (04.05.87) Arsenal FC v Rosenborg BK 5-1 07.12.04 17 years and 218 days - played the full match and scored to make it 3-0 after 29 minutes BOJAN Krkic Pérez (28.08.90) FC Schalke 04 v FC Barcelona (QF) 0-1 01.04.08 17 years and 218 days - started and scored 12th minute winner; replaced 4 minutes from time Martin KLEIN (02.07.84) Panathinaikos FC v AC Sparta Praha 2-1 27.02.02 17 years and 241 days - came on as sub in 38th minute and scored in the final minute Aaron RAMSEY (26.12.90) Fenerbahçe SK v Arsenal FC 2-5 21.10.08 17 years and 301 days - came on as sub in 73rd minute; scored fifth goal 4 minutes into injury time Karim BENZEMA (19.12.87) Olympique Lyonnais v Rosenborg BK 2-1 06.12.05 17 years and 353 days - opened the scoring after 33 minutes; replaced in the 90th minute Mariyan OGNYANOV (30.07.88) PFC Levski Sofia v Chelsea FC 1-3 27.09.06 18 years and 60 days - scored one minute from time Sammy KUFFOUR (03.09.76) FC Bayern München v FC Spartak Moskva 2-2 02.11.94 18 years and 61 days - scored in 36th minute to mark his European debut Andriy SHEVCHENKO (29.09.76) FC Dynamo Kyiv v FC Bayern München 1-4 07.12.94 18 years and 70 days - marked full European debut with a goal in 37th minute Roque SANTA CRUZ (16.08.81) PSV Eindhoven v FC Bayern München 2-1 26.10.99 18 years and 72 days - came on as sub after 26 minutes and scored 25 minutes later Nigel de JONG (30.11.84) Arsenal FC v AFC Ajax 1-1 18.02.03 18 years and 81 days - scored in the 17th minute; played the full game Mario BALOTELLI (12.08.90) Anorthosis Famagusta FC v FC Internazionale 3-3 04.11.08 18 years and 85 days - opened the scoring in the 13th minute Patrick KLUIVERT (01.07.76) AEK Athens FC v AFC Ajax 1-2 28.09.94 18 years and 90 days - started the game and scored the winning goal in the 65th minute Per Ciljan SKJELBRED (16.06.87) Olympiacos FC v Rosenborg BK 1-3 13.09.05 18 years and 90 days - started and scored to make it 1-1 just before the interval RAÚL González (27.06.77) Real Madrid CF v Ferencvárosi TC 6-1 18.10.95 18 years and 114 days - went on to score a hat-trick, becoming the youngest to score three times in a UEFA Champions League game proper Lionel MESSI (24.06.87) FC Barcelona v Panathinaikos FC 5-0 02.11.05 18 years and 132 days - scored to make it 3-0 after 34 minutes Obafemi MARTINS (28.10.84) Bayer 04 Leverkusen v FC Internazionale 0-2 19.03.03 18 years and 143 days - scored in 36th minute to mark full European debut
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Pascal FEINDOUNO (27.02.81) FC Girondins de Bordeaux v Willem II 3-2 21.09.99 18 years and 207 days - came off the bench to mark his Euro debut with the winning goal 8 minutes from time GIOVANI (11.05.89) FC Barcelona v VfB Stuttgart 3-1 12.12.07 18 years and 216 days - played the full game and scored in the 37th minute Theo WALCOTT (16.03.89) Arsenal FC v SK Slavia Praha 7-0 23.10.07 18 years and 222 days - played the full game and scored twice in 41st and 55th minutes KANU (01.08.76) AFC Ajax v HNK Hajduk Split (QF) 3-0 15.03.95 18 years and 227 days - marked full Euro debut with a goal in the 38th minute Alexander DANISHEVSKIY (23.02.84) FC Spartak Moskva v Liverpool FC 1-3 22.10.02 18 years and 243 days - started the game and opened the scoring after 23 minutes Kiki MUSAMPA (20.07.77) AFC Ajax v BV Borussia Dortmund (QF) 1-0 20.03.96 18 years and 245 days - started the game and scored the only goal 15 minutes from time Arjen ROBBEN (23.01.84) PSV Eindhoven v AJ Auxerre 3-0 30.10.02 18 years and 282 days - scored to make it 3-0 in the 64th minute Mihael MIKIĆ (06.01.80) NK Croatia Zagreb v FC Porto 3-1 04.11.98 18 years and 304 days - started and scored opening goal after 7 minutes Francesc FABREGAS (04.05.87) Arsenal FC v Juventus (QF) 2-0 28.03.06 18 years and 329 days - opening the scoring after 40 minutes Wayne ROONEY (24.10.85) Manchester United FC v Fenerbahçe SK 6-2 28.09.04 18 years and 341 days - scored a hat-trick to mark his United and UCL debuts
YOUNGEST PLAYERS IN UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Celestine BABAYARO (29.08.78) RSC Anderlecht v FC Steaua Bucureşti 23.11.94 16 years and 87 days - he is both the youngest starter and recipient of a red card in UCL football following his dismissal in the 37th minute Charis MAVRIAS (21.02.94) Panathinaikos FC v FC Rubin Kazan 20.10.10 16 years and 242 days - appeared as substitute in the 78th minute Alexander PAVLENKO (20.01.85) FC Spartak Moskva v Feyenoord 31.10.01 16 years and 285 days - appeared as substitute in the 83rd minute Roman WALLNER (04.02.82) SK Sturm Graz v FC Internazionale Milano 09.12.98 16 years and 309 days - appeared as substitute in the 84th minute Anthony VANDENBORRE (24.10.87) RSC Anderlecht v Valencia CF 14.09.04 16 years and 327 days - played full 90 minutes Jack WILSHERE (01.01.92) Arsenal FC v FC Dynamo Kyiv 25.11.08 16 years and 330 days - appeared as sub in the 77th minute BOJAN Krkic Pérez (28.08.90) FC Barcelona v Olympique Lyonnais 19.09.07 17 years and 23 days - appeared as substitute in the 88th minute Artem BEZRODNYI (10.02.79) FC Spartak Moskva v FC Nantes Atlantique 06.03.96 17 years and 25 days - appeared as substitute in the 71st minute
18 OLDEST PLAYERS IN UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Marco BALLOTTA (03.04.64) Real Madrid CF v S.S. Lazio 11.12.07 43 years and 253 days - goalkeeper; played for 90 minutes Alessandro COSTACURTA (24.04.66) AEK Athens v AC Milan 21.11.06 40 years and 213 days - played first half David WEIR (10.05.70) Bursaspor v Rangers FC 07.12.10 40 years and 212 days - played full 90 minutes Edwin van der SAR (29.10.70) FC Barcelona v Manchester United FC (final) 28.05.11 40 years and 212 days - goalkeeper, who made his last senior appearance in the 2011 final at Wembley before retirement Jens LEHMANN (10.11.69) FC Barcelona v VfB Stuttgart 17.03.10 40 years and 128 days - goalkeeper; played full 90 minutes Dany VERLINDEN (15.08.63) Club Brugge KV v AFC Ajax 09.12.03 40 years and 117 days - goalkeeper; played full 90 minutes Anastasios MITROPOULOS (23.08.57) Olympiacos FC v Rosenborg BK 10.12.97 40 years and 110 days - appeared as substitute for the last 4 minutes DONATO (30.12.62) RC Deportivo La Coruña v FC Basel 1893 19.02.03 40 years and 52 days - started but replaced at the interval Sander BOSCHKER (20.10.70) FC Twente v Tottenham Hotspur FC 07.12.10 40 years and 49 days - goalkeeper; played for 90 minutes
OLDEST PLAYERS TO SCORE IN UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Ryan GIGGS (29.11.73) FC Schalke 04 v Manchester United FC (SF) 0-2 26.04.11 37 years and 149 days - opened the scoring in the 67th minute Filippo INZAGHI (09.08.73) AC Milan v Real Madrid CF 2-2 03.11.10 37 years and 87 days - netted twice in the space of 10 minutes after appearing on the hour Javier ZANETTI (10.08.73) FC Internazionale v Tottenham Hotspur FC 4-3 20.10.10 37 years and 72 days - opened the scoring in the 2nd minute Laurent BLANC (19.11.65) Olympiacos FC v Manchester United FC 2-3 23.10.02 36 years and 339 days - scored the opening goal in the 21st minute Paolo MALDINI (26.06.68) Liverpool FC v AC Milan (final) 3-3 25.05.05 36 years and 334 days - goal after 51 seconds set a record time for a ‘Champions’ final Lee DIXON (17.03.64) Arsenal FC v AC Sparta Praha 4-2 25.10.00 36 years and 223 days - made the score 3-0 in the 35th minute
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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GOALKEEPING STATISTICS
CLUBS KEEPING CLEAN SHEETS IN SUCCESSIVE MATCHES
TEN: Arsenal FC (2005/06)
SEVEN: AC Milan (2004/05)
SIX: AFC Ajax (1995/96), Panathinaikos FC (1995/96), Chelsea FC (2007/08)
FIVE: AFC Ajax (1994/95), AC Milan (1994/95), Real Madrid CF (1997/98-1998/99), Chelsea FC (2003/04), Juventus (2004/05), Liverpool FC (2005/06), FC Barcelona (2006/07-2007/08), Manchester United FC (2007/08), Manchester United FC (2010/11), Olympique de Marseille (2010/11)
CLUBS WITH THE MOST MINUTES WITHOUT CONCEDING A GOAL
995 minutes [10 clean sheets] ARSENAL FC 27.09.05 - 17.05.06 GK: Manuel ALMUNIA (347 minutes [3]) / Jens LEHMANN (648 minutes [7]) - the run began after Markus Rosenberg (AFC Ajax) scored past Almunia after 71 minutes of MD2. Lehmann, who kept the first clean-sheet v AC Sparta Praha on MD3 before Almunia returned for the rest of the group stage, was reinstated for the knock-out rounds and extended the run with 6 more clean sheets, which included a last minute penalty-save from Juan Riquelme in the second leg of the semi-final at Villarreal CF. He then lasted just 18 minutes v FC Barcelona, before becoming the first player to be dismissed in the final. Almunia remained unbeaten until the 76th minute when Samuel Eto’o scored to end the record run at 995 minutes NB: Lehmann’s personal run remained active at 763 minutes [8 clean sheets] dating back to 22.02.05 v FC Bayern München in the opening leg of first knock-out round. It was ended at 853 minutes when he was beaten by Boubacar Sanogo during added-time in Hamburg on MD1 of the 2006/07 season.
686 minutes [6 clean sheets] CHELSEA FC 03.10.07 - 02.04.08 GK: Petr ČECH (396 minutes [3]) & Carlo CUDICINI (290 minutes [2]) shared the goalkeeping duties as Chelsea went 11 hours and 26 minutes without conceding a goal. The pair played one half each in the 0-0 draw at FC Schalke 04 on MD4 The run began after David Villa had given Valencia a 9th minute lead on MD2 and lasted until the 65th minute of MD9 when Kazim Kazim scored for Fenerbahçe SK to make it 1-1 in the first-leg of the quarter-final
658 minutes [6 clean sheets] AFC AJAX 27.09.95 - 03.04.96 GK: Edwin van der SAR - last 31 minutes v Ferencvárosi TC on MD2 to 87th minute of semi-final, first leg, v Panathinaikos FC
623 minutes [7 clean sheets] AC MILAN 02.11.04 - 04.05.05 GK: DIDA - last minute v FC Barcelona on MD4 to the 9th minute of semi-final, second leg v PSV Eindhoven. This includes 73 minutes v FC Internazionale Milano (quarter-final, second leg), which was abandoned due to crowd trouble
20 594 minutes [5 clean sheets] REAL MADRID CF 04.03.98 - 30.09.98 GK: Bodo ILLGNER - last 72 minutes of quarter-final, first-leg, v Bayer 04 Leverkusen to 72nd minute of group game v FC Spartak Moskva on MD2 at the start of the following season [1998/99].
573 minutes [5 clean sheets] LIVERPOOL FC 13.09.05 - 21.02.06 GK: José Manuel REINA - last 39 minutes of the opening group game v Real Betis Balompié on MD1 to 84th minute of first KO-game at SL Benfica on MD7
561 minutes [5 clean sheets] CHELSEA FC 22.10.03 - 24.03.04 GK: Carlo CUDICINI / Marco AMBROSIO - Cudicini kept 5 successive clean sheets, 502 minutes, after conceding in the 38th minute of home game v S.S. Lazio on MD3. Compatriot Marco Ambrosio played in the first-leg of the quarter-final tie v Arsenal FC and managed to extend the run by another 59 minutes, to 561 in all, before finally being beaten. Cudicini eventually returned to the side for the second-leg of the semi-final v AS Monaco FC and extended his own personal record by 45 minutes to 547
558 minutes [5 clean sheets] AC MILAN 23.11.94 - 24.05.95 GK: Sebastiano ROSSI - last 24 minutes v AFC Ajax on MD5 to 84th minute of the final against the same opponents
557 minutes [5 clean sheets] JUVENTUS 09.03.04 - 08.12.04 GK: Gianluigi BUFFON & Antonio CHIMENTI - Buffon kept 5 successive clean sheets, totalling 528 minutes, at the start of 2004/05 after conceding in the 12th minute of first KO-stage, second leg, v RC Deportivo La Coruña on 09.03.04. Antonio Chimenti played against Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC on MD6 and extended the run by a further 29 minutes to 557 in all. Buffon returned for the first KO game at Real Madrid CF and extended his own personal record by a further 31 minutes to 559
545 minutes [6 clean sheets] PANATHINAIKOS FC 25.10.95 - 17.04.96 GK: Jozef WANDZIK - last minute v Aalborg BK on MD3 to 4th minute of semi-final, second leg v AFC Ajax
531 minutes [5 clean sheets] MANCHESTER UNITED FC 20.02.08 - 21.05.08 GK: Edwin van der SAR - last 36 minutes v Olympique Lyonnais on MD7 until just before the break v Chelsea FC at the final in Moscow
517 minutes [5 clean sheets] OLYMPIQUE DE MARSEILLE 28.09.10 - 15.03.11 GK: Steve MANDANDA - last 62 minutes v Chelsea FC on MD 2 to 5th minute of knock-out, second leg v Manchester United FC
514 minutes [5 clean sheets] AFC AJAX 02.11.94 - 19.04.05 GK: Edwin van der SAR - last 28 minutes v FC Salzburg on MD4 to 36th minute of semi-final, second leg v FC Bayern München
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GOALLESS DRAWS
If it seems strange that it took until late April for the inaugural UEFA Champions League to produce a goal-less draw, it has to be recalled that the group stage was preceded by two knock-out rounds and the competition proper spanned the winter break.
In those early days, when critics were wondering whether the competition would be a success or not, it was even a cause for concern when, as soon as the field had been expanded to sixteen clubs, three of the eight games on the opening matchday of the 1994/95 season ended goal-less. Although this ‘record’ was equalled in the following season, it is one that, during the long history of the competition, has never been beaten – albeit helped by the fact that, in recent times, fixtures have been spread over two days.
The clubs most involved in goal-less draws tend to be those who have played the most matches. But the bottom end of that particular chart reveals some interesting statistical comments on playing styles and philosophies. Is it by accident, for example, that Rosenborg BK, despite participating eleven times in the UEFA Champions League, have only once sent spectators home without seeing a goal? Or that Olympique Lyonnais have done so only twice?
Date Match Referee 21.04.1993 Rangers FC – PFC CSKA Moskva Peter Mikkelsen (DEN) 24.11.1993 Galatasaray AS – FC Barcelona Frans Van den Wijngaert (BEL) 24.11.1993 RSC Anderlecht – AC Milan Vadim Zhuk (BLR) 08.12.1993 FC Spartak Moskva – Galatasaray AS John Blankenstein (NED) 30.03.1994 FC Spartak Moskva – AS Monaco FC Piero Ceccarini (ITA) 30.03.1994 AC Milan – RSC Anderlecht Joël Quiniou (FRA) 13.04.1994 FC Porto – AC Milan Sándor Puhl (HUN) 14.09.1994 RSC Anderlecht – FC Steaua Bucureşti Leslie Mottram (SCO) 14.09.1994 HNK Hajduk Split – SL Benfica Serge Muhmenthaler (SUI) 14.09.1994 FC Salzburg – AEK Athens FC Rémi Harrel (FRA) 28.09.1994 Galatasaray AS – Manchester United FC Mario van der Ende (NED) 19.10.1994 AEK Athens FC – AC Milan Sándor Puhl (HUN) 19.10.1994 FC Salzburg – AFC Ajax Kurt Röthlisberger (SUI) 02.11.1994 RSC Anderlecht – HNK Hajduk Split Markus Merk (GER) 01.03.1995 FC Bayern München – IFK Göteborg Serguei Khussainov (RUS) 01.03.1995 HNK Hajduk Split – AFC Ajax Ryszard Wojcik (POL) 15.03.1995 SL Benfica – AC Milan Guy Goethals (BEL) 05.04.1995 FC Bayern München – AFC Ajax Ahmet Cakar (TUR) 13.09.1995 FC Nantes Atlantique – FC Porto Hans-Jürgen Weber (GER) 18.10.1995 FC Steaua Bucureşti – BV Borussia Dortmund Michel Piraux (BEL) 01.11.1995 Panathinaikos FC – FC Porto Guy Goethals (BEL) 01.11.1995 Blackburn Rovers FC – Legia Warszawa Urs Meier (SUI) 01.11.1995 Grasshopper-Club – AFC Ajax Nikolai Levnikov (RUS) 06.12.1995 FC Nantes Atlantique – Panathinaikos FC Leif Sundell (SWE) 06.12.1995 FC Steaua Bucureşti – Juventus Gerd Grabher (AUT) 06.03.1996 Legia Warszawa – Panathinaikos FC Manuel Díaz Vega (ESP)
22 19.03.1997 FC Porto – Manchester United FC Kim Milton Nielsen (DEN) 17.09.1997 AC Sparta Praha – Parma FC Dick Jol (NED) 05.11.1997 Olympiacos FC – Real Madrid CF Hellmut Krug (GER) 04.03.1998 AS Monaco FC – Manchester United FC Manuel Diaz Vega (ESP) 04.03.1998 FC Bayern München – BV Borussia Dortmund Pierluigi Collina (ITA) 15.04.1998 BV Borussia Dortmund – Real Madrid CF Paul Durkin (ENG) 16.09.1998 NK Croatia Zagreb – AFC Ajax Kim Milton Nielsen (DEN) 30.09.1998 HJK Helsinki – 1. FC Kaiserslautern Leslie Irvine (NIR) 21.10.1998 Athletic Club Bilbao – Juventus Kim Milton Nielsen (DEN) 25.11.1998 FC Spartak Moskva – SK Sturm Graz Michel Piraux (BEL) 14.09.1999 ACF Fiorentina – Arsenal FC Hellmut Krug (GER) 14.09.1999 Manchester United FC – NK Croatia Zagreb Nikolai Levnikov (RUS) 15.09.1999 AC Sparta Praha – FC Girondins de Bordeaux Terje Hauge (NOR) 15.09.1999 Chelsea FC – AC Milan Anders Frisk (SWE) 29.09.1999 AIK Solna – ACF Fiorentina Günter Benkö (AUT) 26.10.1999 FC Girondins de Bordaux – AC Sparta Praha Manuel Díaz Vega (ESP) 02.11.1999 Bayer 04 Leverkusen – NK Maribor David Elleray (ENG) 03.11.1999 Willem II – FC Girondins de Bordeaux Miroslav Radoman (SRB) 07.12.1999 S.S. Lazio – Chelsea FC Hellmut Krug (GER) 08.12.2000 FC Girondins de Bordeaux – ACF Fiorentina Karl-Erik Nilsson (SWE) 08.03.2000 Feyenoord – S.S. Lazio Günter Benkö (AUT) 21.03.2000 Valencia CF – Manchester United FC Lubos Michel (SVK) 22.03.2000 Olympique de Marseille - Feyenoord Arturo Daudén Ibáñez (ESP) 04.04.2000 Real Madrid CF – Manchester United FC Gilles Veissière (FRA) 19.09.2000 FC Dynamo Kyiv – Manchester United FC Kim Milton Nielsen (DEN) 26.09.2000 Juventus – RC Deportivo La Coruña Urs Meier (SUI) 17.10.2000 Rangers FC – Galatasaray AS Markus Merk (GER) 18.10.2000 Panathinaikos FC – Hamburger SV Leslie Irvine (NIR) 18.10.2000 Beşiktaş JK – Leeds United AFC Jan Wegereef (NED) 24.10.2000 FC Bayern München – Helsingborgs IF Kyros Vassaras (GRE) 07.11.2000 Sporting Clube Portugal – Bayer 04 Leverkusen Öguz Sarvan (TUR) 06.12.2000 Panathinaikos FC – Valencia CF Markus Merk (GER) 14.02.2001 Valencia CF – Manchester United FC Dick Jol (NED) 02.05.2001 Leeds United AFC – Valencia CF Pierluigi Collina (ITA) 18.09.2001 FC Bayern München – AC Sparta Praha Leslie Irvine (NIR) 19.09.2001 RSC Anderlecht – AS Roma Karl-Erik Nilsson (SWE) 19.09.2001 BV Borussia Dortmund – Liverpool FC Valentin Ivanov (RUS) 10.10.2001 FC Porto – Juventus Manuel Mejuto González (ESP) 16.10.2001 Galatasaray AS – FC Nantes Atlantique Hellmut Krug (GER) 24.10.2001 PSV Eindhoven – FC Nantes Atlantique Wolfgang Stark (GER) 21.11.2001 Panathinaikos FC – FC Porto Graham Poll (ENG) 05.12.2001 AS Roma – Liverpool FC Dick Jol (NED) 19.02.2002 Juventus – RC Deportivo La Coruña Hugh Dallas (SCO) 20.02.2002 Boavista FC – FC Bayern München Lubos Michel (SVK) 20.02.2002 Liverpool FC – Galatasaray AS Vitor Melo Pereira (POR) 13.03.2002 Manchester United FC – FC Bayern München Gilles Veissière (FRA) 13.03.2002 FC Barcelona – Liverpool FC Kyros Vassaras (GRE) 17.09.2002 AJ Auxerre – PSV Eindhoven Alfredo Trentalange (ITA)
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17.09.2002 KCR Genk – AEK Athens FC Konrad Plautz (AUT) 24.09.2002 Club Brugge KV – FC Lokomotiv Moskva Paulo Gomes Costa (POR) 25.09.2002 AEK Athens FC – AS Roma Graham Barber (ENG) 01.10.2002 Feyenoord – FC Dynamo Kyiv Tom Henning Øvrebø (NOR) 02.10.2002 Rosenborg BK – AFC Ajax Michal Benes (CZE) 22.10.2002 AS Roma – KCR Genk Zeljko Siric (CRO) 12.11.2002 Arsenal FC – PSV Eindhoven Tom Henning Øvrebø (NOR) 10.12.2002 Arsenal FC – Valencia CF Kim Milton Nielsen (DEN) 26.02.2003 FC Internazionale Milano – FC Barcelona Urs Meier (SUI) 26.02.2003 AFC Ajax – Arsenal FC Valentin Ivanov (RUS) 08.04.2003 AFC Ajax – AC Milan Terje Hauge (NOR) 07.05.2003 AC Milan – FC Internazionale Milano Valentin Ivanov (RUS) 28.05.2003 Juventus – AC Milan Markus Merk (GER) 30.09.2003 FC Lokomotiv Moskva – Arsenal FC Jan Wegereef (NED) 01.10.2003 RC Celta de Vigo – AC Milan Michael Riley (ENG) 04.11.2003 FK Partizan – Real Madrid CF Cosimo Bolognino (ITA) 05.11.2003 Real Sociedad de Fútbol – Juventus Stéphane Bré (FRA) 25.11.2003 Celtic FC – FC Bayern München René Temmink (NED) 26.11.2003 Chelsea FC – AC Sparta Praha Claus Bo Larsen (DEN) 10.12.2003 AEK Athens FC – AS Monaco FC Wolfgang Stark (GER) 24.02.2004 AC Sparta Praha – AC Milan Graham Poll (ENG) 09.03.2004 Chelsea FC – VfB Stuttgart Kim Milton Nielsen (DEN) 21.04.2004 FC Porto – RC Deportivo La Coruña Markus Merk (GER) 14.09.2004 FC Porto – PFC CSKA Moskva Kim Milton Nielsen (DEN) 15.09.2004 RC Deportivo La Coruña – Olympiacos FC Frank De Bleeckere (BEL) 19.10.2004 Liverpool FC – RC Deportivo La Coruña Anders Frisk (SWE) 19.10.2004 AC Sparta Praha – Manchester United FC Massimo De Santis (ITA) 02.11.2004 FC Internazionale Milano – Valencia CF Valentin Ivanov (RUS) 02.11.2004 FC Porto – Paris Saint-Germain FC Stuart Dougal (SCO) 24.11.2004 Chelsea FC – Paris Saint-Germain FC René Temmink (NED) 07.12.2004 Celtic FC – AC Milan Kyros Vassaras (GRE) 13.04.2005 Juventus – Liverpool FC Valentin Ivanov (RUS) 27.04.2005 Chelsea FC – Liverpool FC Alain Sars (FRA) 14.09.2005 Villarreal CF – Manchester United FC Kim Milton Nielsen (DEN) 27.09.2005 LOSC Lille Métropole – Villarreal CF Peter Fröjdfeldt (SWE) 27.09.2005 Manchester United FC – LOSC Lille Métropole Stefano Farina (ITA) 28.09.2005 Liverpool FC – Chelsea FC Massimo De Santis (ITA) 18.10.2005 Panathinaikos FC – FC Barcelona Frank De Bleeckere (BEL) 19.10.2005 AC Milan – PSV Eindhoven Konrad Plautz (AUT) 19.10.2005 Rangers FC – FC Artmedia Petržalka Arturo Daudén Ibáñez (ESP) 22.11.2005 Manchester United FC – Villarreal CF Massimo De Santis (ITA) 22.11.2005 LOSC Lille Métrople – SL Benfica Massimo Busacca (SUI) 23.11.2005 Liverpool FC – Real Betis Balompié Eric Poulat (FRA) 06.12.2005 Chelsea FC – Liverpool FC Herbert Fandel (GER) 06.12.2005 FC Artmedia Petržalka – FC Porto Markus Merk (GER) 07.12.2005 Arsenal FC – AFC Ajax Eduardo Iturralde (ESP) 07.12.2005 AC Sparta Praha – FC Thun Michael Riley (ENG) 08.03.2006 Arsenal FC – Real Madrid CF Lubos Michel (SVK) 28.03.2006 SL Benfica – FC Barcelona Stephen Bennett (ENG) 29.03.2006 Olympique Lyonnais – AC Milan Konrad Plautz (AUT) 05.04.2006 Juventus – Arsenal FC Herbert Fandel (GER)
24 25.04.2006 Villarreal CF – Arsenal FC Valentin Ivanov (RUS) 26.04.2006 FC Barcelona – AC Milan Markus Merk (GER) 12.09.2006 PSV Eindhoven – Liverpool FC Massimo Busacca (SUI) 12.09.2006 Galatasaray AS – FC Girondins de Bordeaux Roberto Rosetti (ITA) 13.09.2006 FC København – SL Benfica Iouri Baskakov (RUS) 13.09.2006 FC Porto – PFC CSKA Moskva Tom Henning Øvrebø (NOR) 26.09.2006 LOSC Lille Métropole – AC Milan Manuel Mejuto González (ESP) 31.10.2006 FC Bayern München – Sporting Clube Portugal Massimo Busacca (SUI) 01.11.2006 Arsenal FC – PFC CSKA Moskva Lubos Michel (SVK) 06.12.2006 FC Porto – Arsenal FC Markus Merk (GER) 20.02.2007 Celtic FC – AC Milan Terje Hauge (NOR) 21.02.2007 AS Roma – Olympique Lyonnais Michael Riley (ENG) 06.03.2007 Valencia CF – FC Internazionale Milano Wolfgang Stark (GER) 23.10.2007 Rangers FC – FC Barcelona Konrad Plautz (AUT) 23.10.2007 PSV Eindhoven – Fenerbahçe SK Howard Webb (ENG) 06.11.2007 FC Schalke 04 – Chelsea FC Massimo Busacca (SUI) 06.11.2007 Olympiacos FC – Real Madrid CF Lubos Michel (SVK) 07.11.2007 SK Slavia Praha – Arsenal FC Bertrand Layec (FRA) 28.11.2007 Valencia CF – FC Schalke 04 Frank De Bleeckere (BEL) 11.12.2007 Chelsea FC – Valencia CF Grzegorz Gilewski (POL) 19.02.2008 Olympiacos FC – Chelsea FC Konrad Plautz (AUT) 20.02.2008 Arsenal FC – AC Milan Claus Bo Larsen (DEN) 23.04.2008 FC Barcelona – Manchester United FC Massimo Busacca (SUI) 16.09.2008 SV Werder Bremen – Anorthosis Famagusta FC Craig Thomson (SCO) 17.09.2008 Manchester United FC – Villarreal CF Wolfgang Stark (GER) 17.09.2008 Celtic FC – Aalborg BK Matteo Trefoloni (ITA 30.09.2008 ACF Fiorentina – FC Steaua Bucureşti Michael Riley (ENG) 01.10.2008 CFR 1907 Cluj – Chelsea FC Florian Meyer (GER) 05.11.2008 Arsenal FC – Fenerbahçe SK Roberto Rosetti (ITA) 05.11.2008 Fenerbahçe SK – FC Dynamo Kyiv Thomas Einwaller (AUT) 25.11.2008 Villarreal CF – Manchester United FC Roberto Rosetti (ITA) 25.11.2008 FC Zenit St. Petersburg – Juventus Claus Bo Larsen (DEN) 09.12.2008 Olympique de Marseille – Club Atlético de Madrid Wolfgang Stark (GER) 10.12.2008 Juventus – FC BATE Borisov Costas Kapitanis (CYP) 24.02.2009 FC Internazionale Milano – Manchester United FC Luís Medina Cantalejo (ESP) 11.03.2009 FC Porto – Club Atlético de Madrid Pieter Vink (NED) 28.04.2009 FC Barcelona – Chelsea FC Wolfgang Stark (GER) 15.09.2009 Club Atlético de Madrid – APOEL FC Craig Thomson (SCO) 16.09.2009 FC Internazionale Milano – FC Barcelona Wolfgang Stark (GER) 30.09.2009 FC Bayern München – Juventus Howard Webb (ENG) 21.10.2009 VfL Wolfsburg – Beşiktaş JK Roberto Rosetti (ITA) 04.11.2009 FC Rubin Kazan – FC Barcelona Konrad Plautz (AUT) 24.11.2009 FC Rubin Kazan – FC Dynamo Kyiv Felix Brych (GER) 24.11.2009 AZ Alkmaar – Olympiacos FC Alberto Undiano Mallenco (ESP) 14.09.2010 Manchester United FC – Rangers FC Olegário Benquerença (POR) 02.11.2010 Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC – FC Schalke 04 Frank De Bleeckere (BEL) 23.02.2011 Olympique de Marseille – Manchester United FC Felix Brych (GER) 16.03.2011 Chelsea FC – FC København Svein Oddvar Moen (NOR)
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NUMBER OF GOALLESS DRAWS – CLUB BY CLUB
19 4 Athletic Club Bilbao Manchester United FC BV Borussia Dortmund Blackburn Rovers FC Celtic FC Boavista FC 18 PFC CSKA Moskva Club Brugge KV AC Milan FC Dynamo Kyiv RC Celta de Vigo 14 ACF Fiorentina CFR 1907 Cluj Arsenal FC LOSC Lille Métropole Grasshopper-Club Chelsea FC FC Nantes Atlantique Hamburger SV FC Steaua Bucureşti Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC 13 Helsingborgs IF FC Porto 3 HJK Helsinki Club Atlético de Madrid 12 IFK Göteborg Fenerbahçe SK Juventus 1. FC Kaiserslautern Feyenoord NK Maribor 11 HNK Hajduk Split Parma FC FC Barcelona AS Monaco FC FK Partizan Liverpool FC Olympique de Marseille Real Sociedad de Fútbol FC Spartak Moskva 10 Rosenborg BK FC Schalke 04 FC Bayern München SK Slavia Praha 2 SK Sturm Graz 9 FC Artmedia Petržalka VfB Stuttgart AFC Ajax Bayer 04 Leverkusen FC Thun Valencia CF Beşiktaş JK SV Werder Bremen 8 NK Croatia Zagreb Willem II Tilburg AC Sparta Praha KCR Genk VfL Wolfsburg FC København FC Zenit St. Petersburg 7 S.S. Lazio Galatasaray AS Legia Warszawa Panathinaikos FC Leeds United AFC REFEREES WITH MOST 6 FC Lokomotiv Moskva GOALLESS DRAWS FC Internazionale Milano Olympique Lyonnais PSV Eindhoven Paris Saint-Germain FC 8 Real Madrid CF FC Rubin Kazan Markus Merk Villareal CF FC Salzburg Kim Milton Nielsen Sporting Clube Portugal 5 7 AEK Athens FC 1 Wolfgang Stark RSC Anderlecht Aalborg BK 6 SL Benfica AIK Solna Valentin Ivanov FC Girondins de Bordeaux Anorthosis Famagusta FC Konrad Plautz RC Deportivo La Coruña APOEL FC Olympiacos FC AJ Auxerre 5 Rangers FC AZ Alkmaar Massimo Busacca AS Roma FC BATE Borisov Lubos Michel Real Betis Balompié
26 RECORD FOR EACH SIDE WINNING THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 1992-2011
Club P W D L F A Pts W% GS Gav Gmin CS 1992/93: Olympique de Marseille 7 4 3 0 15 4 11/14 57,1 7 2,14 42 4 1993/94: AC Milan 8 4 4 0 13 2 12/16 50,0 5 1,63 55 6 1994/95: AFC Ajax 11 7 4 0 18 4 18/22 63,6 8 1,64 55 8 1995/96: Juventus 11 6 2 3 22 9 20/33 54,5 9 2,00 45 5 1996/97: BV Borussia Dortmund 11 9 1 1 23 10 28/33 81,8 11 2,10 43 5 1997/98: Real Madrid CF 11 7 3 1 22 5 24/33 63,6 8 2,00 45 7 1998/99: Manchester United FC 11 5 6 0 29 16 21/33 45,5 11 2,64 34 2 1999/00: Real Madrid CF 17 10 3 4 35 23 33/51 58,8 16 2,06 43 6 2000/01: FC Bayern München 17 11 4 2 24 12 37/51 64,7 14 1,41 63 8 2001/02: Real Madrid CF 17 12 3 2 35 14 39/51 70,6 16 2,06 43 7 2002/03: AC Milan 17 9 4 4 21 14 31/51 53,0 13 1,24 74 8 2003/04: FC Porto 13 7 5 1 20 12 26/39 53,8 12 1,54 58 5 2004/05: Liverpool FC 13 7 4 2 18 9 25/39 53,8 8 1,38 66 6 2005/06: FC Barcelona 13 9 4 0 24 5 31/39 69,2 10 1,85 48 8 2006/07: AC Milan 13 7 3 3 20 10 24/39 53,8 8 1,54 60 7 2007/08: Manchester United FC 13 9 4 0 20 6 31/39 69,2 12 1,54 60 8 2008/09: FC Barcelona 13 7 5 1 32 13 26/39 53,8 12 2,46 36 4 2009/10: FC Internazionale Milano 13 8 3 2 17 9 27/39 61,5 10 1,31 68 6 2010/11: FC Barcelona 13 9 3 1 30 9 30/39 69,2 13 2,31 39 5
KEY: W% = win percentage Gav = goal average per game CS = clean sheets GS = games when team scored Gmin = average time per goal
RECORD FOR EACH TEAM TAKING PART IN A UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL
Team P W D L F A W% Seasons AC Milan 62229633,3 1993 (L); 1994 (W); 1995 (L); 2003 (Wp); 2005 (Lp); 2007 (W) FC Barcelona 43017675 1994 (L); 2006 (W); 2009 (W); 2011 (W) Manchester United FC 41124725 1999 (W); 2008 (Wp); 2009 (L); 2011 (L) Juventus 402225- 1996 (Wp); 1997 (L); 1998 (L); 2003 (Lp) Real Madrid CF 3300611001998 (W); 2000 (W); 2002 (W) FC Bayern München 301225 - 1999 (L); 2001 (Wp); 2010 (L) AFC Ajax 21102150 1995 (W); 1996 (Lp) Liverpool FC 201145 - 2005 (Wp); 2007 (L) Valencia CF 201114 - 2000 (L); 2001 (Lp) Olympique de Marseille 1100101001993 (W) BV Borussia Dortmund 1100311001997 (W) FC Porto 1100301002004 (W) FC Internazionale Milano 1100201002010 (W) Chelsea FC 101011 - 2008 (Lp) Bayer 04 Leverkusen 100112 - 2002 (L) Arsenal FC 100112 - 2006 (L) AS Monaco FC 100103 - 2004 (L) Totals 38 14 10 14 49 49 19 14 5 14
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BIGGEST WINS
Winning team in bold
10-0 1 HJK Helsinki v Bangor City (2nd round, 2nd leg) 19.07.11 8-0 1 Liverpool FC v Beşiktaş JK 06.11.07 NB: The following games all ended 8-0 during the UCL qualifying rounds: Widzew Łódz v PFK Neftçi (1st round, 2nd leg) 30.07.97 FC Dynamo Kyiv v Barry Town AFC (1st round, 1st leg) 22.07.98 1. FC Košice v Cliftonville FC (1st round, 2nd leg) 29.07.98 Skonto FC v AS Jeunesse Esch (1st round, 2nd leg) 21.07.99 FC Porto v Barry Town AFC (2nd round, 1st leg) 25.07.01 WIT Georgia Tbilisi 2 TS Wisla Kraków 8 (2nd round, 1st leg) 27.07.04 FK Partizan v Rhyl FC (2nd round, 2nd leg) 21.07.09 8-3 1 AS Monaco FC v RC Deportivo La Coruña 05.11.03 7-0 1 Juventus v Olympiacos FC 10.12.03 2 Arsenal FC v SK Slavia Praha 23.10.07 3 MŠK Žilina v Olympique de Marseille 03.11.10 7-1 1 Manchester United FC v AS Roma (QF, 2nd leg) 10.04.07 2 FC Bayern München v Sporting Clube de Portugal (KO stage, 2nd leg) 10.03.09 7-2 1 Paris Saint-Germain FC v Rosenborg BK 24.10.00 2 Olympique Lyonnais v SV Werder Bremen (KO stage, 2nd leg) 08.03.05 6-0 1 Olympique de Marseille v PFC CSKA Moskva 17.03.93 2 Leeds United AFC v Beşiktaş JK 26.09.00 3 Real Madrid CF v KRC Genk 25.09.02 4 Arsenal FC v SC Braga 15.09.10 6-1 1 Real Madrid CF v Ferencvárosi TC 18.10.95 2 Real Madrid CF v SK Sturm Graz 21.10.98 3 Rosenborg BK v Helsingborgs IF 26.09.00 4 Olympique de Marseille v FC Zürich 03.11.09 5 Valencia CF v Bursaspor 24.11.10 6-2 1 Brøndby IF v Manchester United FC 21.10.98 2 Olympiacos FC v Bayer 04 Leverkusen 18.09.02 3 Valencia CF v FC Basel 1893 02.10.02 4 Manchester United FC v Fenerbahçe SK 28.09.04 6-3 1 Villarreal CF v Aalborg BK 21.10.08 5-0 1 SV Werder Bremen v FC Porto 30.03.94 2 Juventus v SK Rapid Wien 30.10.96 3 Manchester United FC v Brøndby IF 04.11.98 4 Galatasaray AS v Chelsea FC 20.10.99 5 FC Barcelona v AIK Solna 27.10.99 6 FC Barcelona v AC Sparta Praha 08.12.99 7 Rangers FC v SK Sturm Graz 12.09.00 8 AS Monaco FC v SK Sturm Graz 27.09.00 9 FC Barcelona v Beşiktaş JK 08.11.00 28 10 SK Sturm Graz v Valencia CF 07.03.01 11 Juventus v FC Dynamo Kyiv 24.09.02 12 Olympique Lyonnais v Rosenborg BK 25.09.02 13 Liverpool FC v FC Spartak Moskva 02.10.02 14 Manchester United FC v Panathinaikos FC 16.09.03 15 RC Deportivo La Coruña v AS Monaco FC 08.12.04 16 Olympique Lyonnais v AC Sparta Praha 08.12.04 17 FC Barcelona v Panathinaikos FC 02.11.05 18 FC Barcelona v PFC Levski Sofia 12.09.06 19 FC Basel 1893 v FC Barcelona 22.10.08 20 FC Shakhtar Donetsk v FC Basel 1893 26.11.08 21 SC Portugal v FC Bayern München (KO stage, 1st leg) 25.02.09 22 Arsenal FC v FC Porto (KO stage, 2nd leg) 09.03.10 5-1 1 FC Barcelona v FC Spartak Moskva 16.03.94 2 Ferencvárosi TC v AFC Ajax 27.09.95 3 Juventus v Feyenoord 17.09.97 4 Rosenborg BK v Olympiacos FC 01.10.97 5 Real Madrid CF v Olympiacos FC 22.10.97 6 FC Bayern München v Paris Saint-Germain FC 22.10.97 7 AS Monaco FC v K.Lierse SK 22.10.97 8 SK Sturm Graz v Real Madrid CF 05.11.98 9 S.S. Lazio v Olympique de Marseille 14.03.00 10 FC Barcelona v Chelsea FC (QF, 2nd leg) - aet 18.04.00 11 Manchester United FC v RSC Anderlecht 13.09.00 12 S.S. Lazio v FC Shakhtar Donetsk 25.10.00 13 FC Bayern München v FC Spartak Moskva 17.10.01 14 RSC Anderlecht v FC Lokomotiv Moskva 24.10.01 15 Manchester United FC v FC Nantes Atlantique 26.02.02 16 FC Internazionale Milano v Arsenal FC 25.11.03 17 Valencia CF v FC Internazionale Milano 20.10.04 18 SV Werder Bremen v RSC Anderlecht 02.11.04 19 FC Bayern München v Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC 23.11.04 20 Arsenal FC v Rosenborg BK 07.12.04 21 SV Werder Bremen v Panathinaikos FC 07.12.05 22 Real Madrid CF v FC Dynamo Kyiv 26.09.06 23 FC Barcelona v Panathinaikos FC 14.09.10 24 Arsenal FC v FC Shakhtar Donetsk 19.10.10 25 FC Barcelona v FC Shakhtar Donetsk (QF, 1st leg) 06.04.11 5-2 1 AFC Ajax v FC Bayern München (SF, 2nd leg) 19.04.95 2 1. FC Kaiserslautern v HJK Helsinki 09.12.98 3 AC Sparta Praha v FC Spartak Moskva 03.11.99 4 Valencia CF v S.S. Lazio (QF, 1st leg) 05.04.00 5 Manchester United FC v Maccabi Haifa FC 18.09.02 6 Fenerbahçe SK v Arsenal FC 21.10.08 7 Sporting Clube de Portugal v FC Barcelona 26.11.08 8 FC Barcelona v Olympique Lyonnais (KO stage, 2nd leg) 11.03.09 9 FC Zürich v Real Madrid CF 15.09.09 10 ACF Fiorentina v Debreceni VSC 04.11.09 11 FC Internazionale Milano v FC Schalke 04 (QF, 1st leg) 05.04.11 5-3 1 SV Werder Bremen v RSC Anderlecht 08.12.93 2 BV Borussia Dortmund v FC Steaua Bucureşti 04.12.96 3 Real Madrid CF v Bayer 04 Leverkusen 17.10.00 4 FC Steaua Bucureşti v Olympique Lyonnais 21.10.08
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LOWEST ATTENDANCES
Although the UEFA Champions League is synonymous with massive attendances and huge TV viewing figures, the history of the competition has been sparsely decorated with some astonishingly low attendance figures. Venues obviously offer wide variations – which is why comparisons are usually based on percentages of stadium capacity rather than just numbers.
It’s interesting to note, however, that matches played by Juventus in the Stadio delle Alpi feature prominently on a list which also evokes memories of some exceptional circumstances. The Juventus v Bayer 04 Leverkusen fixture which appears in seventh place, for example, should have been played eight days earlier. But fog rolling into the Stadio delle Alpi produced two postponements and obliged the game to be played on a Thursday afternoon.
The match which occupies first place in the chart belongs to the inaugural season when group games spanned the winter break, with the extent of the Moscow winter obliging CSKA to play two of their home games in Berlin. And the third-lowest attendance, also involving Juventus, needs to be put into the context of heavy snowfalls which, at one stage, seemed likely to prevent the Italian expedition from flying into Romania.
Whatever the circumstances, it remains an impressive statistic that only 61 of 2033 UEFA Champions League matches have been played to an audience of less than 10,000.
Att. Match Res Date Venue 2,500 PFC CSKA Moskva – Club Brugge KV 1-2 07.04.1993 Berlin 2,662 1. FC Kosice – Feyenoord 0-1 10.12.1997 Kosice 2,700 FC Steaua Bucureşti – Juventus 0-0 06.12.1995 Bucharest 3,505 Juventus – 1. FC Kosice 3-2 05.11.1997 Turin 3,950 Aalborg BK – FC Porto 2-2 06.12.1995 Aalborg 4,000 AEK Athens FC – AS Monaco FC 0-0 10.12.2003 Athens 4,926 Juventus – Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4-0 29.11.2001 Turin 4,489 Boavista FC – BV Borussia Dortmund 1-0 02.11.1999 Porto 5,000 Galatasaray AS – FC Spartak Moskva 1-2 13.04.1994 Istanbul 5,000 FC Spartak Moskva – FC Basel 1893 0-2 05.11.2002 Moscow 5,300 FC Spartak Moskva – AC Sparta Praha 2-2 23.10.2001 Moscow 5,397 Boavista FC – Feyenoord 1-1 29.09.1999 Porto 5,753 Juventus – FC BATE Borisov 0-0 10.12.2008 Turin 5,972 Legia Warszawa – FC Spartak Moskva 0-1 06.12.1995 Warsaw 6,000 Widzew Lódz – Club Atlético de Madrid 1-2 30.10.1996 Lódz 6,018 Panathinaikos FC – VfB Stuttgart 1-3 04.11.2003 Athens 6,100 Aalborg BK – Panathinaikos FC 2-1 25.10.1995 Aalborg 6,320 Maccabi FC Haifa – Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0-2 01.20.2002 Nicosia 6,494 Juventus – Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC 1-0 28.09.2004 Turin 6,500 AS Monaco FC – Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4-0 01.10.1997 Monte Carlo 6,800 Aalborg BK – FC Nantes Atlantique 0-2 01.11.1995 Aalborg 6,865 Juventus – AFC Ajax 1-0 23.11.2004 Turin 6,873 Boavista FC – FC Dynamo Kyiv 3-1 19.09.2001 Porto
30 6,890 Panathinaikos FC – Manchester United FC 0-1 26.11.2003 Athens 7,000 AS Monaco FC – K. Lierse SK 5-1 22.10.1997 Monte Carlo 7,000 K. Lierse SK – AS Monaco FC 0-1 05.11.1997 Gent 7,100 K. Lierse SK – Sporting Clube Portugal 1-1 01.10.1997 Gent 7,174 Juventus – Rosenborg BK 2-0 09.12.1998 Turin 7,208 MŠK Žilina – FC Spartak Moskva 1-2 08.12.2010 Žilina 7,300 FC Porto – Olympiacos FC 2-1 27.11.1997 Porto 7,319 AC Sparta Praha – FC Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2 27.09.2000 Prague 7,470 Juventus – Arsenal FC 1-0 20.03.2002 Turin 7,500 Boavista FC – BV Borussia Dortmund 2-1 26.09.2001 Porto 7,600 AS Monaco FC – SK Sturm Graz 5-0 27.09.2000 Monte Carlo 7,700 K. Lierse SK – Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0-2 26.11.1997 Gent 7,700 Boavista FC – FC Nantes Atlantique 1-0 20.11.2001 Porto 7,984 FC Steaua Bucureşti – Sevilla FC 0-2 07.11.2007 Bucharest 8,000 FC Spartak Moskva – Galatasaray AS 0-0 08.12.1993 Moscow 8,000 Boavista FC – Rosenborg BK 0-3 14.09.1999 Porto 8,000 Sporting Clube Portugal – Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0-0 07.11.2000 Lisbon 8,184 Legia Warszawa – Rosenborg BK 3-1 13.09.1995 Warsaw 8,287 FC Steaua Bucureşti – SK Slavia Praha 1-1 27.11.2007 Bucharest 8,368 S.S. Lazio – RSC Anderlecht 2-1 06.03.2001 Rome 8,500 FC Spartak Moskva – Olympique Lyonnais 1-1 14.03.2001 Moscow 8,650 NK Maribor – FC Dynamo Kyiv 1-2 27.10.1999 Maribor 8,739 Molde FK – FC Porto 0-1 15.09.1999 Molde 9,000 PFC CSKA Moskva – Rangers FC 0-1 09.12.1992 Bochum 9,012 NK Maribor – Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0-2 22.09.1999 Maribor 9,101 AC Sparta Praha – Hertha BSC Berlin 1-0 07.03.2000 Prague 9,156 NK Maribor – S.S. Lazio 0-4 19.10.1999 Maribor 9,233 AC Sparta Praha – FC Thun 0-0 07.12.2006 Prague 9,287 AS Monaco FC – Sporting Clube Portugal 3-2 26.11.1997 Monte Carlo 9,335 Fenerbahçe SK – Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-2 23.10.2001 Istanbul 9,444 AEK Athens FC – Real Madrid CF 3-3 02.10.2002 Athens 9,542 FC Artmedia Petržalka – FC Porto 1-1 06.12.2005 Bratislava 9,593 CFR 1907 Cluj – FC Basel 1893 2-1 15.09.2010 Cluj-Napoca 9,623 Juventus – Club Brugge KV 1-0 22.11.2005 Turin 9,664 MŠK Žilina – Olympique de Marseille 0-7 03.11.2010 Žilina 9,673 Bursaspor – Rangers FC 1-1 07.12.2010 Bursa 9,876 Boavista FC – Liverpool FC 1-1 24.10.2001 Porto 9,923 FC Unirea Urziceni – Rangers FC 1-1 04.11.2009 Bucharest
Matches behind closed doors not included
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MILESTONES
History issues challenges to the future. Some challenges will be met. Others will withstand the test of time. Logic, for instance, says that the attendance record set in 1960 will never be surpassed. But other gauntlets are there to be picked up by the players and coaches of today and tomorrow. Can anyone score a hat-trick in a final for the first time since 1969? Will anybody ever beat ‘Paco’ Gento’s record of six wins? Who will be the next to become champion of Europe as both player and coach? Here are some of the milestones laid during the first 56 years. Which of them will be re-laid in the future?
TOTAL NUMBER OF GOALS IN FINALS
151 (Average: 2.65 per final)
TOTAL NUMBER OF SPECTATORS AT FINALS
3,678,309 (Average 65,679 per match) - not including the replay in 1975
RECORD ATTENDANCE
127,621 Hampden Park, Glasgow, on 18 May 1960 (Real Madrid CF 7 Eintracht Frankfurt 3)
LOWEST ATTENDANCE
23,325 Heyselstadion, Brussels, for replayed final on Friday 17 May 1974 (FC Bayern München 4 Club Atlético de Madrid 0) Lowest at ‘normal’ final: 26,732 Wankdorf Stadion, Berne on 31 May 1961 (SL Benfica 3 FC Barcelona 2)
FIRST SUBSTITUTIONS
By Rinus Michels during half-time at the 1969 final between AFC Ajax and AC Milan (Ben Muller for Wim Suurbier and Klaas Nuninga for Henk Groot)
EARLIEST SUBSTITUTIONS
FC Bayern München defender Björn Andersson had to be replaced by Sepp Weiss after only 4 minutes of the 1975 final against Leeds United AFC. The second-earliest - also in a final involving FC Bayern - was the first-ever substitution of a goalkeeper during a final. Aston Villa FC’s Jimmy Rimmer was injured after only 10 minutes and replaced by Nigel Spink. Since then, two more keepers have been replaced in finals: Iker Casillas for Real Madrid CF’s César Domínguez in 2002; and Manuel Almunia for Arsenal FC’s red-carded Jens Lehmann in 2006
32 SUCCESSFUL PENALTIES IN FINALS
10 Alfredo Di Stéfano (1957), Ferenc Puskás (1960), Eusébio (1962), Amancio Amaro (1966), Sandro Mazzola (1967), Velibor Vasovic (1969), Phil Neal (1977), Michel Platini (1985), Gaizka Mendieta (2001), Stefan Effenberg (2001)
MISSED PENALTIES IN FINALS
3 Enrique Mateos (Real Madrid CF v Stade de Reims in 1959) Mehmet Scholl (FC Bayern München v Valencia CF in 2001) ‘Xabi’ Alonso (Liverpool FC v AC Milan in 2005) - but he became the first to convert the rebound
OWN GOALS IN FINALS
1 FC Barcelona goalkeeper Antonio Ramallets for SL Benfica in 1961
YOUNGEST CHAMPION
António Simões (SL Benfica 1962) aged 18 years, 139 days
OLDEST CHAMPION
Paolo Maldini (AC Milan 2007) aged 38 years, 332 days
FOREIGN COACHES AS WINNERS
18 18 of the 56 finals played so far have been won by teams with a foreign coach on the bench - including Scottish coaches of English teams
NON-NATIVE COACHES
In 2010, Josè Mourinho (Portugal) became the fifth imported coach to win the UEFA Champions League after Belgium’s Raymond Goethals (1993), Scotland’s Sir Alex Ferguson (1999, 2008), Spain’s Rafael Benítez (2005) and Netherlands’ Frank Rijkaard (2006)
FIRST PENALTY-SAVER
The first spot kick - taken by Liverpool FC’s Steve Nicol - of the first penalty shoot-out in a final failed to hit the net. AS Roma’s Franco Tancredi thus became the first ‘successful’ goalkeeper in a penalty shoot-out, though he finished on the losing side.
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THE POST SCRIPT
Victory in the UEFA Champions League marks the end of a successful campaign but it is not the end of the story. The champion earns a place in the UEFA Super Cup and a trip to the FIFA Club World Cup, this year to be held in Yokohama and Toyota City from 8 to 18 December.
Both commitments have taken on new shapes since the UEFA Champions League was born in the 1992/93 season. For the first five years, the UEFA Super Cup was played on a home- and-away basis against the winner of the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup. Then, as from 1998, the opposition was the same, but the format was changed to a single match. When the Cup Winners’ Cup was discontinued, the invitation was passed to the winners of the UEFA Cup, with Galatasaray AS the first to accept it in 2000.
The traditional curtain-raiser to the European season has been held at the Stade Louis II in Monaco every year since becoming a one-off match in 1998. The meeting between UEFA Champions League winners FC Barcelona and UEFA Europa League holders FC Porto on 26 August was the 14th edition held in the principality.
Yet after a 15th next year, the showpiece will move to new surroundings following a decision taken by the UEFA Executive Committee in Nyon on 1 June 2011 - starting with the Eden Stadium in 2013.
The Eden Stadium has a 20,800 capacity and opened in May 2008 on the site of the old ground of the same name. It is home to Bohemians 1905 and SK Slavia Praha. It was one of Slavia’s most famous sons, Vladimír Šmicer, who cut the ribbon to officially launch the €40m venue. A Slavia XI took on English amateur team Oxford University AFC, their first foreign opponents 112 years ago, in the first match at the new ground, winning 5-0.
One of the competition’s anecdotes is that the first winner of the UEFA Champions League has never played in it, Olympique de Marseille having been barred from competing and replaced by the silver-medallists, AC Milan - who lost. By doing so, they wrote the first chapter of a story which has not always been a happy one for the winners of the UEFA Champions League:
1993 AC Milan lost 2-1 on aggregate v Parma FC 1994 AC Milan WON 2-0 on aggregate v Arsenal FC 1995 AFC Ajax WON 5-1 on aggregate v Real Zaragoza 1996 Juventus WON 9-2 on aggregate v Paris Saint-Germain FC 1997 BV Borussia Dortmund lost 3-1 on aggregate v FC Barcelona 1998 Real Madrid CF lost 1-0 v Chelsea FC 1999 Manchester United FC lost 1-0 v S.S. Lazio 2000 Real Madrid CF lost 2-1 v Galatasaray AS 2001 FC Bayern München lost 3-2 v Liverpool FC 2002 Real Madrid CF WON 3-1 v Feyenoord 2003 AC Milan WON 1-0 v FC Porto
34 2004 FC Porto lost 2-1 v Valencia CF 2005 Liverpool FC WON 3-1 v PFC CSKA Moskva 2006 FC Barcelona lost 3-0 v Sevilla FC 2007 AC Milan WON 3-1 v Sevilla FC 2008 Manchester United FC lost 2-1 v FC Zenit St.Petersburg 2009 FC Barcelona WON 1-0 v FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2010 FC Internazionale Milano lost 2-0 v Club Atlético de Madrid
The same anecdote applies to the European/South American Cup, with AC Milan travelling to Tokyo in place of the first UEFA Champions League winners, Olympique de Marseille - and losing. In 2000, FIFA introduced a pilot Club World Cup played in parallel to the European/ South American Cup and, as from 2005, the two competitions were merged into an event featuring the champion from each of the FIFA Confederations, with Europe’s representative entering at the semi-final stage - where they have, thus far, always won. The overall balance has been favourable:
1993 AC Milan lost 3-2 v FC São Paulo (Brazil) 1994 AC Milan lost 2-0 v Vélez Sarsfield (Argentina) 1995 AFC Ajax WON 0-0 (penalties) v Grêmio Porto Alegre (Brazil) 1996 Juventus WON 1-0 v CA River Plate (Argentina) 1997 BV Borussia Dortmund WON 2-0 v SE Cruzeiro (Brazil) 1998 Real Madrid CF WON 2-1 v CR Vasco da Gama (Brazil) 1999 Manchester United FC WON 1-0 v SE Palmeiras (Brazil) 2000 Real Madrid CF lost 2-1 v CA Boca Juniors (Argentina) 2001 FC Bayern München WON 1-0 v CA Boca Juniors (Argentina) 2002 Real Madrid CF WON 2-0 v CA Olimpia (Paraguay) 2003 AC Milan lost 1-1 (penalties) v CA Boca Juniors (Argentina) 2004 FC Porto WON 0-0 (penalties) v CD Once Caldas (Colombia) 2005 Liverpool FC lost 1-0 v FC São Paulo (Brazil) 2006 FC Barcelona lost 1-0 v SC Internacional (Brazil) 2007 AC Milan WON 4-2 v CA Boca Juniors (Argentina) 2008 Manchester United FC WON 1-0 v Liga de Quito (Ecuador) 2009 FC Barcelona WON 2-1 v Estudiantes de la Plata (Argentina) 2010 FC Internazionale Milano WON 3-0 v TP Mazembe Englebert (Congo)
The 2011 FIFA Club World Cup will be held in Toyota City and Yokohama from 8 to 18 December. So far, FC Barcelona from Spain (UEFA), Santos FC from Brazil (CONMEBOL), CF Monterrey from Mexico (CONCACAF) and Auckland City FC from New Zeeland (OCF) have qualified. The winners of the African Champions League to represent CAF and the winners of the Asian Champions League to represent AFC will be found on 13 November.
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