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The 2006 UEFA Champions League final was an association football match between Barcelona of Spain and Arsenal of England at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Paris, France, on Wednesday, 17 May 2006. It was the final match of the 2005–06 season of Europe's primary cup competition, the UEFA Champions League. Barcelona were appearing in their ...
The 2005–06 UEFA Champions League was the 51st season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, the UEFA Champions League and the 14th since it was rebranded from the European Cup in 1992. 74 teams from 50 football associations took part, starting with the first qualifying round played on 12 July 2005.
The 2005–06 season was Arsenal Football Club's 14th season in the Premier League and their 80th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. [1] [2] It was the final season in which home matches were played at the club's Highbury stadium after 93 years; Arsenal intended to move to its new 60,000 capacity Emirates Stadium in time for the following season.
The UEFA Champions League is a seasonal football competition established in 1955. [1] Prior to the 1992–93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. [1] The UEFA Champions League is open to the league champions of all UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) member associations (except Liechtenstein, which has no league competition), as well as to the clubs finishing from ...
The knockout stage of the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League featured the 16 teams who finished in the top two positions in each of the eight groups in the group stage.It was played as a single-elimination tournament, with ties in the round of 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals played over two legs.
In the 2000s, Arsenal were finalists in both the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League, [9] and have since equalled Real Madrid's record for most consecutive seasons in the latter competition. [ 10 ] As of the end of the 2023–24 season, the club's first team have spent 107 seasons in the top division of English football, and 13 in the second.
David Raya pulls out the stops to end Arsenal’s long wait for a Champions League quarter-final Tuesday 12 March 2024 23:05 , Lawrence Ostlere David Raya pulls out the stops, so Arsenal keep going.
Goalkeeper Jens Lehmann kept ten consecutive clean sheets in the run-in to the 2006 Champions League final; the defence went 995 minutes until conceding a goal. [114] Against Hamburger SV in the group stage on 13 September 2006, Arsenal became the first team in the competition's history to field a first eleven of different nationalities. [115]