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The UEFA Champions League, known until 1992 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or colloquially as the European Cup, is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955. Originally a straight knockout competition open only to champion clubs, the tournament was expanded during the 1990s to incorporate a round-robin ...
[1] [2] [3] They are the record holders of all national competitions, having clinched 12 Ligue 1 championships, 15 Coupe de France, nine Coupe de la Ligue, and 13 Trophée des Champions. Their trophy cabinet also includes one Ligue 2 title. [3] [4] In international football, PSG have claimed one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and one UEFA Intertoto Cup. [3]
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 ...
Between 1967 and 1994, the trophy bears the title "Coupe des Clubs Champions Européens" in sentence case; AC Milan were the last team to win this type of trophy. Since then, the trophy bears the title fully in capital letters, although the size is increased in the subsequent and current trophy.
Only two clubs have appeared in the final of the European Cup/Champions league more than once, with a 100% success rate: Nottingham Forest (1979, 1980) Porto (1987, 2004) Real Madrid is the only club that was able to win the final more than twice with a 75% or more success rate. They lost only three finals out of eighteen finals, with a winning ...
Partly owing to this heavy defeat, Barcelona captain Lionel Messi demanded to leave Barcelona, explained his decision owed to the club's failing to compete for the Champions League title after three previous debacles in the competition (0–3 against Juventus in 2016–17 quarter-finals, 0–3 against Roma in 2017–18 quarter-finals, and 0–4 ...
Country Titles Seasons Uwe Gensheimer: 3: 2010–11, 2016–17, 2017–18 Carlos Resende: 2: 1995–96, 1996–97 Zlatko Saračević: 2: 1998–99, 1999–00
For the purposes of this article, "intercontinental competitions" are competitions organized between two or more confederations or by FIFA.Competitions organized between two or more national federations on different continents such as the Copa Iberoamericana are not included, nor are competitions that are only available to teams from part of each continent such as the Arab Club Champions Cup.