Champions League Back Round

For those of you who don't really know what the Champions league is or how it works you might want to consider reading this. The teams of the champion’s league are decided by wining your divisions in your country of Europe. For example each or most of the countries in Europe have there own league with different teams in it. The team who wins the champion ship of there countries league goes to the champions league to play against other European countries teams that one in there league. The Champions league is divided into three stages, the qualifying stage, the group stage and the playoffs. The governing body in European football UEFA, has a point scale for the different leagues, the better the teams from a certain country, the more teams from that country get qualified for Champions league and the UEFA cup. Spain, Italy and England all get four spots for the Champions League, position 3 and 4 has to play in the 3rd qualifying stage. Smaller leagues only get one team who enter in the 1st qualifying round. Every league in Europe get at least one team into the tournament, but most teams are knocked out before they get into the main stage the Group/playoffs.

Winning the champions league is a pretty big deal for some countries. For teams in England, Italy and Spain winning the Champions League is just as big as winning their premier league cup. You get more recognition outside your own country for winning it though. In the smaller leagues winning it means more than the premier league cup, but it is very rare that a team from those countries will win. The three teams who have won the title the most are, Real Madrid who have won 9 times, AC Milan who have won 7 times, and Liverpool who have won 5 times. Other teams who often perform well, both recently and historically are Manchester United, Juventus, Barcelona, and Bayern Munich.