March 29, 2024, 03:00:33 AM

Poll

Who is your favorite UEFA Champions League Team

PSV Eindhoven
2 (11.1%)
Chelsea
7 (38.9%)
AC Milan
2 (11.1%)
Liverpool
5 (27.8%)
Manchester City
0 (0%)
FC Porto
0 (0%)
Roma
0 (0%)
Bayern Munich
0 (0%)
Juventus
0 (0%)
Borussia Dortmund
0 (0%)
PSG
1 (5.6%)
Manchester United
1 (5.6%)
Ajax
0 (0%)
Real Madrid
0 (0%)
Lyon
0 (0%)
Barcelona
0 (0%)
Atletico Madrid
0 (0%)
Napoli
0 (0%)
Schalke
0 (0%)
Inter Milan
0 (0%)
Galatasaray
0 (0%)
CSKA Moscow
0 (0%)
Benfica
0 (0%)
Tottenham
0 (0%)
Shakhtar Donetsk
0 (0%)
Valencia
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 18

Author Topic: UEFA Champions League Thread  (Read 298019 times)

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

Offline Soccer4MeAndU

  • New Warrior
  • *
  • Posts: 2
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2520 on: April 29, 2021, 09:20:31 AM »

I believe PSG may have a good change to make it to the CL Finals despite going  2-1 down.

 :challenge:

https://soccer4meandu.blogspot.com/2021/04/tough-hill-for-psg.html

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2521 on: May 04, 2021, 02:23:20 PM »
PSG has NOTHING. 30 minutes to go.

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2522 on: May 04, 2021, 02:27:12 PM »
And now even less. 2-0. Disappointed with Pochettino.

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2523 on: May 29, 2021, 11:23:35 AM »
Ah doh want Pulisic to touch that trophy but either way a US player will join Yorke and the handful of CONCACAF players who have won the title.

Offline lefty

  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 5889
  • would u like to buy an 'O'.........
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2524 on: May 29, 2021, 01:52:09 PM »
Ah doh want Pulisic to touch that trophy but either way a US player will join Yorke and the handful of CONCACAF players who have won the title.
well yuh might jus have to suck on dat and accept it....0-1 I go hadda pocket mih anti U.S. soccer sentiment for today
.......still have plenty time to have mih eat mih words doh

....still.....:challenge: :challenge: :challenge: :challenge: :challenge: :bringiton:
« Last Edit: May 29, 2021, 01:54:28 PM by lefty »
I pity the fool....

Offline lefty

  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 5889
  • would u like to buy an 'O'.........
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2525 on: May 29, 2021, 02:53:41 PM »
pep time 7'
I pity the fool....

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2526 on: May 29, 2021, 03:02:03 PM »
pep time 7'

How? Like yuh eh make out the number of injuries that interrupted the match?

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2527 on: May 29, 2021, 03:03:33 PM »
Ah doh want Pulisic to touch that trophy but either way a US player will join Yorke and the handful of CONCACAF players who have won the title.
well yuh might jus have to suck on dat and accept it....0-1 I go hadda pocket mih anti U.S. soccer sentiment for today
.......still have plenty time to have mih eat mih words doh

....still.....:challenge: :challenge: :challenge: :challenge: :challenge: :bringiton:

Well, he had a chance to make it 2-0 and I am quite satisfied he didn't convert.

Offline lefty

  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 5889
  • would u like to buy an 'O'.........
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2528 on: May 29, 2021, 03:12:13 PM »
pep time 7'

How? Like yuh eh make out the number of injuries that interrupted the match?

yes I saw couldn't help but throw in a biased dig....doh study it

CHAMPIONS :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :thumbsup: :duel: :duel:
I pity the fool....

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2529 on: May 29, 2021, 03:31:21 PM »
pep time 7'

How? Like yuh eh make out the number of injuries that interrupted the match?

yes I saw couldn't help but throw in a biased dig....doh study it

CHAMPIONS :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :thumbsup: :duel: :duel:

Deserved victory. Particularly happy for Kante.

Offline lefty

  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 5889
  • would u like to buy an 'O'.........
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2530 on: May 29, 2021, 03:35:48 PM »
pep time 7'

How? Like yuh eh make out the number of injuries that interrupted the match?

yes I saw couldn't help but throw in a biased dig....doh study it

CHAMPIONS :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :thumbsup: :duel: :duel:

Deserved victory. Particularly happy for Kante.

yeah dat Man!!!! but Mendy story equally amazing he was unemployed 5yrs ago now ah Champions league winner....yuh cyah make dis shit up
I pity the fool....

Offline Flex

  • Administrator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18062
  • A Trini 4 Real.
    • View Profile
    • Soca Warriors Online
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2531 on: May 31, 2021, 12:04:30 PM »
UEFA Champions League and European Cup finals, winners

2020-21: Chelsea defeats Man City 1-0
2019-20: Bayern Munich defeats Paris Saint-Germain 1-0
2018-19: Liverpool defeats Tottenham Hotspur 2-0
2017-18: Real Madrid defeats Liverpool 3-1
2016-17: Real Madrid defeats Juventus 4-1
2015-16: Real Madrid defeats Atletico Madrid in penalties
2014-15: Barcelona defeats Juventus 3-1
2013-14: Real Madrid defeats Atletico Madrid 4-1 aet
2012-13: Bayern Munich defeats Borussia Dortmund 2-1
2011-12: Chelsea defeats Bayern Munich in penalties
2010-11: Barcelona defeats Manchester United 3-1
2009-10: Inter Milan defeats Bayern Munich 2-0
2008-09: Barcelona defeats Manchester United 2-0
2007-08: Manchester United defeats Chelsea in penalties
2006-07: AC Milan defeats Liverpool 2-1
2005-06: Barcelona defeats Arsenal 2-1
2004-05: Liverpool defeats AC Milan in penalties
2003-04: Porto defeats Monaco 3-0
2002-03: AC Milan defeats Juventus in penalties
2001-02: Real Madrid defeats Bayer Leverkusen
2000-01: Bayern Munich defeats Valencia in penalties
1999-2000: Real Madrid defeats Valencia 3-0
1998-99: Manchester United defeats Bayern Munich 2-1
1997-98: Real Madrid defeats Juventus 1-0
1996-97: Borussia Dortmund defeats Juventus 3-1
1995-96: Juventus defeats Ajax in penalties
1994-95: Ajax defeats AC Milan 1-0
1993-94: AC Milan defeats Barcelona 4-0
1992-93: Marseille defeats AC Milan 1-0
1991-92: Barcelona defeats Sampdoria 1-0
1990-91: Red Star Belgrade defeats Marseille in penalties
1989-90: AC Milan defeats Benfica 1-0
1988-89: AC Milan defeats Steaua Bucharest
1987-88: PSV Eindhoven defeats Benfica in penalties
1986-87: Porto defeats Bayern Munich 2-1
1985-86: Steaua Bucharest defeats Barcelona in penalties
1984-85: Juventus defeats Liverpool 1-0
1983-84: Liverpool defeats AS Roma in penalties
1982-83: Hamburg defeats Juventus 1-0
1981-82: Aston Villa defeats Bayern Munich 1-0
1980-81: Liverpool defeats Real Madrid 1-0
1979-80: Nottingham Forest defeats Hamburg 1-0
1978-79: Nottingham Forest defeats Malmo 1-0
1977-78: Liverpool defeats Club Brugge 1-0
1976-77: Liverpool defeats Borussia Monchengladbach 3-1
1975-76: Bayern Munich defeats Saint-Etienne 1-0
1974-75: Bayern Munich defeats Leeds United 2-0
1973-74: Bayern Munich defeats Atletico Madrid 4-0
1972-73: Ajax defeats Juventus 1-0
1971-72: Ajax defeats Inter Milan 2-0
1970-71: Ajax defeats Panathinaikosn 2-0
1969-70: Feyenoord defeats Celtic 2-1
1968-69: AC Milan defeats Ajax 4-1
1967-68: Manchester United defeats Benfica 4-1
1966-67: Celtic defeats Inter Milan 2-1
1965-66: Real Madrid defeats Partizan 2-1
1964-65: Inter Milan defeats Benfica 1-0
1963-64: Inter Milan defeats Real Madrid 3-1
1962-63: AC Milan defeats Benfica 2-1
1961-62: Benfica defeats Real Madrid 5-3
1960-61: Benfica defeats Barcelona 3-2
1959-60: Real Madrid defeats Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3
1958-59: Real Madrid defeats Reims 2-0
1957-58: Real Madrid defeats AC Milan 3-2
1956-57: Real Madrid defeats Fiorentina 2-0
1955-56: Real Madrid defeats Reims 4-3

Most UEFA Champions League and European Cup final appearances

Real Madrid — 16
AC Milan — 11
Bayern Munich — 11
Liverpool — 9
Juventus — 9
Barcelona — 8
Benfica — 7
Ajax — 6
Manchester United — 5
Inter Milan — 5

Most UEFA Champions League and European Cup final wins

Real Madrid — 13
AC Milan — 7
Bayern Munich — 6
Liverpool — 6
Barcelona — 5
Ajax — 4
Manchester United — 3
Inter Milan — 3

Most UEFA Champions League and European Cup final losses

Juventus — 7
Bayern Munich — 5
Benfica — 5
AC Milan — 4
Real Madrid — 3
Liverpool — 3
Barcelona — 3
Atletico Madrid — 3

The real measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Offline Flex

  • Administrator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18062
  • A Trini 4 Real.
    • View Profile
    • Soca Warriors Online
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2532 on: June 25, 2021, 03:50:54 AM »
UEFA eliminates away goals tiebreaker in Champions League and Europa League fixtures
Nick Bromberg (Yahoo Sports).


The away goals rule is disappearing from the Champions League.

UEFA said Thursday that it was axing the controversial way to break ties in favor of a different tiebreaker format. Away goals has long been used as the tiebreaker in two-game home-and-home series that are tied after both games. If the match was tied 2-2 after both games and one team scored two goals on the road while the other scored one goal away from home, the team with the two road goals would advance in the tournament.

Extra time and penalty kicks, if needed, will be the new way to break ties after a two-game series. The changes go into effect with the 2021-22 Champions League and Europa League.

“The away goals rule has been an intrinsic part of UEFA competitions since it was introduced in 1965," UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin said in a statement. "However, the question of its abolition has been debated at various UEFA meetings over the last few years. Although there was no unanimity of views, many coaches, fans and other football stakeholders have questioned its fairness and have expressed a preference for the rule to be abolished.”

Paris Saint-Germain is now the last team to advance in the men's Champions League on the away goals rule. PSG tied Bayern Munich 3-3 in their home-and-home series in 2021 but advanced to the semifinals by virtue of more away goals.

Why the rule is going away

UEFA cited myriad factors in the elimination of the rule. It said that statistics from the mid-1970s showed that more away teams won games in recent years in the men’s Champions League and that home team scoring has decreased in the last 40 years while away scoring has increased to devalue the benefit of an away goal.

Home teams now score 1.58 goals per game in the men’s UCL while away teams score 1.15 goals per game. Scoring in the women’s Champions League is at 1.92 goals per game for home teams and 1.6 goals per game for away teams.

UEFA also said that “Better pitch quality and standardized pitch sizes, improved stadium infrastructure, higher security conditions, enhanced care of refereeing (and more recently the introduction of technological support such as [goal line technology] and [video assisted review]), wider and more sophisticated TV coverage of matches, more comfortable travel conditions, a compressed calendar dictating squad turnover, and changes in competition formats are all elements which have affected the way football is played and blurred the lines between playing at home and away.”

“The impact of the rule now runs counter to its original purpose as, in fact, it now dissuades home teams – especially in first legs – from attacking, because they fear conceding a goal that would give their opponents a crucial advantage," Ceferin said. "There is also criticism of the unfairness, especially in extra time, of obliging the home team to score twice when the away team has scored.”

The real measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2533 on: June 25, 2021, 08:05:55 AM »
The home goal statistics will likely rise.

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2534 on: August 27, 2021, 04:30:22 AM »
Add Sheriff to the poll.  ;D

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2535 on: August 27, 2021, 08:05:41 PM »
yeah dat Man!!!! but Mendy story equally amazing he was unemployed 5yrs ago now ah Champions league winner....yuh cyah make dis shit up

Yet ... facing another bout of unemployment as things stand.

Offline kounty

  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 3153
  • Truthfulness is brighter than the light of the sun
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2536 on: August 28, 2021, 05:31:29 AM »
yeah dat Man!!!! but Mendy story equally amazing he was unemployed 5yrs ago now ah Champions league winner....yuh cyah make dis shit up

Yet ... facing another bout of unemployment as things stand.
i think you might be talking bout a different Mendy.

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2537 on: August 28, 2021, 06:00:47 AM »
yeah dat Man!!!! but Mendy story equally amazing he was unemployed 5yrs ago now ah Champions league winner....yuh cyah make dis shit up

Yet ... facing another bout of unemployment as things stand.
i think you might be talking bout a different Mendy.

True dat. Mendy of Man City not Chelsea. Good shout.

Offline Flex

  • Administrator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18062
  • A Trini 4 Real.
    • View Profile
    • Soca Warriors Online
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2538 on: August 29, 2021, 01:17:18 AM »
UEFA Champions League (2021/22) group stage draw

Group A: Man City, PSG, RB Leipzig, Club Brugge

Group B: At. Madrid, Liverpool. Porto, AC Milan

Group C: Sporting CP, Borussia Dortmund, Ajax, Besiktas

Group D: Inter, Real Madrid, Shakhtar, FC Sheriff

Group E: Bayern, Barcelona, Benfica, Dynamo Kyiv

Group F: Villarreal, Man United, Atalanta, Young Boys

Group G: Lille, Sevilla, Salzburg, Wolfsburg

Group H: Chelsea, Juventus, Zenit, Malmo

2021/22 UEFA Champions League key dates

Group stage

14/15 September 2021: Matchday 1

28/29 September 2021: Matchday 2

19/20 October 2021: Matchday 3

2/3 November 2021: Matchday 4

23/24 November 2021: Matchday 5

7/8 December 2021: Matchday 6

Knockout phase

15/16/22/23 February & 8/9/15/16 March 2022: Round of 16

5/6 & 12/13 April 2022: Quarter-finals

26/27 & 3/4 May 2022: Semi-finals

28 May 2022: Final

The real measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2539 on: February 05, 2022, 07:33:09 AM »
Rare Champions League Rights Sale Produces Two Winners
By Tariq Panja, The New York Times


UEFA awarded its global broadcasting rights to a longtime partner, but granted Relevent, owned by the Miami Dolphins owner Stephen M. Ross, the same deal for the United States.

One after another, the executives from some of the world’s biggest sports agencies filed into a basement auditorium at the headquarters of European soccer’s governing body. On their way in, they passed replicas of some of the biggest trophies in the sport, a pointed reminder of why they had traveled to UEFA’s offices on the banks of Lake Geneva to offer large sums of money to some of soccer’s most powerful officials.

On offer that week in November? A rare chance, the first in 20 years, to bid for the rights to one of the most valuable properties in sports: the Champions League.

For two days, groups armed with slides and projectors pitched a group that included not only UEFA’s leadership but also representatives of Europe’s top clubs, who, for the first time, were allowed to participate in the process. After three rounds of bidding, UEFA and the European Club Association, its partner in the venture, picked the winners.

The global rights went to the Europeans’ longtime partner, TEAM Marketing, which now controls the rights for a three-year cycle from 2024 to 2027, the first in an expanded Champions League that will include more matches.

The bigger surprise came in what they will not control: the lucrative rights to the United States. Those were won by Relevent Sports Group, the marketing company backed by the Miami Dolphins owner Stephen M. Ross. Relevent prevailed after it said it could guarantee at least $250 million for the rights in the United States, about $100 million more than UEFA’s competitions currently deliver there.

Relevent and rivals like Endeavor-owned IMG, Octagon and Infront Sports & Media also bid for the global rights, which are estimated to be worth as much as $5 billion per season. TEAM, according to people familiar with the bidding process, was selected because it agreed to lower its commission on selling the rights and because it has a dedicated staff on hand to begin sales immediately.

An official announcement of the new rights agreements will be made next week, after a meeting of UEFA’s board. The European Club Association’s board was informed of the selections at a meeting in Munich on Wednesday.

UEFA, Relevent and TEAM all declined to comment on the deals, which came as part of an unexpected bit of collaboration between European officials and some of the continent’s biggest clubs only months after some of those same teams attempted to form a breakaway Super League.

After two decades of frustration, and with clubs growing increasingly concerned that money was being left on the table, the club association finally pushed UEFA to take the rights to market. In the past, the Champions League agreement had consistently rolled over into a new one with TEAM, a company that has historically had just one client: UEFA.

Nasser al-Khelaifi, the chairman of the E.C.A. and the president of the French club Paris St.-Germain, and the E.C.A.’s chief executive, Charlie Marshall, joined a UEFA contingent led by UEFA’s president, Aleksander Ceferin, to hear the pitches late last year.

A final decision on the winners was made after a meeting Jan. 25 of their new joint venture company, UCC S.A. That company will grow in importance in the coming months: A new management team set to be installed that could reduce the need for intermediaries like TEAM and Relevent, and give clubs an even greater say over the commercial operations of competitions that produce billions of dollars in television and sponsorship revenue every season.

For Relevent, the deal is the latest chapter in its efforts to pivot toward a new strategy geared around selling premium soccer rights after a decade in which its highest-profile asset was the loss-making International Champions Cup, an annual off-season tournament that matched top European clubs in exhibition games in North America, Europe and Asia. But it also comes amid a significant bit of price escalation for soccer rights in the United States; the Premier League recently agreed to a six-year deal with NBC worth almost $2 billion.

In 2018, Relevent signed a 15-year collaboration with Spain’s top league, an agreement that essentially turned the company into La Liga’s commercial operation for North America in exchange for a guarantee that it could generate business worth a minimum of $2 billion during the term of the contract. Three years later, Relevent brokered an eight-year, $1.4 billion rights agreement with ESPN for La Liga games, then got $600 million more from broadcasters in Mexico and Central America.

Now, its relationships with European soccer may only deepen. Relevent has been courting UEFA to add its name to its off-season tournament business, which has lost about $100 million since it was established in 2012.

With the Champions League deals in place, UEFA and the club association are likely to enter into a protracted period of wrangling over how the income from the rights sales will be distributed, with the largest teams likely to demand a greater share than they are currently receiving.

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2540 on: May 28, 2022, 07:46:51 AM »
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/5UqOfxN546c" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/5UqOfxN546c</a>

Offline asylumseeker

  • Moderator
  • Hero Warrior
  • *****
  • Posts: 18073
    • View Profile
Re: UEFA Champions League Thread
« Reply #2541 on: May 28, 2022, 07:57:59 AM »
<a href="https://youtube.com/v/Y25S2kkEmE0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://youtube.com/v/Y25S2kkEmE0</a>

<a href="https://youtube.com/v/h_IpyE2YKME" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://youtube.com/v/h_IpyE2YKME</a>
« Last Edit: May 28, 2022, 08:06:00 AM by asylumseeker »

 

1]; } ?>