UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
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It was founded on 1955 but format changed several times actual formal of the league was made on 1992. The Champions League is played on Europe because the region is the UEFA witch is the Union of European Football Association
The Champions League is one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world. This cup is played between all the champions of all the leagues in the UEFA region, and then they allowed more countries and second and third places of the leagues to participate in the Champions League. Now they would allow even five teams but only from the most strongest and competitive leagues.
The leagues on UEFA region is dived by associations there are 53 and the best associations are the top ones.
Around 77 teams participate on the champions league but only 32 get to the group stage the format is that the champions from associations 1-13 pass directly also second places from 1-6 pass directly and third places from associations from 1-3 pass also then association 14-49 played eliminations to get to the group stage there are several rounds it starts playing 17-49 association witch gives 17 winners and association 14-16 joins those 17 champions to the play-off round witch gives 10 champions and with the other ones that passed directly they formed the 32 teams to the group stage.
The groups are made in a raffle they are 8 groups of 4 teams each those teams play against them twice and the one who makes more points passes also the runner-up team of each group passes to the knockout phase (16 teams passes to this phase) they play against them in round until the final.
The winner of the Champions gets the trophy of the UEFA Champion League cup which is made of silver it is around 75 cm tall, also the champions receive 40 gold medals ;each year the cup passes to the champions if a team wins it three times in a row or if they have wined 5 times they get a replica of the cup the only teams to have one are Real Madrid, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Milan and Liverpool the UEFA always stays with the original.
The club with most winnings of the champions in history is the Real Madrid with 9 cups, then Milan with 7, Bayern and Liverpool follows with 5 and Barcelona and Ajax has 4; this are the teams with more cups above all.
The Champions League has a list of the players with more goals in their cup of all times, in the cup at the end of the championship they give a reward to the player with more goals of the competition the player who has scored more goals in all times is Raul with 71 goals the second and third are players who still play and are superstars in their teams the second with more goals in all times is Lionel Messi with 66 then Cristiano Ronaldo follows with 62.
The Champions also has a list of the players with more appearances on the competition the player with more is Ryan Giggs with 149 and he still play for the Manchester United then Xavi and Raul with 144.
Also the champions gets €10,500,000 between more that they had won in its road to the final. In total adding the television winnings of the entire cup, the champion of the last year Bayern Munich gained around €55.0 millions in the Champions League.
The Champions League is one of the most seen by television in the world. The final for last year Bayern vs. Dortmund was the most watched sport event for exempt the super bowl with 360 millions viewers in television.