2007-09-29 18:27:54 · 5 answers · asked by omarparra_gman 4 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ UEFA Champions League
UEFA stands for the Union of European Football Associations.
32 TEAMS GET TO COMPETE IN THIS TOURNAMENT.
2007-10-01 01:12:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
UEFA ( Union of European Football Associations) Champions League. all champion countries of europe get to participate it, apart from traditional powers such as italy spain and england who get additional spots to the teams that finish 2nd 3rd and 4th
qualifiers determine half of the 32 teams in the group stage when the official competition starts and they are divided into groups of 8. the two teams who finish top of each group qualify for the second round where it becomes a knockout
the final is played as one game on a neutral venue. the winner is declared CHampion of Europe
2007-09-30 01:54:57 · answer #2 · answered by mp01 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
united european federation association. they have group stages and only one team can advance from each group. then they make the teams remaining teams go head to head to win the trophy. its semi finals, quarterfinals and then the final tournament with the last two team standing. its a tournament to represent a club team. EXAMPLE: 2007 UEFA champion was Italian club AC Milan who went against English club Liverpool FC for the second time. this time meeting in greece, and the first was in istanbul. Liverpool won that one.
2007-09-30 01:57:57 · answer #3 · answered by sunshine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
UEFA stands for the Union of European Football Associations. The Champion's League is the top club tournament and is held each year from late June/early July to Mid-may.
Of the 53 "national" associations, 52 currently participate in the Champion's League (Lichtenstein does not). The process for determining who competes is somewhat complicated.
Each year, UEFA assigns points for wins and ties in the Champion's League and UEFA cup (along with bonus points for reaching certain stages). At the end of the season, UEFA totals up the points for each club and comes up with an average for each national association (e.g. if Norway has five teams in the two competitions and they got 6, 9, 4, 2, and 3 points respectively, Norway's average would 4.8). UEFA then adds these averages to the averages for the previous four season to determine a total "coefficient for the association (e.g. if the previous four seasons Norway had averages of 3.5, 4.2, 6, and 2.4, the total coefficient for Norway would be 20.9).
The coefficient is used by UEFA in two ways. First, it is used for seeding teams in the early rounds (through the group phase of the two competitions). Each club has a coefficient that is determined by dividing the national coefficient by three and then adding the points earned by that club individually over the previous five seasons. Second, it is used to determine how many teams each association gets in the next Champion's League and UEFA Cup and where those teams start (e.g. the 2007 coefficients which were calculated in June are used to determine the 2008-09 tournaments).
To determine who gets to compete, the coefficients are used to rank the national associations. For the past decade, Spain has usually been first with England and Italy trading off second and third. France and Germany have normally been in the top six but the rest of the top twenty has been less stable with teams rising up into the top six (or top ten) for a season or two then dropping back down again.
The basic rule for the Champion's League is that the top three national associations get two teams in the group phase and two teams in the third qualifying round. The next three also get two teams in the group phase but only one in the third qualifying round. The associations ranked seventh, eighth, and ninth get one team in the group phase and one in the third qualifying round. The tenth ranked association gets two teams, one of which starts in the second qualifying round. The other team starts either in the third qualifying round or in the group phased depending upon where the winner of the previous Champion's League finished in their domestic league. The associations ranked eleventh through fifteenth get one team in the third qualifying round and one team in the second qualifying round. The remaining associations get one team.
In determining which team(s) represent the association, UEFA uses the last completed season of the top league in the association. Unless for some reason a team is ineligible to compete in European play (e.g. sanction for rules violations in previous competitions), the slots are filled in order of the finish in the league (e.g. as England is currently the second ranked association, the top two teams in this year's Premier League will be in the group phase, and the third and fourth-placed team will be in the third qualifying round).
In addition to the teams that qualify through their national association, the defending champion competes. In most year's, the defending champion has qualified through its domestic league as well. When that happens, the domestic league does not get an extra slot. The defending champion qualifies into group play -- essentially getting the sixteenth slot. If the defending champion also qualified for group play through its domestic league, the league champion of the tenth place association starts in the group phase instead of the third qualifying round. For that reason, at the end of this season, the champion of Scotland (currently the tenth-placed association) might have a strong preference as to a winner of the Champion's League.
2007-09-30 02:36:56 · answer #4 · answered by Tmess2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is called Union of European Football Associations. there are 53 nations that are in it that are in Europe. the reason that this is, is because this is a tournment in Europe.
2007-09-30 01:51:02 · answer #5 · answered by Siavash S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋