With the club competition being one of the most popular in the world, the rights to broadcast the games are unsurprisingly worth a lot of money. While soccer still has a long way to go to reach the popularity of traditional sports such as American Football and basketball in the United States, it appears that interest in the sport is starting to grow.
A total of over two million U. Loading statistic Show source. Download for free You need to log in to download this statistic Register for free Already a member? Log in. Show detailed source information? Register for free Already a member? More information. Supplementary notes.
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Please create an employee account to be able to mark statistics as favorites. Then you can access your favorite statistics via the star in the header. Profit from additional features by authenticating your Admin account. This competition was first held for the season, and up until the tournament was called the European Cup or European Champions' Cup officially the European Champion Clubs' Cup. The final was the first in the tournament's history to feature teams from the same city.
The same two clubs faced each other again in the final. In , two Spanish teams battled in the final, though they were from different cities. Real Madrid hold the record for the most victories, having won the competition 13 times, including the inaugural competition in The fact is, however, that a group stage was introduced already in , but the reshaping became formalised by the name shift.
In the development of the competition a hybrid-form of group play and round-robin has evolved. The tournaments have so far been dominated by the top European clubs and few surprise victories have occurred.
Perhaps Porto's victory in should be counted as the biggest surprise. Potential sensations that could have happened was Nantes in that almost managed to go through Juventus in the semi-finals lost on aggregate. If Dynamo Kyiv had won in it would also be seen as a sensation; they were only one goal down on aggregation against Bayern Munich in the semi-finals. Two years later, Leeds reached the semi-finals, but wasn't near to beat Valencia that time.
Villa Real is another club that is not familiar to be seen at the final steps in the biggest events; they were only one goal down on aggregation against Arsenal in the semi-finals in These clubs have won the most titles in the Champions League, the predecessor European Cup excluded. Table 2. Most won titles by clubs.
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