In the European Champions League, this event is the highest event for all European clubs and the most top European club event. For a European club, the honor of this championship is the highest honor they can get.

It is very difficult to participate in such a competition, let alone win the championship. In fact, at present, England, Italy and Spain have only three to three and a half places. In other words, if you want to participate in the European Champions League, you must win the top three positions in your own national league. [..com]

This "national league" is limited to three major leagues, and there are even fewer places in other leagues. For example, the Austrian league only has a pitiful half of the quota. Their league, the double champion of the Cup, Glaz, was directly strangled by Liverpool in the qualifiers and could only participate in the next level of the League Cup.

The development history of such a high-level event must be long. To trace the history of the European Champions League, we must also start from the 1940s.

After the end of World War II, people's lives fell into a stable environment, so football, the sport has completed a comprehensive revival around the world. However, there are very few exchanges between national teams and club-level events, and there are not even a game to participate in.

At this time, Frenchman Gabriel Yano proposed the idea of ​​establishing the European Club Cup.

Yano is the founder of the European Footballer selection event, and also writes for French "League" and "French Football" magazine. As a professional football understanding, Yano keenly had a sense of the possibility of a new event that could bring together top clubs from all over the European countries. After this idea emerged, he quickly proposed to create a new event by famous clubs from various countries with the league system. Therefore, the promoters of the European Club Cup actively contacted FIFA and UEFA, but the result was disappointing. Both organizations were not very interested in the competitions participated by non-national teams. However, Yano's plan was warmly welcomed by several clubs such as Real Madrid, Anderlecht, Vienna Express, and the Hungarian Football Association.

Later, the "Team" commissioned a head of its editorial department, Zao Jacques de Riswick, to organize a meeting attended by representatives of major European clubs at the time, to determine the format of the competition between European clubs. Although UEFA reiterated at the Vienna Executive Committee meeting that there was no cooperation with non-national teams, it still could not prevent the association from sending representatives to Paris.

At this historic meeting, the clubs reached an agreement on the competition system: the match is participated by the national league champions; the home and away knockout system is adopted. If the points and goal difference between the two teams are the same, a play-off will be held on the third party stadium; the final of the Champions League must be held on the UEFA field in advance; when the team's stadium is played, ticket revenue, advertising fees and television broadcast fees will be handled by the host.

In addition, at this meeting, an executive committee was established (Real Madrid President Santiago Bernabeu served as the first vice-chairman of the committee), which was fully responsible for drafting the key points of the European Club Cup and informing FIFA for understanding and support.

UEFA's idea is to organize another cup to replace the European club cup proposed by the "Team" and most European clubs. There are many interests in this, so European football actually disagrees with the event. The proposed cup participants are not clubs, but cities. The purpose of participating in the event with the city's qualification is obviously to strengthen friendly contact and sports interactions between European cities.

Unfortunately, such a proposal is a bit naive.

After all, football is in the hands of various clubs, and there are often many teams in a city. It is impossible to implement such a proposal. Fans also support the club and their attitude towards the city is not very good.

After that, the development of form is very orderly...

Fans went to watch the club's top events and left Europa League aside. At the same time, on the other hand, after the first televised World Cup held in Switzerland in 1954 and achieved success, it increased the possibility of European television organizations supporting the European Club Champions League, which meant expanding the impact and making a lot of money.

Therefore, UEFA began to immediately reconsider its attitude towards this European club cup. They proposed to the organizers of the cup to hand over the power to organize the competition to UEFA, and club teams must be approved by the national associations to participate in the competition.

After the conditions proposed were accepted, the UEFA Executive Committee held a meeting in Paris on May 21, 1955, and decided that UEFA would organize the event in person and named the UEFA Champions League, and no longer use the original "European Cup".

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After decades of development, the European Champions League is now the top event in Europe, and its competition system has become more perfect and balanced, balancing the requirements of all European countries and clubs. However, the development of the event always requires changes. Last season, the European Champions League canceled the second stage of the group stage, that is, after the top 16 was produced, the knockout round began until the championship was decided.

Such a simple and direct method has both advantages and disadvantages.

Obviously, the progress of the event is even more cruel for every club. The cruel knockout round makes all clubs afraid to make any mistakes, which almost means being eliminated.

What Don Jack is currently watching is the group draw ceremony of the Champions League group stage.

With the current Champions League winning system, the number of teams directly entering the group stage is 32. In the group stage, these 32 teams are divided into eight groups, with four teams in each group playing points match. The two with the best scores enter the final stage. The third place in the eight groups will enter the top 32 knockout round of the next level of the UEFA European League (UEFA Cup). Among them, the four teams with the best score will be listed as seed teams together with the first place in each group in the League Cup group stage.

This competition system has little to do with Liverpool, because for teams of Liverpool level, being eliminated in the Champions League group stage almost means a failure in a season, which is unacceptable.

If Liverpool is eliminated in the group stage, head coach Benitez will inevitably be under great pressure.

As for participating in the League Cup?

So what if you win a League Cup championship? In the hearts of the fans, the Champions League championship is everything, and the League Cup is simply an optional event.

The lottery ceremony held now is a very formal ceremony every year, and it is also a ceremony for the European Union to give the best performing players of the year. At the ceremony, the winners of each European Union award will be announced, such as the best coach, best player, best midfielder, best defender, best forward, etc.

In short, if the black-hearted fans analyze it, it is that UEFA wants to invite celebrity players and guests, and they always have a name, so these indifferent awards are given to them one after another...

‘Gerard and Cice also went…’ Don Jack felt that he shouldn’t think so, as he always felt that he couldn’t eat grapes.
Chapter completed!