Second gear: Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Seville, Tottenham and RB Leipzig.
Third gear: Dortmund, Red Bull Salzburg, Miner Donetsk, Inter Milan, Naples, Benfica, Portuguese Sports, Leverkusen.
The fourth gear: Marseille, Bruges, Celtic, Bilsen Victory, Haifa Maccabi, Dynamo Zagreb, Wanderers, Copenhagen.
Born.
After the end of World War II, football has been fully revived all over the world, but there are few exchanges between national teams and competitions between clubs. At that time, Gabriel Yano, the founder of the European Footballer of the Year award, put forward the idea of creating the European Club Cup, aiming at making the top European clubs compete on the same stage.
The sponsors of the European Club Cup actively contacted FIFA and UEFA, but the results were disappointing. Both organizations are not very interested in competitions in which non-national teams participate. However, the plan was warmly welcomed by Real Madrid, Anderlecht, Lapid and Hungarian Football Association.