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The European Champions League (referred to as the "Champions League") is an annual football match hosted by union of european football associations, which represents the highest honor and level of European club football. It is recognized as the highest quality, the most influential and the highest level club event in the world, and it is also one of the most award-winning football and sports events in the world.
The European Champions Cup was formerly the European Club Champions Cup, and UEFA revised the competition system and name in 1992. Twenty-three clubs have won the Champions League, with Real Madrid winning the most (14), followed by AC Milan winning seven times, Bayern Munich and Liverpool winning six times, Barcelona winning five times and Ajax winning four times.
Yano is the founder of the European Footballer of the Year award campaign. He also writes for the French newspaper L 'Equipe and the French football magazine. He has a keen feeling that there may be a brand-new competition that will bring together the top clubs in Europe. He suggested that famous clubs all over the world should create a new tournament by league system.
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, Yano's plan was warmly welcomed by Real Madrid, Anderlecht, rapid vienna and Hungarian Football Association.
Team newspaper entrusted Zaoyakde Risvik, a director of its editorial department, to organize a meeting attended by representatives of major European clubs at that time to determine the competition form between European clubs.
Although UEFA reiterated at the Vienna Executive Committee meeting that it would not cooperate with any non-national teams, it still could not prevent the associations from sending representatives to Paris. At this historic meeting, the clubs reached an agreement on the competition system: the competition was attended by league champions from all countries; Adopt the home and away elimination system. If the points of the two teams are the same as the goal difference, a play-off will be held at the No.3 stadium.
The final of the Champions League must be held at the stadium determined in advance by UEFA; When playing in our team's stadium, the ticket income, advertising fee and TV broadcast fee will be handled by the host. At this meeting, an executive committee was set up (Santiago Bernabeu, President of Real Madrid, is the first vice-chairman of the committee), which is responsible for drafting the main points of the European Club Cup and informing FIFA for understanding.