UEFA Champions League 2009–10
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This article documents a current UEFA Champions League season. Information may change as the event progresses. |
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 30 June 2009 – 22 May 2010 |
| Teams | 32 (group stage) 76 (qualifying) |
The UEFA Champions League 2009–10 will be the 55th edition of the Europe's premier club football tournament and the eighteenth edition under the current UEFA Champions League format. It is also the first edition under the new qualifying format. Barcelona are the defending champions, after beating Manchester United at the 2009 Final. The Final for the 2009–10 season will be played on 22 May 2010, at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home ground of Real Madrid, in Madrid, Spain.[1] This year's final will be the first to be played on a Saturday night, and the matches from the first knock-out round will be spread over four weeks instead of two.
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[edit] Association team allocation
A total of 76 teams will participate in the 2009–10 Champions League, from 52 UEFA associations (Liechtenstein organizes no domestic league competition). Countries are allocated places according to the 2008 UEFA league coefficient[2]. The UEFA ranking determines the number of teams competing in the season after the next, not in the first season after the publication of the ranking. Thus, the 2008 ranking determines the proportion in 2009–10, not 2008–09.
Since Barcelona, the Champions League title holder, have obtained a place in the group stage through their domestic league placing, the reserved defending champion spot will not be used. To compensate, the champions of association 13 (Belgium) will be entered into the group stage, the champions of association 16 (Switzerland) will be promoted to the Third qualifying round and the champions of associations 48 and 49 (Faroe Islands and Luxembourg, respectively) to the Second qualifying round.[3]
Below is the qualification scheme for the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League:
- Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify
- Associations 4–6 each have three teams qualify
- Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify
- Associations 16–53 each have one team qualify (excluding Liechtenstein)
[edit] Distribution
First qualifying round (4 teams)
- 4 champions from associations 50–53
Second qualifying round (34 teams)
- 2 winners from the first qualifying round
- 32 champions from associations 17–49 (excluding Liechtenstein)
Third qualifying round for champions (20 teams)
- 17 winners from the second qualifying round
- 3 champions from associations 14–16
Third qualifying round for non-champions (10 teams)
- 9 runners-up from associations 7–15
- 1 3rd placed team from association 6
Play-off round for champions (10 teams)
- 10 winners from the third qualifying round for champions
Play-off round for non-champions (10 teams)
- 5 winners from the third qualifying round for non-champions
- 2 3rd placed teams from associations 4 and 5
- 3 4th placed teams from associations 1–3
Of note
- Champion teams and best-placed teams cannot meet in UEFA Champions League qualifying.
- The losing team from each of the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round ties will go into the UEFA Europa League play-offs
- The losing team from each of the UEFA Champions League play-off ties will go into the UEFA Europa League group stage.
Group stage (32 teams)
- 5 winners from the play-off round for champions
- 5 winners from the play-off round for non-champions
- 13 champions from associations 1-13
- 6 runners-up from associations 1-6
- 3 3rd placed teams from associations 1-3
[edit] Teams
| Group stage | |||
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 Manchester United |
 Internazionale |
 Bayern Munich |
 AZ |
| Liverpool |
Juventus |
 Rubin Kazan |
 Rangers |
| Chelsea |
Milan |
CSKA Moscow |
 Beşiktaş |
 BarcelonaTH |
 Bordeaux |
 Unirea Urziceni |
 Dynamo Kyiv |
| Real Madrid |
Marseille |
 Porto |
 Standard Liège |
| Sevilla |
Wolfsburg |
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| Play-off round | |||
| Champions | Non-champions | ||
| Arsenal |
Fiorentina |
Stuttgart |
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| Atlético Madrid |
Lyon |
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| Third qualifying round | |||
| Champions | Non-champions | ||
 Olympiacos |
Dynamo Moscow |
Celtic |
Anderlecht |
 Slavia Prague |
Timişoara |
Sivasspor |
Panathinaikos |
 Zürich |
Sporting CP |
Shakhtar Donetsk |
Sparta Prague |
| Twente |
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| Second qualifying round | |||
 Levski Sofia |
 Wisła Kraków |
 Ekranas |
 Baku |
 Stabæk |
 Debrecen |
 Sheriff Tiraspol |
 Tirana |
 Copenhagen |
 Dinamo Zagreb |
 Bohemians |
 Pyunik |
 Red Bull Salzburg |
 APOEL |
 Makedonija |
 Aktobe |
 Partizan |
 Maribor |
 FH |
 Glentoran |
 Maccabi Haifa |
 Inter Turku |
 WIT Georgia |
 Rhyl |
 Kalmar FF |
 Ventspils |
 BATE |
 EB/Streymur |
 Slovan Bratislava |
 Zrinjski |
 Levadia |
 Dudelange |
| First qualifying round | |||
 Hibernians |
 Sant Julià |
 Mogren |
 Tre Fiori |
TH Title Holder
[edit] Round dates
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 22 June 2009 | 30 June–1 July 2009 | 7–8 July 2009 |
| Second qualifying round | 14–15 July 2009 | 21–22 July 2009 | ||
| Third qualifying round | 17 July 2009 | 28–29 July 2009 | 4–5 August 2009 | |
| Play-off round | 7 August 2009 | 18–19 August 2009 | 25–26 August 2009 | |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 27 August 2009 | 15–16 September 2009 | |
| Matchday 2 | 29–30 September 2009 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 20–21 October 2009 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 3–4 November 2009 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 24–25 November 2009 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 8–9 December 2009 | |||
| Knockout round | First knockout round | 18 December 2009 | 16–17 & 23–24 February 2010 | 9–10 & 16–17 March 2010 |
| Final phase | Quarter-finals | 19 March 2010 | 30–31 March 2010 | 6–7 April 2010 |
| Semi-finals | 20–21 April 2010 | 27–28 April 2010 | ||
| Final | 22 May 2010 at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid | |||
[edit] Qualifying rounds
In a new system for the Champions League,[4] there will be two separate qualifying tournaments. One will be for the Champion clubs who did not automatically qualify for the group stage. The other is for teams who did not win their domestic league and did not automatically qualify for the group stage.
For both sections, the losing teams from the third qualifying round will enter the UEFA Europa League play-off round and the losing teams from the play-off round will enter the UEFA Europa League group stage.
[edit] First qualifying round
The draw for the first and second qualifying rounds was held on Monday, 22 June 2009 in Nyon, Switzerland. The first leg matches were held on 30 June and 1 July, while the second legs will be played on 7 July and 8 July 2009.
| Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Tre Fiori |
1 | Sant Julià |
1–1a | 7 July |
| Hibernians |
2 | Mogren |
0–2b | 8 July |
- a. Sant Julià were originally drawn to play the first leg at home, but the tie was switched so that Tre Fiori would host the first leg.
- b. Match played at the Ta' Qali Stadium in Ta'Qali.[5]
[edit] Second qualifying round
For the draw clubs were separated into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficient, and because the draw for this round took place before the first qualifying round matches were played, the teams were seeded as if the higher-ranked side in the previous round will be victorious. The first leg matches will be played on 14 July and 15 July, while the second legs will be played on 21 July and 22 July 2009.
| Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Tirana |
1 | Stabæk |
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| WIT Georgia |
2 | Maribor |
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| EB/Streymur |
3 | APOEL |
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| Copenhagen |
4 | Winners of Match 2 | ||
| Debrecen |
5 | Kalmar FF |
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| Makedonija Gjorče Petrov |
6 | BATE |
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| FH |
7 | Aktobe |
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| Pyunik Yerevan |
8 | Dinamo Zagreb |
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| Ventspils |
9 | F91 Dudelange |
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| Ekranas |
10 | Baku |
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| Red Bull Salzburg |
11 | Bohemians |
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| Zrinjski |
12 | Slovan Bratislava |
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| Inter Turku |
13 | Sheriff Tiraspol |
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| Rhyl |
14 | Partizan |
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| Wisła Kraków |
15 | Levadia |
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| Levski Sofia |
16 | Winners of Match 1 | ||
| Maccabi Haifa |
17 | Glentoran |
[edit] Third qualifying round
The third qualifying round will be split into two separate sections: one for champions and one for non-champions.
Because the draw for this round will take place before the second qualifying round matches are played, the teams will be ranked as if the seeded side in the previous round was victorious. As a result, seedings of the third qualifying round are as follows:
[edit] Champions
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Seeded teams
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Unseeded teams
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[edit] Non-champions
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Seeded teams |
Unseeded teams |
[edit] Play-off round
[edit] Champions
The 10 winners of the third qualifying round for champions will compete in the play-off round.
[edit] Non-champions
The following teams will enter in the play-off round, joined by the five winners of the third qualifying round for non-champions:
[edit] Group stage
The following teams will compete, along with all 10 winners of the play-off round (5 champions + 5 non-champions), in the group stage of the Champions League:
The total of 32 teams will be drawn into 8 groups of 4. Each team will play the others in its group twice. The top 2 in each group will proceed to the knockout stages, and the 3rd placed teams will enter the UEFA Europa League Round of 32.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Madrid and Hamburg awarded 2010 finals". UEFA. 28 March 2008. http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind=64/newsid=676743.html. Retrieved on 28 March 2008.
- ^ ranking
- ^ Champions League 2009-2010 Regulations
- ^ "2009/10 Competition format". UEFA. 18 December 2008. http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/format/newsid=788373.html. Retrieved on 18 December 2008.
- ^ Aquilina, Domenic (30 June 2009). "Mogren prevail in curtain-raiser". uefa.com (Union of European Football Associations). http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/fixturesresults/round=2000024/match=2000275/report=rp.html. Retrieved on 2 July 2009.
[edit] External links
- UEFA Executive Committee approves changes to UEFA club competitions (includes access list for this competition)
- Access list 2009/2010 (UEFA European Cup Football by Bert Kassies)
