Sentences with phrase «european cup competition»

In this period Italy produced the highest number of European Cup finalists and Italian clubs have reached the final of the European Cup competition on a record twenty - six different occasions, winning the title twelve times.

It's star players suffer burnout thanks to 38 gruelling league games and however many else in domestic and European cup competitions, but this is, of course, complete rubbish.

Pre-season training and the increasingly commercial and lucrative tours that clubs like Arsenal go on may be just a pale shadow of the competitive action of the Premier League and the domestic and European cup competitions, but it is still very important for a number of reasons.

Not to mention European cup competitions.

Tickets rarely make general sale, although it does sometimes happen (especially in the early rounds of domestic and European Cup competitions), so it is worth checking.

And given the European Cup Competitions pedigree of our Europa league semi final opponents, you won't find many if any, that are expecting us to reach the Final.

Zorya Luhans is a Ukranian side who finished fourth in their domestic league last season and making their very first appearance in the European cup competitions.

Not exact matches

Were the Galacticos to win the competition they would be the first to defend the trophy since it changed its name from the European Cup in 1993.

Their next challenge will be the UANA (a competition that features the countries of North and South America) championship in Riverside, and the Comen Cup, which is a highly prestigious competition including top European countries.

But not only that, you play a European competition for a cup — and one the club has never won.

That a genuine football man like Coppell, who would have played in the UEFA Cup for Manchester United when the competition was a close second to the European Cup in terms of prestige is sad, although understandable from his point of view.

In Porto's opening European Cup fixture — a 2 - 2 draw away at Dyanmo Kyiv — the legendary stopper equalled Xavi's record of Champions League appearances, when he made his 151st outing in the competition.

Juventus, though they'd been pipped to the Serie A title the previous season by Hellas Verona, were in the competition as the holders of the European Cup, having beaten Liverpool 1 - 0 in 1985 amid the chaos and tragedy of Heysel — in a game that nobody cared about and shouldn't have taken place.

With the Danes having narrowly missed out on qualifying for the World Cup, they will be focused on developing their new generation of talent to challenge for qualification for the 2016 European Championships, a competition they won 12 years ago.

On a positive note at least we won't be embarrassed by Bayern or Barca next season obviously its better being in the Champions league but we don't ever look like winning it at least we have a chance of winning the Europa League I personally would be happy winning that competition as our European record is shocking one cup winners cup in 24 years of European football..

Sporting are the third most successful Portuguese football club, with 46 titles in Portuguese competitions and one international title, the 1963 — 64 European Cup Winners» Cup.

the writing is on the wall that we are ill prepared for anything beyond domestic cup competition, we've relinquished our place as a respected top10 european club... the jig is up... its all been nothin more than loose talk.

Winning 3 FA cups in 4 years is success, qualifying for a European competition (that we could win) is success, winning more games than you draw is success, watching top players is success.

Winning the European competition should take priority at this stage in the campaign, with two more wins in the tournament granting them entry to next season's Champions League competition, as well as the European Super Cup.

As this is the first time Arsenal will be playing in the competition since the European Cup Winners Cup was Merged with the UEFA Cup.

Still, no team wins a European Cup by accident, and Real's victory tells us interesting things about them and, perhaps, about the competition itself.

Because there is a world cup in summer 2018, both premier league and European competitions will end earlier than usual date.

Doesn't matter who we get we aren't good enough in Europe under Wenger we've trying since we were knocked out by PAOK Salonika in the Uefa cup in his first year in charge 22 years later we still haven't been successful in any European competition just counting the days until the club actually wakes up and appoints a new manager one disillusioned fan here.

Though with Chelsea and Liverpool not in European competition you can expect the FA Cup to be on their priority lists.

Considering that Arsenal have not gone past the first knockout stage of the Champions League competition for the last six seasons, it would seem on the face of it that Arsene Wenger still has a lot of work to do with his players to make Arsenal one of the elite European teams with a realistic chance of lifting the European Cup.

Last season Celtic won every competition open to them: the Scottish League Championship, the Scottish Cup, the Scottish League Cup, the Glasgow Cup and, finally and unforgettably, the European Cup, the prize in a tournament for the champion clubs of all the major football nations of Europe.

Extending an olive branch, Finchem showed up at last year's Solheim Cup — the team competition between the U.S. and European women's pro tours.

April 12 — FIFA president Gianni Infantino was reluctant to divulge detail of the $ 25 billion buyout bid for the Club World Cup and a Nations League competition to his own stakeholders at FIFA Council and to European clubs, but it appears the guys with the money have fewer qualms over releasing more of the detail of their proposal.

Furthermore who's to say the «Five Violins» Sporting Lisbon side which came to an end just as modern European competition was coming to fruition was not far greater than the Benfica side of the sixties?Association Football started with domestic cup competitions to discover who was the best practitioner of the sport.

Despite winning the East German Cup in 1967 and 1975, the dominance of teams like Dynamo Dresden and FC Carl Zeiss Jena restricted Croy's opportunities to shine in European competitions, which partly goes someway to explaining his partial anonymity in the West.

European club competition was first seen in 1954 with the original European Cup, now the Champions League.

Real Madrid are the kings of this competition, taking home 12 European Cup / Champions League titles, including the last two and three of the past four.

Former Italian international Stefano Tacconi is the only goalkeeper to have won all five international club competitions - the European Cup, the UEFA Cup, the Cup Winners Cup, the Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup.

United and Benfica have storied histories in this competition with arguably United's 4 - 1 win against a Eusebio - led Benfica in 1968 - the most memorable, making Manchester United the first English club to win the European Cup.

The victory was secured a year and a half after CSKA became the first ever Russian club to win a European competition with the famous UEFA Cup victory from 2005.

European league titles: 4 (Monaco 1988, Arsenal 1998, 2002, 2004) European domestic cups: 8 (Monaco 1991, Arsenal 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2014, 2015, 2017) UEFA competition finals: 3 (1992 European Cup Winners» Cup — Monaco lost 2 - 0 to Werder Bremen, 2000 UEFA Cup — Arsenal lost 4 - 1 on penalties to Galatasaray after 0 - 0 draw, 2006 UEFA Champions League — Arsenal lost 2 - 1 to Barcelona)

The seven English teams who qualified for European competition this season, including ourselves, received byes into the third round of the League Cup, which in the absence of a sponsor is now called the EFL Cup.

He guided his side to two top - flight championships, the Second Division title, an FA Cup triumph in the competition's Centenary year, a League Cup Final win, a Charity Shield victory and a couple of European trophy successes before leaving in 1974 to manage England.

Before the Europea League was rebranded it was known as UEFA Cup and although giants of european football never took this competition seriously it had some great games over the years.

Champions League formerly known as «European Cup» was established back in 1955 and all the league champions of countries associated with «UEFA» were invited to take part in the yearly competition.

English sides were readmitted to European competition after serving a five - year ban, following the crowd disturbances at Heysel Stadium during the 1985 European Cup final between Juventus and Liverpool.

For some time this season I have felt that Chelsea, though they may have so dramatically and unexpectedly won the European Champions Cup last season, looked vulnerable before a ball was kicked in major competition.

Not only did he win the Champions League five times, but the first two times he did so the competition was known as the European Cup — that's how long he remained at the top of his game.

Wenger arrived in a British soccer culture still recovering from the Heysel ban, a five - year exclusion from European competition after 39 people were killed in a crowd crush at the European Cup final in 1985, introduced it to such innovative techniques as «telling his players to watch what they eat,» «keeping them from getting blasted drunk the night before games,» and «scouting Africa and continental Europe.»

We have the depth that we can keep our true starting XI rested for the Premier League season while also succeeding in our cup and European competitions.

11.3 Supporters enrolled into the European Auto Cup Scheme will remain in the scheme for the duration of all European competitions, including the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League.

The Chilean was influential in the opening two games of the World Cup as South Americans knocked World and European Champions out of the competition.

Claim the bonus on winning football accumulators of five or more selections and the selections can come from and English League or Cup matches, as well as other top European leagues and competitions.

The European Cup will in all likelihood sit higher on Arsene Wenger's priorities list than the FA Cup despite the quality of the teams left in the competition in comparison to Arsenal's and with no risks being taken on Wilshere's fitness this weekend it is expected he will be ushered straight back into the starting line - up on Tuesday in a game where Arsenal simply must take a lead back to Germany.

• Madrid's shoot - out record in European competition is W2 L2: 5 - 3 v Club Atlético de Madrid, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League final 1 - 3 v FC Bayern München, 2011/12 UEFA Champions League semi-final 3 - 1 v Juventus, 1986/87 European Cup second round 5 - 6 v FK Crvena zvezda, 1974/75 European Cup Winners» Cup quarter - final