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2007–08 UEFA Champions League

Tournament details
Dates	18 September 2007 – 21 May 2008
Teams	32
Final positions
Champions	Manchester United (3rd title)
Runners-up	Chelsea
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	328 (2.62 per match)
Attendance	5,313,637 (42,509 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Cristiano Ronaldo (8 goals)

The 2007–08 UEFA Champions League is the 16th season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, the UEFA Champions League, since it was rebranded in 1992, and the 53rd tournament overall.

The final was played on 21 May 2008 at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, where Manchester United played against Chelsea, making it an all-English final for the first time in the history of the European Cup. Manchester United won the match 6–5 on penalties, following a 1–1 draw after extra time.

Qualification

76 teams participated in the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League from UEFA's 53 member associations. Each association enters a certain number of clubs to the Champions League based on its league coefficient; associations with a higher league coefficients may enter more clubs than associations with a lower league coefficient, but no association may enter more than four teams. All UEFA associations are guaranteed to have at least one team qualify, with the exception of Liechtenstein, which competes in the Swiss league system, but has no team in the Swiss Super League. One new nation entered their league champion in this year's tournament: Montenegro, following the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro. The champions from San Marino and Andorra also entered from this year onwards. Below is the qualification scheme for the 2007–08 Champions League:

• Associations 1-3 (Spain, Italy, and England): 4 teams
• Associations 4-6 (France, Germany, and Portugal): 3 teams
• Associations 7-15: 2 teams
• Associations 16-53: 1 team

First qualifying round: (28 teams)

• 28 champions from associations 25-53 (not including Liechtenstein)

Second qualifying round: (28 teams)

• 14 winners from the first qualifying round
• 8 champions from associations 17-24 (Bulgaria, Israel, Norway, Austria, Serbia, Poland, Denmark, and Hungary)
• 6 runners-up from associations 10-15

Third qualifying round: (32 teams)

• 14 winners from the second qualifying round
• 7 champions from associations 10-16 (Romania, Scotland, Belgium, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Turkey, Switzerland)
• 3 runners-up from associations 7-9 (Netherlands, Greece, Russia)
• 6 third-place finishers from associations 1-6
• 2 fourth-place finishers from associations 1-3 (Milan, the fourth-place finishers from Italy, as holders, qualify automatically for the group stage.)

Group stage: (32 teams)

• 1 current Champions League holder
• 16 winners from the third qualifying round
• 9 champions from associations 1-9
• 6 runners-up from associations 1-6

Group stage
Real Madrid	Manchester United	Stuttgart	PSV Eindhoven
Barcelona	Chelsea	Schalke 04	Olympiacos
Internazionale	Lyon	Porto	CSKA Moscow
Roma	Marseille	Sporting	MilanTH
Third qualifying round
Sevilla	Toulouse	Spartak Moscow	Dynamo Kyiv
Valencia	Werder Bremen	Dinamo Bucureşti	Sparta Prague
Lazio	Benfica	Celtic	Fenerbahçe
Liverpool	Ajax	Anderlecht	Zürich
Arsenal	AEK Athens
Second qualifying round
Steaua Bucureşti	Slavia Prague	Rosenborg	Zagłębie Lubin
Rangers	Beşiktaş	Red Bull Salzburg	Copenhagen
Genk	Levski Sofia	Red Star Belgrade	Debrecen
Shakhtar Donetsk	Beitar Jerusalem
First qualifying round
Dinamo Zagreb	Ventspils	Derry City	Khazar Lenkoran
Elfsborg	Sheriff Tiraspol	KF Tirana	F91 Dudelange
Žilina	Olimpi Rustavi	Pyunik	Astana
APOEL	FBK Kaunas	FC Levadia	HB
Domžale	Pobeda	Marsaxlokk	Rànger's
Sarajevo	FH	The New Saints	Murata
Tampere United	BATE	Linfield	Zeta

^TH: The champions of the 2006-07 competition went through to the group stage directly.

Round and draw dates

The calendar shows the dates of the rounds and draw.

Date	Event
29 June 2007	Draw for first and second qualifying rounds
17-18 July 2007	First qualifying round, first leg
24-25 July 2007	First qualifying round, second leg
31 July-1 August 2007	Second qualifying round, first leg
3 August 2007	Draw for third qualifying round
7-8 August 2007	Second qualifying round, second leg
14-15 August 2007	Third qualifying round, first leg
28-29 August 2007	Third qualifying round, second leg
30 August 2007	Draw for group stage
18-19 September 2007	Group stage, Matchday 1
2-3 October 2007	Group stage, Matchday 2
23-24 October 2007	Group stage, Matchday 3
6-7 November 2007	Group stage, Matchday 4
27-28 November 2007	Group stage, Matchday 5
11-12 December 2007	Group stage, Matchday 6 1
21 December 2007	Draw for First knockout round
19-20 February 2008	First knockout round, 1st leg
4-11 March 2008	First knockout round, 2nd leg 2
14 March 2008	Draw for remaining rounds
1-2 April 2008	Quarter-finals, 1st leg
8-9 April 2008	Quarter-finals, 2nd leg
22-23 April 2008	Semi-finals, 1st leg
29-30 April 2008	Semi-finals, 2nd leg
21 May 2008	Final in Moscow, Russia

¹ Group D teams played their Matchday 6 fixtures on 4 December due to Milan's participation in the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup in Japan on 13 and 16 December.

² As both Milan and Internazionale use the Stadio San Siro as their home pitch, and both were scheduled to play at home for the second leg of the first knockout round, Internazionale's home leg against Liverpool was postponed by one week to 11 March2008.

Qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

The draw was held on Friday, 29 June 2007 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions. The first leg matches were played on 17 July and 18 July, while the second legs were played on 24 July and 25 July 2007.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Khazar Lenkoran	2–4	Dinamo Zagreb	1–1	1–3 (aet)
APOEL	2–3	BATE	2–0	0–3 (aet)
Sheriff Tiraspol	5–0	Rànger's	2–0	3–0
FH	4–1	HB	4–1	0–0
The New Saints	4–4 (a)	Ventspils	3–2	1–2
Pobeda	0–1	FC Levadia	0–1	0–0
Olimpi Rustavi	0–3	Astana	0–0	0–3
Zeta	5–4	FBK Kaunas	3–1	2–3
Murata	1–4	Tampere United	1–2	0–2
F91 Dudelange	5–7	Žilina	1–2	4–5
Linfield	0–1	Elfsborg	0–0	0–1
Derry City	0–2	Pyunik	0–0	0–2
Marsaxlokk	1–9	Sarajevo	0–6	1–3
Domžale	3–1	KF Tirana	1–0	2–1

Second qualifying round

The draw was held on Friday, 29 June 2007 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions. The first leg matches were played on 31 July and 1 August, while the second legs were played on 7 August and 8 August 2007.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pyunik	1–4	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–2	1–2
Red Star Belgrade	(a) 2–2	FC Levadia	1–0	1–2
Rangers	3–0	Zeta	2–0	1–0
Debrecen	0–1	Elfsborg	0–1	0–0
Zagłębie Lubin	1–3	Steaua Bucureşti	0–1	1–2
Genk	2–2 (a)	Sarajevo	1–2	1–0
Ventspils	0–7	Red Bull Salzburg	0–3	0–4
Astana	2–10	Rosenborg	1–3	1–7
FH	2–4	BATE	1–3	1–1
Copenhagen	2–1	Beitar Jerusalem	1–0	1–1 (aet)
Žilina	0–0 (3–4p)	Slavia Prague	0–0	0–0 (aet)
Tampere United	2–0	Levski Sofia	1–0	1–0
Domžale	2–5	Dinamo Zagreb	1–2	1–3
Beşiktaş	4–0	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–0	3–0

Third qualifying round

The draw was held on Friday, 3 August 2007 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Giorgio Marchetti, UEFA's director of professional football. The first leg matches were played on 14 August and 15 August, while the second legs were played on 28 August and 29 August 2007. Winners in this round qualified for the group stage, while the losing clubs entered the first round of the UEFA Cup. Due to the death of Antonio Puerta, the second leg of Sevilla's game against AEK Athens was postponed until 3 September.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
BATE	2–4	Steaua	2–2	0–2
Tampere United	0–5	Rosenborg	0–3	0–2
Spartak Moscow	2–2 (3–4p)	Celtic	1–1	1–1 (aet)
Werder Bremen	5–3	Dinamo Zagreb	2–1	3–2
Red Bull Salzburg	2–3	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	1–3
Ajax	1–3	Slavia Prague	0–1	1–2
Valencia	5–1	Elfsborg	3–0	2–1
Sarajevo	0–4	Dynamo Kyiv	0–1	0–3
Fenerbahçe	3–0	Anderlecht	1–0	2–0
Rangers	1–0	Red Star Belgrade	1–0	0–0
Toulouse	0–5	Liverpool	0–1	0–4
Benfica	3–1	Copenhagen	2–1	1–0
Lazio	4–2	Dinamo Bucharest	1–1	3–1
Sparta Prague	0–5	Arsenal	0–2	0–3
Zürich	1–3	Beşiktaş	1–1	0–2
Sevilla	6–1	AEK Athens	2–0	4–1

Group stage

Main article: UEFA Champions League 2007-08 group stage

The draw was held on Thursday, 30 August 2007 at Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The draw was hosted by Pedro Pinto and conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions. The matches were played between 18 September and 12 December 2007.

Tie-breaking criteria

Based on paragraph 6.05 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
3. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
4. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
5. higher number of goals scored in all group matches played;
6. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

Key to colours in group tables
Teams that progressed to the first knockout round are indicated in bold type
Teams that progressed to the UEFA Cup are indicated in bold italics
Teams eliminated from European competitions for the season are indicated in plain italics

In results tables, the home team is listed in the left-hand column.

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Porto 6 3 2 1 8 7 +1 11 Liverpool 6 3 1 2 18 5 +13 10 Marseille 6 2 1 3 6 9 -3 7 Beşiktaş 6 2 0 4 4 15 -11 6

BJK LIV OM POR Beşiktaş – 2–1 2–1 0–1 Liverpool 8–0 – 0–1 4–1 Marseille 2–0 0–4 – 1–1 Porto 2–0 1–1 2–1 –

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Chelsea 6 3 3 0 9 2 +7 12 Schalke 04 6 2 2 2 5 4 +1 8 Rosenborg 6 2 1 3 6 10 -4 7 Valencia 6 1 2 3 2 6 -4 5

CHL RBK SCH VAL Chelsea – 1–1 2–0 0–0 Rosenborg 0–4 – 0–2 2–0 Schalke 04 0–0 3–1 – 0–1 Valencia 1–2 0–2 0–0 –

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Real Madrid 6 3 2 1 13 9 +4 11 Olympiacos 6 3 2 1 11 7 +4 11 Werder Bremen 6 2 0 4 8 13 -5 6 Lazio 6 1 2 3 8 11 -3 5

LAZ OLY RM BRM Lazio – 1–2 2–2 2–1 Olympiacos 1–1 – 0–0 3–0 Real Madrid 3–1 4–2 – 2–1 Werder Bremen 2–1 1–3 3–2 –

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Milan 6 4 1 1 12 5 +7 13 Celtic 6 3 0 3 5 6 -1 9 Benfica 6 2 1 3 5 6 -1 7 Shakhtar Donetsk 6 2 0 4 6 11 -5 6

BEN CEL MIL SHK Benfica – 1–0 1–1 0–1 Celtic 1–0 – 2–1 2–1 Milan 2–1 1–0 – 4–1 Shakhtar Donetsk 1–2 2–0 0–3 –

Group E

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Barcelona 6 4 2 0 12 3 +9 14 Lyon 6 3 1 2 11 10 +1 10 Rangers 6 2 1 3 7 9 -2 7 Stuttgart 6 1 0 5 7 15 -8 3

BAR LYO RGR STU Barcelona – 3–0 2–0 3–1 Lyon 2–2 – 0–3 4–2 Rangers 0–0 0–3 – 2–1 Stuttgart 0–2 0–2 3–2 –

Group F

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Manchester United 6 5 1 0 13 4 +9 16 Roma 6 3 2 1 11 6 +5 11 Sporting 6 2 1 3 9 8 +1 7 Dynamo Kyiv 6 0 0 6 4 19 -15 0

DYN MU ROM SCP Dynamo Kyiv – 2–4 1–4 1–2 Manchester United 4–0 – 1–0 2–1 Roma 2–0 1–1 – 2–1 Sporting 3–0 0–1 2–2 –

Group G

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Internazionale 6 5 0 1 12 4 +8 15 Fenerbahçe 6 3 2 1 8 6 +2 11 PSV Eindhoven 6 2 1 3 3 6 -3 7 CSKA Moscow 6 0 1 5 7 14 -7 1

CSK FEN INT PSV CSKA Moscow – 2–2 1–2 0–1 Fenerbahçe 3–1 – 1–0 2–0 Internazionale 4–2 3–0 – 2–0 PSV Eindhoven 2–1 0–0 0–1 –

Group H

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Sevilla 6 5 0 1 14 7 +7 15 Arsenal 6 4 1 1 14 4 +10 13 Slavia Prague 6 1 2 3 5 16 -11 5 Steaua Bucureşti 6 0 1 5 4 10 -6 1

ARS SEV SLV STE Arsenal – 3–0 7–0 2–1 Sevilla 3–1 – 4–2 2–1 Slavia Prague 0–0 0–3 – 2–1 Steaua Bucureşti 0–1 0–2 1–1 –

Knockout stage

Main article: UEFA Champions League 2007-08 knockout stage

From the last 16 through to the semi-finals, clubs play two matches against each other on a home and away basis with the same rules as the qualifying rounds applied. In the last 16, group winners play runners-up other than teams from their own pool or nation.

The draw for the first knockout round was held on Friday, 21 December 2007 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Giorgio Marchetti, UEFA's director of professional football.

The draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were both held on Friday, 14 March 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Rinat Dasayev, the ambassador for the final in Moscow. Unlike the first knockout round, teams from the same group or country may be drawn together from the quarter-finals onwards.

First knockout round

The first leg matches were played on 19 February and 20 February, while the second legs were played on 4 March and 5 March 2008. Due to a stadium clash with Milan, the second leg of Internazionale's game against Liverpool was held on 11 March.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Celtic	2–4	Barcelona	2–3	0–1
Lyon	1–2	Manchester United	1–1	0–1
Schalke 04	1–1 (4–1p)	Porto	1–0	0–1 (aet)
Liverpool	3–0	Internazionale	2–0	1–0
Roma	4–2	Real Madrid	2–1	2–1
Arsenal	2–0	Milan	0–0	2–0
Olympiacos	0–3	Chelsea	0–0	0–3
Fenerbahçe	5–5 (3–2p)	Sevilla	3–2	2–3 (aet)

Quarter-finals

The first leg matches were played on 1 April and 2 April, while the second leg matches were played on 8 April and 9 April 2008.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Arsenal	5-3	Liverpool	1–1	2–4
Roma	0–3	Manchester United	0–2	0–1
Schalke 04	0–2	Barcelona	0–1	0–1
Fenerbahçe	2–3	Chelsea	2–1	0–2

Semi-finals

The first leg matches were played on 22 April and 23 April, while the second leg matches were played on 29 April and 30 April 2008.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Liverpool	3–4	Chelsea	1–1	2–3 (aet)
Barcelona	0–1	Manchester United	0–0	0–1

Final

Main article: 2008 UEFA Champions League Final

The 2008 UEFA Champions League Final was played on 21 May 2008 at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia. The final was contested by Manchester United and Chelsea, representing the first time the final had been contested by two teams from England.

Manchester United won the match 6–5 on penalties after the game had ended in a 1–1 draw. Cristiano Ronaldo had given the eventual victors the lead after 26 minutes, only for Frank Lampard to equalise immediately before half-time. Didier Drogba was sent off for a slap on Nemanja Vidić mid-way through extra time.

Manchester United will now go on to represent Europe at the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup.

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• 2007–08 marks the first season in the competition's history that four teams from the same country have reached the quarter-final stage, following the progression of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United into the final stages.
• Liverpool and Arsenal played each other three times in a week in April 2008; they first played each other in the Champions League quarter-final first leg on 2 April, before a league game on 5 April, both at the Emirates Stadium. The teams then moved up to Liverpool to play the Champions League quarter-final second leg.
• Liverpool and Chelsea played each other in the semi-finals of the Champions League for the third time in four years (the other two matchups occured during the 2004-05 and 2006-07 seasons). It is also the fourth time in four years that the two teams have been drawn together in the Champions League, including the group stage in 2005-06.
• The same three English sides (Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United) played in the semi-finals for the second season in a row. The only team that was not in the previous season's semi-finals was Barcelona. This semi-final line-up meant that there would be an English team in the final for the fourth season in a row.
• The final between Chelsea and Manchester United is the first all-English final in the history of the European Cup and the third final between two teams from the same country. The others were in 2000 and 2003.
• Chelsea reached the Champions League final for the first time in their history.
• Coincidentally, while two English teams (Manchester United and Chelsea) will be contesting the Champions League final in Moscow, Russia, a Russian team (Zenit St. Petersburg) won the UEFA Cup final in Manchester, England. Also, Chelsea FC is owned by a Russian.
• For the first time in Champions League history, none of the English teams were eliminated by a non-English team. Arsenal were eliminated by Liverpool, who were eliminated by Chelsea, who were eliminated by Manchester United in the final.

See also

• UEFA Cup 2007-08
• UEFA Intertoto Cup 2007

External links

• Champions League at uefa.com