UEFA Champions League Final Tickets 2010

The 2010 UEFA Champions League Final will be played on Saturday, 22 May 2010. It will be the 18th final of the UEFA Champions League under the current format and the 55th in total. The game will be played at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home of Real Madrid, in Madrid, Spain.

In November 2007, it was decided that the 2010 final would be the first Champions League final to be played on a Saturday, rather than the traditional Wednesday.

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UEFA Champions League Final

The European Champions League is the most prestigious club competition in European football. First played in 1955, the competition is played annually by the top teams in Europe. Previously called the European Champions Clubs Cup, or simply the European Cup the competition was originally played as a knock out competition by the champions of each country. The competition began to expand during the 1990s, until now up to four teams from the top European countries take part.

There are several stages to the competition, with the competition beginning in mid July. The first stage consists of three knockout stages. This reduces the number of teams to sixteen added to the sixteen seeded teams, who then play in eight seeded groups until the winners and runners up of each group meet in a knock out phase. The final two then meet in the final which this year is played at the Olympic Stadium in Europe. In the semi final of the 2009 competition, Barcelona defeated Chelsea on the away goals rule to reach the final. Their opponents in the final were Manchester United who defeated Arsenal. Barcelona won the 2009 final 2-0.

The introduction of the European Cup was initially not a UEFA decision. It had been championed by the Sports Editor of the French sports paper, L’Equipe. In fact, UEFA had originally wanted it to be a competition for European national teams. Together with a colleague, Jacques Ferran Hanot’s idea was for a tournament which would be played under floodlights during the week. Originally, the idea did not include inviting the top teams from each country, but simply those teams which had the greatest fan appeal.

Representatives from the invited clubs met and the idea was agreed in 1955. The competition began as a two leg, home and away competition, and the winning team would be the one who scored the most goals over the two legs. To qualify for the competition, the teams involved had to be the champions of their respective leagues, plus the winner of the previous season’s European Cup.

The first season of the European Cup saw Real Madrid dominate the competition, which they would do for the first five seasons. Their team contained some of the great footballers of their generation, such as Puskas, Di Stefano and Gento. Their domination culminated in the 1960 final at Hampden Park in Glasgow, which was one of the first European Cup finals to be broadcast live. Real Madrid beat Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3, in a match generally agreed to be one of the best ever seen.

It was not until 1967 that British clubs achieved success when Celtic beat Internazionale 2-1 in Lisbon. The following year, Manchester United won their first European Cup final. They beat Benfica 4-1. This was ten years after the Munich air disaster robbed Manchester United of some of their top young players. In the following years, first Dutch and then German teams had periods of dominance. English teams then had their periods of success with Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa, all winning the competition. Since the 1980s, no country has had continued dominance. However, some of the great names of European football have achieved success. Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Ajax and Real Madrid have all succeeded in winning the trophy.

In 1992, the competition was expanded to include the knock out stage. This was done following a meeting of some of the major European teams who were unhappy that the competition could finish early, and therefore not allowing them to gain full advantage of the revenue which the competition was attracting. There have been several restructures since then, and the present system means that people from lower ranked countries have to play more rounds, and some of the more successful countries are able to enter the competition at a later stage. The winner of the UEFA Champions League now goes forward to the Club World Cup with winners of competitions from other continents.

Prize money for the competition continues to grow with three million Euros going to each team which qualifies. In addition, there is over two million Euros given to each team who meets the group stage. A team reaching the semi final receives three million Euros, and there is seven million Euros for the runners up and seven million for the tournament winners.

Tickets for the final are widely available online or via the UEFA website via an application form. Ten thousand tickets were being held in reserve for fans from, anywhere in the world who wished to attend, but if demand exceeds supply, then a ballot would be held. Twenty thousand tickets are allocated to the participating teams and the rest distributed to UEFA partners.

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