The Champions League is the second-highest stage of club football, after the FIFA Clubs' World Cup, and it is the most prestigious stage of club football. It consists of the best performing teams in the top league of each member association of UEFA (Europe) playing a preliminary elimination match to round up the numbers, then a group stage and a knock-out stage, culminating in a final. This year's final will be held at New Wembley between Manchester United and Futbol Club Barcelona.
Other confederations have emulated the Champions League by starting their own, namely the North American and Asian confederations.
A similar tournament, the Europa League, is held between clubs which either qualified by reaching their domestic cups' final or were eliminated in the preliminary round of the Champions League, as well as a few of the teams that didn't qualify for the Champions League, but were in the domestic league spots immediately below the qualifier line. This year's Europa League final will be held in Dublin, between Sporting Clube de Braga and Futebol Clube do Porto.
The runners up in the 2010 UEFA Champions League were the Bayern Munich.
The team that won the UEFA Champions League title in 2013 was Inter Milan.
The 2008 UEFA Champions League Final was played in Moscow at the Luzhniki Stadium. The final match was between the English teams Manchester United and Chelsea.
The 2010 UEFA Champions League Final is a football match scheduled to be played on Saturday, 22 May 2010.
inter milan
Sol Campbell
There was no Champions League in 1967. The first Champions League final was in 1993. In 1967 there was the forerunner to the Champions League, known as the European Cup. The runners-up in 1967 were Inter Milan.
The winner will be Barcelona.
Samuel Eto'o
The 2009 Champions League Final was held in Rome on Romas ground on Wednesday May 27th 2009.
steven Gerrard
The 2004-5 U.E.F.A final was held in Rome.