2007–08 UEFA Champions League

The 2007-08 UEFA Champions League is the 53rd edition of the European championship football tournament and the 16th edition under the current UEFA Champions League format.

The final is scheduled to be played at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on 21 May 2008. However, due to an upcoming review of venues eligible to host the Champions League Final (announced by UEFA President Michel Platini on 6 June 2007) this decision could be reversed, and a stadium with enhanced turnstile and ticketing technology chosen instead.

Rinat Dasayev is appointed as the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final Ambassador.

Qualification

76 teams will participate in the 2007-2008 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 1 team qualify, with the exception of Liechtenstein, which organizes no league competition. One new nation will enter their league champion in this year's tournament: Montenegro, following the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro. The champions from San Marino and Andorra are also entered from this year onwards. Below is the qualification scheme for the 2007-2008 Champions League:

• Associations 1-3 (Spain, England, and Italy): 4 teams
• Associations 4-6 (France, Germany, and Portugal): 3 teams
• Associations 7-15 (Netherlands, Greece, Russia, Romania, Scotland, Belgium, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Turkey): 2 teams
• Associations 16-53: 1 team

First qualifying round: (28 teams)

• 28 champions from associations 25-53

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
• 3 runners-up from associations 7-9
• 6 third-place finishers from associations 1-6
• 2 fourth-place finishers from associations 1-3 (AC 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	VfB Stuttgart	PSV Eindhoven
Barcelona	Chelsea	Schalke 04	Olympiacos
Internazionale	Lyon	Porto	CSKA Moskva
Roma	Marseille	Sporting CP	AC MilanTH
Third qualifying round
Sevilla	Toulouse	Spartak Moskva	Dynamo Kyiv
Valencia	Werder Bremen	Dinamo Bucureşti	Sparta Praha
Lazio	AEK Athens	Celtic	Fenerbahçe
Liverpool	Ajax	Anderlecht	FC Zürich
Arsenal	Benfica
Second qualifying round
Rosenborg	Beitar Jerusalem	Steaua	Slavia Praha
Red Bull Salzburg	F.C. København	Shakhtar Donetsk	Beşiktaş
Rangers	Genk	Zagłębie Lubin	Debrecen
Crvena Zvezda	Levski Sofia
First qualifying round
APOEL Nicosia	Tampere United	Dinamo Zagreb	MŠK Žilina
BATE Borisov	FH Hafnarfjörður	Rànger's	Olimpi Rustavi
Elfsborg	FBK Kaunas	Marsaxlokk	Khazar Lenkoran
Ventspils	HB Tórshavn	Sheriff Tiraspol	FK Sarajevo
Levadia Tallinn	Derry City	F91 Dudelange	FK Zeta
Pyunik	Linfield	SK Tirana	SS Murata
FC Astana	The New Saints	NK Domžale	FK Pobeda

^TH: The champions of 2006-07 edition will go through group stage directly.

Round and draw dates

The calendar shows that 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
4-5 March 2008	First knockout round, 2nd leg
7 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 will play their Matchday 6 fixtures on 4 December due to AC Milan's participation in 2007 FIFA Club World Cup in Japan on 13 and 16 December.

Qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

The draw was held on Friday, 29 June 2007 at 12:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions. The matches were played on 17/18 July and 24/25 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 Nicosia	2-3	BATE Borisov	2-0	0-3 (aet)
Sheriff Tiraspol	5-0	Rànger's	2-0	3-0
FH Hafnarfjörður	4-1	HB Tórshavn	4-1	0-0
The New Saints	4-4(a)	Ventspils	3-2	1-2
FK Pobeda	0-1	Levadia Tallinn	0-1	0-0
Olimpi Rustavi	0-3	Astana	0-0	0-3
FK Zeta	5-4	FBK Kaunas	3-1	2-3
SS Murata	1-4	Tampere United	1-2	0-2
F91 Dudelange	5-7	MŠK 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	FK Sarajevo	0-6	1-3
NK Domžale	3-1	SK Tirana	1-0	2-1

Second qualifying round

The draw was held on Friday, 29 June 2007 at 12:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions. The matches were played on 31 July/1 August and 7/8 August 2007.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pyunik	1-4	Shakhtar Donetsk	0-2	1-2
Crvena Zvezda	(a)2-2	Levadia Tallinn	1-0	1-2
Rangers	3-0	FK Zeta	2-0	1-0
Debrecen	0-1	Elfsborg	0-1	0-0
Zagłębie Lubin	1-3	Steaua	0-1	1-2
Genk	2-2(a)	FK Sarajevo	1-2	1-0
Ventspils	0-7	Red Bull Salzburg	0-3	0-4
Astana	2-10	Rosenborg	1-3	1-7
FH Hafnarfjörður	2-4	BATE Borisov	1-3	1-1
F.C. København	2-1	Beitar Jerusalem	1-0	1-1(aet)
MŠK Žilina	0-0(3-4p)	Slavia Praha	0-0	0-0(aet)
Tampere United	2-0	Levski Sofia	1-0	1-0
NK 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 at 12:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Giorgio Marchetti, UEFA's director of professional football. The matches were played on 14/15 August and 28/29 August 2007. Winners in this round qualify for the group stage, while the losing clubs will be entered in 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 Borisov	2-4	Steaua	2-2	0-2
Tampere United	0-5	Rosenborg	0-3	0-2
Spartak Moskva	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 Praha	0-1	1-2
Valencia	5-1	Elfsborg	3-0	2-1
FK Sarajevo	0-4	Dynamo Kyiv	0-1	0-3
Fenerbahçe	3-0	Anderlecht	1-0	2-0
Rangers	1-0	Crvena Zvezda	1-0	0-0
Toulouse	0-5	Liverpool	0-1	0-4
Benfica	3-1	F.C. København	2-1	1-0
Lazio	4-2	Dinamo Bucureşti	1-1	3-1
Sparta Praha	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 16:00 CET 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 will be played from 18 September-12 December 2007.

Tie-breaking criteria

Based on paragraph 4.05 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

	Top two places advance to knockout stage
	Third place enters the UEFA Cup at the round of 32
	Fourth place is eliminated from European competition for the season

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

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Marseille 2 2 0 0 3 0 +3 6 2 Porto 2 1 1 0 2 1 +1 4 3 Liverpool 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 1 4 Beşiktaş 2 0 0 2 0 3 -3 0

BEŞ LIV MAR POR Beşiktaş 24 Oct 28 Nov 0-1 Liverpool 6 Nov 0-1 28 Nov Marseille 2-0 24 Oct 11 Dec Porto 6 Nov 1-1 11 Dec

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Chelsea 2 1 1 0 3 2 +1 4 2 Valencia 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3 3 Schalke 04 2 1 0 1 2 1 +1 3 4 Rosenborg 2 0 1 1 1 3 -2 1

CHE ROS SCH VAL Chelsea 1-1 24 Oct 11 Dec Rosenborg 28 Nov 0-2 24 Oct Schalke 04 6 Nov 11 Dec 0-1 Valencia 1-2 6 Nov 28 Nov

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Olympiacos 2 1 1 0 4 2 +2 4 2 Real Madrid 2 1 1 0 4 3 +1 4 3 Lazio 2 0 2 0 3 3 0 2 4 Werder Bremen 2 0 0 2 2 5 -3 0

LAZ OLY RMD WER Lazio 28 Nov 2-2 6 Nov Olympiacos 1-1 6 Nov 11 Dec Real Madrid 11 Dec 24 Oct 2-1 Werder Bremen 24 Oct 1-3 6 Nov

Group D

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Shakhtar Donetsk 2 2 0 0 3 0 +3 6 2 Celtic 2 1 0 1 2 3 -1 3 3 Milan 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3 4 Benfica 2 0 0 2 1 3 -2 0

BEN CEL MIL SHA Benfica 24 Oct 28 Nov 0-1 Celtic 6 Nov 2-1 28 Nov Milan 2-1 4 Dec 24 Oct Shakhtar Donetsk 4 Dec 2-0 6 Nov

Group E

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Barcelona 2 2 0 0 5 0 +5 6 2 Rangers 2 2 0 0 5 1 +4 6 3 Stuttgart 2 0 0 2 1 4 -3 0 4 Lyon 2 0 0 2 0 6 -6 0

BAR LYO RAN STU Barcelona 3-0 7 Nov 12 Dec Lyon 27 Nov 0-3 7 Nov Rangers 23 Oct 12 Dec 2-1 Stuttgart 0-2 23 Oct 27 Nov

Group F

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Manchester United 2 2 0 0 2 0 +2 6 2 Roma 2 1 0 1 2 1 +1 3 3 Sporting CP 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3 4 Dynamo Kyiv 2 0 0 2 1 4 -3 0

DYN MU ROM SPO Dynamo Kyiv 23 Oct 27 Nov 1-2 Manchester United 7 Nov 1-0 27 Nov Roma 2-0 12 Dec 23 Oct Sporting CP 12 Dec 0-1 7 Nov

Group G

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Fenerbahçe 2 1 1 0 3 2 +1 4 2 Internazionale 2 1 0 1 2 1 +1 3 3 PSV Eindhoven 2 1 0 1 2 3 -1 3 4 CSKA Moskva 2 0 1 1 3 4 -1 1

CSKA FEN INT PSV CSKA Moskva 2-2 23 Oct 27 Nov Fenerbahçe 12 Dec 1-0 7 Nov Internazionale 7 Nov 27 Nov 2-0 PSV Eindhoven 2-1 23 Oct 12 Dec

Group H

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Arsenal 2 2 0 0 4 0 +4 6 2 Sevilla 2 1 0 1 4 5 -1 3 3 Slavia Praha 2 1 0 1 4 5 -1 3 4 Steaua 2 0 0 2 1 3 -2 0

ARS SEV SLA STE Arsenal 3-0 23 Oct 12 Dec Sevilla 27 Nov 4-2 23 Oct Slavia Praha 7 Nov 12 Dec 2-1 Steaua 0-1 7 Nov 27 Nov

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 2007-08 UEFA Champions League (group stage and knockout stage only) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Real Madrid	3	180'
2	Deivid de Souza	Fenerbahçe	2	180'
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Internazionale	2	180'
	Vágner Love	CSKA Moskva	2	180'
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	2	178'
	Goran Pandev	Lazio	2	180'
	Robin van Persie	Arsenal	2	178'
	David Villa	Valencia	2	180'

See also

• UEFA Cup 2007-08
• UEFA Intertoto Cup 2007

External links

• Champions League at uefa.com