2009–10 UEFA Champions League

2009–10 UEFA Champions League

Tournament details
Dates	30 June 2009 – 22 May 2010
Teams	32 (group stage) 76 (qualifying)
Final positions
Champions	CSKA Moscow (1st title)
Runners-up	Bayern Munich
Tournament statistics
Matches played	116
Goals scored	297 (2.56 per match)
Attendance	4,659,145 (40,165 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Cristiano Ronaldo (7)

The 2009–10 UEFA Champions League was the 55th season of Europe's premier club football tournament and the 18th under the current UEFA Champions League format. Barcelona are the defending champions. CSKA Moscow being the first Russian team to win the European Cup after defeating Bayern Munich by 4–2 at the final on 22 May 2010, at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home ground of Real Madrid, in Madrid, Spain. This year's final will be the first to be played on a Saturday night, and the matches from the round of 16 will be spread over four weeks instead of two. The winner of the tournament qualifies to play in the 2010 FIFA Club World Cup as well as the 2010 UEFA Super Cup.

Association team allocation

A total of 76 teams will participate in the 2009–10 Champions League, from 52 UEFA associations (Liechtenstein organizes no domestic league competition). Countries are allocated places according to the 2008 UEFA league coefficient. The UEFA ranking determines the number of teams competing in the season after the next, not in the first season after the publication of the ranking. Thus, the allocation in 2009–10 is determined by the 2008 ranking, not 2009.

Since the previous season's winners, Barcelona, obtained a place in the group stage through their domestic league placing, the reserved defending champion spot was not used. To compensate, the champion of association 13 (Belgium) were promoted from the third qualifying round to the group stage, the champion of association 16 (Switzerland) were promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round, and the champions of associations 48 and 49 (Faroe Islands and Luxembourg) were promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League:

• Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify
• Associations 4–6 each have three teams qualify
• Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify
• Associations 16–53 each have one team qualify (except Liechtenstein)

Distribution

First qualifying round (4 teams)

• 4 champions from associations 50–53

Second qualifying round (34 teams)

• 2 winners from the first qualifying round
• 32 champions from associations 17–49 (except Liechtenstein)

Third qualifying round for champions (20 teams)

• 17 winners from the second qualifying round
• 3 champions from associations 14–16

Third qualifying round for non-champions (10 teams)

• 9 runners-up from associations 7–15
• 1 third-placed team from association 6

Play-off round for champions (10 teams)

• 10 winners from the third qualifying round for champions

Play-off round for non-champions (10 teams)

• 5 winners from the third qualifying round for non-champions
• 2 third-placed teams from associations 4 and 5
• 3 fourth-placed teams from associations 1–3

Group stage (32 teams)

• 5 winners from the play-off round for champions
• 5 winners from the play-off round for non-champions
• 13 champions from associations 1–13
• 6 runners-up from associations 1–6
• 3 third-placed teams from associations 1–3

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses. (Panathinaikos qualified for the Champions League by winning the Greek end-of-season play-offs)

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Number of still active teams per country in 2009–10 UEFA Champions League.

Group stage
Manchester United (1st)	Internazionale (1st)	Bayern Munich (2nd)	AZ (1st)
Liverpool (2nd)	Juventus (2nd)	Rubin Kazan (1st)	Rangers (1st)
Chelsea (3rd)	Milan (3rd)	CSKA Moscow (2nd)	Beşiktaş (1st)
BarcelonaTH (1st)	Bordeaux (1st)	Unirea Urziceni (1st)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)
Real Madrid (2nd)	Marseille (2nd)	Porto (1st)	Standard Liège (1st)
Sevilla (3rd)	Wolfsburg (1st)
Play-off round
Champions	Non-champions
	Arsenal (4th)	Fiorentina (4th)	Stuttgart (3rd)
	Atlético Madrid (4th)	Lyon (3rd)
Third qualifying round
Champions	Non-champions
Olympiacos (1st)	Dynamo Moscow (3rd)	Celtic (2nd)	Anderlecht (2nd)
Slavia Prague (1st)	Timişoara (2nd)	Sivasspor (2nd)	Panathinaikos (P-1st)
Zürich (1st)	Sporting CP (2nd)	Shakhtar Donetsk (2nd)	Sparta Prague (2nd)
	Twente (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Levski Sofia (1st)	Wisła Kraków (1st)	Ekranas (1st)	Baku (1st)
Stabæk (1st)	Debrecen (1st)	Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Tirana (1st)
Copenhagen (1st)	Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Bohemians (1st)	Pyunik (1st)
Red Bull Salzburg (1st)	APOEL (1st)	Makedonija (1st)	Aktobe (1st)
Partizan (1st)	Maribor (1st)	FH (1st)	Glentoran (1st)
Maccabi Haifa (1st)	Inter Turku (1st)	WIT Georgia (1st)	Rhyl (1st)
Kalmar FF (1st)	Ventspils (1st)	BATE (1st)	EB/Streymur (1st)
Slovan Bratislava (1st)	Zrinjski (1st)	Levadia (1st)	F91 Dudelange (1st)
First qualifying round
Hibernians (1st)	Mogren (1st)	Sant Julià (1st)	Tre Fiori (1st)

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Round and draw dates

All draws held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland unless stated otherwise.

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	22 June 2009	30 June–1 July 2009	7–8 July 2009
	Second qualifying round		14–15 July 2009	21–22 July 2009
	Third qualifying round	17 July 2009	28–29 July 2009	4–5 August 2009
Play-off	Play-off round	7 August 2009	18–19 August 2009	25–26 August 2009
Group stage	Matchday 1	27 August 2009 (Monaco)	15–16 September 2009
	Matchday 2		29–30 September 2009
	Matchday 3		20–21 October 2009
	Matchday 4		3–4 November 2009
	Matchday 5		24–25 November 2009
	Matchday 6		8–9 December 2009
Knockout phase	Round of 16	18 December 2009	16–17 & 23–24 February 2010	9–10 & 16–17 March 2010
	Quarter-finals	19 March 2010	30–31 March 2010	6–7 April 2010
	Semi-finals		20–21 April 2010	27–28 April 2010
	Final		22 May 2010 at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Qualifying phase

Main article: 2009–10 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase

In a new system for the Champions League, there are two separate qualifying tournaments. The Champions Path (which start from the first qualifying round) is for clubs which won their domestic league and did not automatically qualify for the group stage, while the Non-Champions Path (which start from the third qualifying round) is for clubs which did not win their domestic league and did not automatically qualify for the group stage.

In the qualifying phase and the play-off round, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis.

The draw for the first and second qualifying rounds, conducted by UEFA President Michel Platini and UEFA General Secretary David Taylor, was held on 22 June 2009, and the draw for the third qualifying round, conducted by UEFA Competitions Director Giorgio Marchetti and Head of Club Competitions Michael Heselschwerdt, was held on 17 July 2009. For the draws, clubs were separated into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficient. Because the draws for the second and third qualifying rounds took place before the previous round was completed, the teams were seeded assuming the seeded side in the previous round would be victorious.

First qualifying round

The first legs were played on 30 June and 1 July, while the second legs were played on 7 July and 8 July 2009.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tre Fiori	2–2 (4–5p)1	Sant Julià	1–1	1–1 (aet)
Hibernians	0–6	Mogren	0–2	0–4

Notes

• Note 1: Sant Julià was originally drawn to play the first leg at home, but the tie was reversed and Tre Fiori hosted the first leg instead.

Second qualifying round

The first legs were played on 14 July and 15 July, while the second legs were played on 21 July and 22 July 2009.

Partizan's 8–0 win over Rhyl in the second leg tied the record for the largest margin of victory in the current Champions League format.

The second leg between Stabæk and Tirana is currently under investigation by UEFA and German authorities for possible match-fixing.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tirana	1–5	Stabæk	1–1	0–4
WIT Georgia	1–3	Maribor	0–0	1–3
EB/Streymur	0–5	APOEL	0–2	0–3
Copenhagen	12–0	Mogren	6–0	6–0
Debrecen	3–3 (a)	Kalmar FF	2–0	1–3
Makedonija Gjorče Petrov	0–4	BATE	0–2	0–2
FH	0–6	Aktobe	0–4	0–2
Pyunik	0–3	Dinamo Zagreb	0–0	0–3
Ventspils	6–1	F91 Dudelange	3–0	3–1
Ekranas	4–6	Baku	2–2	2–4
Red Bull Salzburg	2–1	Bohemians	1–1	1–0
Zrinjski	1–4	Slovan Bratislava	1–0	0–4
Inter Turku	0–2	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–1	0–1
Rhyl	0–12	Partizan	0–4	0–8
Wisła Kraków	1–2	Levadia	1–1	0–1
Levski Sofia	9–0	Sant Julià	4–0	5–0
Maccabi Haifa	10–0	Glentoran	6–0	4–0

Third qualifying round

The third qualifying round was split into two separate sections: one for champions and one for non-champions. The first legs were played on 28 July and 29 July, while the second legs were played on 4 August and 5 August 2009. The losing teams in both sections entered the play-off round of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Path
Red Bull Salzburg	3–2	Dinamo Zagreb	1–1	2–1
Slovan Bratislava	0–4	Olympiacos	0–2	0–2
Zürich	5–3	Maribor	2–3	3–0
APOEL	2–1	Partizan	2–0	0–1
Sheriff Tiraspol	1–1 (a)	Slavia Prague	0–0	1–1
Aktobe	3–4	Maccabi Haifa	0–0	3–4
Baku	0–2	Levski Sofia	0–0	0–2
Ventspils	2–2 (a)	BATE	1–0	1–2
Levadia	0–2	Debrecen	0–1	0–1
Copenhagen	3–1	Stabæk	3–1	0–0
Non-Champions Path
Sparta Prague	3–4	Panathinaikos	3–1	0–3
Shakhtar Donetsk	2–2 (a)	Timişoara	2–2	0–0
Sporting CP	1–1 (a)	Twente	0–0	1–1
Celtic	2–1	Dynamo Moscow	0–1	2–0
Anderlecht	6–3	Sivasspor	5–0	1–3

Play-off round

Main article: 2009–10 UEFA Champions League play-off round

The play-off round was split into two separate sections: one for champions and one for non-champions. The draw for the play-off round, conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and UEFA Competitions Director Giorgio Marchetti, was held on 7 August 2009. For the draw, clubs were separated into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficient. The first legs were played on 18 and 19 August, while the second legs were played on 25 and 26 August 2009. The losing teams in both sections entered the group stage of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Path
Sheriff Tiraspol	0–3	Olympiacos	0–2	0–1
Red Bull Salzburg	1–5	Maccabi Haifa	1–2	0–3
Ventspils	1–5	Zürich	0–3	1–2
Copenhagen	2–3	APOEL	1–0	1–3
Levski Sofia	1–4	Debrecen	1–2	0–2
Non-Champions Path
Lyon	8–2	Anderlecht	5–1	3–1
Celtic	1–5	Arsenal	0–2	1–3
Timişoara	0–2	Stuttgart	0–2	0–0
Sporting CP	3–3 (a)	Fiorentina	2–2	1–1
Panathinaikos	2–5	Atlético Madrid	2–3	0–2

Group stage

Main article: 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage

The draw for the group stage was held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on 27 August 2009. A total of 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. Teams were divided into four pots, based on their club coefficient. Clubs from the same pot or the same association cannot be drawn into the same group.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away. The matchdays were 15–16 September, 29–30 September, 20–21 October, 3–4 November, 24–25 November, and 8–9 December 2009. The top two in each group advanced to the knockout phase, and the third-placed teams entered the round of 32 of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League.

AZ, Wolfsburg, Standard Liège, Zürich, APOEL, Rubin Kazan, Unirea Urziceni and Debrecen made their debut in the group stage.

Tie-breaking criteria

Based on Article 7.05 in the UEFA regulations, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria will be 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;
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
Group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 16
Third-placed teams enter the UEFA Europa League at the round of 32

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Bordeaux 6 5 1 0 9 2 +7 16 Bayern Munich 6 3 1 2 9 5 +4 10 Juventus 6 2 2 2 4 7 −3 8 Maccabi Haifa 6 0 0 6 0 8 −8 0

BAY BDX JUV MHA Bayern Munich – 0–2 0–0 1–0 Bordeaux 2–1 – 2–0 1–0 Juventus 1–4 1–1 – 1–0 Maccabi Haifa 0–3 0–1 0–1 –

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Manchester United 6 4 1 1 10 6 +4 13 CSKA Moscow 6 3 1 2 10 10 0 10 Wolfsburg 6 2 1 3 9 8 +1 7 Beşiktaş 6 1 1 4 3 8 −5 4

BJK CSM MAN WOL Beşiktaş – 1–2 0–1 0–3 CSKA Moscow 2–1 – 0–1 2–1 Manchester United 0–1 3–3 – 2–1 Wolfsburg 0–0 3–1 1–3 –

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Real Madrid 6 4 1 1 15 7 +8 13 Milan 6 2 3 1 8 7 +1 9 Marseille 6 2 1 3 10 10 0 7 Zürich 6 1 1 4 5 14 −9 4

OM ACM RM FCZ Marseille – 1–2 1–3 6–1 Milan 1–1 – 1–1 0–1 Real Madrid 3–0 2–3 – 1–0 Zürich 0–1 1–1 2–5 –

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Chelsea 6 4 2 0 11 4 +7 14 Porto 6 4 0 2 8 3 +5 12 Atlético Madrid 6 0 3 3 3 12 −9 3 APOEL 6 0 3 3 4 7 −3 3

APO ATL CHL POR APOEL – 1–1 0–1 0–1 Atlético Madrid 0–0 – 2–2 0–3 Chelsea 2–2 4–0 – 1–0 Porto 2–1 2–0 0–1 –

Group E

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Fiorentina 6 5 0 1 14 7 +7 15 Lyon 6 4 1 1 12 3 +9 13 Liverpool 6 2 1 3 5 7 −2 7 Debrecen 6 0 0 6 5 19 −14 0

DEB FIO LIV LYO Debrecen – 3–4 0–1 0–4 Fiorentina 5–2 – 2–0 1–0 Liverpool 1–0 1–2 – 1–2 Lyon 4–0 1–0 1–1 –

Group F

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Barcelona 6 3 2 1 7 3 +4 11 Internazionale 6 2 3 1 7 6 +1 9 Rubin Kazan 6 1 3 2 4 7 −3 6 Dynamo Kyiv 6 1 2 3 7 9 −2 5

BAR DK INT RUB Barcelona – 2–0 2–0 1–2 Dynamo Kyiv 1–2 – 1–2 3–1 Internazionale 0–0 2–2 – 2–0 Rubin Kazan 0–0 0–0 1–1 –

Group G

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Sevilla 6 4 1 1 11 4 +7 13 Stuttgart 6 2 3 1 9 7 +2 9 Unirea Urziceni 6 2 2 2 8 8 0 8 Rangers 6 0 2 4 4 13 −9 2

RAN SEV STU URZ Rangers – 1–4 0–2 1–4 Sevilla 1–0 – 1–1 2–0 Stuttgart 1–1 1–3 – 3–1 Unirea Urziceni 1–1 1–0 1–1 –

Group H

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Arsenal 6 4 1 1 12 5 +7 13 Olympiacos 6 3 1 2 4 5 −1 10 Standard Liège 6 1 2 3 7 9 −2 5 AZ 6 0 4 2 4 8 −4 4

ARS AZ OLY STD Arsenal – 4–1 2–0 2–0 AZ 1–1 – 0–0 1–1 Olympiacos 1–0 1–0 – 2–1 Standard Liège 2–3 1–1 2–0 –

Knockout phase

Main article: 2009–10 UEFA Champions League knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 18 December 2009, conducted by UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino and Giorgio Marchetti, the UEFA Director of Competitions. The eight group winners, which would play the second leg at home, were drawn against the eight group runners-up, with the restriction that teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn with each other.

The draws for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final (to determine the "home" team) was held on 19 March 2010, conducted by Gianni Infantino and Emilio Butragueño, the ambassador for the final in Madrid. From the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association may be drawn with each other.

Bracket

Round of 16

Starting from this season, the matches in the round of 16 will be held over four weeks, instead of the previous two weeks. The first legs were played on 16, 17, 23 and 24 February, while the second legs were played on 9, 10, 16 and 17 March 2010.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Stuttgart	1–5	Barcelona	1–1	0–4
Olympiacos	1–3	Bordeaux	0–1	1–2
Internazionale	3–1	Chelsea	2–1	1–0
Bayern Munich	4–4 (a)	Fiorentina	2–1	2–3
CSKA Moscow	3–2	Sevilla	1–1	2–1
Lyon	2–1	Real Madrid	1–0	1–1
Porto	2–6	Arsenal	2–1	0–5
Milan	2–7	Manchester United	2–3	0–4

Quarter-finals

The first legs were played on 30 and 31 March, while the second legs were played on 6 and 7 April 2010.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lyon	5–4	Bordeaux	3–1	2–3
Bayern Munich	5–3	Manchester United	2–1	3–2
Arsenal	3–4	Barcelona	2–2	1–2
Internazionale Template:Country data 2–3	4	CSKA Moscow	1–0	1–3

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 20 and 21 April, while the second legs were played on 27 and 28 April 2010.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	12–2	Lyon	6–2	6–0
CSKA Moscow	7–6	Barcelona	0–5	7–1

Final

Main article: 2010 UEFA Champions League Final

The final of the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League will be played at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, Spain, on 22 May 2010. The stadium, home of Real Madrid, has hosted three previous European Cup finals, in 1957, 1969 and 1980. It will be the first time that a UEFA Champions League final will be played on a Saturday night.

22 May 2010

20:45

Winners of semi-final 1	v	Winners of semi-final 2

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Statistics

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds and play-off round) are as follows (players in bold are still active in the competition):

Rank	Name	Team	Goals	Appearances	Minutes played
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	7	6	477'54"
2	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	5	6	451'57"
3	Michael Owen	Manchester United	4	6	293'14"
	Stevan Jovetić	Fiorentina	4	4	302'35"
	Nicklas Bendtner	Arsenal	4	4	366'49"
	Edin Džeko	Wolfsburg	4	6	560'24"
	Cesc Fàbregas	Arsenal	4	7	633'43"
	Radamel Falcao	Porto	4	8	660'53"
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Barcelona	4	8	663'11"
	Miralem Pjanić	Lyon	4	9	671'36"
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	4	8	747'37"
	Marouane Chamakh	Bordeaux	4	8	761'23"
	Miloš Krasić	CSKA Moscow	4	9	812'12"

• Source: Top Scorers - Quarter-Final 1st leg - Wednesday 31 March 2010 (after matches) (accessed 31 March 2010)

See also

• 2009–10 UEFA Europa League
• 2010 UEFA Super Cup
• 2010 FIFA Club World Cup

References

External links

• UEFA Executive Committee approves changes to UEFA club competitions (includes access list for this competition)
• Access list 2009/2010 (UEFA European Cup Football by Bert Kassies)