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	Internazionale (3rd title)
Runner-up	Bayern Munich
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	318 (2.54 per match)
Attendance	5,193,947 (41,552 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lionel Messi (8 goals)
Best player	Diego Milito
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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. The final was played on 22 May 2010, at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home ground of Real Madrid, in Madrid, Spain.^[1] The final was won by Italian club Internazionale, who beat German side Bayern Munich 2-0. Internazionale will represent Europe in the 2010 FIFA Club World Cup, and will play in the 2010 UEFA Super Cup against Europa League winners Atlético Madrid.

Barcelona were the defending champions, but were eliminated by eventual winners Internazionale in the semi-finals.^[2][3]

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 their 2008 UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2003–04 to 2007–08.^[4]

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League:^[5]

• 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

Since the winners of the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League, Barcelona, obtained a place in the group stage through their domestic league placing, the reserved defending champion spot in the group stage was vacated. 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.
• The champions of associations 48 and 49 (Faroe Islands and Luxembourg) were promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses.
(P-1st indicates end-of-season play-off winners)

Group stage
BarcelonaTH (1st)	Internazionale (1st)	Bayern Munich (2nd)	AZ (1st)
Manchester United (1st)	Juventus (2nd)	Rubin Kazan (1st)	Rangers (1st)
Liverpool (2nd)	Milan (3rd)	CSKA Moscow (2nd)	Beşiktaş (1st)
Chelsea (3rd)	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)

^TH Title Holder

Round and draw dates

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

Qualifying phase

In a new system for the Champions League, there are two separate qualifying tournaments.^[6] 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, and the second legs were played on 7 July and 8 July 2009.

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

^† Order of legs reversed after original draw

Second qualifying round

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

Partizan's 8–0 win over Rhyl in the second leg equalled 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.^[7]

Team 1	Agg.	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, and 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.	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

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, and 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.	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

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:^[5]

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.

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

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.^[8] 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.^[9] 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						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Bayern Munich (a)	2	2	4
	Fiorentina	1	3	4
							Bayern Munich (a)	2	2	4
							Manchester United	1	3	4
	Milan	2	0	2
	Manchester United	3	4	7
													Bayern Munich	1	3	4
												Lyon	0	0	0
	Lyon	1	1	2
	Real Madrid	0	1	1
							Lyon	3	0	3
							Bordeaux	1	1	2
	Olympiacos	0	1	1
	Bordeaux	1	2	3
																		Bayern Munich	0
																			Internazionale	2
	Internazionale	2	1	3
	Chelsea	1	0	1
							Internazionale	1	1	2
							CSKA Moscow	0	0	0
	CSKA Moscow	1	2	3
	Sevilla	1	1	2
													Internazionale	3	0	3
												Barcelona	1	1	2
	Porto	2	0	2
	Arsenal	1	5	6
							Arsenal	2	1	3
							Barcelona	2	4	6
	Stuttgart	1	0	1
	Barcelona	1	4	5

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, and the second legs were played on 9, 10, 16 and 17 March 2010.

Team 1	Agg.	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, and the second legs were played on 6 and 7 April 2010.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lyon	3–2	Bordeaux	3–1	0–1
Bayern Munich	4–4 (a)	Manchester United	2–1	2–3
Arsenal	3–6	Barcelona	2–2	1–4
Internazionale	2–0	CSKA Moscow	1–0	1–0

Semi-finals

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

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	4–0	Lyon	1–0	3–0
Internazionale	3–2	Barcelona	3–1	0–1

Final

The final of the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League was played at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, Spain, on 22 May 2010, between Germany's FC Bayern Munich and Italy's Internazionale.^[10] The stadium, home of Real Madrid, has hosted three previous European Cup finals, in 1957, 1969 and 1980.^[11] It was the first time that a UEFA Champions League final has been played on a Saturday night.^[12] England's Howard Webb was appointed to referee the Final.^[13] The two clubs competing in the Final had each won their domestic league and cup competitions, meaning that the winner became only the sixth club in Europe to have achieved a continental treble. It was also the second consecutive treble, following Barcelona in the previous season.

22 May 2010 20:45	Bayern Munich	0 – 2	Internazionale	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 80,100 Referee: Howard Webb (England)
		Report	Milito  35', 70'

Statistics

Top goalscorers

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

Rank	Name	Team	Goals	Appearances	Minutes played
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	8	11	1033'40"
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	7	6	477'54"
	Ivica Olić	Bayern Munich	7	10	721'45"
4	Diego Milito	Internazionale	6	11	966'59"
5	Nicklas Bendtner	Arsenal	5	5	461'19"
	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	5	7	508'45"
	Marouane Chamakh	Bordeaux	5	9	852'52"
8	Michael Owen	Manchester United	4	6	293'14"
	Stevan Jovetić	Fiorentina	4	4	302'35"
	Edin Džeko	Wolfsburg	4	6	560'24"
	Cesc Fàbregas	Arsenal	4	7	633'43"
	Radamel Falcao	Porto	4	8	660'53"
	Pedro Rodríguez	Barcelona	4	9	677'56"
	Arjen Robben	Bayern Munich	4	10	717'57"
	Miralem Pjanić	Lyon	4	12	780'45"
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Barcelona	4	10	790'32"
	Miloš Krasić	CSKA Moscow	4	9	812'12"

• Source: Top Scorers – Final – Saturday 22 May 2010 (after matches) (accessed 23 April 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)

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