[71], Micheľ's first UEFA Champions League matches came in the 1998–99 season, including Manchester United's 5–0 win over Brøndby in the group stage. Consultez la liste complète des clubs engagés en Ligue des Champions pour la saison 2007/2008 : Accédez au classement et aux fiches détaillées des clubs. The Scottish cups? Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify. The lower pot contained the 14 teams from associations 40–53: none of these teams had a team ranking. [60] UEFA received around 125,000 applications for tickets from the general public over the course of the three-week application process. Le vainqueur de l'édition 2008/2009 est FC Barcelone. Ligue des Champions 2008/2009 : les classements, les résultats du 1er tour à la finale et des statistiques sur les 10 denières saisons The first leg in Athens ended in a 0–0 draw,[42] but a 3–0 win in the second leg, with goals from Michael Ballack, Frank Lampard and Salomon Kalou, saw Chelsea through to the quarter-finals. [25] United went to Rome and secured a 2–0 win with a first-half header from Ronaldo and a second-half goal tapped in by Wayne Rooney. The ball was unveiled at a ceremony in Moscow's Manezhnaya Square, attended by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor, former Germany player and coach Franz Beckenbauer, final ambassador Rinat Dasayev and Russian Football Union president Vitaly Mutko. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)[96], Assistant referees: The higher pot contained teams ranked 166 or higher: so each tie contained exactly one team ranked in the top 166. [citation needed], UEFA Man of the Match: Below is the qualification scheme for the 2008–09 Champions League: For the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2007 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2002–03 to 2006–07. [49] The other venues in contention were the Estadio Olímpico in Sevilla, the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Wembley Stadium in London, and the Stadio Olimpico in Rome,[50] which was chosen to host the 2009 final. Patrice Evra est ravi de la qualification de Manchester United pour la finale de la Ligue des Champions après le succès sur Barcelone (1-0). The 2009 UEFA Champions League Final was played at 20:45 CEST on 27 May 2009 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. La Ligue des champions 2008–2009 est la 54 e édition de la coupe d'Europe des clubs champions, la 17 e sous l'appellation actuelle «Ligue des champions», et a été marquée par le sacre du FC Barcelone et la consécration de Pep Guardiola. The Super Cup was played at Stade Louis II in Monaco in August 2008, with Zenit winning 2–1. The draw was conducted by David Taylor and Bruno Conti. UEFA Champions League 2008 can refer to: UEFA Champions League 2007-08; UEFA Champions League 2008-09; This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. Carrick buried his spot-kick, as did Juliano Belletti with his first touch of the game, having come on for Makélélé at the end of extra time. The draw for the first and second qualifying rounds was held on Tuesday, 1 July 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland. [68], Although the two clubs claimed to have sold most of the 42,000 tickets allocated to them, only about 25,000 fans were said to have travelled to Moscow from the United Kingdom, with about 110 charter flights arriving ahead of the game. The pool was split in proportion to each national association's strength in the television market, with the Premier League clubs receiving around €60 million in total from the pool. Il est resté le gardien titulaire des … Next was another 1–0 win at home to Roma,[16] followed by back-to-back four-goal victories over Dynamo Kyiv (4–2 in Ukraine and 4–0 at Old Trafford). His team was completed by fellow Slovak assistant referees Roman Slysko and Martin Balko and fourth official Vladimír Hriňák. Bayern Munich defeated Sporting CP by 12–1 on aggregate in the first knockout round; the biggest two-leg win in Champions League era. [43] There, they were drawn against Fenerbahçe of Turkey. [112], The match was shown simultaneously in the United Kingdom by free-to-air channel ITV 1 and subscription channel Sky Sports 1, who in 2005 won the rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League matches for three seasons from 2006–07 to 2008–09. However, after a period of negotiations between representatives of Russia, the United Kingdom, UEFA and the two clubs, it was agreed that fans with tickets for the match would not require a visa, provided they were also able to produce a passport with at least six months before expiry and a completed immigration card on entry into Russia. [105] Nicolas Anelka, who took the decisive kick, revealed he did not actually want to take a penalty, citing lack of warm-up time. Edwin van der Sar then saved Nicolas Anelka's effort from Chelsea's seventh kick to secure Manchester United's third European Cup title. Consultez la liste complète des clubs engagés en Ligue des Champions pour la saison 2008/2009 : Accédez au classement et aux fiches détaillées des clubs. [86][87] In celebration, Lampard looked up and pointed to the sky with both hands in memory of his mother, Pat, who had died a month earlier. Matchs joués 213. This meant that Manchester United, having won the 2006–07 Premier League, received around €19.5 million, and Chelsea, as runners-up, received around €16.5 million. Of those tickets, approximately 21,000 were reserved for each finalist club, with a further 10,500 available for purchase by the general public via the UEFA website. [82][83][84] Ashley Cole also started despite hurting his right ankle in training the day before the game under a heavy challenge from Claude Makélélé. That same year, he was promoted to the FIFA list of international referees, and in November 1993, he refereed his first international match – a UEFA Under-21 Championship qualifying match between San Marino and England. A total of 76 teams from 52 UEFA associations (Liechtenstein organises no domestic league competition) participated in the 2008–09 Champions League. In the last 16, group winners play runners-up other than teams from their own pool or nation. The ball's design was based around the "starball" pattern, inspired by the UEFA Champions League logo; the stars are dark red with gold detailing, tying in with the overall design concept for the final. "[94] Ferguson later apologised to Park Ji-sung for not including him in the matchday squad. According to the head of the Russian national tourist office, Mikhail Ignatiev, many fans were put off by the cost of travel and accommodation. Of the 28 teams in the second qualifying round, Panathinaikos were the only one to qualify for the knockout phase of the competition. More than 67,000 people watched the game in the stadium, along with more than 17.5 million television viewers in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. For the draw of the quarter-finals and semi-finals clubs are seeded based on the results in the group stage and round of 16 of the current season (eight matches). [86][87] United spent the rest of the first half pressing for a second goal, and had two good opportunities to extend their lead, but were denied by a double-save from Čech. To help the stadium cope with the cold Russian winters, the grass pitch was replaced by an artificial FieldTurf surface in 2002. UEFA.com works better on other browsers The FA Cup? Ligue des champions. [49], The European Cup final had never before been played in Russia, making this match the easternmost final in the tournament's history; however, the Luzhniki Stadium had previously played host to the 1999 UEFA Cup Final, in which Italian club Parma beat French side Marseille 3–0.