2006–07 Uefa Champions League

The final was contested by Milan and Liverpool on 23 May 2007. Beforehand, the match was billed as a repeat of the 2005 final, the only difference being that the 2007 final was to be played at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. Milan won the match 2–1 to claim their seventh European Cup, with both goals coming from Filippo Inzaghi. Dirk Kuyt scored for Liverpool.

2006–07 UEFA Champions League

The Olympic Stadium in Athens hosted the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 11 July – 23 August 2006 Competition proper: 12 September 2006 – 23 May 2007
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 73
Final positions
Champions	Milan (7th title)
Runners-up	Liverpool
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	309 (2.47 per match)
Attendance	5,525,076 (44,201 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kaká (Milan) 10 goals
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

Barcelona were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Liverpool in the first knockout round.

A total of 73 teams from 49 UEFA member associations participated in the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League. Liechtenstein (who did not have their own domestic league) as well as the 2 lowest-ranked federations, Andorra and San Marino, did not participate. Montenegro, which did not become a UEFA member until January 2007 also did not take part. Each association enters a certain number of clubs to the Champions League based on its league coefficient, which takes into account the performance of its clubs in European competitions from 2000–01 to 2004–05; 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. Italy's representatives were decided based on the revised table following the match-fixing scandal which saw Juventus relegated to Serie B after winning the league the previous season.

• 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 16–50 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.

Association ranking

For the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2006 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2001–02 to 2005–06.

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1   Spain 73.717 4 2   England 63.224 3   Italy 61.186 4   France 49.469 3 5   Germany 48.989 6   Portugal 44.666 7   Netherlands 39.831 2 8   Greece 35.498 9   Belgium 31.750 10   Scotland 31.750 11   Turkey 29.916 12   Czech Republic 27.950 13   Russia 25.666 14   Austria 24.875 15   Ukraine 24.850 16   Israel 21.874 1 17   Serbia and Montenegro 21.249 18   Poland 21.000

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 19   Switzerland 20.875 1 20   Norway 20.200 21   Bulgaria 18.540 22   Croatia 18.125 23   Denmark 17.200 24   Hungary 16.331 25   Romania 15.457 26   Sweden 15.383 27   Slovakia 11.665 28   Slovenia 9.665 29   Cyprus 8.165 30   Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.165 31   Latvia 6.664 32   Finland 6.540 33   Moldova 6.332 34   Georgia 6.165 35   Lithuania 5.332

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 36   Iceland 4.832 1 37   Macedonia 4.497 38   Republic of Ireland 4.164 39   Belarus 4.082 40   Liechtenstein 4.000 0 41   Armenia 2.998 1 42   Malta 2.998 43   Albania 2.665 44   Estonia 2.498 45   Northern Ireland 2.165 46   Wales 1.832 47   Luxembourg 1.665 48   Azerbaijan 1.332 49   Kazakhstan 0.999 50   Faroe Islands 0.666 51   Andorra 0.000 0 52   San Marino 0.000

Distribution

Since the title holders (Barcelona) qualified for the Champions League group stage through their domestic league, the group stage spot reserved for the title holders is vacated, and the following changes to the default access list are made:

• The champions of association 10 (Scotland) are promoted from the third qualifying round to the group stage.
• The champions of association 16 (Israel) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The champions of associations 26 and 27 (Sweden and Slovakia) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

Teams

Group stage
BarcelonaTH (1st)	Internazionale (1st)[Note ITA]	Bayern Munich (1st)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)
Real Madrid (2nd)	Roma (2nd)[Note ITA]	Werder Bremen (2nd)	Olympiacos (1st)
Chelsea (1st)	Lyon (1st)	Porto (1st)	Anderlecht (1st)
Manchester United (2nd)	Bordeaux (2nd)	Sporting CP (2nd)	Celtic (1st)
Third qualifying round
Valencia (3rd)	Chievo (4th)[Note ITA]	AEK Athens (2nd)	CSKA Moscow (1st)
Osasuna (4th)	Lille (3rd)	Standard Liège (2nd)	Austria Wien (1st)
Liverpool (3rd)	Hamburg (3rd)	Galatasaray (1st)	Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)
Arsenal (4th)	Benfica (3rd)	Slovan Liberec (1st)	Maccabi Haifa (1st)
Milan (3rd)[Note ITA]	Ajax (PO)
Second qualifying round
Hearts (2nd)	Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)	Vålerenga (1st)	Debrecen (1st)
Fenerbahçe (2nd)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)[Note SRB]	Levski Sofia (1st)	Steaua București (1st)
Mladá Boleslav (2nd)	Legia Warsaw (1st)	Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Djurgården (1st)
Spartak Moscow (2nd)	Zürich (1st)	Copenhagen (1st)	Ružomberok (1st)
Red Bull Salzburg (2nd)
First qualifying round
Gorica (1st)	Sioni Bolnisi (1st)	Pyunik (1st)	The New Saints (1st)
Apollon Limassol (1st)	Ekranas (1st)	Birkirkara (1st)	F91 Dudelange (1st)
Široki Brijeg (1st)	FH (1st)	Elbasani (1st)	Baku (1st)
Liepājas Metalurgs (1st)	Rabotnički (1st)	TVMK (1st)	B36 (1st)
MyPa (1st)	Cork City (1st)	Linfield (1st)	Aktobe (1st)
Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Shakhtyor Soligorsk (1st)

Notes

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).

First qualifying round

The first legs were played on 11 and 12 July 2006, with the second legs on 18 and 19 July.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Elbasani	1–3	Ekranas	1–0	0–3
TVMK	3–4	FH	2–3	1–1
Liepājas Metalurgs	2–1	Aktobe	1–0	1–1
MyPa	2–0	The New Saints	1–0	1–0
Cork City	2–1	Apollon Limassol	1–0	1–1
Sioni Bolnisi	2–1	Baku	2–0	0–1
F91 Dudelange	0–1	Rabotnički	0–1	0–0
Shakhtyor Salihorsk	0–2	Široki Brijeg	0–1	0–1
Birkirkara	2–5	B36	0–3	2–2
Linfield	3–5	Gorica	1–3	2–2
Pyunik	0–2	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–0	0–2

Second qualifying round

The first legs were played on 25 and 26 July 2006, with the second legs on 1 and 2 August.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gorica	0–5	Steaua București	0–2	0–3
Levski Sofia	4–0	Sioni Bolnisi	2–0	2–0
Zürich	2–3	Red Bull Salzburg	2–1	0–2
Djurgården	2–3	Ružomberok	1–0	1–3
Debrecen	2–5	Rabotnički	1–1	1–4
Cork City	0–4	Red Star Belgrade	0–1	0–3
Fenerbahçe	9–0	B36	4–0	5–0
Mladá Boleslav	5–3	Vålerenga	3–1	2–2
Sheriff Tiraspol	1–1 (a)	Spartak Moscow	1–1	0–0
Liepājas Metalurgs	1–8	Dynamo Kyiv	1–4	0–4
FH	0–3	Legia Warsaw	0–1	0–2
Copenhagen	4–2	MyPa	2–0	2–2
Ekranas	3–9	Dinamo Zagreb	1–4	2–5
Hearts	3–0	Široki Brijeg	3–0	0–0

Third qualifying round

The first legs were played on 8 and 9 August 2006, with the second legs on 22 and 23 August.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Slovan Liberec	1–2	Spartak Moscow	0–0	1–2
Shakhtar Donetsk	4–2	Legia Warsaw	1–0	3–2
Red Bull Salzburg	1–3	Valencia	1–0	0–3
Levski Sofia	4–2	Chievo	2–0	2–2
Hearts	1–5	AEK Athens	1–2	0–3
CSKA Moscow	5–0	Ružomberok	3–0	2–0
Milan	3–1	Red Star Belgrade	1–0	2–1
Galatasaray	6–3	Mladá Boleslav	5–2	1–1
Standard Liège	3–4	Steaua București	2–2	1–2
Austria Wien	1–4	Benfica	1–1	0–3
Dinamo Zagreb	1–5	Arsenal	0–3	1–2
Copenhagen	3–2	Ajax	1–2	2–0
Hamburg	1–1 (a)	Osasuna	0–0	1–1
Dynamo Kyiv	5–3	Fenerbahçe	3–1	2–2
Liverpool	3–2	Maccabi Haifa	2–1	1–1*
Lille	4–0	Rabotnički	3–0	1–0

The teams eliminated in this round qualified for the first round of the UEFA Cup.

^* Due to the armed conflict going on in Israel, UEFA decided that no European matches could be staged in the country until further notice. The match was played at Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine.

 

 

Anderlecht

 

Levski

 

Copenhagen

 

Chelsea

 

Arsenal

 

Liverpool

 

Man. United

 

Valencia

 

Real Madrid

 

Barcelona

 

Bordeaux

 

Lyon

 

Lille

 

Bayern

 

Bremen

 

Hamburg

 

Olympiacos

 

AEK

 

Roma

 

Milan

 

Internazionale

 

PSV

 

Benfica

 

Sporting

 

Porto

 

Steaua

 

CSKA

 

Spartak

 

Celtic

 

Galatasaray

 

Shakhtar

 

Dynamo

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Location of teams of the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League group stage.
  Brown: Group A;   Red: Group B;   Orange: Group C;   Yellow: Group D;
  Green: Group E;   Blue: Group F;   Purple: Group G;   Pink: Group H.

The draw for this round was held on 24 August 2006 in Monaco. The first matches were played on 12 September 2006, and the stage concluded on 6 December.

The top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage, and the third-placed teams entered the round of 32 of the UEFA Cup. 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.

Levski Sofia and Copenhagen both made their debut appearances at the group stage. Levski was the first Bulgarian club to appear in the Champions League group stage.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CHE	BAR	BRM	LSO
1	Chelsea	6	4	1	1	10	4	+6	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	2–0	2–0
2	Barcelona	6	3	2	1	12	4	+8	11			2–2	—	2–0	5–0
3	Werder Bremen	6	3	1	2	7	5	+2	10	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–0	1–1	—	2–0
4	Levski Sofia	6	0	0	6	1	17	−16	0			1–3	0–2	0–3	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	INT	SPA	SCP
1	Bayern Munich	6	3	3	0	10	3	+7	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	4–0	0–0
2	Internazionale	6	3	1	2	5	5	0	10			0–2	—	2–1	1–0
3	Spartak Moscow	6	1	2	3	7	11	−4	5	Transfer to UEFA Cup		2–2	0–1	—	1–1
4	Sporting CP	6	1	2	3	3	6	−3	5			0–1	1–0	1–3	—

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LIV	PSV	BDX	GAL
1	Liverpool	6	4	1	1	11	5	+6	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	3–0	3–2
2	PSV Eindhoven	6	3	1	2	6	6	0	10			0–0	—	1–3	2–0
3	Bordeaux	6	2	1	3	6	7	−1	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	0–1	—	3–1
4	Galatasaray	6	1	1	4	7	12	−5	4			3–2	1–2	0–0	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VAL	ROM	SHA	OLY
1	Valencia	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–1	2–0	2–0
2	Roma	6	3	1	2	8	4	+4	10			1–0	—	4–0	1–1
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	1	3	2	6	11	−5	6	Transfer to UEFA Cup		2–2	1–0	—	2–2
4	Olympiacos	6	0	3	3	6	11	−5	3			2–4	0–1	1–1	—

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		OL	RM	STE	DK
1	Lyon	6	4	2	0	12	3	+9	14	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	1–1	1–0
2	Real Madrid	6	3	2	1	14	8	+6	11			2–2	—	1–0	5–1
3	Steaua București	6	1	2	3	7	11	−4	5	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–3	1–4	—	1–1
4	Dynamo Kyiv	6	0	2	4	5	16	−11	2			0–3	2–2	1–4	—

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MU	CEL	BEN	FCK
1	Manchester United	6	4	0	2	10	5	+5	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–2	3–1	3–0
2	Celtic	6	3	0	3	8	9	−1	9			1–0	—	3–0	1–0
3	Benfica	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	3–0	—	3–1
4	Copenhagen	6	2	1	3	5	8	−3	7			1–0	3–1	0–0	—

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	POR	CSK	HAM
1	Arsenal	6	3	2	1	7	3	+4	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	0–0	3–1
2	Porto	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	11			0–0	—	0–0	4–1
3	CSKA Moscow	6	2	2	2	4	5	−1	8	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–0	0–2	—	1–0
4	Hamburg	6	1	0	5	7	15	−8	3			1–2	1–3	3–2	—

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIL	LIL	AEK	AND
1	Milan	6	3	1	2	8	4	+4	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–2	3–0	4–1
2	Lille	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	9			0–0	—	3–1	2–2
3	AEK Athens	6	2	2	2	6	9	−3	8	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–0	1–0	—	1–1
4	Anderlecht	6	0	4	2	7	11	−4	4			0–1	1–1	2–2	—

All knockout rounds are two-legged, except for the final. In the event of aggregate scores being equal after normal time in the second leg, the winning team will be that which scored more goals on their away leg: if the scores in the two matches were identical, extra time is played. The away goals rule also applies if scores are equal at the end of extra time. If there are no goals scored in extra time, the tie is decided on a penalty shootout.

Bracket

	Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Roma	0	2	2
	Lyon	0	0	0
							Roma	2	1	3
							Manchester United	1	7	8
	Lille	0	0	0
	Manchester United	1	1	2
													Manchester United	3	0	3
													Milan	2	3	5
	Celtic	0	0	0
	Milan (a.e.t.)	0	1	1
							Milan	2	2	4
							Bayern Munich	2	0	2
	Real Madrid	3	1	4
	Bayern Munich (a)	2	2	4
																			Milan	2
																			Liverpool	1
	Porto	1	1	2
	Chelsea	1	2	3
							Chelsea	1	2	3
							Valencia	1	1	2
	Internazionale	2	0	2
	Valencia (a)	2	0	2
													Chelsea	1	0	1(1)
													Liverpool (p)	0	1	1(4)
	PSV Eindhoven	1	1	2
	Arsenal	0	1	1
							PSV Eindhoven	0	0	0
							Liverpool	3	1	4
	Barcelona	1	1	2
	Liverpool (a)	2	0	2

Round of 16

The draw for the first knockout round of the competition took place on 15 December 2006 in Nyon, Switzerland. The team first out of the hat in each tie plays the first leg of their tie at home, and the second leg away. This team is denoted as "Team #1" below.

On 8 February 2007, the Italian government announced that the San Siro in Milan was unsafe for spectators after the rioting that had occurred during and after a league match in Catania six days earlier. As a result, the venues of the first leg of the Inter-Valencia tie scheduled for 21 February and the second leg of the Celtic-Milan tie scheduled for 7 March were thrown into doubt. Various proposals and offers of the use of stadia outside Italy were made, but it was finally agreed that the Inter-Valencia tie would be played at the San Siro with a reduced capacity of 36,000. After further work at the San Siro, Italian authorities and UEFA announced that the second leg of Celtic-Milan would go ahead at the stadium, at its full capacity of 85,700. 4,500 seats were reserved for Celtic supporters.

The first legs were played on 20 and 21 February 2007, with the second legs on 6 and 7 March.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Porto	2–3	Chelsea	1–1	1–2
Celtic	0–1	Milan	0–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
PSV Eindhoven	2–1	Arsenal	1–0	1–1
Lille	0–2	Manchester United	0–1	0–1
Roma	2–0	Lyon	0–0	2–0
Barcelona	2–2 (a)	Liverpool	1–2	1–0
Real Madrid	4–4 (a)	Bayern Munich	3–2	1–2
Internazionale	2–2 (a)	Valencia	2–2	0–0

Quarter-finals

The draw for the final stages, including the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, was held on Friday, 9 March 2007 in Athens, Greece. The draw was conducted by ad interim UEFA CEO Gianni Infantino, assisted by Friedrich Stickler, chairman of the UEFA Club Competitions Committee. Theodoros Zagorakis, the captain of Greece in Euro 2004, was appointed ambassador for the final.

The first legs were played on 3 and 4 April, and the second legs were played on 10 and 11 April 2007.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Milan	4–2	Bayern Munich	2–2	2–0
PSV Eindhoven	0–4	Liverpool	0–3	0–1
Roma	3–8	Manchester United	2–1	1–7
Chelsea	3–2	Valencia	1–1	2–1

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 24 and 25 April, with the second legs on 1 and 2 May 2007.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chelsea	1–1 (1–4 p)	Liverpool	1–0	0–1 (aet)
Manchester United	3–5	Milan	3–2	0–3

Final

The Final took place on 23 May 2007 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. Unlike the other knockout rounds, the final was played over just one match, with extra time in case of a draw after 90 minutes. If the teams were still level following extra time, a penalty shootout would have determined the winner.

Milan scored first through Filippo Inzaghi just before half time. Inzaghi scored again in the 82nd minute, before Dirk Kuyt scored a late consolation goal a minute before full-time.

Milan went on to represent Europe at the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup.

23 May 2007

21:45 EEST

Milan	2–1	Liverpool
Inzaghi   45', 82'	Report MatchCentre	Kuyt   89'

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 74,000

Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)

• Club Goalkeeper of the Year: Petr Čech (Chelsea)
• Club Defender of the Year: Paolo Maldini (Milan)
• Club Midfielder of the Year: Clarence Seedorf (Milan)
• Club Forward of the Year: Kaká (Milan)
• Club Footballer of the Year: Kaká (Milan)

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Kaká	Milan	10	1082
2	Peter Crouch	Liverpool	6	576
	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Real Madrid		584
	Fernando Morientes	Valencia		620
	Didier Drogba	Chelsea		1055
6	Raúl	Real Madrid	5	603
7	Nicolae Dică	Steaua București	4	532
	Louis Saha	Manchester United		464
	Claudio Pizarro	Bayern Munich		620
	Filippo Inzaghi	Milan		673
	David Villa	Valencia		702
	Francesco Totti	Roma		800
	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United		1062

• Source: Top Scorers – Final – Wednesday 23 May 2007 (after match) (accessed 23 May 2007)

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