2007–08 UEFA Champions League

2007–08 UEFA Champions League

The Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow hosted the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 17 July – 29 August 2007 Competition proper: 18 September 2007 – 21 May 2008
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 76
Final positions
Champions	Manchester United (3rd title)
Runners-up	Chelsea
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	330 (2.64 per match)
Attendance	5,380,947 (43,048 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) 8 goals
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The 2007–08 UEFA Champions League was the 16th season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, the UEFA Champions League, since it was rebranded in 1992, and the 53rd tournament overall.

The final was played on 21 May 2008 at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, where Manchester United played against Chelsea, making it an all-English final for the first time in the history of the European Cup. Manchester United won the match 6–5 on penalties, following a 1–1 draw after extra time.

Milan were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Arsenal in the first knockout round.

76 teams participated in the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League from 52 UEFA member associations (not including Liechtenstein). 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 2001–02 to 2005–06.;^[1] 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 one team qualify, with the exception of Liechtenstein, which competes in the Swiss league system, but has no team in the Swiss Super League. One new nation entered their league champion in this year's tournament: Montenegro, following the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro. The champions from San Marino and Andorra also entered from this year onwards. Below is the qualification scheme for the 2007–08 Champions League:^[2]

• 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 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.

For the 2007–08 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.^[3]

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1  Spain 72.748 4 2  Italy 66.731 3  England 63.486 4  France 50.781 3 5  Germany 48.364 6  Portugal 44.041 7  Netherlands 41.331 2 8  Greece 32.081 9  Russia 31.833 10  Romania 31.457 11  Scotland 30.375 12  Belgium 30.250 13  Ukraine 26.600 14  Czech Republic 26.575 15  Turkey 26.166 16  Switzerland 25.875 1 17  Bulgaria 24.290 18  Israel 21.541

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 19  Norway 20.975 1 20  Austria 20.375 21  Serbia 19.999 22  Poland 18.500 23  Denmark 16.950 24  Hungary 14.665 25  Croatia 14.083 26  Sweden 13.249 27  Slovakia 12.332 28  Cyprus 10.165 29  Slovenia 10.165 30  Bosnia and Herzegovina 8.165 31  Finland 7.373 32  Latvia 7.164 33  Moldova 6.832 34  Georgia 6.331 35  Lithuania 5.832 36  Macedonia 5.331

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 37  Iceland 4.832 1 38  Liechtenstein 4.500 0 39  Belarus 4.415 1 40  Republic of Ireland 4.331 41  Albania 3.665 42  Armenia 2.998 43  Estonia 2.665 44  Malta 2.665 45  Wales 2.332 46  Northern Ireland 2.332 47  Azerbaijan 1.999 48  Luxembourg 1.832 49  Kazakhstan 1.666 50  Faroe Islands 1.665 51  San Marino 0.000 52  Andorra 0.000 53  Montenegro 0.000

Since the title holders (Milan) qualified for the Champions League third qualifying round through their domestic league and entered the group stage automatically, their spot in the third qualifying round is vacated, and the following changes to the default access list are made:^[4]

• The champions of association 16 (Switzerland) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The champions of associations 23 and 24 (Denmark and Hungary) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

Group stage
Real Madrid (1st)	Manchester United (1st)	VfB Stuttgart (1st)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)
Barcelona (2nd)	Chelsea (2nd)	Schalke 04 (2nd)	Olympiacos (1st)
Internazionale (1st)	Lyon (1st)	Porto (1st)	CSKA Moscow (1st)
Roma (2nd)	Marseille (2nd)	Sporting CP (2nd)	MilanTH(4th)
Third qualifying round
Sevilla (3rd)	Toulouse (3rd)	Spartak Moscow (2nd)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)
Valencia (4th)	Werder Bremen (3rd)	Dinamo București (1st)	Sparta Prague (1st)
Lazio (3rd)	Benfica (3rd)	Celtic (1st)	Fenerbahçe (1st)
Liverpool (3rd)	Ajax (PO)	Anderlecht (1st)	Zürich (1st)
Arsenal (4th)	AEK Athens (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Steaua București (2nd)	Slavia Prague (2nd)	Rosenborg (1st)	Zagłębie Lubin (1st)
Rangers (2nd)	Beşiktaş (2nd)	Red Bull Salzburg (1st)	Copenhagen (1st)
Genk (2nd)	Levski Sofia (1st)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)	Debrecen (1st)
Shakhtar Donetsk (2nd)	Beitar Jerusalem (1st)
First qualifying round
Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Ventspils (1st)	Derry City (2nd)[Note IRL]	Khazar Lankaran (1st)
IF Elfsborg (1st)	Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Tirana (1st)	F91 Dudelange (1st)
Žilina (1st)	Olimpi Rustavi (1st)	Pyunik (1st)	Astana (1st)
APOEL (1st)	Kaunas (1st)	Levadia Tallinn (1st)	HB (1st)
Domžale (1st)	Pobeda (1st)	Marsaxlokk (1st)	Rànger's (1st)
Sarajevo (1st)	FH (1st)	The New Saints (1st)	Murata (1st)
Tampere United (1st)	BATE Borisov (1st)	Linfield (1st)	Zeta (1st)

Notes

The calendar shows the dates of the rounds and draw.

Notes

The draw was held on 29 June 2007 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions. The first leg matches were held on 17 July and 18 July, while the second legs were played on 24 July and 25 July 2007.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Khazar Lankaran	2–4	Dinamo Zagreb	1–1	1–3 (aet)
APOEL	2–3	BATE Borisov	2–0	0–3 (aet)
Sheriff Tiraspol	5–0	Rànger's	2–0	3–0
FH	4–1	HB	4–1	0–0
The New Saints	4–4 (a)	Ventspils	3–2	1–2
Pobeda	0–1	Levadia Tallinn	0–1	0–0
Olimpi Rustavi	0–3	Astana	0–0	0–3
Zeta	5–4	Kaunas	3–1	2–3
Murata	1–4	Tampere United	1–2	0–2
F91 Dudelange	5–7	Žilina	1–2	4–5
Linfield	0–1	IF Elfsborg	0–0	0–1
Derry City	0–2	Pyunik	0–0	0–2
Marsaxlokk	1–9	Sarajevo	0–6	1–3
Domžale	3–1	Tirana	1–0	2–1

The draw was held on 29 June 2007 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions. The first leg matches were played on 31 July and 1 August, while the second legs were played on 7 August and 8 August 2007.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pyunik	1–4	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–2	1–2
Red Star Belgrade	2–2 (a)	Levadia Tallinn	1–0	1–2
Rangers	3–0	Zeta	2–0	1–0
Debrecen	0–1	IF Elfsborg	0–1	0–0
Zagłębie Lubin	1–3	Steaua București	0–1	1–2
Genk	2–2 (a)	Sarajevo	1–2	1–0
Ventspils	0–7	Red Bull Salzburg	0–3	0–4
Astana	2–10	Rosenborg	1–3	1–7
FH	2–4	BATE Borisov	1–3	1–1
Copenhagen	2–1	Beitar Jerusalem	1–0	1–1 (aet)
Žilina	0–0 (3–4 p)	Slavia Prague	0–0	0–0 (aet)
Tampere United	2–0	Levski Sofia	1–0	1–0
Domžale	2–5	Dinamo Zagreb	1–2	1–3
Beşiktaş	4–0	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–0	3–0

The draw was held on 3 August 2007 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Giorgio Marchetti, UEFA's director of professional football. The first leg matches were played on 14 August and 15 August, while the second legs were played on 28 August and 29 August 2007. Winners in this round qualified for the group stage, while the losing clubs entered 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 București	2–2	0–2
Tampere United	0–5	Rosenborg	0–3	0–2
Spartak Moscow	2–2 (3–4 p)	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 Prague	0–1	1–2
Valencia	5–1	IF Elfsborg	3–0	2–1
Sarajevo	0–4	Dynamo Kyiv	0–1	0–3
Fenerbahçe	3–0	Anderlecht	1–0	2–0
Rangers	1–0	Red Star Belgrade	1–0	0–0
Toulouse	0–5	Liverpool	0–1	0–4
Benfica	3–1	Copenhagen	2–1	1–0
Lazio	4–2	Dinamo București	1–1	3–1
Sparta Prague	0–5	Arsenal	0–2	0–3
Zürich	1–3	Beşiktaş	1–1	0–2
Sevilla	6–1	AEK Athens	2–0	4–1

Slavia

Chelsea

Arsenal

Liverpool

Man. United

Sevilla

Valencia

Real Madrid

Barcelona

Marseille

Lyon

Stuttgart

Schalke

Bremen

Olympiacos

Roma

Lazio

Milan
Internazionale

PSV

Rosenborg

Benfica

Sporting

Porto

Steaua

CSKA

Celtic

Rangers

Fenerbahçe

Beşiktaş

Shakhtar

Dynamo

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Location of teams of the 2007–08 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 was held on Thursday, 30 August 2007 at the 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 were played between 18 September and 12 December 2007.

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 6.05 in the 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:^[6]

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.

Sevilla and Slavia Prague made their debut appearance in the group stage.^[7]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POR	LIV	MAR	BES
1	Porto	6	3	2	1	8	7	+1	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	2–1	2–0
2	Liverpool	6	3	1	2	18	5	+13	10			4–1	—	0–1	8–0
3	Marseille	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–1	0–4	—	2–0
4	Beşiktaş	6	2	0	4	4	15	−11	6			0–1	2–1	2–1	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CHE	SCH	ROS	VAL
1	Chelsea	6	3	3	0	9	2	+7	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	1–1	0–0
2	Schalke 04	6	2	2	2	5	4	+1	8			0–0	—	3–1	0–1
3	Rosenborg	6	2	1	3	6	10	−4	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–4	0–2	—	2–0
4	Valencia	6	1	2	3	2	6	−4	5			1–2	0–0	0–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	OLY	BRM	LAZ
1	Real Madrid	6	3	2	1	13	9	+4	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	4–2	2–1	3–1
2	Olympiacos	6	3	2	1	11	7	+4	11			0–0	—	3–0	1–1
3	Werder Bremen	6	2	0	4	8	13	−5	6	Transfer to UEFA Cup		3–2	1–3	—	2–1
4	Lazio	6	1	2	3	8	11	−3	5			2–2	1–2	2–1	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIL	CEL	BEN	SHK
1	Milan	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	2–1	4–1
2	Celtic	6	3	0	3	5	6	−1	9			2–1	—	1–0	2–1
3	Benfica	6	2	1	3	5	6	−1	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–1	1–0	—	0–1
4	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	2	0	4	6	11	−5	6			0–3	2–0	1–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	LYO	RAN	STU
1	Barcelona	6	4	2	0	12	3	+9	14	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	2–0	3–1
2	Lyon	6	3	1	2	11	10	+1	10			2–2	—	0–3	4–2
3	Rangers	6	2	1	3	7	9	−2	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–0	0–3	—	2–1
4	VfB Stuttgart	6	1	0	5	7	15	−8	3			0–2	0–2	3–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MUN	ROM	SPO	DKV
1	Manchester United	6	5	1	0	13	4	+9	16	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	2–1	4–0
2	Roma	6	3	2	1	11	6	+5	11			1–1	—	2–1	2–0
3	Sporting CP	6	2	1	3	9	8	+1	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	2–2	—	3–0
4	Dynamo Kyiv	6	0	0	6	4	19	−15	0			2–4	1–4	1–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		INT	FEN	PSV	CSKA
1	Internazionale	6	5	0	1	12	4	+8	15	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	2–0	4–2
2	Fenerbahçe	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11			1–0	—	2–0	3–1
3	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	1	3	3	6	−3	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	0–0	—	2–1
4	CSKA Moscow	6	0	1	5	7	14	−7	1			1–2	2–2	0–1	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SEV	ARS	SLP	STE
1	Sevilla	6	5	0	1	14	7	+7	15	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–1	4–2	2–1
2	Arsenal	6	4	1	1	14	4	+10	13			3–0	—	7–0	2–1
3	Slavia Prague	6	1	2	3	5	16	−11	5	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–3	0–0	—	2–1
4	Steaua București	6	0	1	5	4	10	−6	1			0–2	0–1	1–1	—

In the knockout stage, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

• In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner was designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it was played at a neutral venue).

	Round of 16							Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Schalke 04 (p)		1	0	1 (4)
	Porto		0	1	1 (1)
								Schalke 04		0	0	0
								Barcelona		1	1	2
	Celtic		2	0	2
	Barcelona		3	1	4
															Barcelona		0	0	0
															Manchester United		0	1	1
	Roma		2	2	4
	Real Madrid		1	1	2
								Roma		0	0	0
								Manchester United		2	1	3
	Lyon		1	0	1
																						21 May – Moscow
	Manchester United		1	1	2
																						Manchester United (p)		1 (6)
																						Chelsea		1 (5)
	Arsenal		0	2	2
	Milan		0	0	0
								Arsenal		1	2	3
								Liverpool		1	4	5
	Liverpool		2	1	3
	Internazionale		0	0	0
															Liverpool		1	2	3
															Chelsea (a.e.t.)		1	3	4
	Fenerbahçe (p)		3	2	5 (3)
	Sevilla		2	3	5 (2)
								Fenerbahçe		2	0	2
								Chelsea		1	2	3
	Olympiacos		0	0	0
	Chelsea		0	3	3

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 21 December 2007 at 12:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland. The first legs were played on 19 and 20 February, while the second legs were played on 4 and 5 March 2008. Due to a stadium clash with the match between Milan and Arsenal, the second leg of Internazionale's tie against Liverpool was held on 11 March.^[8]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Celtic	2–4	Barcelona	2–3	0–1
Lyon	1–2	Manchester United	1–1	0–1
Schalke 04	1–1 (4–1 p)	Porto	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Liverpool	3–0	Internazionale	2–0	1–0
Roma	4–2	Real Madrid	2–1	2–1
Arsenal	2–0	Milan	0–0	2–0
Olympiacos	0–3	Chelsea	0–0	0–3
Fenerbahçe	5–5 (3–2 p)	Sevilla	3–2	2–3 (a.e.t.)

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 14 March 2008 at 13:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland. The first legs were played on 1 and 2 April, while the second legs were played on 8 and 9 April 2008.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Arsenal	3–5	Liverpool	1–1	2–4
Roma	0–3	Manchester United	0–2	0–1
Schalke 04	0–2	Barcelona	0–1	0–1
Fenerbahçe	2–3	Chelsea	2–1	0–2

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 14 March 2008 at 13:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland, after the quarter-final draw. The first legs were played on 22 and 23 April, while the second legs were played on 29 and 30 April 2008.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Liverpool	3–4	Chelsea	1–1	2–3 (a.e.t.)
Barcelona	0–1	Manchester United	0–0	0–1

The final was played on 21 May 2008 at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia. A draw was held on 14 March 2008, after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes. The final was contested by Manchester United and Chelsea, representing the first time the final had been contested by two teams from England.

United won the match 6–5 on penalties after the game had ended in a 1–1 draw. Cristiano Ronaldo had given the eventual victors the lead after 26 minutes, only for Frank Lampard to equalise immediately before half-time. Ryan Giggs came on as a substitute late in the second half to make his 759th appearance for Manchester United, a new club record. Early in extra time, Giggs had a shot cleared off the Chelsea goal-line by John Terry, whilst Chelsea twice hit the Manchester United woodwork. A melée involving most of the 22 players ensued midway through the second half of extra time, with Didier Drogba being sent off for a slap on Nemanja Vidić right in front of the referee.

The scores level at full-time, the match went to penalties. Chelsea took the upper hand in the third round of the shoot-out as Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty was saved by Petr Čech, handing John Terry the chance to win the cup with Chelsea's fifth penalty. However, Chelsea's captain lost his footing as he went to kick the ball,^[9] and his shot hit the post. Ryan Giggs stepped up for United's seventh penalty, and scored, before Edwin van der Sar saved the following kick from Nicolas Anelka to crown Manchester United as the champions of Europe for the third time.

As winners of the competition, Manchester United went on to represent UEFA at the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup.

21 May 2008

22:45 MSD

Manchester United	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Chelsea
Ronaldo 26'	Report	Lampard 45'
Penalties
Tevez Carrick Ronaldo Hargreaves Nani Anderson Giggs	6–5	Ballack Belletti Lampard A. Cole Terry Kalou Anelka

Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 67,310^[10]

Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)^[11]

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds.

Rank[12]	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Manchester United	8	1,062
2	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	6	755
	Fernando Torres	Liverpool		905
	Didier Drogba	Chelsea		1,071
	Steven Gerrard	Liverpool		1,144
6	Ryan Babel	Liverpool	5	619
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Internazionale		625
	Frédéric Kanouté	Sevilla		714
	Raúl	Real Madrid		715
	Deivid	Fenerbahçe		844
	Dirk Kuyt	Liverpool		892

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