2006–07 UEFA Champions League

The 2006–07 UEFA Champions League was the 15th season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, the UEFA Champions League, since it was rebranded from the European Cup, and the 52nd season overall. 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.

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

Association team allocation

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 Template:Fba 73.717 4 2 Template:Fba 63.224 3 Template:Fba 61.186 4 Template:Fba 49.469 3 5 Template:Fba 48.989 6 Template:Fba 44.666 7 Template:Fba 39.831 2 8 Template:Fba 35.498 9 Template:Fba 31.750 10 Template:Fba 31.750 11 Template:Fba 29.916 12 Template:Fba 27.950 13 Template:Fba 25.666 14 Template:Fba 24.875 15 Template:Fba 24.850 16 Template:Fba 21.874 1 17 Template:Fba 21.249 18 Template:Fba 21.000

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 19 Template:Fba 20.875 1 20 Template:Fba 20.200 21 Template:Fba 18.540 22 Template:Fba 18.125 23 Template:Fba 17.200 24 Template:Fba 16.331 25 Template:Fba 15.457 26 Template:Fba 15.383 27 Template:Fba 11.665 28 Template:Fba 9.665 29 Template:Fba 8.165 30 Template:Fba 7.165 31 Template:Fba 6.664 32 Template:Fba 6.540 33 Template:Fba 6.332 34 Template:Fba 6.165 35 Template:Fba 5.332

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 36 Template:Fba 4.832 1 37 Template:Fba 4.497 38 Template:Fba 4.164 39 Template:Fba 4.082 40 Template:Fba 4.000 0 41 Template:Fba 2.998 1 42 Template:Fba 2.998 43 Template:Fba 2.665 44 Template:Fba 2.498 45 Template:Fba 2.165 46 Template:Fba 1.832 47 Template:Fba 1.665 48 Template:Fba 1.332 49 Template:Fba 0.999 50 Template:Fba 0.666 51 Template:Fba 0.000 0 52 Template:Fba 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 entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round (22 teams)	22 champions from associations 28–50 (except Liechtenstein)
Second qualifying round (28 teams)	11 champions from associations 17–27 6 runners-up from associations 10–15	11 winners from the first qualifying round
Third qualifying round (32 teams)	6 champions from associations 11–16 3 runners-up from associations 7–9 6 third-place finishers from associations 1–6 3 fourth-place finishers from associations 1–3	14 winners from the second qualifying round
Group stage (32 teams)	10 champions from associations 1–10 (including title holders Barcelona) 6 runners-up from associations 1–6	16 winners from the third qualifying round
Knockout phase (16 teams)		8 group winners from the group stage 8 group runners-up from the group stage

Teams

Group stage
Template:Fbaicon BarcelonaTH (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Internazionale (1st)Template:Cref2	Template:Fbaicon Bayern Munich (1st)	Template:Fbaicon PSV Eindhoven (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Real Madrid (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon Roma (2nd)Template:Cref2	Template:Fbaicon Werder Bremen (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon Olympiacos (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Chelsea (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Lyon (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Porto (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Anderlecht (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Manchester United (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon Bordeaux (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon Sporting CP (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon Celtic (1st)
Third qualifying round
Template:Fbaicon Valencia (3rd)	Template:Fbaicon Chievo (4th)Template:Cref2	Template:Fbaicon AEK Athens (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon CSKA Moscow (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Osasuna (4th)	Template:Fbaicon Lille (3rd)	Template:Fbaicon Standard Liège (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon Austria Wien (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Liverpool (3rd)	Template:Fbaicon Hamburger SV (3rd)	Template:Fbaicon Galatasaray (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Arsenal (4th)	Template:Fbaicon Benfica (3rd)	Template:Fbaicon Slovan Liberec (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Maccabi Haifa (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Milan (3rd)Template:Cref2	Template:Fbaicon Ajax (PO)
Second qualifying round
Template:Fbaicon Heart of Midlothian (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon Vålerenga (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Debrecen (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Fenerbahçe (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon Red Star Belgrade (1st)Template:Cref2	Template:Fbaicon Levski Sofia (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Steaua București (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Mladá Boleslav (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon Legia Warsaw (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Dinamo Zagreb (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Djurgårdens IF (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Spartak Moscow (2nd)	Template:Fbaicon Zürich (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Copenhagen (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Ružomberok (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Red Bull Salzburg (2nd)
First qualifying round
Template:Fbaicon HIT Gorica (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Sioni Bolnisi (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Pyunik (1st)	Template:Fbaicon The New Saints (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Apollon Limassol (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Ekranas (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Birkirkara (1st)	Template:Fbaicon F91 Dudelange (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Široki Brijeg (1st)	Template:Fbaicon FH (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Elbasani (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Baku (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Liepājas Metalurgs (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Rabotnicki (1st)	Template:Fbaicon TVMK (1st)	Template:Fbaicon B36 (1st)
Template:Fbaicon MYPA (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Cork City (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Linfield (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Aktobe (1st)
Template:Fbaicon Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Template:Fbaicon Shakhtyor Soligorsk (1st)

Notes

Round and draw dates

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

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	23 June 2006	11–12 July 2006	18–19 July 2006
	Second qualifying round		25–26 July 2006	1–2 August 2006
	Third qualifying round	28 July 2006	8–9 August 2006	22–23 August 2006
Group stage	Matchday 1	24 August 2006 (Monaco)	12–13 September 2006
	Matchday 2		26–27 September 2006
	Matchday 3		17–18 October 2006
	Matchday 4		31 October – 1 November 2006
	Matchday 5		21–22 November 2006
	Matchday 6		5–6 December 2006
Knockout phase	Round of 16	15 December 2006	20–21 February 2007	6–7 March 2007
	Quarter-finals	9 March 2007	3–4 April 2007	10–11 April 2007
	Semi-finals		24–25 April 2007	1–2 May 2007
	Final		23 May 2007 at Olympic Stadium, Athens

Qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

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Second qualifying round

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Third qualifying round

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Group stage

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, 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.

Knockout phase

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.

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.

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

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Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds.

Top goalscorers

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

See also

• 2006–07 UEFA Women's Cup

External links

• 2006–07 All matches – season at UEFA website
• UEFA Champions League at uefa.com
• All scorers 2006–07 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers qualifying round
• 2006/07 UEFA Champions League – results and line-ups (archive)