2006–07 UEFA Champions League

2006–07 UEFA Champions League

Tournament details
Dates	11 July 2006 – 23 May 2007
Teams	32 (group stage) 73 (total)
Final positions
Champions	Milan (7th title)
Runners-up	Liverpool
Tournament statistics
Matches played	207
Goals scored	518 (2.5 per match)
Attendance	5,746,346 (27,760 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kaká (10 goals)

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.

Later issues

Doubt over matches to be played in Italy

On 8 February, the Italian Government announced that San Siro Stadium in Milan was unsafe for spectators in light of riots that took place during and following an Italian Serie A match in Sicily. 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,^[1][2] 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.^[3]

Qualification

Seventy-three teams participated in the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League from UEFA's 50 member associations. 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;^[4] 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.

• Associations 1–3 (Spain, England, and Italy): 4 teams
• Associations 4–6 (France, Germany, and Portugal): 3 teams
• Associations 7–15: 2 teams
• Associations 16–50: 1 team
• Andorra and San Marino do not submit a team for the UEFA Champions League

First qualifying round (24 teams)

• 24 champions from associations 26–50 (excluding Liechtenstein)

Second qualifying round (28 teams)

• 12 winners from the first qualifying round
• 10 champions from associations 16–25
• 6 runners-up from associations 10–15

Third qualifying round (32 teams)

• 14 winners from the second qualifying round
• 6 champions from associations 10–15 (Scotland, Turkey, Czech Republic, Russia, Austria, Ukraine)
• 3 runners-up from associations 7–9 (Netherlands, Greece, Belgium)
• 6 third-place finishers from associations 1–6
• 3 fourth-place finishers from associations 1–3

Group stage (32 teams)

• Title holders
• 16 winners from the third qualifying round
• 9 champions from associations 1–9
• 6 runners-up from associations 1–6

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:^[5]

• 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 (Sweden) and 27 (Slovakia) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

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

¹ This club qualified for this season's UEFA competitions as a member of the Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro during the 2005–06 season but is currently a member of the Football Association of Serbia which is the official successor of the previous football association.^[6]

^TH Title Holders

Qualifying rounds

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.	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.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gorica	0–5	Steaua Bucureşti	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.	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 Bucureşti	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.^[7] The match was played at Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine.^[8]

Group stage

Anderlecht

Levski

Copenhagen

Chelsea

Arsenal

Liverpool

Man. United

Valencia

Real Madrd

Barcelona

Bordeaux

Lyon

Lille

Bayern

Bremen

Hamburg

Olympiacos

AEK

Roma

Milan

Internazionale

PSV

Benfica

Sporting

Porto

Steaua

CSKA

Spartak

Celtic

Galatasaray

Shakhtar

Dynamo

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.^[9] 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 made their debut appearance in the group stage.

Key to colours in group tables
Teams that progressed to the first knockout round
Teams that progressed to the UEFA Cup

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Chelsea 6 4 1 1 10 4 +6 13 Barcelona 6 3 2 1 12 4 +8 11 Werder Bremen 6 3 1 2 7 5 +2 10 Levski Sofia 6 0 0 6 1 17 −16 0

BAR CHE LSO BRM Barcelona – 2–2 5–0 2–0 Chelsea 1–0 – 2–0 2–0 Levski Sofia 0–2 1–3 – 0–3 Werder Bremen 1–1 1–0 2–0 –

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Bayern Munich 6 3 3 0 10 3 +7 12 Internazionale 6 3 1 2 5 5 0 10 Spartak Moscow 6 1 2 3 7 11 −4 5 Sporting CP 6 1 2 3 3 6 −3 5

BAY INT SPA SCP Bayern Munich – 1–1 4–0 0–0 Internazionale 0–2 – 2–1 1–0 Spartak Moscow 2–2 0–1 – 1–1 Sporting CP 0–1 1–0 1–3 –

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Liverpool 6 4 1 1 11 5 +6 13 PSV Eindhoven 6 3 1 2 6 6 0 10 Bordeaux 6 2 1 3 6 7 −1 7 Galatasaray 6 1 1 4 7 12 −5 4

BDX GAL LIV PSV Bordeaux – 3–1 0–1 0–1 Galatasaray 0–0 – 3–2 1–2 Liverpool 3–0 3–2 – 2–0 PSV Eindhoven 1–3 2–0 0–0 –

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Valencia 6 4 1 1 12 6 +6 13 Roma 6 3 1 2 8 4 +4 10 Shakhtar Donetsk 6 1 3 2 6 11 −5 6 Olympiacos 6 0 3 3 6 11 −5 3

OLY ROM SHA VAL Olympiacos – 0–1 1–1 2–4 Roma 1–1 – 4–0 1–0 Shakhtar Donetsk 2–2 1–0 – 2–2 Valencia 2–0 2–1 2–0 –

Group E

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Lyon 6 4 2 0 12 3 +9 14 Real Madrid 6 3 2 1 14 8 +6 11 Steaua Bucureşti 6 1 2 3 7 11 −4 5 Dynamo Kyiv 6 0 2 4 5 16 −11 2

DK OL STE RM Dynamo Kyiv – 0–3 1–4 2–2 Lyon 1–0 – 1–1 2–0 Steaua Bucureşti 1–1 0–3 – 1–4 Real Madrid 5–1 2–2 1–0 –

Group F

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Manchester United 6 4 0 2 10 5 +5 12 Celtic 6 3 0 3 8 9 −1 9 Benfica 6 2 1 3 7 8 −1 7 Copenhagen 6 2 1 3 5 8 −3 7

BEN CEL FCK MU Benfica – 3–0 3–1 0–1 Celtic 3–0 – 1–0 1–0 Copenhagen 0–0 3–1 – 1–0 Manchester United 3–1 3–2 3–0 –

Group G

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Arsenal 6 3 2 1 7 3 +4 11 Porto 6 3 2 1 9 4 +5 11 CSKA Moscow 6 2 2 2 4 5 −1 8 Hamburg 6 1 0 5 7 15 −8 3

ARS CSK HAM POR Arsenal – 0–0 3–1 2–0 CSKA Moscow 1–0 – 1–0 0–2 Hamburg 1–2 3–2 – 1–3 Porto 0–0 0–0 4–1 –

Group H

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Milan 6 3 1 2 8 4 +4 10 Lille 6 2 3 1 8 5 +3 9 AEK Athens 6 2 2 2 6 9 −3 8 Anderlecht 6 0 4 2 7 11 −4 4

AEK AND LIL MIL AEK Athens – 1–1 1–0 1–0 Anderlecht 2–2 – 1–1 0–1 Lille 3–1 2–2 – 0–0 Milan 3–0 4–1 0–2 –

(KEY: Pts= Points; Pld= Matches Played; W= Matches Won; D= Matches Drawn; L= Matches Lost; GF= Goals For; GA= Goals Against; GD= Goal Difference)

Knockout stage

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 shoot out.

Bracket

	First knockout round						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

First knockout round

The draw for the first knockout round of the competition took place on 15 December 2006 in Nyon, Switzerland.^[10] 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.

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

Team 1	Agg.	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.	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.	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.

Milan v Liverpool

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)[11]

2006–07 UEFA Club Football Player Awards

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

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds.

Top goalscorers Rank Player Team Goals Appearances Minutes played 1 Kaká Milan 10 14 1082' 2 Peter Crouch Liverpool 6 12 576' Ruud van Nistelrooy Real Madrid 6 7 584' Fernando Morientes Valencia 6 8 620' Didier Drogba Chelsea 6 12 1055' 6 Raúl Real Madrid 5 7 603' 7 Nicolae Dică Steaua Bucureşti 4 6 532' Louis Saha Manchester United 4 8 464' Claudio Pizarro Bayern Munich 4 10 620' Filippo Inzaghi Milan 4 10 673' David Villa Valencia 4 9 702' Francesco Totti Roma 4 9 800' Wayne Rooney Manchester United 4 12 1062' Source: Top Scorers – Final – Wednesday 23 May 2007 (after match) (accessed 23 May 2007)

Top assists Rank Player Team Assists Minutes played 1 Ryan Giggs Manchester United 7 605 2 Juninho Lyon 5 570 Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United 5 951 4 Steve Finnan Liverpool 4 928 Clarence Seedorf Milan 4 969 6 Samuel Eto'o Barcelona 3 216 Craig Bellamy Liverpool 3 477 Hasan Salihamidžić Bayern Munich 3 697 David Villa Valencia 3 702 Willy Sagnol Bayern Munich 3 783 Francesco Totti Roma 3 800 Kaká Milan 3 1142 Source:[12]

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External links

• 2006–07 All matches – season at UEFA website
• UEFA Champions League at uefa.com
• "Regulations of the UEFA Champions League 2006/07" (PDF). March 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
• 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)