uefa champion league In 2007, Michel Platini , the UEFA president, had proposed taking one place from the three leagues with four entrants and allocating it to that nation's cup winners. This proposal was rejected in a vote at a UEFA Strategy Council meeting. [ 80 ] In the same meeting, however, it was agreed that the third-placed team in the top three leagues would receive automatic qualification for the group stage, rather than entry into the third qualifying round, while the fourth-placed team would enter the play-off round for non-champions, guaranteeing an opponent from one of the top 15 leagues in Europe. This was part of Platini's plan to increase the number of teams qualifying directly into the group stage, while simultaneously increasing the number of teams from lower-ranked nations in the group stage. [ 81 ] In the reforming plan for the 2018–21 cycle, which was announced in August 2016 and confirmed in December, the top four teams in the top four leagues would receive automatic qualification for the group stage. [ 82 ] [ 83 ]. soi kèo uefa nations league kết quả uefa champions league Each year, the winning team is presented with the European Champion Clubs' Cup, the current version of which has been awarded since 1967. From the 1968–69 season and prior to the 2008–09 season any team that won the Champions League three years in a row or five times overall was awarded the official trophy permanently. [ 94 ] Each time a club achieved this, a new official trophy had to be forged for the following season. [ 95 ] Five clubs own a version of the official trophy : Real Madrid, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Milan and Liverpool. [ 94 ] Since 2008, the official trophy has remained with UEFA and the clubs are awarded a replica. [ 94 ]
