Since rolling in the 1995-1996 season, the European Cup, now renamed the
Champions League, often presenting exciting football moments that make the most prestigious top club tournament in the Blue Continent is often touted as the most intense competition and better than the World Cup. For nearly half a century of running the competition, the Champions League to carve a record. Here are 10 records that deserve rated as the most attractive.
First: Six players scored three goals aka hat-trick made his debut in the Champions League. The sixth player is Marco Van Basten (AC Milan), Faustino Asprilla (Newcastle United), Yakubu (Maccabi Haifa), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Vincenzo Iaquinta (Juventus) and Grafite (Wolfsburg).
Second: The fastest goal. Roy Makaay holds the record for playing for Bayern Munich, which is the goalkeeper of Real Madrid in just 10.12 seconds, March 7, 2007.
Third: Only one club that managed to escape the group stage after losing in the first three games. The club in question is Newcastle United in the 2002-2003 season. The Magpies qualify for the knock-out round thanks to goals from Craig Bellamy in the last match against Feyenoord.
Fourth: Only one club which is always a draw from six group stage games, namely AEK Athens in the 2002-2003 season. AEK ranks third group followed by Real Madrid and AS Roma.
Fifth: Milan City, the only city that has two clubs that won the Champions League, the Inter Milan and AC Milan. Madrid City thereunder scored nine following the success of the Real and Atletico titles that appear as runner-up in the 1973-1974 season.
Sixth: The only team that scored the highest but still knocked out in the group phase, the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in the 1997-1998 season. Collecting 12 points, PSG runner-up position in the group under Bayern Munich, losing rank of the two best runners-up other groups: Bayer Leverkusen and Juventus. At that time, the competition consists of 24 teams divided into six groups. Who qualify for the quarter-finals only six group winners and two best runners-up group.
Seventh: Only four teams who must undergo three rounds in the qualifying session in order to qualify for the group phase. Namely, Liverpool and Artmedia Bratislava in the 2005-06 season, Anorthosis and Batea Borisov in the 2008-09 season.
Eighth: The team with an unbeaten record in the Cage
Bayern Munich emerged unbeaten in 31 Champions League home games from 1998 to 2002. Might Munich collapsed after beaten Deportivo La Coruna 2-3.
Ninth: The team with the longest unbeaten record
Manchestr United look mighty in 25 games since the start of the 2007-2008 season until the final competition of the 2008-2009 season when it defeated Barcelona 0-2.
Tenth: Only one player who won the Champions League with three different clubs, namely Clarence Seedorf. The former Netherlands midfielder's first title with Ajax Amsterdam in the 1994-1995 season, and with Real Madrid in the 1997-1998 season, and twice with AC Milan in the 2002-2003 season and 2006-2007.