Why was the European Cup rechristened The Champions League in 1993?
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All in the name of money my friend.When the European Cup inugarated in 1956 the participants were the domestic Champions of all the European Leagues.But as Leagues such as Serie A,La Liga and The English League(now the Premiership) got stronger UEFA saw they could male money out of it by inviting the 2nd,3rd/4th place teams into the competition.And with Television and the G14 group this competition is one big money spinner that is worth £10m just for going into the Group Stage.This is the biggest Club Football Competition in the World.
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Basically money. There is generally more money available in the UEFA comfederation than in South America, Asia, Africa....etc.\n\nThats all it boils down to really.
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once i believe, but this is all I could find on the subject\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_European_Football_Championship
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Germany won the World Cup in the following years: 1954, 1974 and 1990.\n\nGermany won the European Championship in the following years: 1972, 1980 and 1996.\n\nAfter World War II, Germany was split up into four military occupation zones. The Americans controlled southeast Germany, the British controlled the northwest, southeast Germany was controlled by the French, and the Russians controlled the northeast section of the country.\n\nOn May 23, 1949, the American, British and French sectors joined to form the Federal Republic of Germany - or West Germany. The Russians answered on October 7, 1949 by establishing the German Democratic Republic - or East Germany.\n\nThis state of two separate nations lasted until reforms in eastern European nations led to mass immigration from East Germany to West Germany in the summer of 1989. On October 3, 1990 - 45 years after being split up into for occupied military zones - the two governments joined as in German reunification an selected Berlin to once again be the capital of a united Germany.\n\nHope this helps!!
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world cup was not played last year
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Both teams were already knocked out of the Uefa Champions' League this year.\n\nNeither of the teams were in the Uefa cup either.\n\nSo I don't know which game you mean ?!?!?!?!
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LIverpool, but this is not exactly a question that can truly be answered objectively.  This year, it's officially Barcelona, last year it was officially Liverpool...like each region within the FIFA world, club championships are played before a pseudo final of the top teams from each region of the world.
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It was 1993, not 1992. Leicester drew 0-0 with WBA in the Anglo Italian Cup on 8th September.\n\nI remember it well - because I wasn't there! It was the only Leicester home match I missed between 1988 and 2004 - because I was at the England v Poland match that was played the same day.\n\nAn oddity about the Leicester v West Brom match was that it had a 6PM kick off because a new stand was being built at Leicester and the new floodlights weren't working.
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germany last won the world cup in 1990 and 1996 they won the last Euro Cup so six yrs between them
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A DOUBLE INCLUDING THE CUP WINNERS CUP.\nplus\nOnly two teams have ever been promoted directly from the 3rd Division to the 1st Division. In 1992 when the Premiership was set up the old 1st Division became the Premiership, the 2nd became the 1st etc. The two teams that won the old 3rd Division one season started the next in the 1st Division. The two teams were Birmingham City and Brentford
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1997/98 Ajax \n1998/99 Feyenoord
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Excellent question! I did my own research and yes, there would be some changes, although it only involved the title once, in 1995, and affected 5 relegations. \n\nThey are:\n1)1982 - Stoke would be relegated, instead of Leeds. \n\n2)1985 - Coventry would go down, instead of Norwich.\n\n3)1993 - Oldham, and not Palace, would go down.\n\n4)1994 - Southampton would go down, instead of Sheff Utd.\n\n5)1995 - No title for Jack Walker, Man Utd would pip Blackburn on goal difference.\n\n6)1997 - Despite a 3 point penalty, Boro would stay up, and send 13th place Blackburn down.
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What kind of a question is this?  There was no World Cup in 1993.
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Liverpool by a country mile. When they were good, they were simply the best team in Europe if not the world. That occured in the early 80s. And they had this style 9great passing play) that made them standout from the rest.\n\nEven before then under Bill Shankly and later, Bob Paisely, the were the dominant team for a generation. Man Utd had their era in the 1990s and Arsenal at intervals, but their rivals were nothing compared to th teams Liverpool bested during their halcyon days.\n\nAnd for the record Liverpool stil has won the most League Titles, European and League Cups as compared to the other 2.
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The only way they could have playoffs is with 2 automatic places in The Champions League for the winner and the runner up. They could do like the Coca Cola Leagues and have 4 teams below them fighting for 2 additional places, with the two winners playing in The Champions League and the two losers playing in the UEFA Cup. This could work, but it is UEFA who are the govening body of European competitions and so it would be upto them to introduce the changes. I think it would be more exciting, but would be unfair on a team who finished third and then ends up with a sixth placed UEFA cup place after losing because of one/two matches being taken into consideration over two days instead of over a whole season as it stands now. A team could finish 3rd with 80 points, draw the first leg of the play offs, get a couple of key players injured and lose the 2nd leg. Thus they would drop down into a lower competition. A team who finished 3 places behind them on only 60 points could have a good day beat them and be promoted into the higher competition. Doesn't seem fair does it? That is why it is a Premier League and not a Premier Cup competition. With all that said though, it still happens in the leagues below.
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1993-94. they finished 6th in the premiership. that was their highest finish
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There are other competitions that are scheduled round it such as the European cup, this is every 4 years too. So European teams spend the first 2 years after the world cup qualifying for and playing in the Euro Championships then once these are over qualifying for the world cup.