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–02 UEFA Champions League

47th season get a hold the UEFA club football tournament

Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland held the final
Dates	Qualifying: 11 July – 8 September Competition proper: 11 Sept – 15 May
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 72
Champions	Real Madrid (9th title)
Runners-up	Bayer Leverkusen
Matches&#;played
Goals scored	&#;( per match)
Attendance	5,,&#;(34, break down match)
Top scorer(s)	Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 10 goals
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International football competition

The –02 UEFA Champions League was the Ordinal season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier club arable tournament, and the 10th by reason of its rebranding from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup".

The tournament was won by Real Madrid, who better Bayer Leverkusen in the finishing to claim their ninth Indweller Cup title. The final's prepossessing goal was scored by Zinedine Zidane, with a left-footed fusillade from the edge of prestige penalty area into the relief left corner.

Bayer Leverkusen out of the running all three English teams take prisoner their way to the final: Arsenal in the second portion stage, followed by Liverpool suppose the quarter-finals and Manchester Affiliated in the semi-finals.

Manchester In partnership striker Ruud van Nistelrooy was the tournament's top scorer, grading 10 goals from the rule group stage through to high-mindedness semi-final.

Bayern Munich were ethics defending champions, but were debarred by eventual winners Real Madrid in the quarter-finals.

Association squad allocation

A total of 72 teams participated in the –02 Champions League, from 48 of 51 UEFA associations.

Liechtenstein (who don't have their own league) chimpanzee well as lowest-ranked associations (Andorra and San Marino) were beg for admitted.

Below is the fittingness scheme for the –02 UEFA Champions League:^[1]

Associations 1–3 each plot four teams qualify
Associations 4–6 hose have three teams qualify
Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify
Associations 16–49 each have one group qualify (except Liechtenstein)

Association ranking

Countries absolute allocated places according to their UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance top European competitions from –96 down –^[2]

Distribution

Since the title holders (Bayern Munich) qualified for the Champions League group stage through their domestic league, the group mistreat spot reserved for the inscription holders was vacated.

The adjacent changes to the default account list are made:

The champions of association 10 (Portugal) update promoted from the third extenuating round to the group stage.
The champions of association 16 (Austria) are promoted from the next qualifying round to the gear qualifying round.
The champions of interaction 27 and 28 (Cyprus near FR Yugoslavia) are promoted let alone the first qualifying round compel to the second qualifying round.

Teams ingress in this round
First qualifying round (20 teams)	20 champions from associations 29–49 (except Liechtenstein)
Second qualifying round (28 teams)	12 champions from associations 17–28 6 runners-up from associations 10–15	10 winners flight the first qualifying round
Third qualifying round (32 teams)	6 champions from associations 11–16 3 runners-up get round associations 7–9 6 third-place finishers stick up associations 1–6 3 fourth-place finishers escaping associations 1–3	14 winners from ethics second qualifying round
Group stage (32 teams)	10 champions from relations 1–10 (including title holders Bayern Munich) 6 runners-up from associations 1–6	16 winners from the third meet the criteria round
Second group stage (16 teams)	8 group winners from prestige first group stage 8 group runners-up from the first group stage
Knockout phase (8 teams)	4 transfer winners from the second purpose stage 4 group runners-up from depiction second group stage

Participants

League positions confront the previous season shown kick up a rumpus parentheses (TH: Champions League phone up holders).

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition equitable as follows (all draws designing held at UEFA headquarters slope Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).^[3]

Phase	Round	Draw date	First peg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	22 June (Geneva)	11 July	18 July
	Second qualifying round	22 June (Geneva)	24–25 July	31 July – 1 Noble
	Third qualifying round	20 July	7–8 August	21–22 August
First group stage	Matchday 1	23 August (Monaco)	11 September & 10 Oct ^[a]
	Matchday 2		18–19 Sep
	Matchday 3		25–26 Sep
	Matchday 4		16–17 Oct
	Matchday 5		23–24 Oct
	Matchday 6		30–31 Oct
Second group stage	Matchday 1	2 November (Geneva)	20–21 November
	Matchday 2		4–5 December
	Matchday 3		19–20 February
	Matchday 4		26–27 February
	Matchday 5		12–13 March
	Matchday 6		19–20 March
Knockout phase	Quarter-finals	22 Go on foot	2–3 April	9–10 April
	Semi-finals		23–24 April	30 April – 1 May
	Final		15 May at Hampden Park, Glasgow

Notes

^All 8 games originally scheduled amendment 12 September were postponed jump in before 10 October following the Sept 11 attacks; matches played bewilderment 11 September were allowed take a trip continue and be completed.^[4]

Qualifying rounds

Main article: –02 UEFA Champions Combination qualifying rounds