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2012–13 UEFA Champions League Group Stage
The 2012–13 UEFA Champions League group stage featured 32 teams: the 22 automatic qualifiers and the 10 winners of the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round#Play-off round, play-off round (five through the Champions Route, five through the League Route). The teams were drawn into eight groups of four, and played each other home-and-away in a round-robin tournament, round-robin format. The top two teams in each group advanced to the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, round of 16, while the third-placed teams dropped down to the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League knockout phase, Europa League round of 32. Seeding The draw for the group stage was held on 30 August 2012, 17:45 Central European Summer Time, CEST (UTC+02:00, UTC+2), at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco. Teams were seeded into four pots based on their 2012 UEFA club coefficients. The title holders, Chelsea F.C., Chelsea, were automatically seeded into Pot 1. Pot 1 holds teams ranked 1–12, Pot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012–13 UEFA Champions League
The 2012–13 UEFA Champions League was the 58th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 21st season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. The final was played at Wembley Stadium in London, England, in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the formation of England's Football Association, the world's oldest football association. It came just two years after Wembley hosted the final in 2011, making it the seventh occasion Wembley Stadium (current and old) had hosted the Champions League final. Bayern Munich, who had been runners-up in 2011–12, won by defeating Bundesliga rivals Borussia Dortmund 2–1 via an 89th-minute goal from Arjen Robben. This was Bayern's 10th final, their first European Cup title in 12 years and their fifth overall. This was the first all-German final and the fourth final to feature two teams from the same association, after the finals of 2000, 2003 and 2008. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
