On January 15, 2007, the Ghana coach, was handed the job of leading Africa’s All-Star U-17 team to play an European U-17 All-Star select side in February 2007 in a UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup.
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The knockout stage of the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League began on 4 March 1998 and ended with the final at the Amsterdam ArenA in Amsterdam on 20 May 1998.
Each confederation — the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) — was allocated a certain number of the 16 places at the tournament.
1After consultations with UEFA, Italian qualifier Palermo was withdrawn by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) on 6 June 2006.
1. Since the finalists of the 2006–07 FA Cup (Manchester United and Chelsea) and the League Cup winners (Chelsea) had already qualified for the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League through their Premier League positions, their 2007–08 UEFA Cup places were given to the 6th- and 7th-placed Premier League teams.
20,000 tickets have been sold to local football fans with a further 3,000 tickets available for sale to fans worldwide via UEFA.com, with prices between 100 RON and 500 RON.
The 1973–74 season was Gilzean's last as a professional footballer as Spurs lost the UEFA Cup final to Dutch giants Feyenoord Rotterdam.
The 1958 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Raymond Kopa on 16 December 1958.
In 2009, Richard Corbett, an MEP for Yorkshire and Humber petitioned UEFA for a reversal of AC Milan's victory over Leeds United in the 1973 final.
The opening ceremony was attended by UEFA president Michel Platini, and the former president of Cyprus, Mr Tassos Papadopoulos.
In 1998, Messina was granted the right to referee international matches, and he joined UEFA's elite panel of referees in 2001, before he was replaced on the panel by fellow Italian Stefano Farina in 2005.
On 24 May 2013, Allen Bula the national team coach said: "We expect work to begin soon, it will be 10,000 all seater which is well above the UEFA minimum criteria which is 8,000."
European Champion Clubs' Cup, the cup given to the winners of the UEFA Champions League
Futsal European Clubs Championship a futsal competition that ran from 1984 until the creation of the UEFA Futsal Cup in 2001
On October 15, 2013, Zwayer has refereed 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match between Lithuania and Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team in Kaunas.
Since its inception, MBA(FI) graduates have gone on to work for (amongst others): Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Celtic, Everton, Wigan Athletic, MK Dons, Lech Poznan, FC Seoul, FIFA, UEFA, AFC, FA, Football League, SPL, Baltic League, J-League, K-League, Octagon, Sportfive, Sport+Markt, MP&Silva, Traffic, ESPN, Yahoo!, Red Bull, LG, Diageo, Nike, Prozone and Soccerex.
As a Porto player, Vital appeared once for Portugal, playing 45 minutes in a 4–0 home win against Cyprus for the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, and scoring the third.
In the UEFA Cup campaign of 1976, he is credited with the substitution of regular goalkeeper Lakis Stergioudas with veteran Nikos Christidis in extra-time of the second leg of the encounter against QPR.
Sparta was hit by a 55,000 CHF fine from European football governing body UEFA in 2001 following racist slurs from the crowd targeted at black Brazilian Luis Robson in a UEFA Champions League match at Letna against Spartak Moscow.
Denis scored his first official goal for Napoli against Vllaznia in the UEFA Cup, on 14 August 2008.
In 1995–96 they reached the first round proper of the UEFA Cup (the last Irish League club to do so), and were beaten by Werder Bremen.
Sotiris Ninis and Sokratis Papastathopoulos were included by UEFA in the "name-to-note" list after the end of the tournament.
There were several sports persons at his funeral such as UEFA vice presicent Şenes Erzik, former TFF president Haluk Ulusoy, Turkey manager Fatih Terim, Sivasspor chairman Mecnun Otyakmaz, and national footballer Emre Belözoğlu.
In 2010, the club was handed a two-match suspension by UEFA for fielding Joël Epalle, who was ineligible to play at the time despite winning both legs against Budućnost.
On 30 April 1985 Liceranzu gained his sole cap for Spain, playing the entire 1986 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Wales, a 0–3 loss in Wrexham.
His debut came on 30 November 1977 in a 1978 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Belgrade against Yugoslavia, and he was also picked for the final stages in Argentina, playing all three matches in an eventual group stage exit (one win, one loss and one draw).
In his first season, Rangers performed creditably to reach the quarter-final of the European Cup, defeating Italian champions Juventus and becoming the first club to win in European club competition at PSV's Philips Stadion, before eventual elimination to Cologne.
In the 2011–12 season, Daly started his season, playing in both legs of the UEFA Europa League tie against Polish side Śląsk Wrocław.
His debut came on 30 November 1977, in a 1978 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Yugoslavia, in a decisive 1–0 away win (90 minutes played).
However, with the award of Euro 2012 to Poland and Ukraine, the Kharkiv International Airport has built a new modern international terminal in order to comply with UEFA regulations.
He then refereed a UEFA Cup second round match between Litex Lovech and Union Berlin at the end of October 2001.
During the ceremony following Spain's victory in Euro 2008, third-choice for the winners Andrés Palop wore Arconada's original Euro 84 final shirt, as he received the gold medal from Platini, now president of UEFA.
While at Kamen Ingrad, he also played in both of the club's two UEFA Cup matches against famous German club FC Schalke 04 in 2003, where they narrowly lost 1–0 on aggregate, conceding the only goal 14 minutes before the end of the second leg played in Gelsenkirchen.
On 9 October 2004, Esposito made his debut for the Italian national team, in a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Slovenia, starting in a 0–1 loss in Celje.
On 29 May 2009 Lucescu was granted the title "Honorary citizen of Donetsk" by the city council of Donetsk for "earning the UEFA Cup, development and popularization of the Ukrainian football, improvement of the Donetsk, Donetsk region and Ukraine authority in the world".
The system is currently used for UEFA European club tournaments, international competitions and the FIFA World Cup.
She came on as a substitute in England's first 2015 FIFA World Cup qualifier and scored her first national team goal in a 6–0 win over Belarus at Dean Court in Bournemouth.
Lars Knutzon, actor, known from the tv-series Borgen and Claus Christiansen, former professional football player, Danish champion with Lyngby Boldklub, 1992, Danish Cup winner with Lyngby Boldklub, 1985, 1990 and UEFA European Champion, 1992.
Machado's last international was against Poland on 29 October 1977 in the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, a 1–1 draw.
Polytan surfaces hold certification confirming compliance with the standards of all major international sports governing bodies, e.g. IAAF, FIFA, UEFA, and FIH.
Newcastle then met Irish Premier League club, Bohemians in the UEFA Cup, a game they were expected to win, but they drew 0-0.They then won the Home Leg 4-0 to qualify for the next round,where they were defeated by a Johnny Rep inspired Bastia,who went on to the Final.
There was no officially sanctioned competition by either UEFA or FIFA for national teams at non-league level, but Scotland competed in the annual Four Nations Semi-Pro Tournament between 1979 and 2008.
SOCAR is the sponsor of Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan and Neftçi Baku PFK, they have also struck a deal with UEFA to sponsor their international football competitions.
He refereed two more UEFA Cup matches in the 2008–09 season, including the Round of 32 second leg between Hamburg and NEC.
Intercontinental Cup (football), a football competition organised jointly by UEFA and CONMEBOL; known since 1980 to 2004 as the Toyota European/South American Cup for sponsorship reasons.
This game is under an authorised UEFA licence which includes biggest football teams and players, who have their own playing techniques.
Players called up for the World Cup qualifying match against Montenegro on 31 October 2013 in Nikšić.
However, they have been generally unsuccessful; during their 1972-73 UEFA Cup campaign, they suffered a 21-0 aggregate loss to Feyenoord, a record defeat that has not been eclipsed in any UEFA cup competition.
In the UEFA Cup Anichebe scored four times, against Metalist Kharkiv, Larissa, FC Nuremberg and SK Brann of Norway after coming on as a late second half substitute in many of the games.
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