2005–06 UEFA Champions League

The 2005–06 UEFA Champions League was the 51st season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, the UEFA Champions League and the 14th since it was rebranded from the European Cup in 1992. 74 teams from 50 football associations took part, starting with the first qualifying round played on 12 July 2005.

2005–06 UEFA Champions League

The Stade de France in Saint-Denis hosted the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 12 July – 24 August 2005 Competition proper: 13 September 2005 – 17 May 2006
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 74
Final positions
Champions	Barcelona (2nd title)
Runners-up	Arsenal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	285 (2.28 per match)
Attendance	5,133,156 (41,065 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Andriy Shevchenko (Milan) 9 goals
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

The final was played on 17 May 2006 at Stade de France, Saint-Denis between Barcelona and Arsenal. In the 18th minute, Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann became the first player to be sent off in a European Cup final. Despite the disadvantage, Sol Campbell gave the English side the lead in the 37th minute. Samuel Eto'o brought Barcelona back on level terms in the 76th minute, before Juliano Belletti scored the winning goal five minutes later.

The defending champions were Liverpool and as they did not qualify by their league position, UEFA gave them special dispensation and allowed them to defend their title from the first qualifying round of the competition. They made the group stage and progressed but were eliminated by Benfica in the first knockout round. From the following season, UEFA reserved a berth in the group stage for the defending champions regardless of their league position.^[1][2]

Association team allocation

A total of 74 teams from 49 of the 52 UEFA member associations participated in the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league, Andorra and San Marino). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:^[3]

• Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify.
• Associations 4–6 each have three teams qualify.
• Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify.
• Associations 16–50 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.
• As the winners of the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, Liverpool gained entry an additional entry despite not qualifying through their domestic league position. They were entered into the 1st qualifying round.

Association ranking

For the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2004 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1999–2000 to 2003–04.^[4]

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

• (UCL) – Additional berth for the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League winners

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1  Spain 79.851 4 2  England 62.153 +1 (UCL) 3  Italy 59.186 4  Germany 49.489 3 5  France 48.326 6  Portugal 42.333 7  Greece 34.748 2 8  Netherlands 34.081 9  Czech Republic 33.075 10  Turkey 32.291 11  Scotland 32.125 12  Belgium 28.875 13  Switzerland 22.375 14  Ukraine 22.125 15  Norway 21.900 16  Poland 21.750 1 17  Israel 21.249 18  Austria 21.125

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 19  Serbia and Montenegro 20.165 1 20  Bulgaria 19.998 21  Russia 19.916 22  Denmark 17.450 23  Croatia 17.375 24  Sweden 16.716 25  Hungary 15.290 26  Romania 14.790 27  Slovakia 12.832 28  Slovenia 9.165 29  Cyprus 8.998 30  Moldova 6.832 31  Latvia 5.998 32  Finland 5.874 33  Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.499 34  Georgia 4.999 35  Macedonia 4.830 36  Lithuania 4.165

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 37  Belarus 3.582 1 38  Iceland 3.332 39  Malta 3.331 40  Republic of Ireland 3.164 41  Armenia 2.831 42  Wales 2.332 43  Liechtenstein 2.000 0 44  Albania 1.831 1 45  Northern Ireland 1.665 46  Estonia 1.665 47  Luxembourg 1.498 48  Azerbaijan 1.165 49  Faroe Islands 0.832 50  Kazakhstan 0.666 51  Andorra 0.000 0 52  San Marino 0.000

Distribution

Because the title holders, Liverpool, entered the competition in the first qualifying round rather than the group stage, the following changes to the default access list were made:^[5]

• The champions of association 10 (Turkey) were promoted from the third qualifying round to the group stage.
• The champions of association 16 (Poland) were promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The champions of association 26 (Romania) were promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round (24 teams)		23 champions from associations 27–50 (except Liechtenstein) 1 current Champions League title holder (Liverpool)
Second qualifying round (28 teams)		10 champions from associations 17–26 6 runners-up from associations 10–15	12 winners from the first qualifying round
Third qualifying round (32 teams)		6 champions from associations 11–16 3 runners-up from associations 7–9 6 third-place finishers from associations 1–6 3 fourth-place finishers from associations 1–3	14 winners from the second qualifying round
Group stage (32 teams)		10 champions from associations 1–10 6 runners-up from associations 1–6	16 winners from the third qualifying round
Knockout phase (16 teams)			8 group winners from the group stage 8 group runners-up from the group stage

Teams

League positions of the previous season qualified via league position shown in parentheses. Liverpool qualified as title holders. (TH: Champions League title holders).

Group stage
Barcelona (1st)	Juventus (1st)	Lyon (1st)	Olympiacos (1st)
Real Madrid (2nd)	Milan (2nd)	Lille (2nd)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)
Chelsea (1st)	Bayern Munich (1st)	Benfica (1st)	Sparta Prague (1st)
Arsenal (2nd)	Schalke 04 (2nd)	Porto (2nd)	Fenerbahçe (1st)
Third qualifying round
Villarreal (3rd)	Udinese (4th)	Ajax (2nd)	Basel (1st)
Real Betis (4th)	Werder Bremen (3rd)	Slavia Prague (2nd)	Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)
Manchester United (3rd)	Monaco (3rd)	Rangers (1st)	Rosenborg (1st)
Everton (4th)	Sporting CP (3rd)	Club Brugge (1st)	Wisła Kraków (1st)
Internazionale (3rd)	Panathinaikos (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Trabzonspor (2nd)	Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)	Partizan (1st)	Hajduk Split (1st)
Anderlecht (2nd)	Vålerenga (2nd)	CSKA Sofia (1st)	Malmö FF (1st)
Celtic (2nd)	Maccabi Haifa (1st)	Lokomotiv Moscow (1st)	Debrecen (1st)
Thun (2nd)	Rapid Wien (1st)	Brøndby (1st)	Steaua București (1st)
First qualifying round
Liverpool (TH)	Haka (1st)	FH (1st)	Glentoran (1st)
Artmedia Bratislava (1st)	Zrinjski Mostar (1st)	Sliema Wanderers (1st)	Levadia Tallinn (1st)
HIT Gorica (1st)	Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)	Shelbourne (1st)	F91 Dudelange (1st)
Anorthosis Famagusta (1st)	Rabotnicki (1st)	Pyunik (1st)	Neftçi (1st)
Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)	Kaunas (1st)	Total Network Solutions (1st)	HB (1st)
Skonto (1st)	Dinamo Minsk (1st)	Tirana (1st)	Kairat (1st)

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).^[6]

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	24 June 2005	12–13 July 2005	19–20 July 2005
	Second qualifying round		26–27 July 2005	2–3 August 2005
	Third qualifying round	29 July 2005	9–10 August 2005	23–24 August 2005
Group stage	Matchday 1	25 August 2005 (Monaco)	13–14 September 2005
	Matchday 2		27–28 September 2005
	Matchday 3		18–19 October 2005
	Matchday 4		1–2 November 2005
	Matchday 5		22–23 November 2005
	Matchday 6		6–7 December 2005
Knockout phase	Round of 16	16 December 2005	21–22 February 2006	7–8 March 2006[a]
	Quarter-finals	10 March 2006	28–29 March 2006	4–5 April 2006
	Semi-finals		18–19 April 2006	25–26 April 2006
	Final		17 May 2006 at Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Notes

1. Internazionale home game in the Round of 16 was rescheduled to one week later (14 March 2006) due to venue clash with Milan.

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2005–06 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Title-holders Liverpool, as well as 23 league champions from countries ranked 27 or lower in the 2004 UEFA ranking, were drawn against each other and played two matches, home and away, with the winners advancing to the second qualifying round. Though they finished fifth in the Premier League in 2004–05 (at the time, only four teams from an association were allowed to compete in the Champions League), Liverpool were granted a special exemption by UEFA as the holders, whereby they were placed into the first qualification round,^[7][8][9] and were drawn against TNS in that round.^[10][11]

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Levadia Tallinn	1–2	Dinamo Tbilisi	1–0	0–2
Kairat	3–4	Artmedia Bratislava	2–0	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Neftçi	4–1	FH	2–0	2–1
Rabotnicki	6–1	Skonto	6–0	0–1
Dinamo Minsk	1–2	Anorthosis Famagusta	1–1	0–1
Sliema Wanderers	1–6	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–4	0–2
HB	2–8	Kaunas	2–4	0–4
Liverpool	6–0	Total Network Solutions	3–0	3–0
Haka	3–2	Pyunik	1–0	2–2
HIT Gorica	2–3	Tirana	2–0	0–3
Glentoran	2–6	Shelbourne	1–2	1–4
F91 Dudelange	4–1	Zrinjski Mostar	0–1	4–0 (a.e.t.)

Second qualifying round

The 12 winners from the first qualifying round, 10 champions from countries ranked 17–26, and six second–placed teams from countries ranked 10–15 were drawn against each other and played two matches, home and away, with the winners advancing to the third qualifying round.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kaunas	1–5	Liverpool	1–3	0–2
Dinamo Tbilisi	1–5	Brøndby	0–2	1–3
Anderlecht	5–1	Neftçi	5–0	0–1
Vålerenga	5–1	Haka	1–0	4–1
Dynamo Kyiv	2–3	Thun	2–2	0–1
Anorthosis Famagusta	3–2	Trabzonspor	3–1	0–1
Artmedia Bratislava	5–4	Celtic	5–0	0–4
Tirana	0–4	CSKA Sofia	0–2	0–2
Malmö FF	5–4	Maccabi Haifa	3–2	2–2
Shelbourne	1–4	Steaua București	0–0	1–4
Rabotnicki	1–3	Lokomotiv Moscow	1–1	0–2
F91 Dudelange	3–9	Rapid Wien	1–6	2–3
Partizan	2–0	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–0	1–0
Debrecen	8–0	Hajduk Split	3–0	5–0

Third qualifying round

The 14 winners from the second qualifying round, six champions from countries ranked 11–16, three second–placed teams from countries ranked 7–9, six third–placed teams from countries ranked 1–6, and three fourth–placed teams from countries ranked 1–3 were drawn to play 2 matches, home and away, with the winners advancing to the group stage and losers advancing to the first round of the UEFA Cup.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Wisła Kraków	4–5	Panathinaikos	3–1	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Real Betis	3–2	Monaco	1–0	2–2
Vålerenga	1–1 (3–4 p)	Club Brugge	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Manchester United	6–0	Debrecen	3–0	3–0
Everton	2–4	Villarreal	1–2	1–2
Anorthosis Famagusta	1–4	Rangers	1–2	0–2
Steaua București	3–4	Rosenborg	1–1	2–3
Rapid Wien	2–1	Lokomotiv Moscow	1–1	1–0
Artmedia Bratislava	0–0 (4–3 p)	Partizan	0–0	0–0 (a.e.t.)
CSKA Sofia	2–3	Liverpool	1–3	1–0
Sporting CP	2–4	Udinese	0–1	2–3
Malmö FF	0–4	Thun	0–1	0–3
Shakhtar Donetsk	1–3	Internazionale	0–2	1–1
Basel	2–4	Werder Bremen	2–1	0–3
Brøndby	3–5	Ajax	2–2	1–3
Anderlecht	4–1	Slavia Prague	2–1	2–0

Group stage

Main article: 2005–06 UEFA Champions League group stage

Rapid

Anderlecht

Brugge

Sparta

Chelsea

Arsenal

Liverpool

Man. United

Betis

Villarreal

Real Madrid

Barcelona

Lyon

Lille

Bayern

Schalke

Bremen

Olympiacos

Panathinaikos

Juventus

Milan

Internazionale

Udinese

PSV

Ajax

Rosenborg

Benfica

Porto

Rangers

Thun

Artmedia

Fenerbahçe

Location of teams of the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D;
Green: Group E; Blue: Group F; Purple: Group G; Pink: Group H.

16 winners from the third qualifying round, 10 champions from countries ranked 1–10, and 6 second-placed teams from countries ranked 1–6 were drawn into 8 groups of 4 teams each. Normally two teams from the same association cannot be drawn in the same group. The only exception is Liverpool because of their abnormal qualification as title holders because not having finished in the top four of the English league, Liverpool were given no "association protection" in the tournament. For the group stage, the only team from the same association they could be drawn with was Chelsea, as the rest were in the same seeding pot.^{[12][13][14][15]} The top 2 teams in each group advanced to the Champions League knock-out stage, while the third-placed teams advanced to the Round of 32 in the UEFA Cup.^[16]

Tiebreakers are applied in the following order:^[17]

1. Points earned in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
2. Total goals scored in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
3. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
4. Cumulative goal difference in all group matches.
5. Total goals scored in all group matches.
6. Higher UEFA coefficient going into the competition.

Real Betis, Villarreal, Udinese, Thun and Artmedia Bratislava made their debut appearance in the group stage.^[18]

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JUV	BAY	BRU	RWI
1	Juventus	6	5	0	1	12	5	+7	15	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–1	1–0	3–0
2	Bayern Munich	6	4	1	1	10	4	+6	13			2–1	—	1–0	4–0
3	Club Brugge	6	2	1	3	6	7	−1	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–2	1–1	—	3–2
4	Rapid Wien	6	0	0	6	3	15	−12	0			1–3	0–1	0–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARS	AJX	THU	SPP
1	Arsenal	6	5	1	0	10	2	+8	16	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	2–1	3–0
2	Ajax	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11			1–2	—	2–0	2–1
3	Thun	6	1	1	4	4	9	−5	4	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	2–4	—	1–0
4	Sparta Prague	6	0	2	4	2	9	−7	2			0–2	1–1	0–0	—

Source: RSSSF

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	BRM	UDI	PAN
1	Barcelona	6	5	1	0	16	2	+14	16	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–1	4–1	5–0
2	Werder Bremen	6	2	1	3	12	12	0	7			0–2	—	4–3	5–1
3	Udinese	6	2	1	3	10	12	−2	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–2	1–1	—	3–0
4	Panathinaikos	6	1	1	4	4	16	−12	4			0–0	2–1	1–2	—

Source: RSSSF

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VIL	BEN	LIL	MUN
1	Villarreal	6	2	4	0	3	1	+2	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	1–0	0–0
2	Benfica	6	2	2	2	5	5	0	8			0–1	—	1–0	2–1
3	Lille	6	1	3	2	1	2	−1	6	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–0	0–0	—	1–0
4	Manchester United	6	1	3	2	3	4	−1	6			0–0	2–1	0–0	—

Source: RSSSF

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIL	PSV	SCH	FEN
1	Milan	6	3	2	1	12	6	+6	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	3–2	3–1
2	PSV Eindhoven	6	3	1	2	4	6	−2	10			1–0	—	1–0	2–0
3	Schalke 04	6	2	2	2	12	9	+3	8	Transfer to UEFA Cup		2–2	3–0	—	2–0
4	Fenerbahçe	6	1	1	4	7	14	−7	4			0–4	3–0	3–3	—

Source: RSSSF

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LYO	RMA	ROS	OLY
1	Lyon	6	5	1	0	13	4	+9	16	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	2–1	2–1
2	Real Madrid	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10			1–1	—	4–1	2–1
3	Rosenborg	6	1	1	4	6	11	−5	4	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	0–2	—	1–1
4	Olympiacos	6	1	1	4	7	13	−6	4			1–4	2–1	1–3	—

Source: RSSSF

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LIV	CHE	BET	AND
1	Liverpool	6	3	3	0	6	1	+5	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	0–0	3–0
2	Chelsea	6	3	2	1	7	1	+6	11			0–0	—	4–0	1–0
3	Real Betis	6	2	1	3	3	7	−4	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–2	1–0	—	0–1
4	Anderlecht	6	1	0	5	1	8	−7	3			0–1	0–2	0–1	—

Source: RSSSF

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		INT	RAN	ART	POR
1	Internazionale	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	4–0	2–1
2	Rangers	6	1	4	1	7	7	0	7			1–1	—	0–0	3–2
3	Artmedia Bratislava	6	1	3	2	5	9	−4	6	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–1	2–2	—	0–0
4	Porto	6	1	2	3	8	9	−1	5			2–0	1–1	2–3	—

Source: RSSSF

Knockout phase

Main article: 2005–06 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Bracket

	Round of 16							Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Real Madrid		0	0	0
	Arsenal		1	0	1
								Arsenal		2	0	2
								Juventus		0	0	0
	Werder Bremen		3	1	4
	Juventus (a)		2	2	4
															Arsenal		1	0	1
															Villarreal		0	0	0
	Ajax		2	0	2
	Internazionale		2	1	3
								Internazionale		2	0	2
								Villarreal (a)		1	1	2
	Rangers		2	1	3
																						17 May – Saint-Denis
	Villarreal (a)		2	1	3
																						Arsenal		1
																						Barcelona		2
	PSV Eindhoven		0	0	0
	Lyon		1	4	5
								Lyon		0	1	1
								Milan		0	3	3
	Bayern Munich		1	1	2
	Milan		1	4	5
															Milan		0	0	0
															Barcelona		1	0	1
	Benfica		1	2	3
	Liverpool		0	0	0
								Benfica		0	0	0
								Barcelona		0	2	2
	Chelsea		1	1	2
	Barcelona		2	1	3

Round of 16

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chelsea	2–3	Barcelona	1–2	1–1
Real Madrid	0–1	Arsenal	0–1	0–0
Werder Bremen	4–4 (a)	Juventus	3–2	1–2
Bayern Munich	2–5	Milan	1–1	1–4
PSV Eindhoven	0–5	Lyon	0–1	0–4
Ajax	2–3	Internazionale	2–2	0–1
Benfica	3–0	Liverpool	1–0	2–0
Rangers	3–3 (a)	Villarreal	2–2	1–1

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Arsenal	2–0	Juventus	2–0	0–0
Lyon	1–3	Milan	0–0	1–3
Internazionale	2–2 (a)	Villarreal	2–1	0–1
Benfica	0–2	Barcelona	0–0	0–2

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Arsenal	1–0	Villarreal	1–0	0–0
Milan	0–1	Barcelona	0–1	0–0

Final

Main article: 2006 UEFA Champions League final

The final was played on 17 May 2006 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France.

17 May 2006 (2006-05-17)

20:45 UTC+2

Barcelona	2–1	Arsenal
Eto'o 76' Belletti 80'	Report	Campbell 37'

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Attendance: 79,610^[19]

Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds.

Top goalscorers

Rank[20]	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Andriy Shevchenko	Milan	9	950
2	Ronaldinho	Barcelona	7	1078
3	David Trezeguet	Juventus	6	733
	Samuel Eto'o	Barcelona		978
5	Adriano	Internazionale	5	679
	Johan Micoud	Werder Bremen		720
	Thierry Henry	Arsenal		931
	Kaká	Milan		986
9	Julio Cruz	Internazionale	4	370
	Filippo Inzaghi	Milan		394
	Vincenzo Iaquinta	Udinese		434
	John Carew	Lyon		623
	Peter Løvenkrands	Rangers		656
	Juninho	Lyon		691

See also

• 2005–06 UEFA Cup
• 2005–06 UEFA Women's Cup