2014–15 UEFA Champions League facts for kids

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2014–15 UEFA Champions League

Tournament details
Dates	1 July – 27 August 2014 (qualifying) 16 September 2014 – 6 June 2015 (regular tournament)
Teams	32 (group stage) 77 (total)
Final positions
Champions	Barcelona (5th title)
Runners-up	Juventus
Tournament statistics
Matches played	125
Goals scored	361 (2.89 per match)
Attendance	5,136,695 (41,094 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Neymar Cristiano Ronaldo Lionel Messi (10 goals each)
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The 2014–15 UEFA Champions League was a super exciting football tournament! It was the 23rd time the UEFA Champions League was played. This was the 60th season for this big European club competition. Teams from all over Europe played to see who was the best.

The team that won the year before was Real Madrid. But in 2015, Barcelona won their 5th Champions League title! They beat Juventus in the final match.

Group Stage

The Champions League starts with a "group stage." Here, 32 teams are split into 8 groups (A to H). Each team plays every other team in their group twice. They play once at home and once away.

• Winning a match gives 3 points.
• A draw (tie) gives 1 point.
• A loss gives 0 points.

The top two teams from each group move on to the next part of the tournament. This next part is called the "knockout stage." The team that finishes third in their group gets to play in another European competition, the UEFA Europa League.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Atlético Madrid	6	4	1	1	14	3	+11	13
2	Juventus	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10
3	Olympiacos	6	3	0	3	10	13	–3	9
4	Malmö	6	1	0	5	4	15	–11	3

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Real Madrid	6	6	0	0	16	2	+14	18
2	Basel	6	2	1	3	7	8	–1	7
3	Liverpool	6	1	2	3	5	9	–4	5
4	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	1	1	4	5	14	–9	4

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Monaco	6	3	2	1	4	1	+3	11
2	Bayer Leverkusen	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10
3	Zenit St. Petersburg	6	2	1	3	4	6	–2	7
4	Benfica	6	1	2	3	2	6	–4	5

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Borussia Dortmund	6	4	1	1	14	4	+10	13
2	Arsenal	6	4	1	1	15	8	+7	13
3	Anderlecht	6	1	3	2	8	10	–2	6
4	Galatasaray	6	0	1	5	4	19	–15	1

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Bayern Munich	6	5	0	1	16	4	+12	15
2	Manchester City	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8
3	Roma	6	1	2	3	8	14	–6	5
4	CSKA Moscow	6	1	2	3	6	13	–7	5

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Barcelona	6	5	0	1	15	5	+10	15
2	Paris Saint-Germain	6	4	1	1	10	7	+3	13
3	Ajax	6	1	2	3	8	10	–2	5
4	APOEL	6	0	1	5	1	12	–11	1

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Chelsea	6	4	2	0	17	3	+14	14
2	Schalke 04	6	2	2	2	9	14	–5	8
3	Sporting	6	2	1	3	12	12	0	7
4	NK Maribor	6	0	3	3	4	13	–9	3

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Porto	6	4	2	0	16	4	+12	14
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	2	3	1	15	4	+11	9
3	Athletic Bilbao	6	2	1	3	5	6	–1	7
4	BATE Borisov	6	1	0	5	2	24	–22	3

Knockout Stage

After the group stage, the tournament enters the "knockout stage." This means teams play two matches against each other (one at home, one away). The team with the higher total score from both matches moves on. If the scores are tied, special rules like "away goals" or "penalty shootouts" decide the winner.

Bracket

This bracket shows how teams played against each other in the knockout stage. The winner of each match moved forward until only two teams were left for the final!

	Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Juventus	2	3	5
	Borussia Dortmund	1	0	1
							Juventus	1	0	1
							Monaco	0	0	0
	Arsenal	1	2	3
	Monaco (a)	3	0	3
													Juventus	2	1	3
												Real Madrid	1	1	2
	Bayer Leverkusen	1	0	1 (2)
	Atlético Madrid (p)	0	1	1 (3)
							Atlético Madrid	0	0	0
							Real Madrid	0	1	1
	Schalke 04	0	4	4
	Real Madrid	2	3	5
																		Juventus	1
																			Barcelona	3
	Paris Saint-Germain (aet; a)	1	2	3
	Chelsea	1	2	3
							Paris Saint-Germain	1	0	1
							Barcelona	3	2	5
	Manchester City	1	0	1
	Barcelona	2	1	3
													Barcelona	3	2	5
												Bayern Munich	0	3	3
	Basel	1	0	1
	Porto	1	4	5
							Porto	3	1	4
							Bayern Munich	1	6	7
	Shakhtar Donetsk	0	0	0
	Bayern Munich	0	7	7

Round of 16

The draw for this round happened on December 15, 2014. The first games were played in February, and the second games in March 2015.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Paris Saint-Germain	3–3 (a)	Chelsea	1–1	2–2 (aet)
Manchester City	1–3	Barcelona	1–2	0–1
Bayer Leverkusen	1–1 (2–3 p)	Atlético Madrid	1–0	0–1 (aet)
Juventus	5–1	Borussia Dortmund	2–1	3–0
Schalke 04	4–5	Real Madrid	0–2	4–3
Shakhtar Donetsk	0–7	Bayern Munich	0–0	0–7
Arsenal	3–3 (a)	Monaco	1–3	2–0
Basel	1–5	Porto	1–1	0–4

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was on March 20, 2015. The first games were played in mid-April, and the second games a week later.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Paris Saint-Germain	1–5	Barcelona	1–3	0–2
Atlético Madrid	0–1	Real Madrid	0–0	0–1
Porto	4–7	Bayern Munich	3–1	1–6
Juventus	1–0	Monaco	1–0	0–0

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was on April 24, 2015. The first games were played in early May, and the second games a week later.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Barcelona	5–3	Bayern Munich	3–0	2–3
Juventus	3–2	Real Madrid	2–1	1–1

Final

The big final match was played on June 6, 2015, in Berlin, Germany. Barcelona played against Juventus. Barcelona won the game 3-1, becoming the champions!

6 June 2015 20:45 CEST	Juventus	1–3	Barcelona	Olympiastadion, Berlin Attendance: 70,442 Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)
	Morata  55'	Report	Rakitić  4' Suárez  68' Neymar  90+7'

Statistics

Top Goalscorers

These players scored the most goals during the 2014-15 Champions League season.

Shakhtar's Luiz Adriano was the first player to score hat-tricks in two games in a row during the group stage. Both were against BATE Borisov.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Neymar	Barcelona	10	1026
	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	10	1065
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	10	1147
4	Luiz Adriano	Shakhtar Donetsk	9	628
5	Jackson Martínez	Porto	7	629
	Thomas Müller	Bayern Munich	7	777
	Luis Suárez	Barcelona	7	827
	Carlos Tevez	Juventus	7	1156
9	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	6	550
	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	6	664
	Edinson Cavani	Paris Saint-Germain	6	920
	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	6	932

Source: UEFA.com

Hat-tricks

A "hat-trick" is when one player scores three goals in a single match. Here are the players who scored hat-tricks in this tournament.

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Yacine Brahimi	Porto	BATE Borisov	6-0 (H)	17 September 2014
Danny Welbeck	Arsenal	Galatasaray	4-1 (H)	1 October 2014
Luiz Adriano5	Shakhtar Donetsk	BATE Borisov	7-0 (A)	21 October 2014
Luiz Adriano	Shakhtar Donetsk	BATE Borisov	5-0 (H)	5 November 2014
Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	Bayern Münich	3-2 (H)	25 November 2014
Lionel Messi	Barcelona	APOEL	4-0 (A)	25 November 2014
Mario Mandžukić	Atlético de Madrid	Olympiakos	4-0 (H)	26 November 2014

⁵ This player scored five goals in that match!

See also

In Spanish: Liga de Campeones de la UEFA 2014-15 para niños