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Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1
Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (LP1), Tunisia's top football division, 16 clubs, 30 matches; Club Africain champion 2025/26 with 66 points; Espérance de Tunis record 34 titles; bottom three relegated to LP2.
Two-legged tie
Two-legged tie: a football knockout pairing played over two matches, one home and one away, decided on aggregate. Formerly broken by the away goals rule (1965–2021), now by extra time and penalties; second-leg home advantage is debated.
U.S. Open Cup
The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, first played in 1913–14 as the National Challenge Cup, is America's oldest soccer competition, a knockout open to pro and amateur clubs.
UAE Pro League (دوري المحترفين الإماراتي)
UAE Pro League (دوري المحترفين الإماراتي), ADNOC Pro League, the UAE's top-flight professional football league; 14 clubs, double round-robin, professional since 2008/09; Al Ain record 13-time champion.
UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League, Europe's premier annual club football competition, founded 1955 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup, renamed 1992/93; since 2024/25 a 36-team single league phase with knockout play-offs.
UEFA Champions League Anthem
The UEFA Champions League anthem, also known as the UEFA anthem, is the piece played before every Champions League match, written by Tony Britten in 1992.
UEFA club competition records and statistics
UEFA club competition records and statistics cover honours, match, player and coefficient data across the Champions League, Europa League, Conference League, Super Cup and defunct Cup Winners' Cup, Intertoto and UEFA Cup, led by Real Madrid's 26 titles.
UEFA Club Football Awards
UEFA Club Football Awards: annual UEFA honors (1998–2010) for the best performers in UEFA club competitions, with positional prizes; replaced in 2011 by the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award, with positional awards revived in 2017.
UEFA coefficient
UEFA coefficient: points-based ranking of European clubs and national associations from Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League results; governs access lists, seeding, and revenue distribution.
UEFA competitions
UEFA competitions: football tournaments run by UEFA (founded 1954), including the Champions League, Europa League, Conference League, EURO, Nations League, women's and futsal events, with 36-team league phases from 2024/25.
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, also European Cup Winners' Cup, a UEFA knockout tournament for domestic cup winners, 1960–61 to 1998–99; Barcelona won four titles, Lazio the last, then merged into the UEFA Cup.
UEFA Euro 1968
UEFA Euro 1968, the third European Championship and first under that name, was won by hosts Italy, who beat Yugoslavia 2-0 in the only replayed final after a coin-toss semi-final win over the USSR.
UEFA Euro 1976
UEFA Euro 1976: fifth European Championship, hosted in Yugoslavia, won by Czechoslovakia, who beat West Germany 2-2 (5-3 penalties) in Belgrade on 20 June 1976, the first major final decided on penalties, via Antonín Panenka's chipped kick.
UEFA Euro 1980
UEFA Euro 1980, the sixth European Championship and first eight-team final tournament, held in Italy 11-22 June 1980. West Germany beat Belgium 2-1 in the Rome final; Hrubesch scored twice, Allofs was top scorer.
UEFA Euro 1984
UEFA Euro 1984, the seventh European Championship, held in France 12–27 June 1984. Hosts France won their first major trophy, beating Spain 2-0 in the final; Michel Platini scored a record nine goals.
UEFA Euro 1988
UEFA Euro 1988, the tenth European Championship, held in West Germany 10-25 June 1988; Netherlands won their first major title, beating the Soviet Union 2-0 in Munich, with Marco van Basten top scorer on five goals.
UEFA Euro 1992
UEFA Euro 1992, the ninth European Championship, hosted by Sweden with eight teams. Denmark, called up ten days before kickoff to replace UN-sanctioned Yugoslavia, won the title, beating Germany 2-0 in the Gothenburg final.
UEFA Euro 1996
UEFA Euro 1996 (Euro 96), the tenth European Championship, hosted by England 8-30 June 1996 as the first 16-team finals. Germany beat the Czech Republic 2-1 at Wembley on Bierhoff's first golden goal; England lost the semi-final to Germany on penalties; Shearer top-scored with five.
UEFA Euro 2000
UEFA Euro 2000, the 11th European Championship, co-hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands; France won 2-1 against Italy on David Trezeguet's golden goal, becoming the first reigning World Cup holders to win the EURO.
UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying
UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying: 49 nations in nine groups (1998-99) chose 14 of 16 finalists; hosts Belgium and Netherlands auto-qualified. Nine winners plus best runner-up Portugal went direct; England, Denmark, Slovenia, Turkey won the first two-legged EURO play-offs.
UEFA Euro 2004
UEFA Euro 2004: the 12th European Championship, held in Portugal 12 June-4 July 2004 with 16 teams. Greece, 80-1 outsiders under Otto Rehhagel, beat hosts Portugal 1-0 in the final (Charisteas 57') to win their first major title.
UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying
UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying: 50 of 51 UEFA members, ten groups of five, September 2002 to October 2003; ten group winners plus five play-off winners joined hosts Portugal. Latvia famously eliminated Turkey.
UEFA Euro 2004 squads
UEFA Euro 2004 squads: the 16 official 23-player lists (three goalkeepers each, numbered 1-23) submitted by 2 June 2004 for the tournament in Portugal, with injury replacements such as Capdevila for Salgado and Govou for Giuly.
UEFA Euro 2008
UEFA Euro 2008, the 13th European Championship, co-hosted by Austria and Switzerland, 7-29 June 2008; 16 teams. Spain beat Germany 1-0 in Vienna, Torres scoring, for their first title since 1964.
UEFA Euro 2008 squads
UEFA Euro 2008 squads: the sixteen 23-player national-team lists (three goalkeepers each, 368 players) submitted by 28 May 2008 for the Austria/Switzerland finals; Italy oldest, Russia youngest, Spain won.
UEFA Euro 2012
UEFA Euro 2012, co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine, 8 June to 1 July 2012, 16 teams, eight venues; Spain beat Italy 4-0 in the Kyiv final for a third straight major title.
UEFA Euro 2012 squads
UEFA Euro 2012 squads: the 23-man lists of all 16 teams (368 players) at the Poland-Ukraine tournament from 8 June 2012, covering UEFA's deadline and injury-replacement rules, ages, caps, and club and league representation.
UEFA Euro 2016
UEFA Euro 2016, the 15th European Championship, was played in France as the first 24-team edition; Portugal beat hosts France 1-0 after extra time in the final, Éder scoring in the 109th minute.
UEFA Euro 2016 final
UEFA Euro 2016 final: Portugal beat hosts France 1-0 after extra time on 10 July 2016 at the Stade de France, Saint-Denis; substitute Éder scored in the 109th minute after Cristiano Ronaldo's early injury, giving Portugal their first major trophy.
UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying
UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying: the European Qualifiers that decided 23 of 24 Euro 2016 finalists; 53 teams, nine groups, Week of Football, Turkey best third, November 2015 play-offs, debutants Iceland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Albania.