Champions League quarter-finals will start next week, when on Tuesday will compete pairs of Turin "Juventus" and "Tottenham" as well as "Basel" and "Manchester City" teams. Meanwhile, on Wednesday the first matches will be played by "Porto" and "Liverpool" teams and Paris "Saint-Germain" with Madrid "Real". Although the wait has been long enough, the most popular Lithuanian football portal Eurofootball.com has put together some of the most interesting Champions League facts and records. Semifinals Out of all 16 teams that managed to reach the semifinals, the Madrid "Real" club has made it to the semi-finals the most times, a staggering 28 times. Munich's "Bayern" has reached the semifinals 18 times among the four strongest teams, and "Barcelona" 16 times. All three of these teams lead not only among the current teams in the quarter-finals, but also among all teams that have had the honor to play in the Champions League. Impressive results have also been achieved by "Manchester United" and "Juventus" teams, which have made it to the semifinals 12 times, while "Liverpool" - 9 times. On the other hand, one of the tournament's favorites, "Man City", has only reached the semifinals once, when they made it in 2016. The situation of the PSG team is even more sad. Parisians have also reached the semifinals only once, in 1995. Unbeaten In the group stage of this season, "Barcelona" (4 wins, 2 draws), "Liverpool" (3 wins, 3 draws), "Besiktas" (4 wins, 2 draws) and "Tottenham" (5 wins, 1 draw) did not experience any defeats. Throughout the history of the tournament, only nine teams have managed to triumph in the tournament without ever being defeated. And four clubs have done it even twice: "Liverpool" (1980/81, 1983/84), "Milan" (1888/89, 1993/94), "Ajax" (1971/72, 1994/95) and "Man Utd" (1998/99, 2007/08). It is Liverpool that has a chance to become the first team in history to win the Champions League for the third time without any defeats. Huge differences In the Champions League, two-legged matches have been played for a long time, and some of them ended with a very embarrassing difference. In the 1965-66 season, in the qualification for the Champions League, "Benfica" won with a total score of 18:0 (8:0, 10:0) over a Luxembourg team. In the group stage, counting two legs, the biggest victory was achieved by Donetsk's "Shakhtar", who will face "Roma" in the quarter-finals. In the 2014-15 season, "Shakhtar" defeated BATE Borisov with a total score of 12:0 (7:0, 5:0). Meanwhile, the biggest victory in the knockout stages, which was achieved in the quarter-finals, belongs to the Munich "Bayern" team. In the 2008-09 season, Bayern defeated "Sporting" with a total result of 12:1 (5:0, 7:1). Finals of the same country In this season's final, two teams can be from Italy (2 teams in the quarter-finals), Spain (3 teams) and England (5 teams). Throughout the history of the Champions League, football fans have been able to witness six finals in which representatives of the same country competed. However, out of these 6, three times the final took place between Spanish teams. The first such case was recorded in 2000, when Madrid "Real" beat "Valencia" 3:0. Three years later, after a penalty shootout, "Milan" defeated "Juventus", and in 2008 "Manchester United" beat "Chelsea" in the same way. In 2013, Bayern defeated Borussia Dortmund 2:1, and in 2014 and 2016, "Real" defeated not only a team from the same country but also a team from the same city, "Atletico".
