UEFA Champions League Final

Since 1955, the best football teams in Europe have competed in the UEFA Champions League, and the very best have gone head to head in the final game after a series of turmoil and hard-fought battles that have taken them to the top.

The UEFA Champions League Final, better known as the Champions League, is one of the most watched and hotly anticipated sports match ups around the world, drawing over 100 million viewers and the passions of an entire continent.

But it wasn’t always so. It took the UEFA some convincing arguments from a French journalist named Gabriel Hanot before they embraced the idea of a continent-wide tournament. Hanot lobbied the UEFA, and thanks to his efforts, the European football has one of the most widely embraced and highly regarded football tournaments in the world.

The final game is the culmination of several stages of battle, and though Real Madrid has the honor of most tournament titles, fan favorites like Milan’s Internazionale and Britain’s Manchester United are always up for a challenge.