Arsenal paired in Champions League qualifiers

NYON, Switzerland, Aug 7 (Reuters) - British pair Celtic and Arsenal will meet each other and deside that after being drawn together in the final qualifying for a place in the champions league group stage drawn on Friday.
Celtic, who edged Dinamo Moscow in the previous round, will host the first leg against the Premier League outfite, who are entering the fray at the final qualifying stage.
Atletico Madrid must face Panathinaikos while Fiorentina were drawn against Sporting Lisbon in other ties.
Rank outsiders Sheriff Tiraspol of Moldova, who stunned Slavia Prague in the previous round, were drawn against group stage regulars Olympiakos.
The group stage will also feature a club from either Austria or Israel after Salzburg and Maccabi Haifa were drawn together.

Hristov double downs nine-man Sant Julià

Bulgarian champions PFC Levski Sofia took a major turn in next round after a comfortable victory against nine-man UE Sant Julià of Andorra.Levski entered the game on a run of 13 matches without a win in Europe dating back to August 2006 looks like that run was about to continue after a fruitless first half in which the visitors defended well and managed to keep Levski at bay. After the break, coach Emil Velev made one change and replaced the ineffective Nikolay Dimitrov with Zé Soares and the home side never looked back, with goals from Darko Tasevski, two from Georgi Hristov and another from Vladimir Gadjev.

Top Scorers in Champions League

All-Time Top Scorers in the European Championship and the Champions League

Goals	Matches	Player	Club	Country	Europe Debut
53	90	Andriy Shevchenko	Dynamo Kiev, A.C. Milan (Chelsea FC from this season	Ukraine	1994
51	101	Raul	Real Madrid	Spain	1995
49	60	Spain Alfredo Di Stefano	Real Madrid	Spain	1956
46	64	Eusebio	Benfica	Portugal	1961
46	55	Ruud van Nistelrooy	PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United	Netherlands	1999
42	75	Thierry Henry	AS Monaco, Juventus, Arsenal	France	1998
36	79	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	Italy	1996
36	41	Ferenc Puskás	Honvéd Budapest, Real Madrid	Hungary	1957
35	35	Gerd Muller	Bayern Munich	Germany	1970
34	n/a	Filippo Inzaghi	Juventus, A.C. Milan	Italy	1998
34	n/a	David Trezeguet	AS Monaco, Juventus	France	1998

Champions League Semi Final Sehedule -2008-09

Semi-finals Knockout Round 2008-2009 (Round of 4)

The match from the two-leg knockout round of the 2008-2009 UEFA Champions League.

	Agg.		First leg	Second leg
Barcelona	-	Chelsea	28-04-2009	06-05-2009
Man. United	-	Arsenal	29-04-2009	05-05-2009

Champions League Final 2009 - Rome, Italy

Rome's Stadio Olimpico will stage the European Champion Clubs' Cup final for the fourth time as the UEFA Champions League reaches its climax in the Italian capital on Wednesday 27 May.

The venue is a happy one for Liverpool fans who saw them win back in 1977 against Borussia Mönchengladbach and repeat the trick seven years later against Roma. That match went to penalties, as did the 1996 UEFA Champions League decider in which Juventus defeated holders AFC Ajax.



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Champions League Final 2008 - Man Utd Fans Act

anchester United fans around the world are celebrating after their team beat Chelsea in the Champions League final.
Around 40,000 English supporters were at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium to see United win 6-5 in a penalty shoot-out.
Thousands of fans have started the journey back to the UK after the match, which ended at about 0130 local time.
There were no reports of trouble either inside or outside the Luzhniki stadium although there had been a few minor scuffles in the city earlier.
In England 12 Chelsea fans were arrested on suspicion of public disorder offences after scuffles with police in west London.
A crowd of 200 had gathered near Fulham Broadway tube station after watching the match in various pubs close to the club's Stamford Bridge stadium.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Shortly after the match ended, some people became noisy and abusive and bottles and street furniture were thrown."

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