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The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club football competition arranged by the Union of European Football Organizations (UEFA) as well as contested by top-division European clubs, determining the competitors victors with a round robin group stage to receive a double-legged knockout layout, and a solitary leg final. It is just one of the most distinguished football competitions worldwide as well as the most respected club competition in European football, played by the national league champions (and also, for some nations, one or more runners-up) of their national associations. Introduced in 1955 as the Coupe des Clubs Champions Européens (French for European Champ Clubs Mug), and also generally referred to as the European Mug, it was at first a straight knockout tournament open just to the champs of Europe s domestic leagues, with its champion believed as the European club champion. The competitors handled its present name in 1992, including a round-robin group s...