UEFA Champions League Quarter Finals Since 1980

Context

This dataset contains data of the teams that have played the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals since 1980. It also includes data about the last played round (QF: Quarterfinals / SF: Semifinals / RU: Runners-up / W: Winner) and the city the matches took place.

Content

The dataset contains the following columns year describing the year when the last rounds were played (e.g. 1981 is season 1980-1981), code representing abbreviation of the team, name of the team, final round reached that particular season, name of the league the team plays, region classifying Big 5 (England, Spain, Italy, France, Germany), Small (small leagues), East (Eastern team leagues pre-1990), decades for example like 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s (last final Chelsea - City included in 2010s), superliga describing founder teams of the fake Superleague, name of the city as well as the area code of the city (Eurostat / OECD).

Inspiration

The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final. It is one of the most prestigious football tournaments in the world and the most prestigious club competition in European football, played by the national league champions (and, for some nations, one or more runners-up) of their national associations. This inspired me to share this particular dataset and one can find the detailed dataset in the following website https://www.jordimas.cat/post/2021-05-20-ucl-dataset/ with much more statistics!