FC Steaua București in European football
Steaua team with the European Cup in 1986.
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| Club | Steaua București |
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| First entry | 1957–58 |
| Latest entry | 2017–18 |
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| Champions League |
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| Super Cup |
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FC Steaua București is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest, whose team has regularly taken part in Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) competitions. Qualification for Romanian clubs is determined by a team's performance in its domestic league and cup competitions. Steaua have regularly qualified for the primary European competition, the European Cup, by winning the Liga I. Steaua have also achieved European qualification via the Cupa României and have played in both the former UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Cup (now called the UEFA Europa League).
Steaua's first match in European competition was in the 1957–58 European Cup against Borussia Dortmund of West Germany. They have competed in 28 times in the European Champions' Cup / Champions League, 18 times in the UEFA Cup / Europa League and 11 times in the Cup Winners' Cup. There were five consecutive participations in the European Cup during the 1980s and six in the 1990s. Since 2003, Steaua is a regular appearance in the European Competitions. As of September 2018, it has 14 consecutive seasons of European Cup participations.
Steaua won the European Cup in 1986, becoming the only Romanian club to do so, by defeating Barcelona on a penalty shootout. They again reached the European Cup Final in 1989, but lost 4–0 to Milan. Steaua's record win in Europe is a 6–0 victory over Young Boys in the 1979–80 Cup Winners' Cup.
The first continental competition organised by UEFA was the European Cup in 1955. It is the most prestigious European competition and was conceived by the editor of L'Équipe Gabriel Hanot, as a competition for winners of the European national football leagues. The format of the competition was changed for the 1992–93 season to include a group stage instead of the straight knockout format previously in use. The competition was also renamed as the UEFA Champions League. Further changes were made for the 1997–98 season, with the runners-up from countries placed highly in the UEFA coefficients allowed to enter. This was later expanded to four team for the top countries in the coefficients.
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