After their fairy-tale triumph in last season's Premier League, Leicester City FC turn their sights to the UEFA Champions League as they kick off their Group G campaign away at Club Brugge KV.Match background Club Brugge• The Belgian titleholders are competing in the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time since 2005/06.• They will hope to fare better at home in Group G than they managed in last term's UEFA Europa League group stage. En route to finishing third in their group, they suffered home losses to FC Midtjylland (1-3) and SSC Napoli (0-1), ... UEFA.com - News
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Roma v Porto background
Both experienced UEFA Champions League campaigners, Roma and Porto know one of them will miss out on the group stage as their play-off tie draws to a close in the Italian capital.Previous meetings• The first leg on 17 August finished 1-1. Porto's André Silva equalised from the spot, team-mate Felipe having inadvertently deflected a well-worked corner past Iker Casillas midway through the first half. Roma played almost an hour with ten men following the dismissal of Thomas Vermaelen (41) on his debut for the Serie A side.• Prior to the first leg, the clubs' only past UEFA competition encounters were in the 1981/82 European Cup Winners' Cup second ro... UEFA.com - News
APOEL v København background
København are in prime position to settle an old score with APOEL as the teams reconvene for the return leg of their UEFA Champions League play-off.Previous meetings• Ivan Jovanović's APOEL eliminated Ståle Solbakken's FCK in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League play-offs. Zdeněk Pospěch scored the only goal as FCK won in Copenhagen, but Kamil Kosowski (2) and Chrysostomos Michail (18pen 41) struck in a 3-1 home victory for APOEL in the second leg.• However, FCK have the edge going into the final instalment of this tie after a 1-0 first-leg victory on 16 August. Andrija Pavlović rounded Boy Waterman two minutes before half-time, giving København... UEFA.com - News
Ajax v Rostov background
Ajax will look to ensure Rostov do not make a huge breakthrough in their maiden UEFA Champions League campaign when the teams meet in the play-offs.Previous meetings• This is Rostov's first competitive encounter with Dutch opponents.• Ajax have lost all four of their previous matches against Russian clubs, all versus Spartak Moskva. They went down 3-1 at home and 1-0 away in a 1997/98 UEFA Cup quarter-final and 1-0 in Amsterdam and 3-0 in Moscow in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League round of 16 tie.Match background• Ajax eliminated PAOK 3-2 on aggregate to reach the play-offs, Davy Klaassen's 88th-minute strike in the second... UEFA.com - News
Sevilla v Shakhtar Donetsk background
A third successive UEFA Europa League final is seemingly within Sevilla FC's reach as they welcome FC Shakhtar Donetsk in their semi-final decider.Previous meetings• Kevin Gameiro's penalty earned Sevilla a 2-2 draw in Lviv; the holders took an early lead but trailed 2-1 at the break.• Juande Ramos's Sevilla overcame Shakhtar in dramatic fashion in the round of 16 en route to lifting the 2006/07 UEFA Cup. After a 2-2 draw in Spain, Sevilla goalkeeper Andrés Palop scored at the death to make it 2-2 in the return leg, Ernesto Chevantón eventually winning it for the visitors in extra time.
Shakhtar Donetsk v Sevilla background
FC Shakhtar Donetsk will look to erase the memory of a fateful defeat from 2007 as they welcome holders Sevilla FC, the Pitmen unbeaten in six UEFA Europa League games.Previous meetings• Juande Ramos's Sevilla overcame Shakhtar in dramatic fashion in the round of 16 en route to winning the 2006/07 UEFA Cup. After a 2-2 draw in Spain, Sevilla goalkeeper Andrés Palop scored at the death to make it 2-2 in the return leg, Ernesto Chevantón winning it for the visitors in extra time.• The teams for that game in Donetsk on 16 March 2007 were: Shakhtar: Shust, Lewandowski, Chygrynskiy, Kucher*, Shevchuk* (Raţ 44), Gai, Matuzalém (D...
Sevilla v Athletic background
Sevilla FC will look to take another step towards a third successive UEFA Europa League triumph when they welcome Athletic Club for their quarter-final decider.Previous meetings• In the sides' first UEFA competition meeting, Aritz Aduriz headed Athletic in front in Bilbao, but goals from Timothée Kolodziejczak and Vicente Iborra earned Sevilla their first away victory in the UEFA Europa League and Liga this season.• Sevilla are now 65-63 ahead of Athletic (with 31 draws) in the teams' 159 competitive encounters (158 of them in Spanish football). Sevilla have had marginally the better of their 143 Liga tussles (W59 D29 L55), while Athletic have edge...