Group H analysis: Madrid, Dortmund, Spurs, APOEL
Who’s in Group G?
Real Madrid (ESP)
• UEFA fellow ranking (end of 2016/17): 1
• How they qualified: holders/first in Spanish Liga
• Previous organisation theatre campaigns: 21 (last appearance: 2016/17)
• Last season: UEFA Champions League winners
• Best European Cup performance: winners x 12 (1955/56, 1956/57, 1957/58, 1958/59, 1959/60, 1965/66, 1997/98, 1999/2000, 2001/02, 2013/14, 2015/16, 2016/17)
Borussia Dortmund (GER)
• UEFA fellow ranking: 7
• How they qualified: third in German Bundesliga
• Previous organisation theatre campaigns: 11 (last appearance: 2016/17)
• Last season: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals
• Best European Cup performance: winners x 1 (1996/97)
Tottenham Hotspur (ENG)
• UEFA fellow ranking: 20
• How they qualified: second in English Premier League
• Previous organisation theatre campaigns: 2 (last appearance: 2016/17)
• Last season: UEFA Champions League organisation stage/UEFA Europa League turn of 32
• Best European Cup performance: semi-finals (1961/62)
APOEL (CYP)
• UEFA fellow ranking: 82
• How they qualified: initial in Cypriot First Division, play-off winners
• Previous organisation theatre campaigns: 3 (last appearance: 2014/15)
• Last season: UEFA Champions League play-offs/UEFA Europa League turn of 16
• Best European Cup performance: quarter-finals (2011/12)
Matchday one fixtures (Wednesday 13 September)
Real Madrid v APOEL
Tottenham Hotspur v Borussia Dortmund
Key facts
• This is a second year in a quarrel that Madrid and Dortmund have played in a organisation theatre – in 2016/17 a teams played out dual 2-2 draws. The matchday 6 pull in Spain left Dortmund initial in a group, contingent champions Madrid second.
• Madrid kick Dortmund in a 2013/14 quarter-finals (3-0 home, 0-2 away) carrying mislaid 4-3 on total to a German bar in a semi-finals a prior deteriorate (1-4 away, 2-0 home).
• Overall Madrid and Dortmund have met 12 times, Madrid winning 4 matches to Dortmund’s three, with a remaining 5 draws.
• Madrid finished Tottenham’s initial UEFA Champions League campaign, winning 5-0 on total in a 2010/11 quarter-finals.
• Gareth Bale done 146 Premier League appearances for Tottenham between 2007 and 2013, scoring 42 goals – including 21 in his final deteriorate in 2012/13, during a finish of that he changed to Madrid.
• Dortmund separated Tottenham in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League turn of 16, winning a home initial leg 3-0 before a 2-1 success in London.
• APOEL’s odyssey to a UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in 2011/12 was finished by Madrid, who won 3-0 in Cyprus and 5-2 in Spain.
• APOEL have never played Dortmund or Tottenham.
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