2014–15 UEFA Champions League

2014–15 UEFA Champions League

The 2014–15 UEFA Champions League was the 60th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 23rd season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

The final was played at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, with Spanish side Barcelona defeating Italian side Juventus 3–1 to win their fifth title and complete an unprecedented second continental treble. Real Madrid were the title holders, but they were eliminated by Juventus in the semi-finals.

This season was the first where clubs must comply with UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations in order to participate. Moreover, this season was the first where a club from Gibraltar competed in the tournament, after the Gibraltar Football Association was accepted as the 54th UEFA member at the UEFA Congress in May 2013. They were granted one spot in the Champions League, which was taken by Lincoln Red Imps, the champions of the 2013–14 Gibraltar Premier Division.

On 17 July 2014, the UEFA emergency panel ruled that Ukrainian and Russian clubs would not be drawn against each other "until further notice" due to the political unrest between the countries. Another ruling centred in regional instability was also made where Israeli teams were prohibited from hosting any UEFA competitions due to the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. The rules regarding suspension due to yellow card accumulation were also changed such that all bookings expired on completion of the quarter-finals and were not carried forward to the semi-finals. Moreover, this was the first season in which vanishing spray was used.

Association team allocation

2014–15 UEFA Champions League

A total of 77 teams from 53 of the 54 UEFA member associations participated in the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which do not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

• Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify. • Associations 4–6 each have three teams qualify. • Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify. • Associations 16–54 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.

The winners of the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League were given an additional entry as title holders if they would not qualify for the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league (because of the restriction that no association can have more than four teams playing in the Champions League, if the title holders are from the top three associations and finish outside the top four in their domestic league, the title holders' entry comes at the expense of the fourth-placed team of their association). However, this additional entry was not necessary for this season since the title holders qualified for the tournament through their domestic league.

Association ranking

For the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2013 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2008–09 to 2012–13.

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
1	Spain	88.025	4
2	England	82.963
3	Germany	79.614
4	Italy	64.147	3
5	Portugal	59.168
6	France	59.000
7	Ukraine	49.758	2
8	Russia	46.332
9	Netherlands	44.729
10	Turkey	34.500
11	Belgium	34.400
12	Greece	34.000
13	Switzerland	28.925
14	Cyprus	26.833
15	Denmark	25.700
16	Austria	25.375	1
17	Czech Republic	23.725
18	Romania	23.024
Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
19	Israel	22.875	1
20	Belarus	20.875
21	Poland	20.750
22	Croatia	19.583
23	Sweden	15.625
24	Scotland	15.191
25	Serbia	14.625
26	Slovakia	14.208
27	Norway	14.175
28	Bulgaria	12.250
29	Hungary	11.750
30	Slovenia	9.708
31	Georgia	9.166
32	Azerbaijan	8.541
33	Finland	8.508
34	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.833
35	Moldova	7.666
36	Republic of Ireland	7.375
Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
37	Lithuania	6.500	1
38	Kazakhstan	5.958
39	Latvia	5.791
40	Iceland	5.416
41	Montenegro	5.250
42	Macedonia	5.250
43	Albania	4.166
44	Malta	3.958
45	Liechtenstein	3.500	0
46	Luxembourg	3.375	1
47	Northern Ireland	3.083
48	Wales	2.583
49	Estonia	2.208
50	Armenia	1.750
51	Faroe Islands	1.583
52	San Marino	0.666
53	Andorra	0.500
54	Gibraltar	0.000

Distribution

Since the title holders Real Madrid qualified for the Champions League group stage through their domestic league (as the third-placed team of the 2013–14 La Liga), the group stage spot reserved for the title holders is vacated, and the following changes to the default allocation system are made:

• The champions of association 13 (Switzerland) are promoted from the third qualifying round to the group stage. • The champions of association 16 (Austria) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round. • The champions of associations 47 (Northern Ireland) and 48 (Wales) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round (6 teams)
Second qualifying round (34 teams)
Third qualifying round	Champions (20 teams)
Non-champions (10 teams)
Play-off round	Champions (10 teams)
Non-champions (10 teams)
Group stage (32 teams)
Knockout phase (16 teams)

Teams

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Title holders).

<table><thead><tr><th>Group stage</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Real Madrid (3rd)TH</td><td>Bayern Munich (1st)</td><td>Sporting CP (2nd)</td><td>Galatasaray (2nd)</td></tr><tr><td>Atlético Madrid (1st)</td><td>Borussia Dortmund (2nd)</td><td>Paris Saint-Germain (1st)</td><td>Anderlecht (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Barcelona (2nd)</td><td>Schalke 04 (3rd)</td><td>Monaco (2nd)</td><td>Olympiacos (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Manchester City (1st)</td><td>Juventus (1st)</td><td>Shakhtar Donetsk (1st)</td><td>Basel (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Liverpool (2nd)</td><td>Roma (2nd)</td><td>CSKA Moscow (1st)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Chelsea (3rd)</td><td>Benfica (1st)</td><td>Ajax (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Play-off round</td></tr><tr><td>Champions</td><td>Non-champions</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Athletic Bilbao (4th)</td><td>Bayer Leverkusen (4th)</td><td>Porto (3rd)</td></tr><tr><td>Arsenal (4th)</td><td>Napoli (3rd)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Third qualifying round</td></tr><tr><td>Champions</td><td>Non-champions</td></tr><tr><td>APOEL (1st)</td><td>Lille (3rd)</td><td>Beşiktaş (3rd)</td><td>AEL Limassol (2nd)</td></tr><tr><td>AaB (1st)</td><td>Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd)</td><td>Standard Liège (2nd)</td><td>Copenhagen (2nd)</td></tr><tr><td>Red Bull Salzburg (1st)</td><td>Zenit Saint Petersburg (2nd)</td><td>Panathinaikos (2nd)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Feyenoord (2nd)</td><td>Grasshopper (2nd)</td></tr><tr><td>Second qualifying round</td></tr><tr><td>Sparta Prague (1st)</td><td>Partizan (2nd)</td><td>HJK (1st)</td><td>Sutjeska (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Steaua București (1st)</td><td>Slovan Bratislava (1st)</td><td>Zrinjski Mostar (1st)</td><td>Rabotnicki (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Maccabi Tel Aviv (1st)</td><td>Strømsgodset (1st)</td><td>Sheriff Tiraspol (1st)</td><td>Skënderbeu (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>BATE Borisov (1st)</td><td>Ludogorets Razgrad (1st)</td><td>St Patrick's Athletic (1st)</td><td>Valletta (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Legia Warsaw (1st)</td><td>Debrecen (1st)</td><td>Žalgiris (1st)</td><td>F91 Dudelange (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Dinamo Zagreb (1st)</td><td>Maribor (1st)</td><td>Aktobe (1st)</td><td>Cliftonville (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Malmö FF (1st)</td><td>Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)</td><td>Ventspils (1st)</td><td>The New Saints (1st)</td></tr><tr><td>Celtic (1st)</td><td>Qarabağ (1st)</td><td>KR (1st)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>First qualifying round</td></tr><tr><td>Levadia Tallinn (1st)</td><td>HB (1st)</td><td>FC Santa Coloma (1st)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Banants (1st)</td><td>La Fiorita (1st)</td><td>Lincoln Red Imps (1st)</td></tr></tbody></table>

Round and draw dates

2014–15 UEFA Champions League

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).

<table><thead><tr><th>Phase</th><th>Round</th><th>Draw date</th><th>First leg</th><th>Second leg</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Qualifying</td><td>First qualifying round</td><td>23 June 2014</td><td>1–2 July 2014</td><td>8–9 July 2014</td></tr><tr><td>Second qualifying round</td><td>15–16 July 2014</td><td>22–23 July 2014</td></tr><tr><td>Third qualifying round</td><td>18 July 2014</td><td>29–30 July 2014</td><td>5–6 August 2014</td></tr><tr><td>Play-off</td><td>Play-off round</td><td>8 August 2014</td><td>19–20 August 2014</td><td>26–27 August 2014</td></tr><tr><td>Group stage</td><td>Matchday 1</td><td>28 August 2014 (Monaco)</td><td>16–17 September 2014</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 2</td><td>30 September–1 October 2014</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 3</td><td>21–22 October 2014</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 4</td><td>4–5 November 2014</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 5</td><td>25–26 November 2014</td></tr><tr><td>Matchday 6</td><td>9–10 December 2014</td></tr><tr><td>Knockout phase</td><td>Round of 16</td><td>15 December 2014</td><td>17–18 & 24–25 February 2015</td><td>10–11 & 17–18 March 2015</td></tr><tr><td>Quarter-finals</td><td>20 March 2015</td><td>14–15 April 2015</td><td>21–22 April 2015</td></tr><tr><td>Semi-finals</td><td>24 April 2015</td><td>5–6 May 2015</td><td>12–13 May 2015</td></tr><tr><td>Final</td><td>6 June 2015 at Olympiastadion, Berlin</td></tr></tbody></table>

The final date of 6 June could cause problems for South American international players called up to play in the 2015 Copa América, which begins on 11 June. FIFA international rules require clubs to release players 14 days prior to the start of an international tournament, which means the players would have to miss the Champions League final if the rules were enforced. If the players were allowed to play in the Champions League final, that would leave them as few as five days to travel and train prior to playing in the Copa América.

Qualifying rounds

2014–15 UEFA Champions League

In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2014 UEFA club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.

First qualifying round

The draw for the first and second qualifying rounds was held on 23 June 2014. The first legs were played on 1 and 2 July, and the second legs were played on 8 July 2014.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FC Santa Coloma	3–3 (a)	Banants	1–0	2–3
Lincoln Red Imps	3–6	HB	1–1	2–5
La Fiorita	0–8	Levadia Tallinn	0–1	0–7

Second qualifying round

The first legs were played on 15 and 16 July, and the second legs were played on 22 and 23 July 2014.

<table><thead><tr><th>Team 1</th><th>Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score</th><th>Team 2</th><th>1st leg</th><th>2nd leg</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>BATE Borisov </td><td>1–1 (a)</td><td> Skënderbeu</td><td>0–0</td><td>1–1</td></tr><tr><td>FC Santa Coloma </td><td>0–3</td><td> Maccabi Tel Aviv</td><td>0–1</td><td>0–2</td></tr><tr><td>Dinamo Tbilisi </td><td>0–4</td><td> Aktobe</td><td>0–1</td><td>0–3</td></tr><tr><td>Zrinjski Mostar </td><td>0–2</td><td> Maribor</td><td>0–0</td><td>0–2</td></tr><tr><td>Sheriff Tiraspol </td><td>5–0</td><td> Sutjeska</td><td>2–0</td><td>3–0</td></tr><tr><td>Sparta Prague </td><td>8–1</td><td> Levadia Tallinn</td><td>7–0</td><td>1–1</td></tr><tr><td>Malmö FF </td><td>1–0</td><td> Ventspils</td><td>0–0</td><td>1–0</td></tr><tr><td>Slovan Bratislava </td><td>3–0</td><td> The New Saints</td><td>1–0</td><td>2–0</td></tr><tr><td>KR </td><td>0–5</td><td> Celtic</td><td>0–1</td><td>0–4</td></tr><tr><td>Cliftonville </td><td>0–2</td><td> Debrecen</td><td>0–0</td><td>0–2</td></tr><tr><td>Partizan </td><td>6–1</td><td> HB</td><td>3–0</td><td>3–1</td></tr><tr><td>Legia Warsaw </td><td>6–1</td><td> St Patrick's Athletic</td><td>1–1</td><td>5–0</td></tr><tr><td>Rabotnicki </td><td>1–2</td><td> HJK</td><td>0–0</td><td>1–2</td></tr><tr><td>Dinamo Zagreb </td><td>4–0</td><td> Žalgiris</td><td>2–0</td><td>2–0</td></tr><tr><td>Ludogorets Razgrad </td><td>5–1</td><td> F91 Dudelange</td><td>4–0</td><td>1–1</td></tr><tr><td>Valletta </td><td>0–5</td><td> Qarabağ</td><td>0–1</td><td>0–4</td></tr><tr><td>Strømsgodset </td><td>0–3</td><td> Steaua București</td><td>0–1</td><td>0–2</td></tr></tbody></table>

Third qualifying round

The third qualifying round was split into two separate sections: one for champions (Champions Route) and one for non-champions (League Route). The losing teams in both sections entered the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League play-off round.

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 18 July 2014. The first legs were played on 29 and 30 July, and the second legs were played on 5 and 6 August 2014.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Route
Qarabağ	2–3	Red Bull Salzburg	2–1	0–2
Debrecen	2–3	BATE Borisov	1–0	1–3
Slovan Bratislava	2–1	Sheriff Tiraspol	2–1	0–0
AaB	2–1	Dinamo Zagreb	0–1	2–0
Legia Warsaw	4–4 (a)	Celtic	4–1	0–3
Aktobe	3–4	Steaua București	2–2	1–2
Maribor	3–2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–0	2–2
HJK	2–4	APOEL	2–2	0–2
Sparta Prague	4–4 (a)	Malmö FF	4–2	0–2
Ludogorets Razgrad	2–2 (a)	Partizan	0–0	2–2
League Route
AEL Limassol	1–3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–0	0–3
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	0–2	Copenhagen	0–0	0–2
Feyenoord	2–5	Beşiktaş	1–2	1–3
Grasshopper	1–3	Lille	0–2	1–1
Standard Liège	2–1	Panathinaikos	0–0	2–1

Play-off round

2014–15 UEFA Champions League

The play-off round was split into two separate sections: one for champions (Champions Route) and one for non-champions (League Route). The losing teams in both sections entered the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League group stage.

The draw for the play-off round was held on 8 August 2014. The first legs were played on 19 and 20 August, and the second legs were played on 26 and 27 August 2014.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Route
Maribor	2–1	Celtic	1–1	1–0
Red Bull Salzburg	2–4	Malmö FF	2–1	0–3
AaB	1–5	APOEL	1–1	0–4
Steaua București	1–1 (5–6 p)	Ludogorets Razgrad	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Slovan Bratislava	1–4	BATE Borisov	1–1	0–3
League Route
Beşiktaş	0–1	Arsenal	0–0	0–1
Standard Liège	0–4	Zenit Saint Petersburg	0–1	0–3
Copenhagen	2–7	Bayer Leverkusen	2–3	0–4
Lille	0–3	Porto	0–1	0–2
Napoli	2–4	Athletic Bilbao	1–1	1–3

Group stage

2014–15 UEFA Champions League

The draw for the group stage was held in Monaco on 28 August 2014. The 32 teams were allocated into four pots based on their 2014 UEFA club coefficients, with the title holders being placed in Pot 1 automatically. They were drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays were 16–17 September, 30 September–1 October, 21–22 October, 4–5 November, 25–26 November, and 9–10 December 2014.

A total of 18 national associations were represented in the group stage. Ludogorets Razgrad and Malmö FF made their debut appearances in the group stage. For the first time since the 1995–96 season, England's Manchester United did not qualify for the group stage.

Teams that qualified for the group stage also participated in the 2014–15 UEFA Youth League, a competition available to players aged 19 or under.

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams entered the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League round of 32. See 2014–15 UEFA Champions League group stage for tiebreakers if two or more teams are equal on points.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ATM	JUV	OLY	MAL
1	Atlético Madrid	6	4	1	1	14	3	+11	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	4–0	5–0
2	Juventus	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10		0–0	—	3–2	2–0
3	Olympiacos	6	3	0	3	10	13	−3	9	Transfer to Europa League		3–2	1–0	—	4–2
4	Malmö FF	6	1	0	5	4	15	−11	3			0–2	0–2	2–0	—

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	BSL	LIV	LUD
1	Real Madrid	6	6	0	0	16	2	+14	18	Advance to knockout phase		—	5–1	1–0	4–0
2	Basel	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	7		0–1	—	1–0	4–0
3	Liverpool	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	5	Transfer to Europa League		0–3	1–1	—	2–1
4	Ludogorets Razgrad	6	1	1	4	5	14	−9	4			1–2	1–0	2–2	—

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MON	LEV	ZEN	BEN
1	Monaco	6	3	2	1	4	1	+3	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	2–0	0–0
2	Bayer Leverkusen	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10		0–1	—	2–0	3–1
3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	2	1	3	4	6	−2	7	Transfer to Europa League		0–0	1–2	—	1–0
4	Benfica	6	1	2	3	2	6	−4	5			1–0	0–0	0–2	—

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DOR	ARS	AND	GAL
1	Borussia Dortmund	6	4	1	1	14	4	+10	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	1–1	4–1
2	Arsenal	6	4	1	1	15	8	+7	13		2–0	—	3–3	4–1
3	Anderlecht	6	1	3	2	8	10	−2	6	Transfer to Europa League		0–3	1–2	—	2–0
4	Galatasaray	6	0	1	5	4	19	−15	1			0–4	1–4	1–1	—

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	MCI	ROM	CSKA
1	Bayern Munich	6	5	0	1	16	4	+12	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–0	2–0	3–0
2	Manchester City	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8		3–2	—	1–1	1–2
3	Roma	6	1	2	3	8	14	−6	5	Transfer to Europa League		1–7	0–2	—	5–1
4	CSKA Moscow	6	1	2	3	6	13	−7	5			0–1	2–2	1–1	—

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	PAR	AJX	APO
1	Barcelona	6	5	0	1	15	5	+10	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	3–1	1–0
2	Paris Saint-Germain	6	4	1	1	10	7	+3	13		3–2	—	3–1	1–0
3	Ajax	6	1	2	3	8	10	−2	5	Transfer to Europa League		0–2	1–1	—	4–0
4	APOEL	6	0	1	5	1	12	−11	1			0–4	0–1	1–1	—

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CHE	SCH	SPO	MRB
1	Chelsea	6	4	2	0	17	3	+14	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	3–1	6–0
2	Schalke 04	6	2	2	2	9	14	−5	8		0–5	—	4–3	1–1
3	Sporting CP	6	2	1	3	12	12	0	7	Transfer to Europa League		0–1	4–2	—	3–1
4	Maribor	6	0	3	3	4	13	−9	3			1–1	0–1	1–1	—

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POR	SHK	ATH	BATE
1	Porto	6	4	2	0	16	4	+12	14	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	2–1	6–0
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	2	3	1	15	4	+11	9		2–2	—	0–1	5–0
3	Athletic Bilbao	6	2	1	3	5	6	−1	7	Transfer to Europa League		0–2	0–0	—	2–0
4	BATE Borisov	6	1	0	5	2	24	−22	3			0–3	0–7	2–1	—

Knockout phase

2014–15 UEFA Champions League

In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

• In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other. • In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other.

Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 15 December 2014. The first legs were played on 17, 18, 24 and 25 February, and the second legs were played on 10, 11, 17 and 18 March 2015.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Paris Saint-Germain	3–3 (a)	Chelsea	1–1	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Manchester City	1–3	Barcelona	1–2	0–1
Bayer Leverkusen	1–1 (2–3 p)	Atlético Madrid	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Juventus	5–1	Borussia Dortmund	2–1	3–0
Schalke 04	4–5	Real Madrid	0–2	4–3
Shakhtar Donetsk	0–7	Bayern Munich	0–0	0–7
Arsenal	3–3 (a)	Monaco	1–3	2–0
Basel	1–5	Porto	1–1	0–4

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 20 March 2015. The first legs were played on 14 and 15 April, and the second legs were played on 21 and 22 April 2015.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Paris Saint-Germain	1–5	Barcelona	1–3	0–2
Atlético Madrid	0–1	Real Madrid	0–0	0–1
Porto	4–7	Bayern Munich	3–1	1–6
Juventus	1–0	Monaco	1–0	0–0

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals and final (to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes) was held on 24 April 2015. The first legs were played on 5 and 6 May, and the second legs were played on 12 and 13 May 2015.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Barcelona	5–3	Bayern Munich	3–0	2–3
Juventus	3–2	Real Madrid	2–1	1–1

Final

The final was played on 6 June 2015 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.

Statistics

2014–15 UEFA Champions League

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds and play-off round.

Top goalscorers

Shakhtar's Luiz Adriano became the first player to score hat-tricks in consecutive Champions League group stage games, both against BATE Borisov.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Neymar	Barcelona	10	1,026
Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	1,065
Lionel Messi	Barcelona	1,147
4	Luiz Adriano	Shakhtar Donetsk	9	628
5	Jackson Martínez	Porto	7	629
Thomas Müller	Bayern Munich	777
Luis Suárez	Barcelona	827
Carlos Tevez	Juventus	1,156
9	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	6	550
Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	664
Edinson Cavani	Paris Saint-Germain	920
Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	932

Top assists

Rank	Player	Team	Assists	Minutes played
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	6	1,147
2	Andrés Iniesta	Barcelona	5	786
3	Bastian Schweinsteiger	Bayern Munich	4	456
Cesc Fàbregas	Chelsea	4	696
Koke	Atlético Madrid	4	833
Dani Alves	Barcelona	4	961
Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	4	1,065

Squad of the season

The UEFA technical study group selected the following 18 players as the squad of the tournament:

Pos.	Player	Team
GK	Gianluigi Buffon	Juventus
Marc-André ter Stegen	Barcelona
DF	Gerard Piqué	Barcelona
Javier Mascherano	Barcelona
Jordi Alba	Barcelona
Branislav Ivanović	Chelsea
Giorgio Chiellini	Juventus
MF	Sergio Busquets	Barcelona
Andrés Iniesta	Barcelona
Toni Kroos	Real Madrid
Ivan Rakitić	Barcelona
Andrea Pirlo	Juventus
Claudio Marchisio	Juventus
FW	Lionel Messi	Barcelona
Neymar	Barcelona
Luis Suárez	Barcelona
Álvaro Morata	Juventus
Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid