The top four European leagues will each have four guaranteed places in the Champions League group stage from 2018/19 under changes announced by European soccer body UEFA on Friday.
Galatasaray's Champions League match with Juventus and Besiktas's game against Chelsea will now be played outside Turkey because of security concerns.
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Russian champions Zenit St Petersburg won their first European silverware when they secured a 2-0 victory over Rangers in the UEFA Cup final.
UEFA banned two Girondins Bordeaux players on Tuesday for a total of five European club matches after ugly scenes during their UEFA Cup defeat by Anderlecht.
We have had so far a tight and intense competition, says Giorgio Marchetti, UEFA's director of competitions
Porto have been excluded from next season's Champions League by European soccer's governing body UEFA over the alleged bribery of referees in the 2003-04 season, the Portuguese club said in a statement on Wednesday. Porto said it would try to overturn the decision through the UEFA appeals body. The club gave no further details and its officials were not immediately available to comment.
Manchester City will play in next season's UEFA Cup after England were awarded an extra spot in the competition for topping UEFA's Fair Play table.
UEFA has thrown out protests made by Real Madrid and Barcelona against each other following their ill-tempered Champions League semi-final first leg last week.
Barcelona have decided to appeal UEFA's proposal to ban Andres Iniesta for one Champions League match for deliberately collecting a yellow card.
IMAGES from the UEFA Champions League matches played on Wednesday
IMAGES from the Europa League semifinal matches played on Thursday.
UEFA have charged Macedonian club FK Pobeda, its president and one player with match-fixing, European soccer's governing body said Thursday. The match under investigation was the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round game between FK Pobeda and FC Pyunik on 13 July 2004.
IMAGES from the UEFA Champions League last 16 matches played on Tuesday
Barcelona have vowed to use all legal means to fight a second fine imposed by UEFA after fans displayed pro-Catalan independence flags during September's Champions League Group E match at home to Bayer Leverkusen.
Malaga are confident their appeal against a UEFA ban from future continental competition over delays in payments to creditors will be successful, club director general Vicente Casado has said.
Manchester City have been charged by UEFA after fireworks were set off during their 1-0 Champions League quarter-final, second-leg win over Paris St Germain on Tuesday night.
Financially-troubled Real Mallorca have threatened to sue soccer's European governing body UEFA for damages over their exclusion from this season's Europa League competition.
Tennis World No 1 and Real Mallorca shareholder Rafa Nadal has hit out at governing body UEFA for excluding the financially-troubled La Liga club from European competition this season.
UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Montenegro and Russia after Saturday's Euro 2016 qualifier in Podgorica was abandoned in the second half following crowd trouble and a scuffle among the players.
Espanyol moved to the brink of an all-Spanish UEFA Cup final after demolishing Werder Bremen 3-0.
European soccer's governing body have asked FIFA to investigate the alleged distribution from their headquarters of an anonymous heavily critical 'dossier' on UEFA president Michel Platini, German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday.
Barcelona star forward Lionel Messi and Read Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo have been named in the 40-man shortlist for the UEFA's Team of the Year.
Seven European club matches, including one Champions League qualifier, are under investigation after last week's exposure of a match-fixing ring, UEFA said on Wednesday.
Europe's top clubs have won concessions from UEFA over the implementation of new rules designed to tighten up football's finances, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said on Tuesday.
UEFA delayed a decision until next week on whether to allow AC Milan to participate in this season's Champions League.
European football's governing body UEFA are fed up with hearing about the continuing crisis at FIFA, secretary general Gianni Infantino.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted UEFA's 2015-16 Best Player in Europe ahead of Real Madrid team mate Gareth Bale and Atletico Madrid's Antoine Griezmann.
UEFA's director of communications said Jose Mourinho suggested match officials for the game against Barcelona.
Angel Maria Villar, the interim UEFA President, and General Secretary Theodore Theodoridis are bookmaker William Hill's favourites at 6-1 to replace Michel Platini as head of the European soccer's governing body.
Chelsea players Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa have been charged with misconduct by UEFA after ugly scenes at the end of their Champions League semi-final against Barcelona on May 6. The European governing body has also brought disciplinary proceedings against the Premier League club for the improper conduct of their players and the throwing of missiles by their fans.
Ronaldo admitted that both of them changed the history of football and urged his fans to not hate on Messi.
The world players' union has criticised European soccer's governing body UEFA for failing to enforce its own guidelines on racism following the abuse hurled at ManchesterCity's Yaya Toure in Moscow.
UEFA said on Monday it had lodged an appeal against the decision by its disciplinary body to clear him.
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has endorsed UEFA's decision to ban Arsenal striker Eduardo da Silva for deceiving a referee.
Europe is preparing for UEFA's first full-blown 'week of football' as the marathon Euro 2016 qualifying competition gets into full swing - although it promises to be a distinctly underwhelming experience.
Arsenal striker Thierry Henry has been selected in the uefa.com users' team of the year for the fourth time in succession
Former French football great Michel Platini, until recently seen as the man to lead soccer's governing body FIFA out of its worst ever graft crisis, could face a life ban from the sport if recommendations from FIFA ethics investigators are followed.
Sweden missed out on the finals for the first time in 28 years on a night in which their fixture with Belgium was abandoned
The Dutch side pipped Maccabi Tel Aviv for a place in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup because of a better head-to-head record.
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