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The UEFA Champions League was founded in 1955 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup, commonly known as the European Cup. It took on its current name in 1992, when a round-robin group stage was also added to the competition's format.
Real Madrid has won the UEFA Champions League 15 times, more than any other club in the tournament's history. They are also the only club to have won the competition five consecutive times, claiming the first five editions.
The UEFA Champions League anthem was written by Tony Britten, who was commissioned by UEFA in 1992. It is an adaptation of George Frideric Handel's 1727 work Zadok the Priest, one of his Coronation Anthems, and was performed by London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
All English clubs were banned from European competition for five years following the Heysel Stadium disaster at the 1984-85 European Cup final, with Liverpool banned for six years. The ban ended the era in which English clubs had dominated the competition.
Celtic were the first British club to win the European Cup, defeating Inter Milan 2-1 in the 1967 final under manager Jock Stein. Every player in their starting lineup that day had been born within 30 miles of Glasgow; they became known as the "Lisbon Lions".
Gabriel Hanot, editor of the French sports paper L'Equipe, was inspired by the highly successful South American Championship of Champions of 1948, as confirmed by co-founder Jacques Ferran. Hanot was also motivated by Stan Cullis's claim that Wolverhampton Wanderers were "Champions of the World" after a series of friendlies, including a 3-2 win against Budapest Honvéd.