Champions League—not to be confused with the Championship League— may refer to various sports competitions. It most commonly refers to association football:

Association football[link]

• the UEFA Champions League, for UEFA
  • the current UEFA Champions League season
  • Champions League is also the official title of the UEFA Champions League Anthem, the official song of the competition
  • the UEFA Women's Champions League, for European women's football
• the CONCACAF Champions League, for clubs in CONCACAF
  • the current CONCACAF Champions League season
• the AFC Champions League, for clubs in the Asian Football Confederation
  • the current AFC Champions League season
• the CAF Champions League, for clubs in the Confederation of African Football
  • the current CAF Champions League season
• the OFC Champions League, for clubs in the Oceania Football Confederation
  • the current OFC Champions League season
• the Copa Libertadores, for clubs in the CONMEBOL
  • the current Copa Libertadores season

Other sports[link]

• the CEV Champions League, for volleyball clubs in Europe
• the CERH European League, for rink hockey clubs in Europe, known as Champions League between 1997 to 2005
• the EHF Champions League, for handball clubs in Europe
• the European Champions League, for table tennis clubs in Europe
• the Collegiate Champions League, for an amateur basketball league in the Philippines
• the Champions Hockey League, for ice hockey clubs in Europe
• the Champions League Twenty20 for domestic cricket teams from Australia, England, India, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand and Sri Lanka

See also[link]

• Championship League, a professional snooker tournament
• Championship League Darts, a professional darts tournament

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Jürgen Norbert 'Kloppo' Klopp^[1] (born 16 June 1967) is a German former footballer and the current manager of Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga.

Player career[link]

Klopp played his entire senior career for 1. FSV Mainz 05 from 1990 to 2001. He originally played as a striker, before switching to play as a defender in 1995.^[2]

Managing career[link]

Mainz 05[link]

Upon his retirement from playing for Mainz 05, Klopp was appointed as the club's manager. He remained as manager for seven years, during which time he led the team to its first appearance in the Bundesliga, and qualification for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup. At the end of the 2006–07 season, Mainz 05 were relegated, but Klopp chose to remain with the club. However, due to the fact that they were not able to achieve promotion, he resigned at the end of the 2007–08 season.

Borussia Dortmund[link]

In May 2008, Klopp was approached to become the new manager of Borussia Dortmund, eventually signing a two-year contract at the club, which had finished in a disappointing 13th place under previous manager Thomas Doll. In his first season in charge, Klopp guided Borussia Dortmund to win the DFB-Supercup, defeating German champions Bayern Munich.^[3] Klopp took the club to a sixth place finish in his first season in charge, and a fifth place finish in the season after that, before leading the club to successive Bundesliga titles in the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons.^[4][5] During the 2011-2012 season, the 81 points accrued by Borussia Dortmund was the greatest points tally ever amassed in Bundesliga history and the 47 points earned in the second half of the season also set a new record. Borussia Dortmund's 25 league wins equalled Bayern Munich's 1972/73 milestone while their 28-league match unbeaten sequence was the best ever recorded in a single German top-flight season.^[6] On 12 May 2012, Klopp made Borussia Dortmund history by sealing the club's first ever domestic double, by defeating Bayern Munich 5–2 to win the DFB-Pokal. Klopp described the double as being "better than (he) could have imagined".^[7][8][9]

Media career[link]

From 2005, Klopp appeared as a regular pundit on the German television network ZDF, giving his views on games of Germany national football team. His term ended after UEFA Euro 2008. He was succeeded by Oliver Kahn. During the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he worked with RTL alongside Günther Jauch. On 20 October 2006, he received the Deutscher Fernsehpreis in the category of best sports show.

Personal life[link]

Klopp is currently married for the second time. He has one son Marc Klopp, who plays for Borussia Dortmund II. Since 2009, Klopp has been living in Herdecke, where many Borussia Dortmund players also live.

Managerial statistics[link]

As of 14 May 2012.

GF – Goals For; GA – Goals Against.

Honours[link]

As a manager[link]

1. FSV Mainz 05

• 2. Fußball-Bundesliga (1): 2003–04

Borussia Dortmund

• Fußball-Bundesliga (2): 2010–11, 2011–12
• DFB-Pokal (1): 2011–12
• DFL-Supercup (1): 2008

As an individual[link]

• German Football Manager of the Year (2): 2011, 2012

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jürgen Klopp on Playerhistory.com
• Goal.com profile
• Jürgen Klopp at transfermarkt.de (German)