What's the smallest city to have a team play in a Champions League/European Cup final

Re: What's the smallest city to have a team play in a Champions League/European Cup f

Dayton Ohio?

 

It's hard to really say since it would be very difficult to find out populations of each city when they actually won it. But based on CURRENT population and my best information, that honor would seem to go to:

Brugges, Belgium: current population: 115,000 (Club Brugges 1978 finalists)

followed by

Leverkusen, Germany: 161,000 (Bayer Leverkusen 2002 finalists)

Saint-Etienne, France: 199,000 (ASSE 1976 finalists)

Eindhoven, Netherlands: 201,000 (PSV 1988 winners)

 

Brugges 1978 pop: 118,000

Saint-Etienne 1976 pop: 332,000

Eindhoven-Tivoli 1988 pop: 381,000

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Monaco current pop: 34,700

 

Monaco ever make it? Its tiny.

 

I think that's what inspired the initial question. I think this is the first time AS Monaco has made it as far as the semifinals of the European Cup. Never made the final... which is why I didn't include it in my list.

 

They once got to the EC 2 final though.

 

I think Monaco lost to Juventus in the semifinals of the '98 tournament. Not quite sure.

 

You are correct sir...

 

Stade Reims were there in 1956 and 1959. Don't know how big Reims is.
Leeds isn't all that big, but then not as small as Brugge.
And how big's Nottingham?

 

Whats the point of this thread?

 

Reims proper has a population of 180,000.

 

Isn't Leverkusen like a suburb of Koln or do people consider them separate areas?

 

No i do like it. But what are you trying to say, that the smaller the city the harder it is?

 

Nottingham is one of England's larger cities- metro population of over 600,000. (City proper is about 270,000).

And to answer bytheway, I think the "point" of this thread is just for comparison's sake, as Monaco (very tiny) is on the verge of making the final.

 

According to some world population charts at the time of their finals played some of the smallest cities were:

Stade de Reims - 181,985
St. Etienne - 206,608
Club Bruge KV - 118,146
Malmo FF - 230,381

And just and FYI at the time of it ECC victory the distrcit of Notingham had a population of 273,300 and today has a poluation of 613,726

I guess the better question would be, who was the smallest city to win/place in the finals of a UEFA/Fairs Cup?

I'd say it's Ipswich at 129,661

 

I'd say it's their opponents AZ '67 from Alkmaar at +- 90.000 present time.

AZ will be playing in Europe next year again btw. First time in 23 years.

 

Bastia (population circa 50000) played in the 1978 UEFA Cup final.

 

Brøndby also made it to the UEFA Cup semifinals (in 1991), Brøndby have a population of just about 34,500 (probably less in 1991)... and Brøndby were as close to a final as you can get, since they first got a 0-0 result at home vs. Roma, and then 1-2 in in the away leg, with Roma scoring the winning goal in the last minute of the extratime...

 

Aberdeen won the cup winners cup with a pop of 227,430 modern day, I think it might have been smaller at the time but that was also the peak of the oil days so it might be consistant or slightly bigger.

Dundee unt were in the european cup semis in 87, i think they were in a uefa cup final the year before too and the modern day population of dundee is 150,250, not to mention it supports two clubs literally across the street from each other.

 

Anderlecht won 1982 UEFA winner -- pop 90,134

 

Maybe it's just me... but isn't Brøndby a part of Copenhagen?

 

Actually, Brøndby is it's own municipality, though it's so close to the Danish capital, that I guess some ppl would think/say it's a part of Copenhagen...