The Champions League semi-final second legs are under way this week, with four clubs competing for a place in what will be the 34th final of the competition since its rebranding ahead of the 1992-93 season. To mark the occasion, BBC Sport has published a quiz inviting readers to name every finalist from 1993 to 2025.
The challenge is a considerable one. Thirty-three finals have produced a long and varied roll-call of finalists, ranging from the perennial heavyweights who have appeared repeatedly to the clubs who made a single, unlikely trip to the showpiece fixture. Some editions are straightforward enough; others will test even the most devoted follower of European football.
The competition has changed shape more than once across those three decades. Its early years were still dominated by the rhythms of the old European Cup era, before the group-stage format matured and the field expanded to draw in more clubs from more leagues. The result is a history that spans different tactical epochs, different financial landscapes, and different notions of what European dominance actually looks like.
For those who lived through the 1990s finals, the names come easily. The middle period, roughly the decade straddling the turn of the century, tends to be where knowledge starts to thin out. And the more recent editions, crowded as they are with familiar protagonists, carry their own traps for the overconfident.
The BBC Sport quiz is available now at their website. Whether it serves as a gentle warm-up or a humbling corrective rather depends on how closely you have been paying attention for the past thirty-odd years.