Montreux: a role in the birth of the Champions League
Sunday 18 April 2021
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A UEFA Extraordinary Congress decision in Montreux in September 1991 paved the way for momentous changes that would lead to the start of a memorable adventure.
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The start of the 1990s was a time of significant change within UEFA and European football. Important commercial, sporting, political and technological developments propelled the European body into an exciting new era that would reshape the future of the game on this continent.
A new UEFA president took the helm in April 1990, when Sweden’s Lennart Johansson was elected at the Malta Congress in succession to the retiring Frenchman Jacques Georges.