Cypriot football clubs in European competitions of a competition, and since then at least one team participate in the group stage every season. Most important success was the qualification and the participation of APOEL FC at the quarterfinals of 2011–12 UEFA Champions League. Then is the present of the same team at the round of 16 of 2016–17 UEFA Europa League. Cyprus ranking at UEFA coefficient at the end of 2012-13 season was the 14th, the highest the country ever had. Cypriot teams began to participate in the European Cup (renamed the UEFA Champions League in 1992) in 1963. The first team that participated was Anorthosis
German football clubs in European competitions the German football represented by two countries and two different championships, the Bundesliga and the DDR-Oberliga. After the German reunified on October 1990, Bundesliga became the league for all of Germany. West German football clubs have entered European association football competitions since season 1955–56, when Rot-Weiss Essen took part in European Cup competition. East German football clubs have entered European association football competitions two years later, since season 1957–58, when FC Erzgebirge Aue took part in European Cup competition. So far, the German clubs have won 7 times the Champions League/European Cup (Bayern, Dortmund and Hamburg), 6 times the Europa