This Saturday's victory against the Real Sociedad guaranteed the classification of Atlético de Madrid of Diego Simeone By thirteenth consecutive season for the Champions League, from 2012-13 to 2024-25, with which the technician has been infallible in that sense in his 13 entire seasons at the head of the team.
Club objective every year, Only once outside the podium of the table (last season, which was fourth), waiting for the outcome of the current course, in which it can be between fifth and second even in the absence of the development of the rest of the day and three more chapters of the competition, Atlético reaches that goal after adding 70 points, with 20 victories, 10 draws, 5 losses, 56 goals in favor and 27 against in the 35 duels already disputed.
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On two occasions he got the pass to the Champions League as LaLiga champion, in 2013-14 and 2020-21; in two others as second in the table (2017-18 and 2018-19); in six as third (2012-13, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2019-20, 2021-22 and 2022-23); And in one as a room, last year, waiting for its final position in the current exercise.
His thirteen consecutive participations, with that of the next season, under the orders of Diego Simeone Atlético surpasses in the entire history of the club, with eight until the arrival of the Argentine coach, but with the nuance that for a long time, until the end of the 90s, only the League champion for the European Cup was classified.
In that past in the maximum continental competition before SimeoneAtlético won the right to play it five times as a champion (one with him then as a player, in the 'double' in 1995-96 to dispute the 1996-97 Champions League, where he reached the quarterfinals); in another as a second in 1958, once Real Madrid had won the previous edition of the tournament; And two, in 2007-08 and 2008-09 already with the classification to the room of the table, as the room of the Spanish LaLiga.
If the cut to enter the European Cup would have been the first four of the league classification throughout the history of the competition, The rojiblanco team would have competed in the tournament in 22 times before the 21st century. Since then, he has done so fifteen occasions, thirteen of them with Simeone as a technician.
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Under his direction, Atlético has been a finalist and runner-up in two editions of the Champions League (2013-14 and 2015-16); semifinalist in one (2016-17); He reached the quarterfinals in four (2014-15, 2019-20, 2021-22 and 2023-24) and was eliminated in eighths in three (2018-19, 2020-21 and the current course). Twice fell into the group stage, both in 2017-18, when he was champion of the European League, as in 2022-23.
