IFF Champions League
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| IFF Champions League | |
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| Current season or competition: 2011 IFF Champions League |
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| Founded | 2010 |
| No. of teams | 32 |
| Continent | International (IFF) |
| Most recent champion(s) |
 Manchester United |
The IFF Champions League is an international association football competition contested by the men's club teams of the members of International Football Federation. The championship has been awarded every year since the first tournament in 2010.
The current format of the Finals involves 32 teams competing for the title.
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Format
Final tournament
The current finals tournament features 32 club teams competing over the course of a season. There are two stages: a group stage followed by a knockout stage.
In the group stage, teams compete within eight groups of four teams each.
Each group plays a round-robin tournament, guaranteeing that every team will play at least three matches. The last round of matches of each group is scheduled at the same time to preserve fairness among the teams. The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage. Points are used to rank the teams within a group. Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss. If two or more teams end up with the same number of points, tiebreakers are used: first is goal difference, then total goals scored, then head-to-head results, and finally drawing of lots (i.e. determining team positions at random).
The knockout stage is a single-elimination tournament in which teams play each other in home/home legs, with penalty shootouts used to decide the winner if necessary. It begins with the "round of 16" (or the second round) in which the winner of each group plays against the runner-up of another group. This is followed by the quarter-finals, the semi-finals and the final.
Results
Champions League summaries
| Year | Final | |||
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| Winner | Score | Runner-up | ||
| 2010 Details |
Manchester United |
2-1 |  Zaragoza |
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| 2011 Details |
Manchester United |
2-1 |  Pacos de Ferriera |
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| 2012 Details |
Reading FC |
2-0 | Manchester United |
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- Key:
- ps — penalty shootout
- aet — extra time
