** To elaborate, in the past ''15 years'' of the competition, the only winner not from the above was Porto in 2004, and the only runners-up not from that list were [[ShaggyDogStory Leverkusen]] in 2002, Valencia in 2000 and 2001, and AS Monaco in 2004. 
* WideEyedIdealist: FC Nordsjælland from Denmark. FC Nordsjælland is by quite a distance the club in the 2012/13 Champions League with the lowest budget, and an almost hilariously low internal salary cap (€13,330 per month) compared to other clubs. What exactly makes them wide-eyed idealists? They still try to play the same kind of football as [=FC Barcelona=], despite the fact that they have the by a huge margin smallest budget in the tournament and no players with any experience from this level of football whatsoever [[hottip:*:No player in the squad had ever played in the tournament. Nordstrand had been an unused sub for Copenhagen and Lorentzen had played in the qualification for Brøndby]]. Aside from their impressive 1-1 against Juventus, they've been beaten in every game, which is mostly because they weren't good enough in both ends.

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* SpotlightStealingSquad: John Terry & Roman Abramovich, after Chelsea's win in the 2012 final. [[WhatAnIdiot Terry had been banned from playing in the final after kneeing a Barcelona player in the back during the second leg of the semi final]], and [[MoneyDearBoy Abramovich is Chelsea's owner & has nothing to do with the actual team beyond funding them]]... Yet both of them went up to collect the trophy following Frank Lampard (Who was standing in for Tery as team captain due to the ban) & before the rest of the team ''and the coach''. It was made even worse by Terry changing into his Chelsea kit, so he looked like he had been part of the team, and UEFA barring banned players from taking part in the presentation in previous years.
* WideEyedIdealist: FC Nordsjælland from Denmark. FC Nordsjælland is by quite a distance the club in the 2012/13 Champions League with the lowest budget, and an almost hilariously low internal salary cap (€13,330 per month) compared to other clubs. What exactly makes them wide-eyed idealists? They still try to play the same kind of football as [=FC Barcelona=], despite the fact that they have the by a huge margin smallest budget in the tournament and no players with any experience from this level of football whatsoever. Aside from their impressive 1-1 against Juventus, they've been beaten in every game, which is mostly because they weren't good enough in both ends.

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