| DORTMUND | German football team that won the Champions League in 1997 (8,8) |
| BORUSSIA | German football team that won the Champions League in 1997 (8,8) |
| SEAPIGEON | Horse that won the Champion Hurdle in 1980 and 1981 |
| INTER | Local informal name for the team which last won the Champions League in 2010 |
| NEWORLEANSSAINTS | American football team that won the Super Bowl in 2009 |
| HEERENVEEN | Dutch town in Friesland whose football team qualified for the Champions League in 2000 (10) |
| NOTTINGHAMFOREST | Football team that won two European Cups under Brian Clough |
| EUROPEANCUP | The event that became the Champions League in 1992 |
| LIVERPOOL | Football team that won the UEFA Champions League in 2005 and 2019 (9) |
| FORSTER | Identify the family name of this German siblings Karlheinz & Bernd, who were part of the 1980 Euro-winning German football team and also being part of the 1982 World Cup team that ended as runner-up. |
| LAMBERT | Paul -, Scottish midfielder at Borussia Dortmund, winning the Champions League in the late 1990s (7) |
| BORUSSIADORTMUND | German football club, home ground Westfalenstadion (8,8) |
| EUROPEAN | Cup, competition replaced by the Champions League in 1992 (8) |
| ANCELOTTI | Italian football manager who has won the Champions League a record five times as a coach, plus two more as a player |
| CARLO | Italian football manager who has won the Champions League a record five times as a coach, plus two more as a player (5,9) |
| CLARENCESEEDORF | Footballer who won the Champions League with Ajax, Real Madrid and AC Milan |
| CHELSEA | Prem club who have most recently won the Champions League! (7) |
| MOURINHO | Jose ........, manager who won the Champions League with Porto and Internazionale (8) |
| DECO | Ex-Portugal and Chelsea midfielder who won the Champions' League with Porto and Barcelona (4) |
| ELF | Mischief-maker in German football team? (3) |
