Real Madrid is close to taking another step towards crowning its 14th Titleholders League title by reaching the semifinals of this edition at the expenditure of Chelsea.
Real Madrid beat Chelsea (5-4) on total in the two quarterfinal games, and set a date with the winner against Atlético de Madrid and Manchester City, which will be played on Wednesday.
Real Madrid's history in the Titleholders League (since the current system was introduced in 1992) promises to achieve the title when it beats its holder in the playoffs, as happed in 4 former editions.
In thesemi-finals of the 1997-1998 interpretation, Real Madrid faced their German counterpart, Borussia Dortmund, current titleholders at the time, and won (2-0) in the first leg, with a negative draw in the alternate leg., to promote the royal platoon to the final that beat Juventus 1-0, achieving its seventh title in the event, the coveted 32 times.
In the 1999-2000 edition, Real Madrid faced defending champion Manchester United in the quarter- tests, and the match ended in a goalless draw, while the real platoon won the first leg (3-2) to reach thesemi-finals, and beat Bayern Munich by the same scoreline and also defeated Valencia in the final with three pretensions to claim their eighth title.
Two times latterly, Bayern Munich was the champion in the 2001-2002 edition, and Real Madrid surpassed them (3-2) also after winning (2-1) in the first leg and (2-0) in the alternate leg, and also excluded Barcelona from thesemi-finals and beat Germany's Bayer Leverkusen in the final.
In the semifinals of the 2013-2014 interpretation, the Real met again with Bayern Munich, current champion at that time, and the real platoon won (5-0) after winning the first leg with a clean thing and also by four without answer in the alternate leg, before beating Atlético de Madrid (4-1) in the final.
It should be noted that Real Madrid have met the defending titleholders in the Titleholders League playoffs 13 times under their old and current systems, qualifying in 9 of them and exiting only 3 times.
