European club football made its triumphant return this week, with wide-eyed fans treated to such glorious spectacles as Basel v Ludogorets Paris Saint-Germain v Arsenal at the Parc des Princes.
But the Champions League and Europa League look very different now to the way they did 24 years ago, when the former was just starting out and the latter…well it didn’t even exist – we just had the Uefa Cup back then, with domestic cup winners making their way into the imaginatively-titled Cup Winners’ Cup.
Some 30 teams in the English football pyramid* have played in an official Uefa competition since the start of the 1992/93 season – that’s the Champions League, Uefa Cup, Europa League, Cup Winners’ Cup and even the black sheep of the family, the Inter-Toto Cup.
Your task is simple – name all of them inside five minutes.
*yes, that means we’re including any teams from outside England who qualified for Europe via an English competition
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