Saturday victory against Real socialad It guarantees classification Atlético de Madrid to Diego Simon By the thirteenth of the last century in a row of the Champions League, from 2012-13 to 2024-25, which was infallible in this sense in his entire 13 seasons at the head of the team.
The club’s goal every year, Only once outside the platform of the table (last season, which was fourth), awaiting the result of the current session, which can be between the fifth and second place even in the absence of the rest of the day and three other chapters of the competition, Atlético reaches this goal after adding 70 points, however 20 wins, 10 equivalent, 5 losses, 56 goals in favor and 27 against In 35 already disputed dueling.
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On two occasions, he got the pass to the Champions League as Laliga, In 2013-14 and 2020-21; In two others in the second place in the table (2017-18 and 2018-19); In six AS Third (2012-13, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2019-20, 2021-22 and 2022-23); And in one room, last year, awaiting its final status in the current exercise.
His thirteen participation in a row, with his participation in the next season, according to orders Diego Simon Atlético exceeds the history of the entire club, with eight until the arrival of the Argentine coach, but with the nuances that were classified for a long time, until the end of the nineties, the league champion was only classified as the European Cup.
In that past in the maximum Continental competition before SimonAtlético won the right to play five times as a champion (one with each player, in “Double” in 1995-1996 to object to the Champions League 1996-1997, where he reached the quarter-finals); In another second in 1958, as soon as Real Madrid won the previous version of the tournament; Two, on 2007-08 and 2008-09 already with classification to the table room, such as the Spanish Laliga room.
If the pieces to enter the European Cup will be the first four league classification throughout the history of the competition, The Rojiblanco team was competing in the championship in 22 times before the twenty -first century. Since then, he did fifteen occasions, thirteen of them with Simon as a technique.
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Under his supervision, Atlético was in the final and became in two editions of the Champions League (2013-14 and 2015-16); The semi-finals in one (2016-17); It reached the quarter-finals in four (2014-15, 2019-20, 2021-22 and 2023-24) and was eliminated on the eighth in three (19-19, 2020-21 and the current session). He fell twice in the group stage, both in 2017-18, when he was the European League champion, as in 2022-23.
