10 smallest clubs to ever play in the Champions League | OneFootball

NK Maribor, who hail from Slovenia, have featured in the group stages of the Champions League on three occasions, with their latest outing coming back in 2017. Maribor lies around 80 miles from the capital, Ljubljana, and it has a population of less than 100,000 people, so the football club is a relative minnow when it takes to the European stage. 2014 saw The Violets qualify for the UCL group stages for only the second time in their history, having defeated Celtic in the play-offs. Whilst they did go winless in the campaign, their three draws to Sporting, Schalke and Chelsea certainly represent a monumental feat. Three years later, another UCL outing ensued, as they picked up two draws against Spartak Moscow and one with Sevilla.