The UEFA Plaque
Digital reproduction of The UEFA Plaque presented to Juventus in 1988 | |
| Sport | Professional association football |
|---|---|
| League | Football associations affilied to UEFA |
| Competition | UEFA club competitions |
| Discipline | Men's senior association football |
| Awarded for | Clubs' outstanding sporting merits |
| Local name | UEFA-Abzeichen (German), Plaque UEFA (French) |
| Nickname | UEFA set award European set award |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Presented by | Union of European Football Associations (though its president) |
| History | |
| First award | 1988 |
| Final award | 2025 |
| First winner | Juventus |
| Most recent | Chelsea |
The UEFA Plaque is an honorific award given by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to clubs that had won, at least once, the title in each of the three major international competitions organised by the confederation, namely the European Champions Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Cup. It was officially established in late 1987 being regarded "an accomplishment of clubs' excellence and consistency in the confederation competitions".
UEFA awarded the prize for first time in the second half of 1988, prior of the 1988–89 European tournaments draw, with Italian Juventus being the club to be honoured. A second award was initially scheduled for the second half of 1992 in favour of Dutch side Ajax, but it was not conferred for unclarified reasons by the confederation after Spanish team Barcelona—who did not comply with the requirement imposed by UEFA as they had won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup as opposed to the UEFA Cup—; at the same time unsuccessfully applied to European football's governing body for such recognition, while then UEFA chairman Lennart Johansson proposed strongly to unify the three seasonal competitions into a unique élite pan-continental championship with the best clubs of the continent, a kind of Super League ante litteram.
A similar award was made in 2025 after English team Chelsea won its first UEFA Conference League–instituted four seasons earlier—and added this feat to the three major confederation competitions they had already won between 1971 and 2013.