The UEFA Plaque is an honorary recognition given by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to Italian side Juventus Football Club when they won all three major UEFA competitions, namely the European Champions Clubs’ Cup or Champions League, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup or Europa League (first team in European football history to do so).
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Trophy
The award consists of a rectangular silver plaque on which are superimposed three trophies that represent the tournaments mentioned, above a golden laurel wreath and the European football government body badge, also in gold. Also, the plaque have the following inscription:
Tribute
The UEFA to Juventus F.C.
First club having won the three international UEFA club competitions
European Champions Clubs' Cup
European Cup of the Winners' Cup
UEFA Cup.
Award winners
On 12 July 1988, at the beginning of the 1988–89 European competitions seeding held in Geneva (Switzerland), former UEFA president Jacques Georges presented the prize for the first time to Juventus chairman Giampiero Boniperti.
Four years later, in July 1992, after winning the European Champions' Cup, the then FC Barcelona president, Josep Lluís Núñez requested of UEFA a similar recognition, stating that his club had equaled Juventus and Ajax's record having won formerly the Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Cup. The European football's governing body rejected it because the Spanish club had never won the UEFA Cup proper and UEFA does not recognise the Fairs Cup as its official predecessor.