“Brest is living a dream”, admire The Sport. After having completed a 2023-2024 season “extraordinaire” in Ligue 1, the Finistère football club is the “big surprise” of the 2024-2025 edition of the Champions League, notes the sports daily in the Catalan language. He will seek to “confirm your success” European during its trip to the Montjuïc Olympic stadium, Tuesday November 26, to challenge the great FC Barcelona, assures the Spanish newspaper The Country.
Undefeated on the continental scene, the Ty-Zefs, the nickname of the Stade Brestois 29 players, are currently only in 12th place in the Ligue 1 standings, but they occupy fourth place in the single group of the most prestigious of European competitions.
The “modest” Breton entity is credited, among its competitors, with the lowest UEFA coefficient − a unit of measurement which allows the governing body of European football to classify teams according to their performances −, in addition to displaying one of the budgets the lowest in the competition (48 million euros), note The Country.
The limited resources available to the Brestois did not prevent them from winning against SK Sturm Graz and RB Salzburg, from beating Sparta Prague and clinching
