{ "title": "Atiba Hutchinson opens 15th straight season in UEFA competition", "modified_at": "2026-05-04 14:51:18", "published_at": "2020-08-25 16:43:00", "url": "https://news.canadasoccer.com/atiba-hutchinson-opens-15th-straight-season-in-uefa-competition", "short_url": "http://prez.ly/cuEd", "culture": "en", "language": "EN", "subtitle": "Canadian soccer star Atiba Hutchinson will start a 15th consecutive season in European continental competition when Be\u015fikta\u015f JK opens their 2020-21 UEFA Champions League Qualifying campaign on Tuesday 25 August. Hutchinson of Brampton, Ontario and his Turkish club Be\u015fikta\u015f JK enter the competition a\u2026", "slug": "atiba-hutchinson-opens-15th-straight-season-in-uefa-competition", "body": "

Canadian soccer star Atiba Hutchinson will start a 15thconsecutive season in European continental competition when Be\u015fikta\u015f JK opens
\u200btheir 2020-21 UEFA Champions League Qualifying campaign on Tuesday 25 August.
\u200bHutchinson of Brampton, Ontario and his Turkish club Be\u015fikta\u015f JK enter the
\u200bcompetition at the Second qualifying round with a knockout match against Greek
\u200bside PAOK FC.

Hutchinson is one of three Canadians in this round of UEFA Champions League Qualifying, with the others teammate Cyle Larin and Red Star Belgrade’s goalkeeper Milan Borjan. Also on Tuesday, Red Star Belgrade (FK Crvena Zvezda) face KF Tirana of Albania. In the First qualifying round, captain Borjan posted the clean sheet as Red Star won 5:0 over Europa FC from Gibraltar.

For Hutchinson, this marks his eighth-straight season in
\u200bUEFA competition with Be\u015fikta\u015f JK since the 2013-14 season. In 2016-17, he
\u200breached the Quarter-final phase of UEFA Europa League; in 2017-18, he became
\u200bjust the third Canadian to reach the Round of 16 in the men’s UEFA Champions
\u200bLeague competition.

Before Be\u015fikta\u015f JK, Hutchinson was in UEFA club competitions with PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) from 2010-11 to 2012-13 and FC København (Copenhagen, Denmark) from 2006-07 to 2009-10. Across 14 seasons from 2006-07 to 2019-20, he has played 104 matches across combined UEFA club competitions, including 19 in UEFA Champions League and 15 in UEFA Champions League Qualifying.

Hutchinson is a six-time Canada Soccer Player of the Year.
\u200bAt the club level, he has won the Dutch Cup (KNVB Beker), the Danish Superliga
\u200bfour times and the Danish Cup (DBU Pokalen) once, and the Turkish Süper Lig
\u200btwice. Still only 37 years young, he just recently signed a contract extension
\u200bwith Be\u015fikta\u015f JK for the 2020-21 season.

Most seasons in UEFA men’s club competitions:
\u200b15 Hutchinson, Atiba (2006-07 to 2020-21)
\u200b7 Borjan, Milan (2015-16 to 2020-21)
\u200b7 Klukowski, Mike (2004-05 to 2013-14)
\u200b6 Occean, Olivier (2005-06 to 2018-19)
\u200b6 Stamatopoulos, Kenny (2011-12 to 2018-19)

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\n Paulo Senra\n Chief Communications & Content Officer | Chef des communications et du contenu, Canada Soccer\n \n
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