Cypriot side Pafos FC will make their Champions League debut on Wednesday - just 11 years after their formation.
The club have made waves in recent years, playing in Europe for the first time last season and reaching the Conference League last 16, as well as winning their first league title.
And this season they have reached another huge milestone in coming through three rounds of qualifying to reach the Champions League proper - one of only two teams, alongside Kazakh outfit Kairat Almaty, to feature for the first time.
Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Dynamo Kyiv and Red Star Belgrade were all dispatched by Pafos through qualifying.
Their reward is eight matches in the league phase, including a home game against Bayern Munich and a trip to Chelsea, but they start with a trip to Greece to face Olympiakos on Wednesday.
Everybody was in ecstasy, former Brazil and Chelsea defender David Luiz, who joined the club in August, told BBC Sport about the moment Pafos qualified. Everybody was totally happy because we did something amazing. Nobody expected us to be in the Champions League this season.
I'm very happy to be here because I can see this feeling, with everybody's hunger, to do something great.
Pafos were formed in 2014 when two clubs from the region merged - AEK Kouklia and AEP Paphos - who themselves had been formed in a 2000 merger of two other teams in the district.
They started in the second tier and bounced around between that and the top flight until the 2017 takeover of Roman Dubov, a Russian businessman with British citizenship. Dubov aimed to create a competitive and sustainable football club in Pafos.
Things changed with the arrival of Spaniard Juan Carlos Carcedo in June 2023, who guided the club to its first major trophy - the 2023–24 Cypriot Cup - and a historical league title in the 2023-2024 season.
Luiz expressed excitement about competing against Chelsea later in the league phase and believes Pafos has the potential to achieve something remarkable in the Champions League.
