From nonleague to Champions League: Man City's Semenyo joins exclusive club

By featuring for Manchester City in the first leg of their  Champions League  round-of-16 tie to  Real Madrid , Antoine Semenyo moved one step closer to matching a unique record in English football that has been held by one man for the past two decades. That man is former Liverpool fullback Steve Finnan who, aside from being regarded as one of the Premier League 's most consistent defenders of the 2000s, is also famed for being the subject of a pub quiz football trivia. Indeed, Finnan is on record as the only man to have played in nonleague, all four professional English leagues (the Premier League, Championship , League One and League Two ), the Europa League, the Champions League and the World Cup, which he did so with the Republic of Ireland back in 2002. After making his European club debut this week, Semenyo is narrowly behind Finnan in the race to check off all of the competitio