The Uefa Champions League is a knockout competition played every year between Europe’s top teams
From the 2024/25 season onwards, the competition brought together 36 teams from the main European leagues in the group stage (previously there were 32). The classifieds then face each other in the knockout stages
The Champions League has been won by 23 teams since its creation in 1955. Among the winners, 13 have lifted the cup more than once. Check it out below
Champions
English Aston Villa – 1981/82
The German Hamburg – 1982/83
The Romanian FCSB – 1985/86
Scottish Celtic – 1966/67
Dutch Feyenoord – 1969/70
Champions
The French Marseille – 1992/93
German Borussia Dortmund – 1996/97
The English Manchester City – 2022/23
Dutch PSV Eindhoven – 1987/88
About the Crvena Zvezda servo – 1990/91
Two-time champions
The English Nottingham Forest – 1978/79 and 1979/80
Or Italian Juventus – 1984/85 and 1995/95
The Portuguese Porto – 1986/87 and 2003/04
English Chelsea – 2011/12 and 2020/21
The Portuguese Benfica – 1960/61 and 1961/63
Three-time champions
English Manchester United – 1967/68, 1998/99 and 2007/08
Italian Inter Milan – 1963/64, 1964/65 and 2009/10
Four-time champion
1970/71
1971/72
1972/73
1994/95
Only one team has lifted the cup four times, Ajax, originally from Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, who won the competition in
Five-time champion
1991/92
2005/06
2008/09
2010/11
2014/15
Named after the capital of Catalonia, Barcelona has the following victories in the competition:
six-time champions
1974/75
1975/76
2000/01
2012/13
2019/20
Bayern Munich had the upper hand in the
1973/74
six-time champions
1977/78
1980/81
1983/84
2004/05
2018/19
English Liverpool won in
1976/77
Seven-time champion
1968/69
1988/89
1993/94
1989/90
2002/03
2006/07
Italian Milan is the second biggest winner of the championship, with victories in the
1962/63
Counting more than double the number of victories of second place, Spanish Real Madrid has 15 achievements of the Champions League, including the first edition of the championship, in 1955/56, and the most recent, in 2023/24
The biggest of all
Real Madrid
1957/58
1958/59
1959/60
1965/66
1999/00
1997/98
1955/56
1956/57
Real Madrid
2015/16
2016/17
2017/18
2021/22
2023/24
2001/02
2013/14
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