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The UEFA Champions League is a seasonal football competition established in 1955. [1] Prior to the 1992–93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. [1] The UEFA Champions League is open to the league champions of all UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) member associations (except Liechtenstein, which has no league competition), as well as to the clubs finishing from ...
Real Madrid holds the record for the most titles overall with 26, followed by Milan's 17 titles. [7] [8] Spanish teams hold the record for the most wins in each of the three main UEFA club competitions: Real Madrid, with 15 European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles; Sevilla, with 7 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League titles; and Barcelona, with 4 Cup Winners' Cup titles.
Zinedine Zidane is the only manager to have won titles in three consecutive years, all with Real Madrid. Pep Guardiola won three titles in 2009, 2011 and 2023, with Barcelona and Manchester City. Brian Clough won back-to-back titles as manager of Nottingham Forest. Ernst Happel was the first manager to win the title with two different clubs.
Chelsea (six) won the majority of their titles in the 21st century (between 2005 and 2017). [citation needed] Manchester City became the first men's team to win the league title in four consecutive seasons in 2024. [13] 24 clubs have won the top level title in English football. All figures are correct as of the end of the 2023–24 season.
The competition has been won fourteen times by teams from Spain, more than any other country. [1] The last champions before the UEFA Cup was renamed to UEFA Europa League were Shakhtar Donetsk , who beat Werder Bremen 2–1 after extra time in the 2009 final . [ 5 ]
A national second tier of English league football was established in 1892–93, at the demise of Football Alliance, as the Second Division.In 1992, with the departure of the then First Division clubs to become the Premier League, the second tier became known as the First Division.
Carlo Ancelotti became the first manager to win 11 UEFA competition titles.. This is a list of UEFA club competition winning football managers.It includes victories in the European Cup and UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, the UEFA Cup and Europa League, the UEFA Conference League, the UEFA Intertoto Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup.
Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp won his first Champions League title in his third final. Liverpool reached their ninth overall final, an English record, as well as their second in a row, having lost to Real Madrid in 2018. [25] They had won the competition on five occasions (1977, 1978, 1981, 1984 and 2005) and lost three times (1985, 2007 and