The Champions League is one of the most followed sports competitions in the world. Year after year, millions of people are watching the most important club competition on the planet unfold. Teams like FC Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Real Madrid or Juventus, as well as all their stars, come together in this exciting competition that has a long history.
But over the years the type of tournament has changed, as well as the teams that participated as well as the name. Originally, since 1955, it was called the European Champions Cup, although it was popularly known as the European Cup. It remained that way until 1992, when it was renamed the Champions League or Champions League. Next, in the following oneHOWTO article, we will tell you about which teams have won the Champions, how many times they have done it and other interesting statistics of this exciting trophy.
Teams that have won the Champions League and how many times
This competition began in 1955 and, although under a different name and classification system, it has maintained its track record over the years. It has been called the European Cup, the European Cup and finally the Champions League. The teams that have won it since its inception are:
- real Madrid FC: 13 times.
- AC Milan: 7 times.
- Bayern Munich: 6 times.
- Liverpool FC: 6 times.
- FC Barcelona: 5 times.
- Ajax FC: 4 times.
- Inter de Milan: 3 times.
- Manchester United: 3 times.
- Benfica FC: 2 times.
- Juventus FC: 2 times.
- Nottingham forest: 2 times.
- Football Club Porto: 2 times.
- Chelsea fc: 2 times.
- Aston Villa FC: 1 time.
- Borussia Dormund: 1 time.
- Celtic FC: 1 time.
- Feyenoord: 1 time.
- Hamburg: 1 time.
- Olympique de Marseille: 1 time.
- PSV Eindhoven: 1 time.
- Red Star of Belgrade: 1 time.
- Steaua from Bucharest: 1 time.
Which teams have won the Champions League and the Europa League
Since 2010, when the old UEFA Cup was renamed the Europa League, there have been 3 teams that have managed to win it and that they had already been able to win the Champions League. These teams are:
- Manchester United.
- Chelsea FC.
- Porto FC.
But if we add what the two competitions have been able to win, whatever their name was, the list is much more extensive:
- Liverpool FC.
- Feyenoord.
- Juventus.
- PSV.
- Real Madrid FC.
- Inter Milan.
- Ajax FC.
- Bayern Munich.
Which teams have won the Champions League 2 times in a row
The only team that has won the Champions League 2 times in a row is Real Madrid, which won the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 editions. In fact, he broke the curse of the Champions League, since since the trophy was called that way, no champion had been able to revalidate a title. But not only that, the following year, 2017-2018 he revalidated the title, also becoming the only team that has won it 3 times in a row.
Before the new nomenclature, there are different teams that were able to revalidate the European championship:
- real Madrid FC: 5 consecutive times.
- Benfica: 2 times in a row.
- Inter de Milan: 2 times in a row.
- Ajax FC: 3 times in a row.
- Bayern Munich: 3 times in a row.
- Liverpool FC: 2 times in a row.
- Nottingham forest: 2 times in a row.
- AC Milan: 2 times in a row.
Which teams have won the Champions undefeated
The Champions League is surely the best football team competition in the world. The best clubs, the best players, great games that make year after year new records are set and old statistics are broken. Among these statistics stands out that of those teams that have been able to lift the cup without losing any game. This has been achieved by nine different clubs, some repeating. The teams that have won the Champions League undefeated are:
- Inter de Milan (1964)
- Ajax FC (1995 and 1972)
- Nottingham forest (1979)
- Liverpool FC (1981 and 1984)
- AC Milan (1989 and 1994)
- Red Star Belgrade (1991)
- Olympique de Marseille (1993)
- Manchester United (1999 and 2008)
- FC Barcelona (2006)
- Bayern Munich (2020)
Which teams have won the Champions League in their stadium
There are quite a few teams that have managed to win the Champions League in their own country, for example, Ajax has won it in Rotterdam, English teams like Liverpool or Manchester United have won it at Wembley, Juventus at the Olympics in Rome or Borussia Dortmund in Munich. But only two teams have been able to win the European Cup in their own stadium:
- The Real Madrid he won the European Cup for the 1956-1957 season at the Santiago Bernabeu.
- The Inter de Milan he won the 1964/65 European Cup at the San Siro Stadium, also called Giuseppe Meazza. Stadium that it shares with its neighbors and AC Milan rivals.
Something that should be noted is that no team has managed to win the Champions League in their stadium. These two cases that we have just mentioned the competition was still known as the European Cup, before 1992 when the name was changed to the Champions League.
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