UEFA Champions League | Full History
Europe’s premier club competition, crowning a champion every year since 1955-56 — Real Madrid have won it a record 15 times.
Covers every European Cup / UEFA Champions League final from 1955-56 through 2025-26 (71 editions, verified against Wikipedia’s full finals list and cross-checked penalty-shootout scores individually). titleLeaders is capped at the top 10 clubs by title count; several other clubs sit just outside this list on 2 titles each (FC Porto, Nottingham Forest, Paris Saint-Germain) and are not shown here to keep the leaderboard to 10 rows.
Top 10 Teams — Most Titles
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71 entries on record
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PSG’s second consecutive title, matching Real Madrid (2016-17) as the only clubs to retain the trophy in the Champions League era.
PSG’s first Champions League title, won by their biggest final margin in the competition’s history.
Real Madrid’s record-extending 15th European Cup/Champions League title.
Completed City’s continental treble that season.
Played as a single-leg finals tournament in a neutral country due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Real Madrid’s third consecutive title.
First club to retain the Champions League title in the modern era.
penalties (5–3)
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Real Madrid’s "La Décima" — their 10th European Cup/Champions League title.
First all-German final.
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"The Miracle of Istanbul" — Liverpool trailed 3-0 at half-time before drawing level and winning on penalties.
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United scored twice in stoppage time to overturn a 1-0 deficit — one of the most famous finals in the competition’s history.
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Marseille’s title was later stripped of eligibility complications by a domestic match-fixing scandal, though the European title itself was not revoked.
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First final under the rebranded "UEFA Champions League" name/format.
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First European Cup final goalless after 120 minutes; Steaua keeper Helmut Duckadam saved all four Barcelona penalties.
Overshadowed by the Heysel Stadium disaster before kick-off, in which 39 fans died; English clubs were subsequently banned from European competition for five years.
penalties (4–2)
replay (first match finished 1–1 after extra time)
The only European Cup final ever decided by a full replay rather than penalties — penalty shootouts were not yet in use for finals.
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