European Cup and UEFA Champions League records and statistics

This page details all statistics of all seasons of the European Cup and Champions League. These statistics do not include the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Champions League, unless otherwise noted.
Twenty-three clubs have won the tournament since its 1955 inception. Real Madrid is the most successful club in the tournament, winning it fifteen times. A total of thirteen clubs have won the tournament multiple times: Real Madrid, Milan, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Benfica, Inter Milan, Ajax, Nottingham Forest, Juventus, Manchester United, Porto, Barcelona and Chelsea. Nineteen clubs have reached the final but never won the tournament.
Spanish clubs are the most successful, winning twenty titles. England is second with fifteen and Italy is third with twelve. Germany has eight titles, Netherlands has six, Portugal has four, and Scotland, Romania, Yugoslavia, and France each have one. Clubs from Greece, Belgium and Sweden have reached the final but never won.
In this ranking, two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw, and zero for a loss. Following statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored. Only the top twenty-five are listed (includes qualifying rounds).
A total of 154 clubs from 34 national associations have played in or qualified for the Champions League group stage. Season in bold represents teams qualified for the knockout phase that season. Between 1999–2000 and 2002–03, qualification is considered from the second group stage. Starting from the 2024–25 season with the introduction of a league phase, the top eight are considered to be qualified as well as the eight play-off winners.
European Cup group stage participants (only one season was played in this format)
1991–92:
Note: In the 1992 and 1993 seasons there were no semi-finals as the finalists qualified via a group stage. The winners (Sampdoria and Barcelona in 1992, Marseille and Milan in 1993) and runners-up (Red Star Belgrade and Sparta Prague in 1992, Rangers and IFK Göteborg in 1993) of the two groups are marked as semi-finalists in the table.
See also Treble (association football) and List of association football teams to have won four or more trophies in one season.
Five clubs managed to win the European Cup on their debut:
Three clubs won the Champions League on their debut:
Two clubs have won European Cup on their debut without losing a single game in the competition:
Nine clubs have won all of their six games in a group stage, on thirteen occasions. Real Madrid and Bayern Munich have done so the most, on three occasions, and the latter are also the only club to have two consecutive six-win group stages:
Only one club has drawn all of their games in a group stage:
In the history of the Champions League, the following 23 clubs have lost all group stage matches, Dinamo Zagreb is the only team to do it twice:
The biggest points difference between the first- and second-placed teams in a Champions League group phase is eleven points, achieved by four teams:
Several teams have been knocked out on a tiebreaker, most on the head-to-head criteria:
1995–96 was the first tournament in which three points were awarded for a win instead of two. The following teams were knocked out from the group stage, but would have advanced following the old rule:
Since the addition of a third qualifying round in the 1999–2000 season, four teams have negotiated all three rounds of qualification and reached the Champions League group phase:
Since the addition of a fourth 'play-off' round in the 2009–10 season, five teams have negotiated all four rounds of qualification and reached the Champions League group phase:
Four teams have won the tournament from the third qualification round:
Players that are still active in Europe are highlighted in boldface. The table below does not include appearances made in the qualification stage of the competition.
The following players have scored four goals in one European Cup/UEFA Champions League match. Only Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ferenc Puskás, Sándor Kocsis, Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski managed to do this from the quarter-final stage onwards and Ferenc Puskás is the only footballer to score four goals in a final (1960).
The following players have managed to score five goals in one European Cup/UEFA Champions League match:
The following table shows the captains who have won the title:
The table below does not include the qualification stage of the competition.