Most Champions League titles by club
Real Madrid have played in 18 finals and lost three, the last in 1981, and have won all nine since, as UEFA notes. AC Milan have seven titles, Bayern Munich and Liverpool six each, Barcelona five and Ajax four; 14 clubs have won the trophy more than once and 10 exactly once. Juventus have lost a record seven finals, Benfica lost all five they played after winning in 1961 and 1962, and no former winner has waited longer for another title. Eighteen clubs have reached a final without winning one, Atlético Madrid three times.
Champions League winners list: every final since 1956
The European Champion Clubs' Cup became the UEFA Champions League in 1992-93. Every winner and score matches UEFA's season-by-season history, and every venue its match reports and statistics handbook.
| Season | Winner | Score | Runner-up | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Paris Saint-Germain | 1-1 (4-3 pens) | Arsenal | Budapest |
| 2024-25 | Paris Saint-Germain | 5-0 | Inter Milan | Munich |
| 2023-24 | Real Madrid | 2-0 | Borussia Dortmund | London |
| 2022-23 | Manchester City | 1-0 | Inter Milan | Istanbul |
| 2021-22 | Real Madrid | 1-0 | Liverpool | Saint-Denis |
| 2020-21 | Chelsea | 1-0 | Manchester City | Porto |
| 2019-20 | Bayern Munich | 1-0 | Paris Saint-Germain | Lisbon |
| 2018-19 | Liverpool | 2-0 | Tottenham Hotspur | Madrid |
| 2017-18 | Real Madrid | 3-1 | Liverpool | Kyiv |
| 2016-17 | Real Madrid | 4-1 | Juventus | Cardiff |
| 2015-16 | Real Madrid | 1-1 (5-3 pens) | Atlético Madrid | Milan |
| 2014-15 | Barcelona | 3-1 | Juventus | Berlin |
| 2013-14 | Real Madrid | 4-1 (ET) | Atlético Madrid | Lisbon |
| 2012-13 | Bayern Munich | 2-1 | Borussia Dortmund | London |
| 2011-12 | Chelsea | 1-1 (4-3 pens) | Bayern Munich | Munich |
| 2010-11 | Barcelona | 3-1 | Manchester United | London |
| 2009-10 | Inter Milan | 2-0 | Bayern Munich | Madrid |
| 2008-09 | Barcelona | 2-0 | Manchester United | Rome |
| 2007-08 | Manchester United | 1-1 (6-5 pens) | Chelsea | Moscow |
| 2006-07 | AC Milan | 2-1 | Liverpool | Athens |
| 2005-06 | Barcelona | 2-1 | Arsenal | Saint-Denis |
| 2004-05 | Liverpool | 3-3 (3-2 pens) | AC Milan | Istanbul |
| 2003-04 | Porto | 3-0 | Monaco | Gelsenkirchen |
| 2002-03 | AC Milan | 0-0 (3-2 pens) | Juventus | Manchester |
| 2001-02 | Real Madrid | 2-1 | Bayer Leverkusen | Glasgow |
| 2000-01 | Bayern Munich | 1-1 (5-4 pens) | Valencia | Milan |
| 1999-2000 | Real Madrid | 3-0 | Valencia | Saint-Denis |
| 1998-99 | Manchester United | 2-1 | Bayern Munich | Barcelona |
| 1997-98 | Real Madrid | 1-0 | Juventus | Amsterdam |
| 1996-97 | Borussia Dortmund | 3-1 | Juventus | Munich |
| 1995-96 | Juventus | 1-1 (4-2 pens) | Ajax | Rome |
| 1994-95 | Ajax | 1-0 | AC Milan | Vienna |
| 1993-94 | AC Milan | 4-0 | Barcelona | Athens |
| 1992-93 | Marseille | 1-0 | AC Milan | Munich |
| 1991-92 | Barcelona | 1-0 (ET) | Sampdoria | London |
| 1990-91 | Red Star Belgrade | 0-0 (5-3 pens) | Marseille | Bari |
| 1989-90 | AC Milan | 1-0 | Benfica | Vienna |
| 1988-89 | AC Milan | 4-0 | Steaua Bucharest | Barcelona |
| 1987-88 | PSV Eindhoven | 0-0 (6-5 pens) | Benfica | Stuttgart |
| 1986-87 | Porto | 2-1 | Bayern Munich | Vienna |
| 1985-86 | Steaua Bucharest | 0-0 (2-0 pens) | Barcelona | Seville |
| 1984-85 | Juventus | 1-0 | Liverpool | Brussels |
| 1983-84 | Liverpool | 1-1 (4-2 pens) | Roma | Rome |
| 1982-83 | Hamburg | 1-0 | Juventus | Athens |
| 1981-82 | Aston Villa | 1-0 | Bayern Munich | Rotterdam |
| 1980-81 | Liverpool | 1-0 | Real Madrid | Paris |
| 1979-80 | Nottingham Forest | 1-0 | Hamburg | Madrid |
| 1978-79 | Nottingham Forest | 1-0 | Malmö | Munich |
| 1977-78 | Liverpool | 1-0 | Club Brugge | London |
| 1976-77 | Liverpool | 3-1 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | Rome |
| 1975-76 | Bayern Munich | 1-0 | Saint-Étienne | Glasgow |
| 1974-75 | Bayern Munich | 2-0 | Leeds United | Paris |
| 1973-74 | Bayern Munich | 1-1 (ET), replay 4-0 | Atlético Madrid | Brussels |
| 1972-73 | Ajax | 1-0 | Juventus | Belgrade |
| 1971-72 | Ajax | 2-0 | Inter Milan | Rotterdam |
| 1970-71 | Ajax | 2-0 | Panathinaikos | London |
| 1969-70 | Feyenoord | 2-1 (ET) | Celtic | Milan |
| 1968-69 | AC Milan | 4-1 | Ajax | Madrid |
| 1967-68 | Manchester United | 4-1 (ET) | Benfica | London |
| 1966-67 | Celtic | 2-1 | Inter Milan | Lisbon |
| 1965-66 | Real Madrid | 2-1 | Partizan | Brussels |
| 1964-65 | Inter Milan | 1-0 | Benfica | Milan |
| 1963-64 | Inter Milan | 3-1 | Real Madrid | Vienna |
| 1962-63 | AC Milan | 2-1 | Benfica | London |
| 1961-62 | Benfica | 5-3 | Real Madrid | Amsterdam |
| 1960-61 | Benfica | 3-2 | Barcelona | Bern |
| 1959-60 | Real Madrid | 7-3 | Eintracht Frankfurt | Glasgow |
| 1958-59 | Real Madrid | 2-0 | Reims | Stuttgart |
| 1957-58 | Real Madrid | 3-2 (ET) | AC Milan | Brussels |
| 1956-57 | Real Madrid | 2-0 | Fiorentina | Madrid |
| 1955-56 | Real Madrid | 4-3 | Reims | Paris |
Champions League titles by country and by decade
Spanish clubs have won 20 titles, all of them by Real Madrid and Barcelona; English clubs 15, shared by six winners, more than any other country; and Italian clubs 12, though Italy has also lost a record 18 finals. Germany has eight, the Netherlands six, Portugal four and France three, two of them PSG's, while Scotland, Romania and Yugoslavia have one each.
Real Madrid won all four finals from 1956 to 1959, and in the 2010s they took four of the 10 as six clubs shared the titles. The 1980s and 1990s were the most open decades, with nine different winners in 10 finals each, among them Aston Villa, Steaua Bucharest, PSV Eindhoven and Red Star Belgrade. Since 2000, Spanish clubs have won 12 of the 27 finals; from 1960 to 1999 they won four of 40.
English clubs in the Champions League final
English clubs have won 15 finals and lost 12. Manchester United were the first English winners, in 1968, a year after Celtic took the trophy to Britain for the first time. From 1977 to 1982 English clubs won six finals in a row, a run Hamburg ended in 1983, and three finals have been all-English: 2008, 2019 and 2021.
- Liverpool: six wins (1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005, 2019), four defeats (1985, 2007, 2018, 2022)
- Manchester United: three wins (1968, 1999, 2008), two defeats (2009, 2011)
- Chelsea: two wins (2012, 2021), one defeat (2008)
- Nottingham Forest: two wins (1979, 1980)
- Manchester City: one win (2023), one defeat (2021)
- Aston Villa: one win (1982)
- Arsenal: two defeats (2006, 2026)
- Leeds United and Tottenham Hotspur: one defeat each (1975 and 2019)
After the Heysel disaster at the 1985 final, English clubs were banned from European competition, and none reached the final again until 1999. In 2026 Arsenal reached Budapest as Premier League champions, with 85 points, as our analysis of title-winning points shows, and lost the shootout 4-3.
Back-to-back Champions League winners and finals decided on penalties
Holders have retained the trophy 16 times in 70 attempts, 13 of them by 1990. Real Madrid's five in a row from 1956 to 1960 is the record. In the Champions League era only Real Madrid, first in 2017 and again in 2018, and PSG in 2026 have defended the title: three times in 34 finals.
Eighteen finals, 25 percent, went to extra time and 12 to a shootout, the first in 1984, when Liverpool beat Roma 4-2 on penalties in Roma's own stadium. The 1974 final is the only one replayed: Bayern Munich drew 1-1 with Atlético Madrid after extra time and won the replay 4-0 two days later. PSG's 4-3 shootout win in 2026 was the first since 2016, and their 5-0 win over Inter Milan in 2025 the widest margin in any final; Real Madrid's 7-3 against Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960 is the highest-scoring final.
How often the domestic league champion wins the final
One measure of form is whether a finalist had won its own league that season. In the 37 finals between a club that won its league that season and one that did not, the league champion won 21, or 57 percent, a modest edge: Atlético Madrid lost the 2014 final as La Liga champions, and Manchester City the 2021 final as Premier League champions.
Both finalists had won their leagues in 13 finals, the latest in 2026, after PSG had won Ligue 1 and Arsenal the Premier League, and neither had in 21. The winner had also won its league in 34 of the 71 finals, 48 percent. Titles later stripped, such as Marseille's in 1992-93, do not count.
Champions League final venues
The final is played at a neutral venue chosen by UEFA, and 33 stadiums in 18 countries have staged one. Wembley leads with eight, from 1963 to 2024, ahead of the Santiago Bernabéu, Heysel, San Siro, the Stadio Olimpico and Vienna's Prater with four each, and Germany, England and Italy have hosted nine finals apiece. Neutral has not always meant away from home: Real Madrid (1957) and Inter Milan (1965) won finals in their own stadiums, and Roma (1984) and Bayern Munich (2012) lost theirs on penalties.
The league-phase format and the 2026-27 table after matchday 3
Since 2024-25, the 36 clubs have played a single league phase of eight games against eight different opponents, four at home and four away, UEFA explains. The top eight go to the round of 16, the clubs from ninth to 24th play two-legged knockout playoffs, and the rest are out, with no route into the Europa League. PSG have won both finals since, and the 2027 final is at the Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid on June 5, according to UEFA.
After three of the eight matchdays, played on September 8-10, October 13-14 and October 20-21, five clubs had won all three games. PSG, who beat Barcelona 4-2 on October 20, led on goals scored from Aston Villa, both on nine points with a goal difference of +9, with Liverpool third, Real Madrid fourth and Real Betis fifth. Arsenal drew 2-2 at Bayern Munich and were seventh, so three English clubs were in the top eight; Manchester City were 10th, and Manchester United, beaten 4-1 at Como, were joint 20th with Inter Milan, the 2025 runners-up.
On matchday 2, PSG won 4-2 at Manchester City, Villa's 6-0 win over Fenerbahçe was their biggest in UEFA competition, UEFA notes, and Liverpool won 6-3 at LASK Linz; our matchday 2 preview has that round. Matchday 4 is on November 3 and 4, and the league phase ends on January 27, 2027.
Champions League winners: frequently asked questions
Who has won the most Champions League titles? Real Madrid, with 15, the latest in 2024. AC Milan have seven, and Bayern Munich and Liverpool six each.
Who won the 2026 Champions League final? Paris Saint-Germain, who beat Arsenal 4-3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in Budapest on May 30, 2026.
Which English club has won the most Champions League titles? Liverpool, with six: 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005 and 2019.
Where is the 2027 Champions League final? At the Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid on Saturday, June 5, 2027.
How this was built: all 71 finals from 1956 to 2026, from Wikipedia's list of finals, with every winner and score checked against UEFA.com's season and match pages, and every venue and shootout against UEFA's match reports, season reviews and 2022-23 statistics handbook. West Germany counts as Germany, the old and new Wembley as one stadium and Vienna's Prater as one under both of its names; decades go by the year of the final. Domestic champions come from Wikipedia's lists of national champions, such as England's. The 2026-27 table is computed from ESPN's results of the first three matchdays, ranked by points, goal difference, goals scored and away goals scored, as in our match reports; clubs still level share a place. See also our methodology. Data collected October 21, 2026.