European Cup and UEFA Champions League records and statistics

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.

[4] A total of 154 clubs from 34 national associations have played in or qualified for the Champions League 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.

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.

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.

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: Notes: The criteria for an assist to be awarded may vary according to the source, this table is based on the assists criteria according to Opta, where assists are not counted for balls that are deflected or rebounded off opposing players and have clearly affected the trajectory of the ball and its arrival to the recipient (the goal scorer).

Map of UEFA countries, stages reached by teams on the UEFA Champions League and European Cup:
UEFA member nation with winning clubs
UEFA member nation with runner-up clubs
UEFA member nation that has been represented in the semi-final
UEFA member nation that has been represented in the round of 16 or quarter-final
UEFA member nation that has been represented in the group stage
UEFA member nation that has not been represented in the group stage
Not a UEFA member
Statue of Brian Clough , Nottingham Forest manager who won the European Cup in 1979 and 1980
Three silver trophies on blue plinths in a glass display case.
Manchester United won a treble in 1999: the Premier League , Champions League and FA Cup (left to right) ; the English club also won the 1999 Intercontinental Cup .
Alan Kennedy scored the decisive penalty kick in the 1984 final .
Zinedine Zidane and Juventus drew their first five games in 1998–99 .
Fabio Capello 's Milan became the first side to win all group stage matches in the 1992–93 season.
Louis van Gaal 's Barcelona won Group H by eleven points in 2002–03 .
Pep Guardiola coached Barcelona to victory from the qualification round in 2008–09 .
Paco Gento , first of the five players to have won the tournament on six occasions, appeared in eight finals.
Dani Carvajal , the only player with six titles who started in all the finals he won, alongside Paco Gento .
Cristiano Ronaldo holds the record for the most match wins in the tournament.
Alessandro Costacurta , the oldest winner of the competition as a player.
Clarence Seedorf is the only player to win the tournament with three clubs.
Iker Casillas has made the most appearances in the competition for a goalkeeper.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the all-time top goalscorer in the competition.
Gerd Müller was the first player to become top scorer in four Champions League seasons.
Ferenc Puskás is the only footballer to score four goals in a final.
Ruud van Nistelrooy scored four goals against Sparta Prague in 2004–05 .
Robert Lewandowski scored four goals for Borussia Dortmund against Real Madrid in the semi-finals in 2013 . He also scored the fastest four goals in 15 minutes for Bayern Munich against Red Star Belgrade in 2019–20 . [ 73 ]
Luiz Adriano scored five goals in Shakhtar Donetsk 's 7–0 win against BATE Borisov , including a record four goals in the first-half, in 2014–15 .
Roy Makaay scored the fastest ever Champions League goal.
Ryan Giggs has the most assists in the UEFA Champions League's history.
Alex Ferguson has made the most appearances in the competition as manager for one club, with 190 for Manchester United.
Carlo Ancelotti is the only manager to both win five UEFA Champions League titles and to reach the final six times.
Miguel Muñoz was the first individual to have won the title as a player and as a manager.
Vicente del Bosque is the only manager to win the Champions League, the FIFA World Cup and the European Championship .
Felix Brych has officiated the most matches in the competition.
Florentino Pérez is the president whose club has won the most titles with him in charge
The fans in the Barcelona and Bayern Munich match in the 2012–13 semi-final second leg.