Ranking main European club competitions' winning club sides by winning percentage
This is a ranking of all club sides which have won one of the three main European competitions, past or present.[4]
Bayern Munich are the only team to finish a continental competition with a 100% winning record, achieving that milestone in 2020 as part of a modified tournament structure with a final eight in a neutral venue held in a single elimination match due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.
Top 15 club sides
Qualifying and preliminary round matches are not included, neither are play-off matches; results of penalty shoot-outs are considered the score which preceded them (including extra time).
Table key
Highest ranked European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner
Highest ranked European / UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winner
Highest ranked UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League winner
Highest ranked UEFA Europa Conference League winner
Although the Cup Winners' Cup no longer exists, 27 of its former winners could still add wins in the other two competitions to achieve this UEFA treble. Ten of those teams are just one trophy away from the feat, including Barcelona and Milan who have both won the Champions League and the Cup Winners' Cup titles multiple times and are one Europa League trophy away from achieving the UEFA treble.[8][9] Other clubs needing the Europa League title to achieve the treble are Hamburg, Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City, having previously won the European Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup once each. The remaining five clubs need to win the Champions League; Atlético Madrid, Tottenham Hotspur, Anderlecht, Valencia and Parma.
Upon the commencement of the UEFA Europa Conference League in the 2021–22 season, there is a chance for the 32 former winners of the Cup Winners' Cup to win that competition. Any other existing clubs can also win a modern UEFA treble (counting only the Champions, Europa and Europa Conference League titles) in the future.
Only the first win is shown for any club with multiple wins of the same competition.
Juventus received The UEFA Plaque from the confederation in 1988, in recognition of being the first side in European football history to win all three major UEFA club competitions,[10][11] and the only one to reach it with in a single coach spell (i.e. Giovanni Trapattoni). They completed the European treble in the shortest amount of time (8 years), while Manchester United reached it in the longest (49 years).[12]
Chelsea is the first and only club to win all three pre-1999 main UEFA club competitions more than once each, having won the 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, 2018–19 UEFA Europa League, and 2020–21 UEFA Champions League. They won the 2012–13 Europa League, the club's first title in the tournament, after being transferred as a third-placed team in the season's Champions League group stage, the first Champions League holders to be eliminated that early.[13][14]
Hamburg, Fiorentina, Ajax, Arsenal, and Liverpool are the only clubs to have been runners-up in all three of these competitions.[15] In the 2022–23 season, Fiorentina became the first club in European football to finish as runners-up in all four seasonal competitions, achieved after losing the Europa Conference League final.
List of teams to have won all UEFA club competitions
Before the abolition of the Cup Winners' Cup in 1999 and after the commencement of the Europa Conference League in 2021, only once have three clubs from the same country – Italy in 1989–90 – won all three main UEFA club competitions in the same season:[21] In between, clubs from the same country have won both remaining main UEFA club competitions (Champions League and Europa League) in the same season six times: two Spanish teams in 2005–06, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, and 2017–18, and two English teams in 2018–19.
Milan have lost a record 11 UEFA competition finals: 4 in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, a shared record of 4 in the Intercontinental Cup (with Argentinian side Independiente), 1 in the Cup Winners' Cup, and 2 in the UEFA Super Cup.
Juventus played a record 54 consecutive matches in UEFA competitions, stretching from 13 September 1994 to 21 April 1999, and reached four consecutive finals and one semi-final during that period.
Real Madrid have played (596) and won (350) more games than any other side in Europe, and also hold the records for most goals scored (1,265) and conceded (648) as of 1 June 2024.[24]
Barcelona have drawn more games than any other team (120) as of 16 April 2024.[24]
Anderlecht have lost the most games in confederation competitions (149) as of 20 April 2023.[24]
Fiorentina are the only team to reach the finals of all major UEFA club competitions: the European Cup/Champions League, the Cup Winners' Cup, the UEFA Cup/Europa League, and the UEFA Europa Conference League.
Jeunesse Esch have the worst goal difference in UEFA competition matches (−183 from 81 games) as of June 2020.[24]
Players
List of players to have won the three main European club competitions
The table below show the ten players who have won all three major former and current UEFA club competitions (chronological order).[25][26]
Shows first win only for any player with multiple wins of same competition.
List of players to have won all international club competitions
Although no footballer has ever won all six competitions, the table below show the only seven players who have won five different international competitions organised by UEFA,[26] including the three seasonal tournaments, until the introduction of the Europa Conference League in 2021–22 season (chronological order).
In September 2021, Harry Kane became the first player to score a hat-trick in each of the Champions League, Europa League, and Europa Conference League.[29]
Paolo Maldini is the player with the most European appearances for a single club (174 for Milan).
In March 2023, Gift Orban became the fastest hat-trick scorer in the history of UEFA club competition.[30]
Managers
List of managers to have won the three main European club competitions
List of managers to have won all international club competitions
Although no manager has ever won all seven competitions, the table below shows the only one to have won five different international tournaments organised by UEFA,[26] including the three seasonal tournaments, until the introduction of the Europa Conference League in 2021–22 season.
^"Tottenham eye rare European clean sweep". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 30 May 2019. [...] 49 years separated United's first European title and the UEFA Europa League trophy that completed the set.
^ abRoberto Di Maggio (18 February 2021). "International Finalists". Record Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation.
^In addition, Juventus were the first club in association football history to have won all possible continental competitions (e.g., the international tournaments organised by UEFA and held exclusively in Eurasia) and the world title and remain the only at international level to achieve this, cf. "Legend: UEFA club competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 21 August 2006. Archived from the original on 31 January 2010. Retrieved 26 February 2013. "1985: Juventus end European drought". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 8 December 1985. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
^ abcdefgThe Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (1958–1971) is not included in this list because is not recognised as official European competition by UEFA. The Intertoto Cup, competition per clubs recognised by the main football organisation in Europe since 1995, is not included in this list. See "Legend: UEFA club competitions"(PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations: 23. Archived(PDF) from the original on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2006.