The Greatest Teams in Europe to Never Win the Champions League

Created in 1955 and reformed several times since its inception as the European Cup, the Champions League This is the prize that any European football club wants the most. It is not at all easy to conquer: the best from the continent meet year after year and only one lifts the Because.

he is Real Madrid won 14 of the 68 editions already completed: and 20.5%. Between Milan, Bayern Munich, Liverpool and Barcelona they won another 24which added to those of Real Madrid represented more than half of the competitions played: 55%.

Adding the winners of Ajax, Manchester United and Inter Milan, we reach 70% of the Champions Leagues played, and there are barely 20 left to distribute among the rest, with the two-time champions Juventus, Chelsea, Porto, Nottingham Forest and Benfica. also on that list.

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10 clubs have won the Champions League just oncefrom Celtic in 1967 to Manchester City in 2023, passing through PSV, Steaua Bucharest, Aston Villa, Borussia Dortmund, Hamburg, Feyenoord, Olympique de Marseille and Red Star, who were all crowned between 1970 and 1997. And other giants on the continent did not achieve it.

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The greatest teams in Europe to never win the Champions League

There are three notable clubs in Europe’s top five leagues who have never won the Champions League. The three they won their local league at least 11 times and they were international champions in other competitions, but not a Because in his power. They are the Arsenal English, the Atlético de Madrid Spanish and the PSG French.

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The case of Atlético de Madrid is the most iconic, as they reached the final of the Champions League three times (1974, 2014 and 2016) and were defeated on all three occasions. In the latter, in punishments; in the second, in extra time after tying the tie in extra time (both against Real Madrid) and in the first, in the tiebreaker after the first 1- 1 against Bayern Munich.

Strangely, he Athletes He has never been a European champion but he has been a world champion: In 1974, they replaced Bayern, who gave up playing the Intercontinental Cup due to their calendar issues, and beat Independiente Argentina 2-1 on aggregate (0-1 in Avellaneda and 2-0 in Madrid).

he is Arsenalwho won in England the First Division league 13 times and the FA Cup 14 times (he is the biggest winner in this competition), internationally He only has the 1970 Fairs Cup and the 1994 European Cup Winners’ Cup.. In the Champions League they were in the final in 2006: they started by beating Barcelona 1-0 in the final, but came back in the last 15 minutes in Paris.

PSGcreated in August 1970 and recently national champion for the first time in 1986, he started this race much later than the others but despite all the millions he spent on superstars such as Lionel Messi, Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimovic or Kylian Mbappe, He didn’t win the Champions League either.. In 2020 they reached the final, but lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich due to a goal by Kingsley Coman, a player who came out of their own quarry. Like Arsenal, they won the European Cup Winners’ Cup: they won it in 1996.

ValenciaChampions League runners-up in 2000 and 2001, Everton, Lyon, Athletic Club, Schalke 04, Tottenham, Roma, Napoli and Monaco are there other prominent clubs from Europe’s top leagues who haven’t won as well Because. Rome, Tottenham and Monaco came second.