(CNN Spanish) — The UEFA Champions League is the most prestigious football club tournament in Europe. The best teams are concentrated in it in search of the Champions Cup, the historic European Cup. Currently, there is only one king who is alone at the top of champions, Real Madrid of Spain, which in 2022 won its 14th cup.
The first time this competition was played was in the 1955/56 season, after UEFA decided to organize a tournament between European clubs called the European Cup, according to the Soul of the Future Association. It was not until the 1992-93 campaign when the tournament changed its name to the UEFA Champions League, as it is currently known.
The white entity was the first to win the European Cup in 1956. The meringues have won six European Cups and seven Champions League throughout history. In total, they add 14 ‘orejonas’ in their showcase of the 16 they played. The white team is the team that has won the most titles after having achieved it in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and in 2022.
Spain, meanwhile, is the country that has been proclaimed champion of the Champions League the most times with 19 titles, 5 from Barcelona and 14 from Real Madrid, according to data from the UEFA website. However, on 25 occasions a Spanish team has played in the Champions League final.
Spain is followed by England (14), Italy (12), Germany (8), Holland (6), Portugal (4), France, Romania, Scotland and Serbia (1) as countries that have had champion representatives of the highest European tournament of clubs.
UEFA Champions League winners
- Real Madrid: 14 titles.
- AC Milan: 7 titles.
- Liverpool: 6 titles.
- Bayern Munich: 6 titles.
- Barcelona: 5 titles.
- Ajax: 4 titles.
- Inter Milan: 3 titles.
- Manchester United: 3 titles.
- Chelsea: 2 titles.
- Juventus: 2 titles.
- Benfica: 2 titles.
- Nottingham Forest: 2 títulos.
- Porto: 2 titles.
- Borussia Dortmund: 1 title.
- Celtic: 1 title.
- Hamburg: 1 title.
- Olympique de Marseille: 1 title.
- Steaua from Bucharest: 1 title.
- Aston Villa: 1 title.
- Red Star: 1 title.
- Feyenoord: 1 title.
- PSV Eindhoven: 1 title.
Who is the reigning champion of the Champions League?
Real Madrid is the current champion of the UEFA Champions League after beating Liverpool in the last edition of the tournament. The ‘meringues’ achieved the title after winning by the minimum (1-0) in the final that was played at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, France, in 2022.
The white team failed in its aspiration to defend the title this season by falling in the semifinal against Manchester City, which in the final seeks to lift its first championship this 2023 against Inter Milan, which aspires to its Champions League card.
2023-06-10 18:55:24
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