UEFA Champions League winners: every team that has won it
PSG are the current holders after back-to-back titles in 2025 and 2026. Every European Cup and Champions League winner since 1956, plus the club and country counts.
Jun 11, 2023 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Paris Saint-Germain are the current holders of the UEFA Champions League. They beat Arsenal on penalties in Budapest on 30 May 2026 to retain the trophy they had won a year earlier, and those are the first two European titles in the club’s history.
Real Madrid remain the competition’s record holders, and by a distance no one is closing: 15 titles against AC Milan’s seven. Below is every winner since the competition began in 1955, followed by the club and country counts and what has changed in the last three seasons.
Champions League and European Cup winners: the complete list
The competition ran as the European Cup from 1955-56 to 1991-92 and has been the UEFA Champions League since 1992-93. Both eras count towards a club’s total, which is why Real Madrid’s six 1950s and 60s titles sit in the same column as their 2020s ones.
| Season | Winner | Runner-up |
| 1955-56 | Real Madrid | Reims |
| 1956-57 | Real Madrid | Fiorentina |
| 1957-58 | Real Madrid | AC Milan |
| 1958-59 | Real Madrid | Reims |
| 1959-60 | Real Madrid | Eintracht Frankfurt |
| 1960-61 | Benfica | Barcelona |
| 1961-62 | Benfica | Real Madrid |
| 1962-63 | AC Milan | Benfica |
| 1963-64 | Inter Milan | Real Madrid |
| 1964-65 | Inter Milan | Benfica |
| 1965-66 | Real Madrid | Partizan |
| 1966-67 | Celtic | Inter Milan |
| 1967-68 | Manchester United | Benfica |
| 1968-69 | AC Milan | Ajax |
| 1969-70 | Feyenoord | Celtic |
| 1970-71 | Ajax | Panathinaikos |
| 1971-72 | Ajax | Inter Milan |
| 1972-73 | Ajax | Juventus |
| 1973-74 | Bayern Munich | Atletico Madrid |
| 1974-75 | Bayern Munich | Leeds United |
| 1975-76 | Bayern Munich | Saint Etienne |
| 1976-77 | Liverpool | Borussia Monchengladbach |
| 1977-78 | Liverpool | Club Brugge |
| 1978-79 | Nottingham Forest | Malmo FF |
| 1979-80 | Nottingham Forest | Hamburger SV |
| 1980-81 | Liverpool | Real Madrid |
| 1981-82 | Aston Villa | Bayern Munich |
| 1982-83 | Hamburger SV | Juventus |
| 1983-84 | Liverpool | Roma |
| 1984-85 | Juventus | Liverpool |
| 1985-86 | Steaua Bucuresti | Barcelona |
| 1986-87 | Porto | Bayern Munich |
| 1987-88 | PSV Eindhoven | Benfica |
| 1988-89 | AC Milan | Steaua Bucuresti |
| 1989-90 | AC Milan | Benfica |
| 1990-91 | Red Star Belgrade | Marseille |
| 1991-92 | Barcelona | Sampdoria |
| 1992-93 | Marseille | AC Milan |
| 1993-94 | AC Milan | Barcelona |
| 1994-95 | Ajax | AC Milan |
| 1995-96 | Juventus | Ajax |
| 1996-97 | Borussia Dortmund | Juventus |
| 1997-98 | Real Madrid | Juventus |
| 1998-99 | Manchester United | Bayern Munich |
| 1999-00 | Real Madrid | Valencia |
| 2000-01 | Bayern Munich | Valencia |
| 2001-02 | Real Madrid | Bayer Leverkusen |
| 2002-03 | AC Milan | Juventus |
| 2003-04 | Porto | Monaco |
| 2004-05 | Liverpool | AC Milan |
| 2005-06 | Barcelona | Arsenal |
| 2006-07 | AC Milan | Liverpool |
| 2007-08 | Manchester United | Chelsea |
| 2008-09 | Barcelona | Manchester United |
| 2009-10 | Inter Milan | Bayern Munich |
| 2010-11 | Barcelona | Manchester United |
| 2011-12 | Chelsea | Bayern Munich |
| 2012-13 | Bayern Munich | Borussia Dortmund |
| 2013-14 | Real Madrid | Atletico Madrid |
| 2014-15 | Barcelona | Juventus |
| 2015-16 | Real Madrid | Atletico Madrid |
| 2016-17 | Real Madrid | Juventus |
| 2017-18 | Real Madrid | Liverpool |
| 2018-19 | Liverpool | Tottenham Hotspur |
| 2019-20 | Bayern Munich | Paris Saint-Germain |
| 2020-21 | Chelsea | Manchester City |
| 2021-22 | Real Madrid | Liverpool |
| 2022-23 | Manchester City | Inter Milan |
| 2023-24 | Real Madrid | Borussia Dortmund |
| 2024-25 | Paris Saint-Germain | Inter Milan |
| 2025-26 | Paris Saint-Germain | Arsenal |
Which club has won the Champions League the most?
| Club | Titles | Most recent |
| Real Madrid | 15 | 2023-24 |
| AC Milan | 7 | 2006-07 |
| Bayern Munich | 6 | 2019-20 |
| Liverpool | 6 | 2018-19 |
| Barcelona | 5 | 2014-15 |
| Ajax | 4 | 1994-95 |
| Inter Milan | 3 | 2009-10 |
| Manchester United | 3 | 2007-08 |
Real Madrid’s lead is built on two separate eras. They won the first five editions from 1955-56 to 1959-60, then took six more from 2013-14 onwards, including three in a row between 2016 and 2018. Nobody else has won five consecutive titles, and with the competition now at 36 teams it is difficult to imagine anyone doing it again.
Which country has won the most European Cups?
| Country | Titles | Winning clubs |
| Spain | 20 | Real Madrid, Barcelona |
| England | 15 | Liverpool, Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Manchester City |
| Italy | 12 | AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus |
| Germany | 8 | Bayern Munich, Hamburg, Borussia Dortmund |
| Netherlands | 6 | Ajax, Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven |
| Portugal | 4 | Benfica, Porto |
| France | 3 | Marseille, Paris Saint-Germain |
| Scotland | 1 | Celtic |
| Romania | 1 | Steaua Bucuresti |
| Yugoslavia | 1 | Red Star Belgrade |
Spain lead on 20 from just two clubs. England’s 15 come from six different ones, which is the wider spread in European football and the reason the English total climbs in bursts rather than through one dynasty.
The three single-title nations are the ones worth remembering: Celtic in 1967, Steaua Bucuresti in 1986 and Red Star Belgrade in 1991. All three came before the Champions League rebrand in 1992-93, and none of the three totals has moved since. Ajax in 1995 and Porto in 2004 are the only winners from outside Europe’s five biggest leagues in the years after it.
The last three finals
| Season | Final | Venue |
| 2023-24 | Real Madrid 2-0 Borussia Dortmund | Wembley, London |
| 2024-25 | Paris Saint-Germain 5-0 Inter Milan | Allianz Arena, Munich |
| 2025-26 | Paris Saint-Germain 1-1 Arsenal (4-3 pens) | Puskas Arena, Budapest |
Real Madrid’s win at Wembley on 1 June 2024 took them to 15 and moved Spain to 20. Then came PSG, who had lost the 2019-20 final to Bayern Munich and finally broke through in Munich in May 2025 with a 5-0 win over Inter Milan — the biggest winning margin in a European Cup or Champions League final.
They are the second French club to lift it, not the first: Marseille beat AC Milan in the 1993 final, the very first played under the Champions League name. Retaining it in 2026 needed penalties, after Arsenal took them to a shootout in Budapest. That was Arsenal’s second final and second defeat, following the 2005-06 loss to Barcelona.
How the competition changed in 2024-25
The tournament that PSG have now won twice is not the one Real Madrid won in 2024. From the 2024-25 season UEFA scrapped the eight groups of four and replaced them with a single 36-team league phase, often called the Swiss model.
- 36 clubs instead of 32, all in one league table.
- Each club plays eight different opponents, four at home and four away, rather than the same three teams twice.
- The top eight go straight into the round of 16.
- Teams finishing 9th to 24th play a two-legged knockout playoff for the other eight places.
- Teams finishing 25th to 36th are eliminated outright, with no drop into the Europa League.
It means two extra matches per club before Christmas and a table where a single result can move a side a dozen places. For a winners list it matters for one reason: every total from 2024-25 onwards was earned over a longer, more open route than the ones above it.
Frequently asked
Who has won the most Champions League titles? Real Madrid, with 15. The most recent came in 2023-24.
Who are the current champions? Paris Saint-Germain, who beat Arsenal on penalties in the 2026 final in Budapest after winning the 2025 final 5-0 against Inter Milan.
How many teams have won it? Counting both the European Cup and Champions League eras, the trophy has gone to clubs from ten different countries, with Spain’s 20 titles the most of any nation.
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