Last update February 25, 2025 by Alberto Llopis
The maximum continental competition was renamed Champions League in the year 1993, The campaign after Barcelona achieved its first European Cup in Wembley's final against the Sampdoria. Since then he has experienced 32 editions that have given a lot.
After Marseille was undefeated champion in the ‘New’ Competition El Milan overwhelmed Barcelona in the final of the season 1993-94 In the Olympic Stadium in Athens (4-0).
Spanish teams, that today are in the foreground of favoritism to the title according to the betting houses present in Sportytrades, They spent three years without appearing for the final, until in the year 98 The long -awaited ‘seventh’ for Real Madrid arrived, In a final against Juve in Amsterdam with Mijatovic goal (1-0). Along the way, A Madrid team evicted in the League and with heynckes sentenced, He appealed in the rooms to Leverkusen and in the semifinals to Dortmund in the tie that began with delay and controversial due to the demolition of a goal in the Bernabéu.
After the seventh, year 99 left another final for memory, When United took over Bayern with two goals in the discount in the match for the title of Camp Nou (2-1). The image of Pierluigi Collina helping to get up to the Bavarian players, completely dejected on the grass after fitting the second goal, It remained for the memory.
Valencia stayed in the two later seasons with honey on the lips. In 2000, When he was thrashed in Paris by Real Madrid in the first final in history between two teams in the same country (3-0). And a year later, When the Bayern left the cheat without the ‘orejona’, This time in the penalty shootout after 1-1 in regulation time.
Year 2002 It was for the third time in a row, Successful torque year for Real Madrid players. It was the ‘ninth’ against Leverkusen, The one with the Zidane volley and the miraculous performance of Casillas after supplying the injured César (2-1).
After winning the Milan and the Porto the next two editions, Benítez's ‘Spanish Liverpool’, Gerrard, Xabi Alonso and Luis Garcia, Among others, I was going to star in Istanbul a difficult final to forget. With 0-3 to rest for those of Ancelotti, The Reds would match in a second magical part (3-3) And they would take the title by penalty.
Barça conquered in 2006 Its second European Cup, The first under the Champions League format, By tracing Arsenal with the goals of Eto’o and Belletti (2-1). It was Messi's first European title. In that edition he only played until eighths because of an injury. But he was protagonist in 2009 Y 2011 Before United (2-0 Y 3-1) and in 2015 Against Juve (3-1). With four Champions in 10 years, The Barca team closed that campaign the best stage in its history.
It was Real Madrid who took over. Because a year earlier, in 2014, had surpassed Atlético in the first final between teams in the same city, In the final in which Sergio Ramos's goal in the minute 93 He matched a meeting that sentenced in the extension of Madrid by Cristiano Ronaldo and Bale (4-1).
In 2016, by penalty and again before Atlético, in 2017 winning the juve (4-1) and in 2018 Before Liverpool in kyiv, With Chilena de Bale included (3-1) Madrid conquered three Champions in a row. Real Madrid would raise the ‘fourteenth’, the Champions of the climbs, in 2022 Before Liverpool (1-0) and would reign again in 2024 In the fifteenth against the Dortmund (2-0). A historical sequence, With six titles in eleven years that the recent Champions are seen in white as in their day it happened with the original European Cup.
