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Football · Level 4: Intermediate · Sub-level 4.43

UEFA Champions League

10 tests · 100 facts · updated 12 October 2026 · markdown

UEFA Champions League history from the European Cup (1955) to modern day: most successful clubs (Real Madrid 15+), iconic finals (Istanbul 2005, Barcelona-Man Utd 1999), Real Madrid's 5 in a row (1956-60) and 3 in a row (2016-18), PSG's back-to-back 2024/25 and 2025/26, format evolution. Includes UEFA Women's Champions League (Lyon 8 titles).

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Origins and historyTake a test

  1. The European Cup was founded in 1955 by French journalist Gabriel Hanot (L'Équipe). First edition was 1955-56 season.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  2. Real Madrid won the first European Cup in 1956, beating Stade de Reims 4-3 in the Paris final at Parc des Princes.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  3. Real Madrid won 5 straight European Cups from 1956 to 1960 — the longest streak in the competition's history. Alfredo Di Stéfano scored in all 5 finals.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  4. The European Cup became the UEFA Champions League for the 1992-93 season, with a new group stage format and anthem by Tony Britten.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  5. Marseille won the first CL final (1993) — beating AC Milan 1-0 in Munich (Basile Boli). They remain the only French club to have won it before PSG (2025 and 2026).

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  6. Launched for 2001-02 under the name UEFA Women's Cup, the competition took its current title in 2009-10.

    Source: UEFA Women's Champions League history · recall

  7. Alfredo Di Stéfano scored 49 European Cup goals for Real Madrid before 1992. He scored in all 5 of Real's 1956-60 finals.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  8. Celtic won the 1967 European Cup, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in Lisbon — the 'Lisbon Lions'. First British/UK winner.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  9. Manchester United won the 1968 European Cup at Wembley, beating Benfica 4-1 (aet). Charlton was captain, Best and Kidd scored.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  10. 1977, 1978 and 1981, in five seasons. Bayern had won three in a row immediately before, from 1974 to 1976.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

Test 2Most successful clubsTake a test

  1. Real Madrid has 15 European Cup / CL titles through 2023-24 — 6 as European Cup (1956-1966), 9 as CL (1998-2024).

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  2. AC Milan has 7 titles (1963, 1969, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, 2007). Second only to Real Madrid.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  3. Liverpool has 6 CL/EC titles (1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005, 2019). Level with Bayern.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  4. Bayern Munich: 6 titles (1974, 1975, 1976, 2001, 2013, 2020). They won 3 straight in 1974-76.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  5. Barcelona: 5 titles (1992, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2015). The tiki-taka era under Guardiola (2009, 2011) is legendary.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  6. Ajax won 4 European Cups (1971, 1972, 1973 — the Cruyff Total Football era; and 1995 — the Van Gaal era). Feyenoord (1970) and PSV (1988) each won one.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  7. PSG won their first two CL titles in consecutive seasons: 2024/25 (5-0 vs Inter) and 2025/26 (1-1 aet vs Arsenal, 4-3 on penalties), both under Luis Enrique.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  8. Arsenal beat Barcelona 1-0 in Lisbon through Stina Blackstenius, eighteen years after their first title.

    Source: UEFA Women's Champions League history · recall

  9. Eight titles between 2011 and 2022, more than any club in either the men's or the women's competition has taken in so short a span.

    Source: UEFA Women's Champions League history · recall

  10. Manchester United, Liverpool, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa, Chelsea and Manchester City. Italy has Milan, Inter and Juventus.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

Test 3Top scorers and recordsTake a test

  1. UEFA credits him with 140 in the competition proper, ahead of Messi on 129.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  2. Ronaldo's 17 goals in the 2013-14 CL is a record for a single season. He led Real Madrid to their 10th title.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  3. Four, in 2008, 2014 and two in 2017. Di Stefano and Puskas each scored seven in European Cup finals before the 1992 rename.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  4. Ousmane Dembélé was the leading figure of PSG's attack in the 2024/25 Champions League run and was rewarded with the 2025 Ballon d'Or.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  5. Forty-five, level with Barcelona in 1999-2000, the forty-fifth coming from Dembele's penalty in the final itself.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  6. More than sixty in the competition, alongside six winners' medals of her own. Lyon's eight titles include two she was not there for.

    Source: UEFA Women's Champions League records · recall

  7. After Liverpool had come back from 3-0 down to draw 3-3. Dudek's movement on the line drew comparisons with Bruce Grobbelaar in 1984.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  8. Level with Messi on eight, the two of them clear of everyone else in the competition's history.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  9. Paolo Maldini scored after 51 seconds in the 2005 final — the fastest ever CL final goal. AC Milan led 3-0 at halftime.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  10. Havertz scored after 6 min in the 2025/26 final — becoming the third player to score in CL finals for two different teams (Chelsea 2021, Arsenal 2026).

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

Test 4Iconic finalsTake a test

  1. AC Milan led 3-0 at half-time: Maldini scored after 51 seconds, then Crespo added two in the 39th and 44th minutes. Liverpool scored three in six minutes after the break to draw 3-3 and won on penalties.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  2. Gerrard on 54 minutes, Smicer on 56 and Alonso on 60, wiping out a 3-0 half-time deficit.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  3. United trailed 1-0 until Sheringham equalised in the 91st minute, then Solskjaer won it in the 93rd, at the Camp Nou.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  4. Zidane's left-footed volley from Roberto Carlos's cross gave Real Madrid a 2-1 lead against Bayer Leverkusen at Hampden Park in the 2002 final.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  5. Real Madrid won 3 straight CLs (2016 vs Atlético, 2017 vs Juventus, 2018 vs Liverpool) — the only club to do so in the CL era.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  6. Gareth Bale scored a stunning overhead kick in the 64th min of the 2018 Kyiv final. Real won 3-1 (Bale scored twice). Karius's 2 errors gifted Real 2 goals.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  7. Di Stefano scored the other three against Eintracht Frankfurt at Hampden Park, in front of 127,000.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  8. Real Madrid beat Atlético 4-1 after extra time. Sergio Ramos's 93rd-minute equaliser forced the extra half-hour, in which Real scored three more to win their tenth European Cup, 'La Décima'.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  9. Vinícius scored the only goal (59') to give Real their 14th CL title in the Paris final. Courtois made 9 saves.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  10. PSG 1-1 Arsenal after ET (Havertz 6', Dembélé penalty 65'), PSG won 4-3 on pens. Puskás Aréna, Budapest.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

Test 5Managers and dynastiesTake a test

  1. Thirty-six when Real Madrid won the first European Cup in 1956. Munoz, often named instead, was thirty-eight in 1960.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  2. Carlo Ancelotti has 5 CL titles: 2003, 2007 (Milan), 2014, 2022, 2024 (Real Madrid) — a record.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  3. Porto in 2004 and Inter in 2010. No manager has won it with three different clubs; Ancelotti and Guardiola also have two each.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  4. Luis Enrique won the CL with PSG in 2024/25 (5-0 vs Inter) and 2025/26 (4-3 pens vs Arsenal). His 3rd overall (Barcelona 2015).

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  5. Guardiola managed Barcelona 2008-2012 — winning 2 CLs (2009 vs Man Utd 2-0, 2011 vs Man Utd 3-1) and 3 La Ligas.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  6. Jürgen Klopp led Liverpool to the 2019 CL (2-0 vs Tottenham). He also lost the 2018 (vs Real) and 2022 (vs Real) finals.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  7. Zidane won 3 CLs in his first 3 seasons as Real Madrid manager (2016, 2017, 2018) — an incredible feat.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  8. Guardiola led Man City to their first CL in 2023 (1-0 vs Inter, Rodri goal). Also his 3rd CL as manager (2 with Barcelona).

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  9. Rocco won in 1963 and 1969. Milan's other five came under Sacchi, Capello and Ancelotti.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  10. Gerard Precheur won in 2016 and 2017 and Jean-Luc Vasseur in 2020, so three coaches shared Lyon's five in a row. Bompastor's 2022 title came after it.

    Source: UEFA Women's Champions League history · recall

Test 6Format and evolutionTake a test

  1. From 2024-25 the Champions League uses a 36-team league phase on a Swiss-system model: each team plays 8 matches, 4 at home and 4 away. The top 8 go straight to the last 16 and 9th to 24th play a knockout play-off.

    Source: UEFA Champions League regulations · recall

  2. The 36-team league phase replaced the old 32-team group stage from 2024-25.

    Source: UEFA Champions League regulations · recall

  3. Each team plays 8 different opponents in the league phase, 4 at home and 4 away. The top 8 advance directly, 9th to 24th go to a play-off and 25th to 36th are eliminated.

    Source: UEFA Champions League regulations · recall

  4. Knockout rounds: R16 → QF → SF → F. All ties (except final) are 2-legged home-and-away, aggregate score decides.

    Source: UEFA Champions League regulations · recall

  5. UEFA scrapped the away goals rule for 2021-22. Ties now go to extra time (ET) then penalties if level after 2 legs — no away goals tiebreaker.

    Source: UEFA Champions League regulations · recall

  6. England in 2025-26, through four league places, the performance spot UEFA added, and Tottenham entering as Europa League holders.

    Source: UEFA Champions League regulations · recall

  7. The 1997-98 expansion admitted the runners-up, a second club rather than a fourth. Four came with the two-group-stage format two seasons later.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  8. The first CL group stage had only 8 teams in 2 groups of 4. Winners went straight to the final. Expansion in stages until 32-team format.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  9. The CL anthem was composed by Tony Britten in 1992, inspired by Handel's 'Zadok the Priest'. Sung in English, German, and French.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  10. The top eight go straight to the last sixteen, ninth to twenty-fourth play a knockout play-off, and twenty-fifth to thirty-sixth are out of Europe altogether.

    Source: UEFA Champions League regulations · recall

Test 7Iconic playersTake a test

  1. Ronaldo scored in the 2008 final for Manchester United, in 2014 with an extra-time penalty for Real Madrid and twice against Juventus in 2017. Di Stéfano scored in five finals, but all before 1992, when the European Cup became the Champions League.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  2. Iker Casillas captained Real Madrid to their 10th European Cup ('La Décima') in 2014.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  3. Rooney equalised at Wembley before Barcelona pulled away to win 3-1 through Pedro, Messi and Villa.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  4. He played in eight European Cup finals between 1989 and 2007 and won five. Istanbul was one of the three he lost; two years later in Athens he lifted the trophy for the last time, aged thirty-eight.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  5. From Luka Modric's corner against Atletico Madrid. Real Madrid then scored three times in extra time, Ronaldo's from the penalty spot.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  6. Ronaldo scored twice in the 2017 Cardiff final. Real won 4-1 — the first team to retain the CL in the modern era.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  7. Carvajal had headed the first at Wembley; Vinicius added the second nine minutes later for a fifteenth title.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  8. Marquinhos captained PSG in both back-to-back CL final wins (2025, 2026). Long-serving Brazilian defender.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  9. Against Wolfsburg in September 2015, after coming on at half-time with Bayern 1-0 down.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  10. Patrick Kluivert (Ajax) scored the winner in the 1995 final vs AC Milan aged 18 — the youngest ever CL final scorer.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

Test 8Recent tournaments detailTake a test

  1. PSG hammered Inter 5-0 in Munich (31 May 2025) — the biggest margin in a CL final. Their first ever title.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  2. The 2025 CL final was at the Allianz Arena, Munich — Bayern's home. PSG 5-0 Inter.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  3. The 2025-26 CL final was at Puskás Aréna, Budapest, 30 May 2026. PSG 1-1 Arsenal (4-3 pens).

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  4. Six goals conceded in fourteen matches on the way to the final: four in a perfect eight-match league phase and two across three knockout ties. They then lost the final to PSG on penalties in Budapest.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  5. Beraldo made it 4-3, and Gabriel Magalhaes then put Arsenal's fifth over the bar.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  6. Ousmane Dembele won the 2025 Ballon d'Or after PSG's first Champions League.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  7. Real Madrid won three in a row under Zidane. Before that no club had retained the trophy since the competition was renamed in 1992.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  8. Only Havertz's 6-min goal — PSG were mostly frustrated by Arsenal's defence but forced ET via Dembélé's penalty.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  9. Arsenal lost their previous CL final in 2006 (1-2 vs Barcelona in Paris), a 20-year gap to their 2026 final, which they also lost, on penalties to PSG in Budapest.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  10. Arsenal knocked out the holders Real Madrid in the 2024-25 quarter-final, a major upset. The following season they went all the way to the 2025-26 final.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

Test 9Comparisons and rivalriesTake a test

  1. AC Milan have seven and Bayern Munich six, so even together they trail Real by two.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  2. PSG's 5-0 vs Inter (2025) is the biggest CL final margin. Previous biggest was 4-0 (AC Milan 4-0 Barcelona, 1994 European Cup final).

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  3. Only national champions entered, and every round was a two-legged tie until a group stage arrived in 1991-92, the final season before the Champions League name.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  4. Forty-five goals, equalling Barcelona's mark from 1999-2000 rather than beating it.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  5. A side finishing between ninth and twenty-fourth plays a two-legged tie in February that the top eight are spared, which is why league-phase position is worth more than qualification alone.

    Source: UEFA Champions League regulations · recall

  6. Milan led 3-0 at half-time and the match finished 3-3. No final before or since has seen a three-goal deficit erased.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  7. From 1956 to 1960 a champion played a short knockout bracket. The 2016 to 2018 run needed thirteen matches a season against thirty-two clubs.

    Source: UEFA Champions League history · recall

  8. 140 against 129 in UEFA's own count, which excludes qualifying rounds.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  9. Bayern's six run from 1974 to 2020, forty-six years; Liverpool's from 1977 to 2019, forty-two. Bayern did win three in a row, in 1974, 1975 and 1976.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

  10. They have won a larger share of two-legged ties than any other club, which is the part of the competition their fifteen titles were built in.

    Source: UEFA Champions League records · recall

Test 10The other European competitionsTake a test

  1. Three tiers run in parallel: the Champions League, the Europa League beneath it and the Conference League below that.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  2. It was created to give clubs from smaller associations a European competition they could realistically win.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  3. Roma beat Feyenoord 1-0 in May 2022 for Jose Mourinho's first trophy with the club and Roma's first UEFA trophy; their 1961 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was not a UEFA competition.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  4. The winner enters the league phase regardless of where it finished domestically, which is how several clubs have reached the competition after a poor season.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  5. The Champions League winner meets the Europa League winner. Until the Cup Winners' Cup was abolished its holder took the second place; since 2000 it has gone to the winner of the UEFA Cup, now the Europa League.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  6. West Ham beat Fiorentina 2-1 in Prague, Jarrod Bowen scoring in stoppage time for the club's first major trophy since 1980.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  7. The UEFA Cup ran from 1971, itself succeeding the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, which UEFA does not count in its records.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  8. Domestic cup winners were folded into the UEFA Cup. Lazio were the last holders, beating Mallorca in the final at Villa Park.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  9. Seven titles, five of them since 2014, and Sevilla have never lost a final in the competition.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  10. The old third place in a group dropped a club into the Europa League. Since 2024-25 the bottom twelve of the thirty-six are simply eliminated.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

Sources

FIFA / UEFA / CONMEBOL / CAF / national FA official records

  • UEFA Champions League history55
  • UEFA Champions League records22
  • Football history and competition records10
  • UEFA Champions League regulations8
  • UEFA Women's Champions League history4
  • UEFA Women's Champions League records1