Real Madrid currently have won 14 CL titles, do you think in the next 50-60 years, any club could have overtaken them in the record or they’d continue to reign?
Their team is currently in transition, but with assembly of young stars like Vini, Rodrygo, Bellingham, Endrick, Camavinga, Tchouameni, Valverde, Militao, Guler and potentially Davies + Mbappe in 2024 may get them more CL wins in this decade alone!
Do you think any team can overtake them in most CLs won by our lifetime or is the gap too big to overcome?
To everyone saying they’re so consistent and win one so often. They went 10 years without winning one between 02/03-12/13. They’re will be more droughts most likely where other’s with catch up.
They had a 30 years drought even before that. I am not saying they will be surpassed but the argument that they’re consistent is not that valid since most of their titles have been won in short periods of complete dominance (1950s and 2010s).
Almost the point I was trying to make. Yours is even better.
There’s no other club in world football where not winning a CL in 10 years would be considered a ‘drought’ and that probably answers OPs question. Other teams might make up ground but if you were to bet on which team wins the most CLs in the next 20 years Real Madrid would probably be favourite. If they were 2 or 3 ahead then maybe I could see it but they’re miles clear
Yeah but no other club has had two-three generations of galacticos too. They probably have spent the most money out of all the clubs too alongside United.
You think 10 years without winning the UCL is too much?
For a team who spent as much as they did? For sure.
The droughts are “droughts” though. In 68 CLs, RM has won 14, or 20.6% of CLs. they have reached 17 finals, meaning 25%, and They have reached Semis and lost in 15. Out of 68 CLs, RM have been top 4 in 47% of them. that is insane
I didn’t realize that they were actually one of organizers of the original tournament and that it was invite only. Apparently the better European teams often declined the invite because it was akin to a preseason tourney with little to no prestige. Certainly puts their first 5 trophies in a different light…
Real Madrid are the perpetual main characters of the CL and they’ll probably add quite a few more to their 14 titles in the decades to come. I guess maybe City could do it but it’s a huge difference in titles and winning the CL is very difficult already.
I can really imagine Benfica getting really big in the future.
Nothing is set in stone. Nottingham won a CL way back, look where they are now. Hamburg won too, look where they are now.
I think, in the long run, those with the best youth center and clever investments can potentially overtake Real Madrid.
But ofcourse Real Madrid will do anything necessary to hold the position.
I am just saying nothing is impossible, especially in football.
The 90s? Is that you?
If things remain as they are, it will be very hard for a team like that to win the UCL, because richer clubs will poach their best players. For a club like Benfica or Ajax to win the UCL, they will need several potentially world class players to have a breakthrough season simultaneously, and even then it’s going to be very tough.
Possible but difficult
absolutely no chance. i can’t see anyone getting to 14 but if they do - madrid will be on 30.
Unless a team could win the cl once every 4 years but the kind of consistency is impossible
Anything is possible but it can’t be just any team, it’d have to be a combination of some disastrous and crippling event at Real that renders them unable to keep buildings teams specifically to win CLs and another team to fill their niche, a club that is hell-bent on building Champions League-winning squads for years to come.
Maybe if it was in 2013 other teams had a chance. Now they have doubt the second highest team.
Records are there to be broken … Man City or PSG could all break thru that glass ceiling and go in a huge run … Newcastle even …
It’s very unlikely.
The next closest are Milan and the chances of them being in it on a consistent enough basis AND being good enough is a long shot to more than double their current haul.
Liverpool are in a very competitive league where an iffy season can see you out of it, but even if they do maintain the high level they’ve been at for the last 6 years, it’d still be very unlikely they’d catch up before Madrid won another. Hell, even if they’d won the two recent finals they’d played them in, they’d still be 4 behind.
Bayern is the most likely as they have the right mix of monopoly over their league to cherry pick the best of it while still have it be competitive enough to be sharp and be in it consistently. However, 8 titles is… a big, big gap.
All the others aren’t even worth considering.
In reality, they did win 5 of those titles at a time when it wasn’t really seen as a serious competition and that’s what will keep them ahead essentially forever.
Assuming CL concept will last for another 50-60 years, you mean. Cute.
I think Bayern is coming closest.
I’m a Bayern fan however based on the top 5 teams with most cl’s, 1 Bayern is best vs Madrid (statistically in cl) and Bayern is the most consistent. Excluding Madrid out of the top 5 obvs
I think someone will catch them someday, I don’t see it being in my lifetime though. If you had asked me a few years back I’d have said sure City could have had a monopoly on it, but in that time Madrid have still won it and a team pretty dominant in their own region have only just got their first one.
I do think it is easier for teams to try and catch Madrid than it was under the old format but they still have to get through knockout games and a one off final which is never as easy as it looks on paper.
I’d say the polarisation of club football towards a dominant cadre of a few clubs is increasing. And we’ll see longer eras of one or two at the top. So yeah, it’s likely they’ll be surpassed.
Then winning those 4 in 5 years is gonna make it really hard for any team to catch up in the next half century.