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?
Sure why not, football dynasties often look invincible but they crumble quite quickly. People seem to forget that Madrid have went through huge champions leagues droughts throughout their history, it’s just that when they win, it’s not just one.
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.
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.
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…
You think 10 years without winning the UCL is too much?
For a team who spent as much as they did? For sure.
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.
No way, they’ll win one every so often too so almost impossible for anyone else to catch up with them
Nothing is impossible in football but in all likelihood, this will never happen. If Madrid was just sitting on 14 titles for a while, it would be a different story, but they keep extending that record periodically.
Even if Madrid don’t win another one I’d say it’s quite difficult for any team to surpass them in the next 50 years. Possible, but not granted.
Theres a meme floating around in spanish instagram. About how Barcelona was 8 cups behind Real Madrid, but then Pep, Xavi, Messi, Iniesta, and all the legends came and played the greatest football known to man, and now they are 10 cups behind Real Madrid
Haha, that’s pretty funny. You just can’t beat the biggest club in the world I guess.
Tbf at least they had the best team in footballs history during that time
They won 6 of them in the 50s-60s, then went 30 years without winning another. In the late 90s/early 00s, they won 3 more, then took 12 more years to win another (when they went on to win 5 more).
Could easily see another period where they go a long time without winning any, and a team like Bayern, Liverpool or Barcelona go on to win a few over the course of a decade or two.
And in that 30 years period no one equalized them on european cups
Yes but that’s mainly because of they had a massive head start by winning the first 5 tournaments before other teams started treating it like a real competition.
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Milan, Liverpool and Bayern are the closest. If Milan became a powerhouse as they where in the past maybe they can reach this record. But it’s look really hard, Madrid will surely won few champions league again so the record seems too far
Think Milan are the least likely to reach it of the 3. Just with the difference in financial power between Bayern/Liverpool and Milan that now exists.
But in 5 years a rich country can invest on them (like PSG in 2012) and they can. Football is not predictable so saying Bayern and Liverpool is more likely to have it i’m not agree, actually the three are the closest to the record that’s all
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Possible only if the uefa champions league becomes the fifa champions league in the near future
Not currently possible unless airlines can shorten flight hours to hypersonic speeds. So there are no more 12 hour long haul flights.
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.
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.
The 90s? Is that you?
The gap is too big and it’s harder to buy refs these days
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.
Real have been winning the European Cup for almost 70 years, with the larger majority of them coming in the last 30. I don’t think they’re suddenly going to drop off now. Even if they go a decade without winning one, their closest competition (AC Milan) would have to win 8 to surpass them. I think we’re more likely to see Real win another 8 and make it even more impossible.
Milan won’t be able too any time soon because money in italian football is so far behind
You think will still be a champions league in 50 years?
When you think about how long it took Pep to win another CL after he left Barca despite being completely supported financially at his latter clubs, and also seeing how much money PSG has thrown at it without winning it…it just seems extremely tough for anyone to catch RM.
I think the time period may need to be over 100 years for it to happen realistically.
Unless a team could win the cl once every 4 years but the kind of consistency is impossible
Cant think of any other team than City, if they keep up current level of management I can see them overtaking RM in 50 years. But RM wont stay sleep either, their focus on CL is something else, if they go 2 season without winning its treated as major crisis.