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By winning their fifth title, Barcelona became the first European football club in history to achieve the continental treble twice. Barcelona's attacking trio of Messi, Suárez and Neymar, dubbed "MSN", scored 122 goals in all competitions, the most in a season for an attacking trio in Spanish football history.
The UEFA European Football Championship, [1] less formally the European Championship and informally the Euro or Euros, [2] [3] is the primary association football tournament organised by the Union of European Football Associations ().
Flag showing the Champions League, the Super Cup and the UEFA Cup logos at Monaco (2008).. UEFA competitions (French: compétitions de l'UEFA), referred improperly by the mass media as European football, are the set of tournaments organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), generally in professional and amateur association football and futsal.
Spanish clubs have won the most titles (67), ahead of clubs from Italy (50) and England (48). Italy is the only country in European football history whose clubs won the three main competitions in the same season: in 1989–90, Milan retained the European Cup, Sampdoria won the Cup Winners' Cup, and Juventus secured the UEFA Cup. [4]
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through the eight-week league phase to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.
In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.
Until the first staging of the UEFA Europa Conference League in 2022, Juventus was the first and only club in football history to have won all six official UEFA-sanctioned tournaments, a record claimed after their 1999 Intertoto Cup victory. [note 2] [7] [8] [9] [10]
This article details men's professional football club records and statistics (individual and collective) in Europe. The records and stats look across all European clubs competing in the highest divisions and levels of European professional football, allowing for cross-competition comparison.