A number of Real Madrid players became Champions League winners for the fifth time in 2022, but are they the only players to win the coveted title five times? How many players have won 5 Champions League?
Paco Gento holds the record for the player with most European title wins. The former Real Madrid attacker won the European Cup a record six times, between 1956 and 1966. He is also the only player to have won the title six times.
A total of 18 players have won the European Cup/Champions League five times. But how many players have the Champions League winners since the European Cup was renamed to the Champions League in 1992? Let’s find out.
The answer to how many players have won 5 Champions League titles is 10. Cristiano Ronaldo, Toni Kroos, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema, Dani Carvajal, Casemiro, Isco, Marcelo, Luka Modric, and Nacho have all become Champions League winners five times.
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Players who have become Champions League winners five times
Cristiano Ronaldo was the first player to achieve the feat. He won the title with Manchester United in 2008, and with Real Madrid in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018. With the title win in 2018, Ronaldo became the first of the five-time Champions League winners.
Nine players joined Cristiano Ronaldo in the five-time Champions League winners list in 2022.
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Toni Kroos won the Champions League for a fifth time in 2022. He first won the title in 2013 with Bayern Munich. The German midfielder would go on to win the Champions League with Real Madrid in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2022.
Gareth Bale, Dani Carvajal, Casemiro, Isco, Marcelo, Luka Modric, Isco, and Nacho also become five-time Champions League winners in 2022. All eight of them have won the Champions League title with Real Madrid in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2022.
Among players currently plying their trade for European sides, Sergio Ramos, Raphael Varane, Mateo Kovacic, and Lucas Vazquez have won the Champions League title four times. Ramos and Varane won the Champions League with Real Madrid in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Mateo Kovacic, meanwhile, won the Champions League with Real Madrid in 2016, 2017, and 2018 and with Chelsea in 2021. Lucas Vazquez’s all four Champions League title wins came with Real Madrid, in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2022.
