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Good old Carlo Ancelotti has made history again. With the achievement of the Fifteenth, the Italian has become the only coach to have won five European Cups and remains the most winning coach in the competition.
That he was capped after winning a new Champions League is no coincidence. Ancelotti has not only proven to be a great group manager but has become one of the best coaches on the current football scene, something demonstrated by his continued success with Real Madrid. Good old Carletto not only knows what it’s like to raise an eyebrow as a player but also as he leads the team from the bench. Although he is the most winning coach in the highest international competition at the club level, he also had to experience the other side of the coin in one of the 8 European Cup finals he has played between his career as a player and as a coach.
The King of the European Cups
If we count all the Champions Leagues that Ancelotti has won, we get a total of seven: five as a coach and two as a player. It is truly outrageous what Carletto’s figure means in the history of the European Cup. As a player it is true that He won the two finals he played with Milan in 1989 and 1990. However, in his time as a coach he has won five Champions League (2 with Milan and 3 with Real Madrid) but lost one in 2005 against Liverpool with the famous ‘Miracle of Istanbul’.
In 2022 he already established himself as the coach who had won the Champions League the most times but now, after winning the Fifteenth, he further reaffirms his own European hegemony with a total of five European Cups as a coach. The first two were achieved with Milan in 2003 and in 2007, the other three came from Real Madrid in 2014, 2022 and 2024.
Therefore, when you want to talk about the Champions League you must remember the name of Carlo Ancelotti: the coach who has won the most European Cups.
