On Saturday June 10 the new monarch of the UEFA Champions League was known: the Manchester City he was able to break the streak and added to his extensive list of winners the most prestigious trophy in Europe. It was the biggest earring that the Spanish coach has so far Pep Guardiola with the institution after having won national titles such as the Premier League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup and Community Shield.
The citizens they were about to take the orejona in the 2020-21 season, however, the Chelsea he snatched their dream away and now they have a new chance to join the rest of the English teams that have been crowned in the Champions League.
These are all the English teams that were champions of the Champions:
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The first English club to raise the orejona were the Red Devilswho won the 1967-68 edition by thrashing 4-1 against Benfica of Portugal in extra time.
The group with more than a hundred years of history has been erected as monarch on two other occasions to add three trophies for two runners-up.
For 1998-99, his victim was the Bayern Munich Germany 2-1 and finally, his last glory came in the 2007-08 season at the hands of the historic Scottish coach Sir Alex Ferguson by imposing on Chelsea from the penalty shootout 6-5 after equalizing 1-1 in regulation time.
The other historic England team can also boast of having these trophies in their windows.
The first came in the 1976-77 season when he hit the Borussia Monchengladbach from Germany 3-1. A year later the networks they rediscovered themselves by beating the Club Bruges of Belgium by the minimum. The third title came for 1980-81 with the victory over the real Madrid for the minimum of alan kennedy and a few years later, in 1983-84, they drew 1-1 with the Romebut on penalty kicks the English came out on top 4-2.
In order to be monarchs again, more than 20 years had to pass, reaching the 2004-05 campaign, where they achieved an epic comeback, because after losing 3-0 against AC Milan, they were able to level the score to win on penalties 2-3. His last trophy came in 2019 after beating 0-2 at Tottenham. As for runners-up, those from Anfield have four.
The team that just last year returned to the Premier League after 23 years in the Championship He also lived great glories and for example he appears in the list of winners of the Champions League. Los Árboles Astutos were two-time champions after winning the title in 1979 and 1980.
The first cup was acquired by surpassing by the minimum the Malmo from Sweden, later, repeated the score against hamburg from Germany.
The Blues They have been the last to join the list of English winners. The first came just in the 2011-12 season after winning the penalty shootout 3-4 against Bayern Munich in it Allianz Arena after leaving regulation time 1-1. And as mentioned at the beginning, in 2021 it prevented the Manchester City won his first international title by winning with the lone goal of the German Kai Havertz.
The villains they also claim to have been the best in Europe at one time. His only achievement came in 1982 when he only needed the goal of Peter White to wrest the title from Bayern Munich.
Other English teams with runners-up are leeds united in 1975 when falling before the Bayern Munichhe Arsenal when losing against him Barcelona in 2006 and the Tottenham in 2019, who succumbed to the Liverpool.
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