Which nations have produced the most Champions League winners?

Some 636 players from 54 countries have featured in European Cup or UEFA Champions League final wins (many more than once)*.

Spain lead the way, producing 80 European Cup/Champions League final-winning players over the years. That's six more than Italy, with England four further back; Germany (64) and the Netherlands (52) round off the top five.

Trivia

• Türkiye (ninth in the current UEFA rankings) is the highest-ranked country never to have had a Champions League or European Cup winner. Their four finalists to date all ended up with runners-up medals: Yıldıray Baştürk (Leverkusen, 2002), Hamit Altıntop (Bayern München, 2010), Nuri Şahin (Borussia Dortmund, 2013) and Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Inter 2023, 2025).

• Greece have had the most finalists without producing a winner – 12. That total includes Panathinaikos' 11 men from their 1971 final defeat, plus Akis Zikos, a runner-up with Monaco in 2004.

• The lowest-ranked European nation to boast a Champions League or European Cup finalist and champion is San Marino; Massimo Bonini – a 1985 winner with Juventus – represented the country ranked 55th out of 55 in UEFA's national coefficient rankings.

Willian Pacho was the first Ecuadorean to feature in a victorious team last season©AFP

How many players by nation have won the European Cup/Champions League final?

80 Spain
74 Italy
70 England
64 Germany
52 Netherlands
46 Portugal
42 Brazil
39 France
26 Scotland
14 Romania
13 Yugoslavia
12 Argentina
8 Croatia
8 Republic of Ireland
8 Denmark
7 Sweden
4 Belgium
4 Czechia
4 Norway
4 Poland
4 Wales
3 Ghana
3 Côte d'Ivoire
3 Nigeria
3 Uruguay
2 Australia
2 Austria
2 Cameroon
2 Finland
2 Georgia
2 Mali
2 Northern Ireland
2 Russia
2 Senegal
2 Serbia
2 Switzerland
2 Ukraine

Algerian pioneer Rabah Madjer in 1987©Bob Thomas/Getty Images

1 Algeria (Rabah Madjer, Porto 1987)
1 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Hasan Salihamidžić, Bayern 2001)
1 Bulgaria (Hristo Stoichkov, Barcelona 1992)
1 Canada (Alphonso Davies, Bayern 2020)
1 Costa Rica (Keylor Navas, Real Madrid 2016, 2017 & 2018)
1 Ecuador (Willian Pacho, Paris Saint-Germain 2025 & 2026)
1 Egypt (Mohamed Salah, Liverpool 2019)
1 Hungary (Ferenc Puskás, Real Madrid 1959, 1960 & 1966)
1 Mexico (Rafael Márquez, Barcelona 2006)
1 Morocco (Achraf Hakimi, Paris Saint-Germain 2025 & 2026)
1 North Macedonia (Goran Pandev, Inter 2010)
1 Peru (Víctor Benítez, AC Milan 1963)
1 South Africa (Benni McCarthy, Porto 2004)
1 San Marino (Massimo Bonini, Juventus 1985)
1 Trinidad & Tobago (Dwight Yorke, Manchester United 1999)
1 United States (Christian Pulišić, Chelsea 2021)
1 Zimbabwe (Bruce Grobbelaar, Liverpool 1984)

Last updated 30/05/2026

* Only players who feature in the final itself are included in the statistics.