List of Players With Most Champions League Appearances

Players with most Champions League appearances?

Players with the most Champions League appearances? Which players have made the most Champions League appearances? Who holds the record for the most Champions League appearances?

The Champions League is possible the most prestigious competition in the world. The very first version of the European Cup began in 1948 and as we know. Real Madrid have won the most trophies in it’s history.

But which player has made the most European Cup appearances? Which player has made the most Champions League appearances? 

Most Champions League appearances by a player

Who has the most Champions League appearances? Below is a list of the players who have made the most Champions League appearances. Which of these players are your favourites and they are football legends.

Player with most Champions League appearances?

Player with most Champions League appearances? Iker Casillas is the player with most Champions League appearances. He has played 176 Champions League matches. Christiano Ronaldo is on second place with 161 games. Xavi is on third place with 151 games. Lionel Messi is far behind both Cristiano Ronaldo and Xavi with only 132 Champions League appearances.

List of players with most Champions League appearances

Here is the list of players with the most Champions League appearances.

Top 10 players with most Champions League appearances

Players with most Champions League appearances? Lets have a look at the list of top 10 players with the most Champions League appearances.

It will be some time before we get to see two players like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo again. The duo have set unparalleled records in the Champions League so far and it will only be a fitting end to their careers in the future if they both end up topping the chart in the number of matches as well because that will mean we will get to see that much more of them. Let’s see who are some of the other legends in the elite competition.

The table below does not include appearances made in the qualification stage of the competition. The table below does include appearances made in the European Champion Clubs’ Cup.

	Player	Nation	Appearances	Years	Clubs
1	Iker Casillas	Spain	176	1999–	Real Madrid Porto
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	161	2003–	Manchester United Real Madrid
3	Xavi	Spain	151	1998–2015	FC Barcelona
4	Raúl	Spain	142	1995–2011	Real Madrid  FC Schalke 04
5	Ryan Giggs	Wales	141	1993–2014	Manchester United
6	Lionel Messi	Argentina	132	2005-	FC Barcelona
7	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	130	2002–	FC Barcelona
8	Clarence Seedorf	Netherlands	125	1994–2012	AFC Ajax Real Madrid  Inter AC Milan
9	Paul Scholes	England	124	1994–2013	Manchester United
10	Roberto Carlos	Brazil	120	1997–2007	Real Madrid  Fenerbahçe
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	120	2001–2018	AFC Ajax  Juventus  Inter  FC Barcelona AC Milan Paris Saint-Germain  Manchester United
* Active player

Players with most Champions League appearances > 105

Here is the list of remaining players with the most Champions League appearances.

Player	Team(s)	Matches
Gianluigi Buffon *	Juventus ParmaPSG	122
Paolo Maldini	AC Milan	119
Xabi Alonso	Bayern München Real Sociedad Real Madrid Liverpool FC	119
Puyol	FC Barcelona	115
Thierry Henry	FC Barcelona Arsenal FC AS Monaco	112
Philipp Lahm	VfB Stuttgart Bayern München	112
Petr Čech *	Chelsea FC Arsenal FC Sparta Praha	111
Sergio Ramos *	Real Madrid	119
Dani Alves *	Juventus Sevilla FC FC Barcelona	111
Karim Benzema*	Real Madrid	112
Gary Neville	Manchester United	109
John Terry	Chelsea FC	109
Patrice Evra	Juventus Manchester United AS Monaco	108
Ashley Cole	AS Roma Chelsea FC Arsenal FC	108
Andrea Pirlo	Inter Juventus AC Milan	108
David Beckham	AC Milan Real Madrid Manchester United Paris Saint-Germain	107
Víctor Valdés	FC Barcelona	106
Frank Lampard	Chelsea FC Manchester City	105
* Active player

Players With Most Champions League appearances < 103

Player	Team(s)	Matches
Luís Figo	Inter FC Barcelona Real Madrid	103
Oliver Kahn	Bayern München	103
Arjen Robben *	Bayern München Real Madrid Chelsea FC PSV Eindhoven	105
Cesc Fàbregas *	FC Barcelona Chelsea FC Arsenal FC	110
Andriy Shevchenko	AC Milan Chelsea FC Dinamo Kiev	100
Alessandro Nesta	Lazio Roma AC Milan	99
Edwin van der Sar	Juventus Manchester United AFC Ajax	98
Guti	Real Madrid	97
Javier Zanetti	Inter	97
Claude Makélélé	Real Madrid Chelsea FC FC Nantes	96
Javier Mascherano *	FC Barcelona Liverpool FC	96
Bastian Schweinsteiger	Bayern München Manchester United	95
Michael Ballack	1. FC Kaiserslautern Bayern München Bayer Leverkusen Chelsea FC	93
Rio Ferdinand	Leeds United Manchester United	93
Maxwell	Inter FC Barcelona Paris Saint-Germain AFC Ajax	93
Morientes	Valencia CF Real Madrid Liverpool FC AS Monaco Olympique Marseille	93
Didier Drogba	Chelsea FC Olympique Marseille Galatasaray	92
Alessandro Costacurta	AC Milan	90
Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	89
Gento	Real Madrid	89
Hasan Salihamidžić	Bayern München Juventus	88
* Active player

That is the list of players with the most Champions League appearances. They are all true legends. A lot of them have also won the competition at least once. Take a look also at our list of top goalscorers in Champions League history.

England players with most Champions League appearances

Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes are the England players with most Champions League appearances. They have played 145 and 124 matches for Manchester United.

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