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. Iker Casillas is the player with most Champions League appearances. He has played 165 Champions League matches. Xavi is on second place with 151 games. Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are far behind.

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.

Most Champions League appearances list

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

Player	Team(s)	Matches
Iker Casillas *	Real Madrid FC Porto	166
Xavi	FC Barcelona	151
Cristiano Ronaldo *	Real Madrid Manchester United	153
Raúl	FC Schalke 04 Real Madrid	142
Ryan Giggs	Manchester United	142
Paolo Maldini	AC Milan	135
Andres Iniesta *	FC Barcelona	135
Clarence Seedorf	AC Milan Real Madrid AFC Ajax	125
Paul Scholes	Manchester United	124
Roberto Carlos	Real Madrid Fenerbahçe	120
Zlatan Ibrahimović *	Inter Juventus AC Milan FC Barcelona Paris Saint-Germain AFC Ajax Manchester United	120
Lionel Messi *	FC Barcelona	122
Xabi Alonso	Bayern München Real Sociedad Real Madrid Liverpool FC	119
Puyol	FC Barcelona	115
Gianluigi Buffon *	Juventus Parma	121
Thierry Henry	FC Barcelona Arsenal FC AS Monaco	112
Philipp Lahm	VfB Stuttgart Bayern München	112
Petr Čech *	Chelsea FC Arsenal FC Sparta Praha	121
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
Sergio Ramos *	Real Madrid	109
David Beckham	AC Milan Real Madrid Manchester United Paris Saint-Germain	107
Víctor Valdés	FC Barcelona	106
Frank Lampard	Chelsea FC Manchester City	105
Dani Alves *	Juventus Sevilla FC FC Barcelona	151
Luís Figo	Inter FC Barcelona Real Madrid	103
* Active player

Player	Team(s)	Matches
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
Karim Benzema *	Real Madrid Olympique Lyon	107
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.

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