LIST: Players With Most Champions League Appearances

Av Martina Alcheva den Nov 15, 2019

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	Apps	Years	Club(s)
1	Iker Casillas	Spain	177	1999–	Real Madrid (150), Porto (27)
2	C. Ronaldo	Portugal	166	2003–	Man Utd (52), Real Madrid (101), Juve (13)
3	Xavi	Spain	151	1998–2015	Barcelona
4	Ryan Giggs	Wales	145	1993–2014	Manchester United
5	Raúl	Spain	142	1995–2011	Real Madrid (130), Schalke 04 (12)
6	Lionel Messi	Argentina	139	2005–	Barcelona
7	Paolo Maldini	Italy	135	1988–2008	AC Milan
8	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	130	2002–2018	Barcelona
9	Clarence Seedorf	Netherlands	125	1994–2012	Ajax (11), Real Madrid (25), AC Milan (89)
10	Paul Scholes	England	124	1994–2013	Manchester United

Players with most UCL appearances > 106

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

11	Sergio Ramos	Spain	122	2005–	Real Madrid
12	Roberto Carlos	Brazil	120	1997–2007	Real Madrid (107), Fenerbahçe (13)
13	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	119	2001–2017	7 clubs
13	Xabi Alonso	Spain	119	2003–2017	4 Clubs
15	Karim Benzema	France	116	2006–	Lyon (19), Real Madrid (97)
16	Carles Puyol	Spain	115	1999–2014	Barcelona
17	Gerard Piqué	Spain	113	2004–	Man Utd (4), Barcelona (109)
18	Thierry Henry	France	112	1997–2012	Monaco (9), Arsenal (77), Barcelona (26)
18	Philipp Lahm	Germany	112	2002–2017	Stuttgart (7), Bayern Munich (105)
20	Petr Čech	Czech Republic	111	2001–2017	Sparta Prague (12), Chelsea (94), Arsenal (5)
20	Dani Alves	Brazil	111	2007–2019	4 Clubs
22	Arjen Robben	Netherlands	110	2002–2018	4 Clubs
22	Sergio Busquets	Spain	110	2008–	Barcelona
23	Gary Neville	England	110	1993–2010	Manchester United
24	John Terry	England	110	2003–2016	Chelsea
25	Andrea Pirlo	Italy	108	1998–2015	Inter Milan (5), Milan (78), Juventus (25)
26	Ashley Cole	England	108	2000–2015	Arsenal (45), Chelsea (60), Roma (3)
27	Patrice Evra	France	108	2003–2017	Monaco (21), Man Utd (65), Juventus (22)
28	Thomas Müller	Germany	108	2009–	Bayern Munich

Players With Most UCL appearances < 106

29	David Beckham	England	107	1994–2013	4 Clubs
30	Víctor Valdés	Spain	106	2002–2014	Barcelona
31	Frank Lampard	England	105	2003–2015	Chelsea (102), Manchester City (3)
32	Cesc Fàbregas	Spain	104	2004–	Arsenal (55), Barcelona (26), Chelsea (23)
33	Manuel Neuer	Germany	104	2007–	Schalke 04 (22), Bayern Munich (82)
34	Oliver Kahn	Germany	103	1994–2007	Bayern Munich
35	Luís Figo	Portugal	103	1997–2009	Barcelona (24), Real Madrid (58), Inter (21)
36	Toni Kroos	Germany	101	2008–	Bayern Munich (41), Real Madrid (60)
37	Andriy Shevchenko	Ukraine	100	1994–2010	Dynamo Kyiv (26), Milan (59), Chelsea (15)

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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