For many years, the real Madrid He had attached to the history of his titles the tagline that the basis of his empire was in black and white. What of his first six European Cups and of the Intercontinental of 1960 there was no more trace in color than the images altered thanks to the advancement of time. An analogue Madrid when the digital world began to take over everything in leaps and bounds.
Today, in the year 2024, the club’s domain named the best in the 20th century It has spread and its titles dominate the world in any format you want to search for. With the Intercontinental conquered in Doha in the face of the Mexican Pachucahe real Madrid expands a supremacy from the year 2000 that no one is able to approach in the world
If the three competitions that lead to tournaments in which the six take part are added FIFA confederationsMadrid has won 15 titles since the turn of the century. Stuck in Europe between 2002 and 2014, the white team’s feeling of power has multiplied since then. From the TenthOnly in 2020 and 2021 have the Valdebebas showcases not been opened to receive an international trophy. Of the last eleven Champions Leagues, six have been for Madrid. From them the five of five was born in the Club World Cup and the newly revived Intercontinental Cup. In all these competitions, as is the case with the Spanish League and the European Super Cup, it is Real Madrid that appears at the top of the list. In three weeks he will try Saudi Arabia to equal the 14 Spanish Super Cups that the team has Barcelona.
Mbappé, Rodrygo and Vinicius scored the goals of Real Madrid’s victory.
The titles of Madrid When competitions are observed from a global perspective they have no competitors. The one who comes closest is the great dominator of African football, the Al-Ahly. The Cairo team, which fell to Pachuca on penalties in the Intercontinental semifinal, has been cchampion of africa ten times since 2000. But not once has he been able to reach at least the final of the Club World Cup. It is the team that has played the most games in that competition (25), but its maximum has been four third places.
The Madrid coach was very happy for his 15th title with Madrid
For seven to Manchester City
If Madrid looks around, at the clubs with which it fights for titles every season, those 15 crowns since 2000 between Champions, Club World Cup and Intercontinentall, the least he does is duplicate whoever he sees closest: Barcelona and its seven pieces, four Champions Leagues and three Club World Cups. The full white in the World Cup finals fails the Blaugrana because of the defeat in 2006 at the hands of Internacional de Porto Alegre.
Becoming a giant of English football in the last decade, the club’s collection of international trophies Manchester City It’s small. To his 2023 Champions League he added Club World Cup. More than seven times less than what Madrid has brought to its showcases since 2000. And when the team Etihad It was still a giant project, Madrid only added to its history in that stretch the Champions League of 2000 and 2002 and the Intercontinental of that last year. Because City truly appeared in the elite with the Premier won in 2012, that of the miraculous Agüero goal.
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After the Intercontinental, the real Madrid They move forward with their sights set on winning all seven titles this season. He already has two. Ahead remains League, Cup, Spanish Super Cup, Champions League and the Club World Cup. It is an unprecedented challenge of success, especially what will be experienced in USA since mid-June. But there is nothing more exciting for Madrid than victory. Even more so if it involves registering the club’s name as the first to win a competition.
77% in finals
The appearance of real Madrid in an international final it has become synonymous with victory. Throughout its history, the Chamartín club has played 45 finals in official international competitions. Their success rate is shocking: 77.7%, 35 out of 45.
Real Madrid wins its 15th European Cup thanks to goals from Carvajal and Vinicius in the second half
Since in 1955 he inaugurated his record by winning the Latin Cup, a trophy recognized by UEFA, there are only nine teams that have beaten Madrid in a final.
Chelsea did it twice (1971 Cup Winners’ Cup, tiebreaker, and the 1998 Super Cup). They fell into the European Cup final in 1962 (Benfica), 1964 (Inter) and Liverpool (1981). He Aberdeen In 1983 he was again denied the Cup Winners’ Cup, the only title missing from the white resume. In the European Super Cup, in addition to losing to Chelsea in 1998, they lost against Galatasaray in 2000 and Atlético de Madrid (2018). And in the Intercontinental it has two attempts out of six without wins: Peñarol (1996) and Boca Juniors (2000). That one, that of the Argentines led by the play of Riquelme and the two goals of Palermois the last defeat suffered by Madrid in an international final at the hands of a non-Spanish team.
Alan Kennedy scored the only goal in the final of the 1981 final held at the Parc des Princes in Paris. García Cortés missed his clearance and the Liverpool full-back beat Agustín.
With the cut from the defeat against Boca in Yokohama on November 28, 2000, Madrid has won 18 of 19 finals in international competitions: 94.7%. Only the Atlético de Madridin the 2018 European Super Cup, was able to defeat the whites.
That is the letter of introduction of a team that enters 2025 with the Septete challenge. The next stop on that path is the Spanish Super Cup in Jeddah.
The clover is the challenge
The day Athletic avoided Real Madrid’s treble.RTVE
There are few peaks in the history of football that Real Madrid have been unable to conquer no matter how hard they tried. But there is one in which the white flag has never been planted. It is to achieve the League, the Cup and the Champions League in the same season: the clover. That is a conquest they have Celtic, Ajax, Bayern (two), PSV, Manchester United, Barcelona (two), Inter and Manchester City.
Of the 15 times that Madrid has been European championonly in five did it come from the hand of the League: 1957, 1958, 2017 and the last two, those of 2022 and 2024. In those five cases, only in 1958 did the white team have the option of the triplet within one step.
Athletic’s celebration of the 1958 Cup, the one that prevented Madrid from winning the treble.BRAND FILE
On May 28, the third European Cup arrived, against Milan at the King Baudouin in Brussels. A month and a day later, the League and European champions were playing in their stadium. The rival was Athleticwhich Madrid had beaten that season 6-0 in Chamartín and 0-2 in San Mamés. But Athletic of the eleven villagers won the Cup final: 2-0 (Arieta and Mauri).
