Champions League reveals its 10 most successful clubs: How do Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool compare?
Arsenal can claim the dubious honour of being the most successful club to have never won the competition
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Your support makes all the difference.The Champions League has revealed the 10 most successful clubs in the competition's history, with Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal leading the way for English clubs. The rankings are based on overall match results since the very first European Cup in 1956, with three points awarded for a win.
By this basis, Manchester United are comfortably the most successful English team, and the only one to have secured more than 100 wins in the tournament’s history.
United have won the competition three times, most spectacularly when two late goals secured a dramatic 2-1 victory over Bayern Munich in 1999 to clinch a famous treble.
While Liverpool have lifted the trophy five times, including four victories in eight years between 1977 and 1984, a lack of consistency in recent times means their overall record is not as good as United.
Their last win came with 2005's famous comeback victory over Milan, but they have qualified just once in the past five seasons, and crashed out in the group stage.
Arsenal rank in 10th place, and claim the dubious honour of being the most successful club to have never won the competition. The closest Arsene Wenger’s side have come was in 2006, when the 10-man Gunners held on until the last 15 minutes against Barcelona before agonising late goals from Samuel Eto'o and Juliano Belletti.
Barca, the reigning champions after their 3-1 victory over Juventus in Berlin, occupy third spot, with 260 wins.
Unsurprisingly, after winning the competition's first five editions and clinching their tenth victory, an unrivalled decima, in 2014, Real Madrid top the rankings comfortably. They have won 79 more games than Bayern in second place and lead the list by more than 150 points.
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