Real Madrid is unparalleled in Europea. The white club celebrated its fourteenth Champions League this Sunday with its fans, a figure that will be unattainable for most teams for many years. Vinicius’ goal closed a historic season for the white team, in which only Athletic has managed to snatch a title from the madridistasleaving the tiny thorn of not having been able to achieve the first treble in its history, an ‘X file’ for a club like white.
The 2021-22 campaign will be historic not only for adding a new double, which accompanies the Super Cup won in January, but also for being the season in which Real Madrid regained its throne in European football. Thanks to these three wounded ones, the whites already guard 97 titles in showcases which will soon have to be enlarged again and match the others trophies that Barcelona has in its museum.
To those 14 Champions must be added 35 Leagues, 19 Copas del Rey, 12 Spanish Super Cups, 7 Club World Cups, 4 European Super Cups, 2 UEFA Cups, 2 Latin Cups, 1 Eva Duarte Cup and 1 League Cup. In total, 97 titles, to which are added 18 Regional Championships and another 5 Joint Trophies, collected in the official list of winners of the white club.
So even though Barcelona continues to surpass its greatest rival in terms of national titles (75 azulgranas for the 68 whites), the superiority in international trophies equals the contest in a Classic that extends to the Trophy Rooms. The podium of the major European leagues is completed by Bayern with 82 woundedaway from the two Spanish teams.
97, 98 or 100 titles?
Counting trophies is always a contentious task. Some extinct tournaments are subject to doubt, since there are some that are not officially recognized by certain organizations, but by others. It is the case of the Little World Cup. This tournament is considered the forerunner of the Intercontinental Cup, but as it was not organized by FIFA or by any football Federationbut by a group of Venezuelan businessmen, is not considered official by either FIFA or UEFA.
Nevertheless, Real Madrid, who won it twice, yes, he includes it in his official list of winners, something that it does not do, for example, with the Eva Duarte Cup. Therefore, according to the list of winners recognized by the Madrid entity itself, they would have more titles than their greatest rivalalthough UEFA does not consider the same.
Another controversial case is that of the Iberoamerican Cupan international tournament organized by the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) and the Spanish Federation (RFEF) and which faced the champion of the King’s Cup of Spain and the champion of the South American Gold Cup. In 1994, the white club won it over Boca Junior de Menottibut UEFA does not recognize it as an official title for not having been organized by it.