Real Madrid have done nonetheless another square of UEFA Champions League history. The final in Kyiv will be a holders’ third in a quarrel in a foe – creation them a initial group to do so on some-more than one occasion.
Since Madrid reached (and won) a initial 5 European Cup finals between 1956 and 1960, usually 5 other clubs had managed even 3 in a quarrel – Benfica, Ajax, Bayern and, in a UEFA Champions League era, AC Milan and Juventus.
Remarkably, in all those prior cases, when one group reached 3 in a row, another bar immediately matched that feat!
Real Madrid
2016: W 1-1 (aet; 5-3pens) v Atlético Madrid, Milan
2017: W 4-1 v Juventus, Cardiff
2018: v Liverpool/Roma, Kyiv
Juventus
1996: W 1-1 (aet; 4-2 pens) v Ajax, Rome
1997: L 1-3 v Borussia Dortmund, Munich
1998: L 0-1 v Real Madrid, Amsterdam
AC Milan
1993: L 0-1 v Marseille, Munich
1994: W 4-0 v Barcelona, Athens
1995: L 0-1 v Ajax, Vienna
Bayern München
1974: W 1-1/4-0 (replay) v Atlético Madrid, Brussels
1975: W 2-0 v Leeds United, Paris
1976: W 1-0 v St-Étienne, Glasgow
Ajax
1971: W 2-0 v Panathinaikos, Wembley
1972: W 2-0 v Internazionale Milano, Rotterdam
1973: W 1-0 v Juventus, Belgrade
Benfica
1961: W 3-2 v Barcelona, Berne
1962: W 5-3 v Real Madrid, Amsterdam
1963: L 1-2 v AC Milan, Wembley
Real Madrid
1956: W 4-3 v Stade de Reims, Paris
1957: W 2-0 v Fiorentina, Madrid
1958: W 3-2 (aet) v Milan, Brussels
1959: W 2-0 v Stade de Reims, Stuttgart
1960: W 7-3 v Eintracht Frankfurt, Glasgow
Anderlecht
1976: W 4-2 v West Ham United, Brussels
1977: L 0-2 v Hamburg, Amsterdam
1978: W 4-0 v Austria Wien, Paris
Sevilla
2014: W 0-0 (aet; 4-2pens) v Benfica, Turin
2015: W 3-2 v Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Warsaw
2016: W 3-1 v Liverpool, Basel
Juventus
1995 UEFA Cup: L 0-1a/1-1h (1-2 agg) v Parma
1996 UEFA Champions League: W 1-1 (aet; 4-2 pens) v Ajax, Rome
1997 UEFA Champions League: L 1-3 v Borussia Dortmund, Munich
1998 UEFA Champions League: L 0-1 v Real Madrid, Amsterdam
Parma
1993 Cup Winners’ Cup: W 3-1 v Antwerp, Wembley
1994 Cup Winners’ Cup: L 0-1 v Arsenal, Copenhagen
1995 UEFA Cup: W 1-0h/1-1a (2-1 agg) v Juventus
Juventus
1983 European Cup: L 0-1 v Hamburg, Athens
1984 Cup Winners’ Cup: W 2-1 v Porto, Basel
1985 European Cup: W 1-0 v Liverpool, Brussels
Liverpool
1976 UEFA Cup: W 3-2h/1-1a (4-3 agg) v Club Brugge
1977 European Cup: W 3-1 v Borussia Mönchengladbach, Rome
1978 European Cup: W 1-0 v Club Brugge, Wembley
Lyon
2016: W 1-1 (aet; 5-3 pens) v Wolfsburg, Reggio Emilia
2017: W 0-0 (aet; 5-3 pens) v Paris Saint-Germain, Cardiff
2018: v Wolfsburg, Kyiv
LyonÂ
2010: L 0-0 (aet; 3-5 pens) v Turbine Potsdam, Getafe
2011: W 2-0 v Turbine Potsdam, Fulham
2012: W 2-0 v FFC Frankfurt, Munich
2013: L 0-1 v Wolfsburg, Chelsea
Umeå
2002: L 0-2 v FFC Frankfurt, Frankfurt
2003: W 4-1h, 3-0a (7-1 agg) v Fortuna Hjørring
2004: W 3-0h, 5-0a (8-0 agg) v FFC Frankfurt
Inter FS
2016: L 3-4 v Ugra Yugorsk, Guadalajara
2017: W 7-0 v Sporting CP, Almaty
2018: W 5-2 v Sporting CP, Zaragoza
FC Dynamo
2012: L 1-3 v Barcelona, Lleida
2013: L 3-4 v Kairat Almaty, Tbilisi
2014: L 2-5 (aet) v Barcelona, Baku
FC Dynamo
2005: L 3-4a, 6-6 (aet) h (9-10 agg) v Action 21 Charleroi
2006: L 3-6a, 4-3h (7-9 agg) v Inter FS
2007: W 2-1 v Inter FS, Murcia
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