Have Arsenal ever won the Champions League and how many European Cups do they have? Gunners seeking glory in 2024/25
Arsenal’s return to the Champions League during the 2023/24 season saw them get relatively close to European glory. The Gunners were narrowly knocked out of UEFA’s premier competition by Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals, but they are looking to go much further this time. Arsenal’s last European success was the 1994 Cup Winners CupGetty Arsenal had endured a bit of a lean spell when it came to the Champions League, having been out of the competition for six years until last season. Before that, they’d been competing with Europe’s elite for 17 consecutive campaigns. Mikel Arteta managed to get the Gunners back into the big time, and the next aim is to win it, with the 2024/25 campaign well underway. Have Arsenal ever won the Champions League? Arsenal have never lifted the Champions League or European Cup in any of its iterations. A record six English clubs have won a total of 15 titles, with Manchester City becoming the latest following their win over Inter Milan. City have joined Liverpool, Chelsea, neighbours Manchester United, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa in scooping Europe’s top honour. During Arsenal’s 17-season consecutive stay in the Champions League, they only reached the final once. However, the Gunners fell to a 2-1 defeat to Barcelona in the 2005/06 campaign and eight of the next 11 years yielded round of 16 exits. Players who left Arsenal and won the Champions League Nicolas Anelka – for Real Madrid Alexander Hleb – for Barcelona Thierry Henry – for Barcelona Ashley Cole – for Chelsea Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain – for Liverpool Serge Gnabry – for Bayern Munich Olivier Giroud – for Chelsea Arsenal lost their only ever Champions League finalGetty How many European Cups do Arsenal have? The Gunners have never won any of UEFA’s current three competitions including the Champions League, Europa League or the Europa Conference League. Of course, they’ve never competed in the Europa Conference League, while they made the Europa League final under Unai Emery only to lose 4-1 to Chelsea during the 2018/19 season, But the north Londoners do still have two European honours to their names. Arsenal have won the 1970 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup – widely considered a pre-cursor to the UEFA Cup (now the Europa League) although it was not a UEFA-sanctioned competition The Emirates outfit have also claimed the more prestigious European Cup Winners’ Cup under George Graham in 1994. The competition, which as abolished in 1999, was for the winners of European cup competitions which Arsenal qualified for having won the FA Cup the year before. At the time, it was considered the second most important tournament UEFA offered after the European Cup.
Arsenal’s return to the Champions League during the 2023/24 season saw them get relatively close to European glory.
The Gunners were narrowly knocked out of UEFA’s premier competition by Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals, but they are looking to go much further this time.
Arsenal had endured a bit of a lean spell when it came to the Champions League, having been out of the competition for six years until last season.
Before that, they’d been competing with Europe’s elite for 17 consecutive campaigns.
Mikel Arteta managed to get the Gunners back into the big time, and the next aim is to win it, with the 2024/25 campaign well underway.
Have Arsenal ever won the Champions League?
Arsenal have never lifted the Champions League or European Cup in any of its iterations.
A record six English clubs have won a total of 15 titles, with Manchester City becoming the latest following their win over Inter Milan.
City have joined Liverpool, Chelsea, neighbours Manchester United, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa in scooping Europe’s top honour.
During Arsenal’s 17-season consecutive stay in the Champions League, they only reached the final once.
However, the Gunners fell to a 2-1 defeat to Barcelona in the 2005/06 campaign and eight of the next 11 years yielded round of 16 exits.
Players who left Arsenal and won the Champions League
Nicolas Anelka – for Real Madrid
Alexander Hleb – for Barcelona
Thierry Henry – for Barcelona
Ashley Cole – for Chelsea
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain – for Liverpool
Serge Gnabry – for Bayern Munich
Olivier Giroud – for Chelsea
How many European Cups do Arsenal have?
The Gunners have never won any of UEFA’s current three competitions including the Champions League, Europa League or the Europa Conference League.
Of course, they’ve never competed in the Europa Conference League, while they made the Europa League final under Unai Emery only to lose 4-1 to Chelsea during the 2018/19 season,
But the north Londoners do still have two European honours to their names.
Arsenal have won the 1970 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup – widely considered a pre-cursor to the UEFA Cup (now the Europa League) although it was not a UEFA-sanctioned competition
The Emirates outfit have also claimed the more prestigious European Cup Winners’ Cup under George Graham in 1994.
The competition, which as abolished in 1999, was for the winners of European cup competitions which Arsenal qualified for having won the FA Cup the year before.
At the time, it was considered the second most important tournament UEFA offered after the European Cup.
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