Liverpool’s Champions League final against Real Madrid has a lot of storylines to it, but a significant one is that manager Jurgen Klopp will be aiming to win his second Champions League title following his victory in 2019. If he does, he’ll join a select list of coaches who’ve won the competition more than once.
The German will be competing in his fourth Champions League final, and he will be out for revenge against the side that beat his Liverpool team 3-1 in 2018.
“It is clear it was a harsh night for us,” Klopp stated about that loss in Kyiv. “It was really tough to take – the circumstances, the way we conceded the goals, the injury to Mo [Salah], a lot of things happened that night.”
Since the European Cup was rebranded as the Champions League in 1992, eight managers have won the trophy more than once. We’ve taken a look at each of them here.
Carlo Ancelotti
Klopp’s opponent in Paris, the Italian has already won three Champions Leagues in his career, two with AC Milan and the famous ‘La Decima’ title with Real Madrid in 2014.
‘Don Carlo’ led his Milan side to glory against Juventus in 2003 and Liverpool in 2007, and should Real Madrid overcome Liverpool again, he will be the first-ever manager to win four European Cups.
Ancelotti recently became the first manager to win the league title in all of Europe’s top five leagues and will go down as an all-time great.
We still can’t quite believe he was at Everton last season.
READ: How Carlo Ancelotti ended Real Madrid’s 12-year wait for La Decima
Zinedine Zidane
No one could have quite predicted how the legendary midfielder would fare as a manager after taking over from Rafa Benitez at Real Madrid in 2015, but he somehow led Los Blancos to Champions League glory in his first season as a manager.
He then pulled off the remarkable feat of winning back-to-back European titles, which no one else has managed in the modern era, and he wrote himself into the history books by doing it…
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