Just six managers have taken two different clubs to Champions League finals, a list which includes former Chelsea, Manchester United and Barcelona bosses as well as this season’s finalists Jurgen Klopp and Carlo Ancelotti.
Klopp and Ancelotti are both hoping to win a second Champions League title with their current club this season. Ancelotti did so with Real Madrid for the first time in 2014, winning ‘La Decima’ in Lisbon. Klopp did so with Liverpool in 2019 and also reached the final in 2018, losing to Real Madrid.
Both managers have reached finals with other clubs as well – Klopp with Borussia Dortmund and Ancelotti with AC Milan.
Here, we’ve taken a look at each manager to achieve the impressive feat of guiding two clubs to the final of the esteemed competition.
Jurgen Klopp
As stated, the 2022 showpiece will be Klopp’s third Champions League final with Liverpool and he and his players will be looking to avenge the defeat they suffered at Madrid’s hands in Kyiv in 2018.
Klopp is also in the record books as one of a select of band to have managed two separate clubs in the Champions League final having done so with Dortmund in 2013.
The German had announced at the start of that season that his side would focus on the Champions League after they’d completed the double in 2012 but had a disappointing run in Europe.
And Klopp was true to his word, escaping a ‘group of death’ which contained, Ajax, Manchester City and Real Madrid, defeating the latter in the semi-final before Arjen Robben’s late goal saw Bayern snatch the trophy at Wembley.
Carlo Ancelotti
Ancelotti is one of the four names on this list who has not just reached finals with different clubs but actually also won the competition with different clubs in AC Milan and Real Madrid.
He won the competition twice at Milan in 2003 and 2007, sandwiching the only final he has reached and lost – a certain night in Istanbul.
In 2014, he completed his personal treble in the competition…
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