David Alaba has become the latest player to win the Champions League with two different clubs – an achievement only 22 other footballers can boast.
Real Madrid’s 1-0 victory over Liverpool in Paris has seen Alaba lift European’s most prestigious trophy for a third time in his career, having played a role in two different treble-winning campaigns at Bayern Munich in 2013 and 2020.
The Austrian defender has played a key role in each of those successes – and looking at some of the other names o have won the competition with different clubs, it takes something special.
Here are the 23 players to have won the Champions League with more than one club, with some select notes.
Note: we haven’t included the likes of Frank Rijkaard, Vladimir Jugovic and Dejan Savicevic, who won the first of their European Cups in the pre-Champions League era (1992 onwards).
Toni Kroos – Bayern Munich (2013), Real Madrid (2016, 2017, 2018, 2022)
The Germany international played a vital role in Bayern’s treble of 2012-13 and remained at the club during Pep Guardiola’s first season, when eventual champions Madrid beat them 5-0 on aggregate in the semi-finals.
He then won the World Cup and joined Los Blancos, going on to win the Champions League four times in eight years.
Cristiano Ronaldo – Manchester United (2008), Real Madrid (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018)
The star man, time and again. Ronaldo finished as the top scorer in the competition in each of the five seasons he lifted the trophy, first with Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United and then four times with Madrid.
Mateo Kovacic – Real Madrid (2016, 2017, 2018), Chelsea (2021)
Ever an important squad player, Kovacic never made it onto the pitch during any of Madrid’s three-in-a-row final victories but did make a short, late cameo in Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Man City in 2021.
Gerard Pique – Manchester United (2008), Barcelona (2009, 2011, 2015)
The Catalan defender made three appearances for United in their…
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