With Real Madrid’s win over Union Berlin, Ancelotti picked up his 42nd victory, surpassing Miguel Muñoz on 41.
Carlo Ancelotti this week became the Real Madrid coach with the most victories in the Champions League. The Italian coach has won 42 games out of a total of 56 (including five draws and nine defeats), an impressive 75 per cent win success rate.
Ancelotti has won two Champions League titles and reached two semi-finals in his four seasons in Europe’s top club competition with Madrid. He has qualified for the last 16 of this year’s edition, with a record of six wins, 16 goals scored and seven conceded. Curiously, in the last six European matches, Los Blancos have been forced to come from behind in three of them: twice against Napoli and once against Union Berlin on Tuesday.
Real Madrid’s most successful in Europe
With the win in Berlin, Ancelotti moved ahead of Miguel Muñoz, who has 41 wins from 71 matches (57.74% success rate) and Vicente del Bosque (34 wins from 60 matches: 56.67%). Behind them are Zinedine Zidane, with 31 wins in 53 matches (58.49%), and José Mourinho, with 24 wins in 36 matches (66.66%).
The top four coaches on the list all managed to lift the trophy while in charge of the club. Ancelotti, Muñoz, Del Bosque and Zidane all made history from 1955 to 2022.