Micah picked the wrong Bayern team. That 2013 team should've made the list. Destroyed Barcelona 7-0 when they were at their height still. Robben, Ribery, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Muller, Neuer. What a team that was.
The 2013 Bayern squad was one of the best ever, Robbery, Neuer, Müller, Kroos, Schweinsteiger and Lahm ... Jupp Heynckes coaching them. Completly unstoppable in 2013
Well, it was great team. But Hansi Flick havent lost A SINGLE match during 2019/20 season. They won literally all possible cups and trophies they could win. I tell you this: i have never seen so consistent team as Flick's Bayern.
@@krowaswieta7944 Oh pls dont try to compare the uncomparable xD If we go down that lane we have to meet up in a pub, drink a few beers and THEN we can start the Bullshit talk xD Thats not my level, both fantastic and great teams who won it all
@@vitanus Well, you see even 2013 Bayern had its downs and ups. 2019/20 Bayern was scoring more goals but 2012/13 was conceiving much less. Overall Flick's record of winning games is more impresive than Jupps from 12/13.
Robben and Ribery are probably quite a bit stronger than Gnabre and Coman. However, Lewa is much stronger than whoever Bayern's striker was then- Olic? Muller, Neuer and Boateng were still playing in 2019-2020. Kimmich is as good as Schweinsteiger in my opinion. Kroos is quite a bit stronger than Goretzka for now but Alaba is probably a bit better than Dante at CB but Davies has been phenomenal at LB (even compared to Alaba there). Lahm was a great, great player but Pavard also won a WC and a CL and turned up in the biggest games. For me, the midfield is definitely better with the 2012-2013 side due to Kroos but the attack and defence are much more even and might even swing slightly towards the 2019-2020 side. The fact that Bayern literally didn't lose a single game in 2019-2020 and played some of the best football we've seen in recent years deserves credit.
Yea but they never got to the level other teams played like. I’d take any of barcelona’s 2009,2011,2015 teams against those madrid teams every time. Different levels.
That Ajax team for 2 seasons 95-96 played some beautiful football. A team of young players who became world class. VanDerSaar, Danny Blind, Brazil 94 world cup winner Marcio Santos, Frank De Boer, the infamous Winston Borgarde, Ronald De Boer, Marc Overmars, Edgar Davids, Jari Litmanen, Patrick Kluivert, Kanu. This was a great attacking squad with solid defence.
The Milan team from 2002 to 2007 never gets the recognition they deserve because of the 2005 final. Had they won that final everyone would say they were one of, if not the greatest team of all time.
@@specter1586 That is not a valid reason when you have teams like Man Utd 1999 and Bayern 2020 in the list. Three finals in five years with 2 wins is an excellent record, far better than any Manchester United team has ever managed in Europe. Over that period Milan were also narrowly beaten semi-finalists in 2006 and quarter finalists in 2004. They were the definition of European royalty and consistency for their era.
I don't know why people fail to mention that Madrid won 4 finals in 5. It's not just 3 in a row. I don't know, I feel like not mentioning that leaves a big hole in how great that team was.
Bc mentioning it puts messi's barca in a shadow of Cr7's real. It's also the same reason why the media acts like Spain treble wasn't a big deal, it was normal. Messi is not Spanish and see his barca teammates dominated the biggest stage without him hurt so many people. Some pundits even said on TV with no filter messi should have ditch Argentina for spain😂😂.
Bayern 2020 was so crazy, im a psg fan but this team won everything and won all games in the CL this season, Lewandowski missing the record because of the no-away-match cuz of covid, two football masterpiece ( 8/2 vs Barca, 7/2 against Tottenham), Chelsea demolition in 1/16 This was just an amazing team that crushed my dream of seeing psg win it and I have to give them credits for this
In 2020 Bayern became the first team in the history of the Champions League to win every game up to and including the final. With Barca 2009 they are the only team that won everything in a year (sextuple). They HAVE to be up there. Actually the only CL team Messi has a bad record against. Their run 2013 was impressive as well but stats wise 2020 you can't ignore. The panel almost didn't care.
@@juanfernandocastilla2845 True, but what that's supposed to mean? XD I think that season Bayern were the best and they proved it enough. Not every team can face every team in CL... Those teams you mentioned are great but every season you role the dice anew. Milan wasn't even in the group stage 2020. I'm not even a bayern supporter, just a football fan and a realist.
Good to see Henry and Carragher both picking Ajax. I remember watching that final. Van der Sar, Reiziger, de Boer brothers, Litmanen, Davids, Seedorf, Overmars, Kluivert. Players who would have great careers at huge European clubs for the next 10-15 years. Insane team and so young at the time.
th-cam.com/video/czQvLsZie08/w-d-xo.html This is the following season but Ajax absolutely dominated Real Madrid at the Bernabeu. This was one of the most impressive away performances I have seen.
Thierry I love you, picking that 95 Ajax team! They were so young but sooooo good! Litmanen, Kluivert, de Boer, Davids, Seedorf and lots of other talents, combined with aged veterans like Blind and Rijkaard. What a team
Henry is so much more knowledgeable than the other two. The benefits of being well-travelled and having tested yourself in different countries and environments I guess
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia Carragher is the most knowledgeable of the three and it has nothing to do with their playing skills. It's Not Henry! Sorry to burst your bubble, Spitty C knows more about football hands down than any of the current 'pundits'. Micah Richards is one of the least knowledgeable I would say, but he is the heart beat of the show, makes the whole thing fun.
OOH Yeah and don't forget they lost in Penalties to Juve in 96, they could have been 2 UCL..Litmanen was scoring goals from everywhere in that 96 run..omg...i think he moved to Barca after that....Ajax has produced some of the best Talents ever...
That barca team was something else. if anything we should have done better in the 2009 final ( which barca shouldn't even have been in?) No shame what so ever losing to them they were the best ever hands down.
Mate that barca team was really unbelievable, I stood in front of the TV as I watch the game I knew we will not win, our players did their best, but they had Messi, simple as that aside from having a great squad they had Messi at his peak, no chance.
Even rooney told fergie to play defensive just shown how great that team was, but as a barca fan i respect fergie to stay on his philosophy until very end which is attacking football even they got humiated so bad
@@bajilucu7997 I Wouldn't call 3-1 humiliating considering we pulled it back to 1-1 and against that team who would beat any team. I agree though we should have sat back like inter did but buyern proved the best way to sink that team was all out attack. But this wasn't our best team either even though we played good football. We should have played better in 09 when we had ronaldo and tevez in the team but its all history now :)
That's what I would say as well. I am a Barcelona fan but in that 3-peat Real was the most dominant in 2016-2017 I think by far. If you remember 2016 not to not give them credit by any means but their draw was probably the easiest, they have ever had till the final, and in 2018 the way they beat Bayern wasn't the best as it was with quite a controversy as I think VAR was still not available, but that has happened for basically any football team ever. But when I think of the best team, I basically look at what weak spots a team have, and in that 2017 lineup you couldn't find a single weak spot, I think Juventus was the best defence in Europe at the time and they smashed them 4-1. Definitely in the top 5 of all time imo over the 2018 team.
One team that will never get the recognition has the best of all time because they lost in '05 was Milan from '03 to '07. Unbelievable superstars and some all-time greatest players scattered all over the pitch.
Stupid good team Maldini-Nesta-Stam-Cafu Gattuso-Pirlo-Kaka-Seedorf Shevchenko- Crespo Sure, some of them weren’t in their prime (older - Stam, Maldini, Cafu etc// younger - Kaka, Pirlo) but my lord what a starting XI. Who is the worst outfield player? Gattuso? Crespo? Says everything
For me personally, the greatest i have ever seen, expect for guardiola's barcelona, is ac milan in 2005. The team they had was something absurd. Having player like maldini,nesta,pirlo,kakà,shevcenko,crespo,cafu,gattuso and many more was simply unbilivable. Such a shame that they lost the final against liverpool. Especially the way they lost, from 3-0 to 3-3, is what makes people forget this extraordinary team
That 2005 was the peak of Ancelotti Milan. 2003, when they won UCL was the start and 2007 when they last won it was the end of the era. From that period (5 years) they went to 3 finals but lost 1. Ironically, they lost it in 2005 when all the players were in their prime. Kaka was emerging while they still have Rui Costa. Sheva and Crespo upfront and still had Inzaghi on the bench. Not mentioning their defense rosters lead by Maldini. Unreal
Bayern 2013 was a bigger force who had certainly been missed..Let's not forget Bayern was the same team that reached CL finals 3 in 4 years from 2010-2013....it had the same core team...Also the way Bayern demolished the Barca in 2013 and again in 2020..are stuff of legends
Yeah Bayern reached 3 finals in 4 years.....stuff of legends you say, but let's not forget that Madrid won 3 IN A ROW, and 4 in 5 years. The disrespect to them is insane.
They all had the wrong Barca team at #1. The ‘08 had some great players. But the 10-11 version had the best team. David Villa, Pedro , and Busquets were so much better for the system that Pep was building. The ‘10-11 had to be the greatest team to ever grace the game.
No 2009 was better team. 2011 had messi doing tons of individual stuff But as a team that 2009 barcelona could do eventhing and thy were not as dependent on messi to succeed. In fact, in 2009 they kept better posession, had better defenders and etoo and henry would sometimes do better than messi. In the final in 2009 etoo played better than messi. Etoo was so good he carried inter the year after in 2010. The 2011 team was tough to beat but they were more dependent on messi.
As a pure Champions League side, Real Madrid 01-02 has to be considered. The original Galacticos. Casillas, Roberto Carlos, Hierro, Salgado, Zidane, Figo, Makelele, Guti, Raul, Morientes. Zidane with the wonder goal in the final.
You go more by the names tho. Sure the team was stacked but they didnt play as good as other teams were and thats what its about. Also theres not really an "original" Galacticos, they were later called that because they bought Ronaldo, Beckham etc for a shit ton of money.
@@michaelfellner9822 The first galáctico era is considered to be synonymous with the presidency of Florentino Pérez between 2000-2006, from the signing of Luís Figo in 2000, to the departure of Zinedine Zidane in 2006. -Wikipedia
Pep's Barça was from another dimension, it was football in its most beautiful and elegant form. This team lost but what emotion! The art of Iniesta, the knowledge of xavi, the creativity of Messi, the power of Eto'o, the maturity of Thierry Henry, the precision of Daniel Alves, the passion of Puyol, the intelligence of Pique... Short
I think 10/11 Barca is probably the greatest. 12/13 Bayern and 19/20 Bayern were absolute machines can't say for sure which ones was better but 19/20 Bayern was certainly one of the most dominant teams, they put every team to the sword, they scored 43 goals. No team has ever scored as many in a regular UCL campaign, and they did it in 2 less matches, put 10 past tottenham, previous year finalist, put 7 past chelsea, put 8 past Barca. Went on a 15 game winning streak, longest in the UCL history, which only ended when they fielded a second string side with 3 - 4 18 year olds against an Atletico said fighting for their life in the group. You probably gathered I'm a Bayern fan by now lol. Anyways 2014 - 2018 Madrid team rest would be that 92 - 94 Ajax team Those are the 4 standouts I can think of. There's the AC milan teams, the 00 - 02 Bayern team. the current Liverpool team.
@@TheBallonDOrWinner-qd2gq What does 28 goal difference mean? Are you talking about the group stage? Anyways, I did include the Madrid team, plus I think the midfield with Kross, Modric and Casemiro from the 16/17 season onwards was more balance and an overall better team than the 13/14 one.
@@TheBallonDOrWinner-qd2gq I'm also a Madrid fan but I'd trade every Madrid player to Messi Xavi Iniesta trio, they costed my neighbor (who's also a big Madrid fan) 2 TV
@@muhammadhasham9547 Great team I already mentioned it, but they didn't create enough chances or score a lot of goals. If you wanted a draw or win 1:0 yes it was probably one of the best teams, but to humiliate opponent I'd pick Real Madrid 2017
The 16/17 madrid has to be better than the 17/18. They were the best european team ever. Every player in that team were at their prime. They had one thing that other teams lacked was the mentality and switching on whenever they want to.
Nope. The Milan team from 03-07 is the greatest team assembled. Each position was played by the best in the world at that position. Every position. The fullbacks and midfielders the attackers. All ballon d’or contenders in the top 5 for their position it’s crazy
I’d say 2010/11 is the best club side ever. 2008/09, I think, showed the system of tiki-taka but 2010/11 showed it executed to perfection. What made it better was that I think the 08/09 team was actually better based on players. But 2010/11 was where they had the perfect players for the system and they had done their roles as well as they could have.
2008 09 barca is over rated. They faced the weakest gased out madrid that year. And plus that united was gased out 38 year old giggs scholes neveile 35 year old ferdidand. Image every singlw unkted player a 25 yearsold vs 24 year old barca
Barcelona 2010/11 is the best footballing team ever I've seen.... The football they played changed my outlook on football from strength and pace to passing and vision...
@@Oscar.919cl is a knock out competition and Real Madrid wasn't even Spanish champions so what's your point... If you aren't even best in your own country then what's the point just some luck in a knockout tournament.
Since Ronaldinho left Barcelona they became a very boring team to watch.. i am not talking about their indivdual players they were obviously all brilliant but their style of play was so fricking annoying.. I am just glad Bayern Munich destroyed that tiki taka bullshit forever
AC Milan 2005: Absolute insane team. ---------------Dida------------------ Cafu-Nesta-Stam-Maldini -------------Pirlo------------------- ----Seedorf----Gattuso------ --------------Kaká----------------- --Shevchenko-Crespo-----
Ridiculous that they didn't mentioned the Ac Milan 2005 squad, I know they lost at penalties against Liverpool, but I think that was one of the most outstanding team i ever seen: Dida, Stam, Nesta, Maldini, Pirlo, Seedorf, Gattuso, Kaka, Shevchenko and Crespo. What a team!
Because they lost that unfortunately they cant be one of the best UCL teams. You can be the best team, but you cant be the best ucl team when you dont actually win the competition. That is the sad truth: there is no place for runner ups:(.
Ajax - 1994/1996 went unbeaten for almost two years in the CL with only four foreigners (Kanu, babangida, finidi George and the great Jari litmanen) veterans like blind and the legend frank Rijkaard and the rest of the squad being youth products from the academy. Beat one of the great ac Milan sides of all time twice, beat bayern twice and absolutely battered real Madrid at the bernabeau so much that the crowd actually applauded the Ajax team when they left the pitch after 90 min.
If I'm not mistaken it was Panathinaikos who eventually ended their unbeaten run? How unlikely. I still get shivers watching the footage of the teenage Patrick Kluivert scoring from veteran Rijkaard's assist in the final. P.S: little correction to your comment, they didn't beat Bayern twice, the first leg in Germany finished 0-0 and in the second Ajax trounced them 5-2 in Amsterdam. The season after it was Real Madrid whom they beat twice.
Exactly. As Henry was saying that it 08/09 Barca team was academy players so was that United treble team that was mainly homegrown players and academy players
The 07/08 United team doesn't get mentioned enough. That team was unreal, every single player in the starting 11 was one of the best in the world in their position
if you just go 2 years back you got a Milan team that was stacked with legends at every position on the field while having good chemistry. Sad that they bottled there final.
The reason they aren’t there is because barça 09 gave them a footballing masterclass with the very same players who beat barça the season before . One of the most 1 sided finals I have ever Seen against a world class team. You had the impression that United was a division 3 club in that match apart from the first 10 mins.
Other teams that younger football fans should know about. Johan Cryuffs Ajax Amsterdam won 3 European Cups in a row between '70-'71 to '72-'73 and included legends like Mühren, Rep and Neeskens. This team, first managed by Rinus Michels, revolutionised football with their Total Football style of play and was the foundation upon which the playing style of the great Barca sides of the mid-to-late-2000s was built. The original Galacticos, Real Madrid of the late 1950s. Captained by the great Alfredo di Stefano- arguably the footballing G.O.A.T.- this team was stacked with star players such as the great Brazilian Didi, Hungary's G.O.A.T. Puskas and Paco Gento. The won five (5!) consecutive European Cups and their 7-3 win over Frankfurt in the '59-'60 final played in Glasgow was an inspiration to Sir Alex Ferguson, "Eintracht Frankfurt beat Rangers 12-4 on aggregate in the semi-final and, being a Rangers fan at the time, we thought those guys were gods. They were the best team I'd ever seen in my life, and then they got slaughtered 7-3 in the final! That put into perspective how good Real Madrid really were."
They won 5 in a row because back then the previous year champion played directly in the final of next year..not so dominating. Also Franco was handing spanish citizenship like cookies😅
And right afterwards we won the CL three times in a row so how are you not mentioning the 73-76 Bayern squad with Müller, Meier, Beckenbauer. A force within Europe at that time
In 08/09 season football reached its peak not just Barcelona was great back then. Liverpool and Chelsea and Man Utd all had great teams and preformed very well in the Champions League who can forget the 4-4 game between Liverpool and Chelsea that was one of the greatest nights in football history.
liverpool wasn’t at their peak in 08/09 wtf are you even talking about lol i swear some of you watch a few highlight videos from 10 years ago and feel like you know what football was like at the time
I think they didn't choose that team because that team was not dominant than the ones they chose, like this real Madrid team's record against Barca wasn't good
@@yashpatil5465 Individual matches have literally no meaning whatsoever. Even Real Madrid back in 2008 beat a peak Barca by 4-1 yet couldn't get past last 16 in CL, therefore has no merits.
1. Zidane's Real 2. Pep's Barca 3. Del Bosque's Real 4. Ancelotti's Milan 5. Heynckes' Bayern 6. Ferguson's Manchester United 7. Capello's Milan 8. Lippi's Juventus 9. van Gaal's Ajax
Referees won 3 champions leagues in a row never forgot the fake gifted penalties late on the matches to save Madrid against Juventus,Bayern munich, Wolfsburg if you actually watched them you will know how bad Madrid was paying the referees
1. Pep's Barça 2.Enrique's Barça 3. The rest doesn't matter. Madrid fanboys should accept Real ain't top 5 any season. There are many treble winning teams
@@amil787 I’m not gonna argue if they were good or not because they were. I’m just saying they weren’t as good as everyone thought because sure they won ucl but in la liga they couldn’t beat Barca. This is not an opinion but a fact you can search up. Ronaldo has won 2 la liga trophies in 9 years.
@@RMusing because ucl is an international competition that is supposed to be harder than la liga. How is it possible that they won 3 ucl in 4 years but couldn’t win la liga? During ronaldo 9 years in Madrid they won 2 la liga. This is not an opinion but a fact that can searched up. That Madrid team is a bit overrated that’s all.
That 2003 1/4 final with MU vs REAL is so far the most beautiful Champions League game I’ve seen since 1995 when I first started watching the competition Zidane, Figo, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldo… Giggs, Beckham, Ferdinand, Van Nistelrooy… Galacticos all around
Seeing both the 08/09 and 10/11 Barca up there as the best two champions league team ever just proves how amazing mourinho is as a coach winning it in 09/10. Simply incredible
In retrospect, Sacchi's Milan (1989), Van Gaal's Ajax (1994) and Pep's Barcelona (2011) were the greatest teams to watch while they were winning trophies. Real Madrid has outperformed all other clubs in terms of trophies but they were more ruthless than entertaining - except for the era of Zidane as a player, with that memorable goal against Leverkusen (2002). Real surely has winning in their DNA, they showed it this year more than ever.
Real outperformed the others in terms of silverware over a few years so they have to be in this list for that impressive acheivement but it never felt like they were the overwhemingly dominant team in the way that some of these others were. I couldn't see that team putting in a performance like the one that 2011 Barca side did in the final, for example, and I really can't see them beating that team if we were to see them play against each other.
@@PristianoPenaldoSUIIII Same old cliche, same old myth, "they never looked that dominant". Watch the 16/17 CL-campaign, perhaps? Its incredible how lazy people have gotten, just goes with the message they've heard.
Milan 89-95 HAS to be mentioned. I know, half of the era wasn't in the new format but they made the 89,90, 93, 94 and 95 finals. FYI, the Ajax final you're thinking of is 1995, when they beat AC Milan. The 1994 final was when AC MIlan destroyed Cruyff's dreamteam 4-0. Real Madrid's 1998-2002 team was a good era as well. /
That 2011 final always stands out in my mind. Barca were unbelievable, it was like they had completed football. Man City looked pretty complete last week vs Madrid so interesting to see if they go another level
Era wise, 2016-2018 Real Madrid are the best CL team ever, in my opinion. But single season? I think the boys chose 2009 Barça because they won the treble. But I strongly agree with Sir Alex Ferguson, who said that 2011 Barça was the best team that he's ever seen.
Not completely dominating, since in domestic league they were still beaten by Barcelona. Real Madrid has a thing for CL for sure but still they didn't dominate CL and got lucky in few games like that final with Atlectico Madrid.
@@anshul5705 Real Madrid won La Liga in 2017 along with the Champions League. They are not a lucky team. They are Real Madrid. Luck follows winners around.
@@diegopons4622 Yeah, whatever luck followed them or they followed luck but surely they were not dominating and that's why there are other CL teams which were greater than them.
@@anshul5705 Bullshit. Real Madrid dominated through and through from 2014-2018. And I'm not a Real Madrid fan. But I'm also not going to hate on them. In 2018 alone in the knockout phases they beat: PSG, Juventus, Bayern Munich and Liverpool in the final. That's a great squad.
@@diegopons4622 i dont thinks he is saying that it was a bad squad He is just being honest, u look at all their And there were last minute goals, uncalled fouls, questionable ref decisions, yes they were great but you could say they couldve lost a lot of those games. And to see a barca team that was “not good enough” still beat madrid every other game pretty convincingly
Little story. So back in 1994 the World Cup came to the USA, but most of the games were shown on ESPN and ESPN2, which were cable channels. My dad noticed that both my brother and I loved playing soccer and wanted us to watch it so finally decided to make the move and ordered cable tv. After the World Cup ended, I still wanted to watch soccer but the only channels that had it were the same ESPN channels from before. Crazy enough, because ESPN were still somewhat “new”, they didn’t have many tv deals for sports and the only soccer league they had was the Dutch Eredivise. I would get off the school bus after elementary school and run from my bus stop to my house and turn it on. I always remember seeing this 1994-95 Ajax side destroying teams and became a young fan. Also, because of Ajax, I started watching Champions League for the first time. After seeing the coaches wearing the champions league ball patches, I decided that I wanted to be those coaches. So in the end, because of my dad ordering cable for the World Cup, I fell in love with the game, and followed my dream and goal of wearing the champions league ball patch and became a college/professional soccer coach. One day I’ll wear that patch on my sleeve. Thank you dad and thank you Ajax.
Barcelona 2009 to 2011 by very very far the best club team ever. The way they played, the dominance the opposition, the amount of titles, the fact that in the same period the spanish national team whose backbone were Barcelona players won everything Euro, World Cup...
Yes, but they weren't as good on the pitch as the teams the guys picked. In 2010 Barcelona were extremely superior and Inter were very very lucky in the two legs of the UCL semi. Those three guys didn't pick teams solely based on trophies, trophies need luck.
@@jerry85g7 Sneijder didn't deserve it, he wasn't as good as Messi was individually, nowhere near as good, actually. And despite the result Barcelona were much better over the two legs.
@@jerry85g7 As I said twice already, regardless of the result Barcelona were better. Also, Sneijder didn't go to the World Cup final, the Netherlands did. The Ballon D'or is an individual award.
Real Madrid 17/18 (3 in a row and 4 out of 5 years) Barcelona 08/09 (treble winners, better than the 14/15 treble) Manchester United 98/99 (treble winners, best possible treble in the PL) Inter Milan 09/10 (treble winners) Milan 06/07 (made it to the final 3 times in 5 years and won it twice) My top 5
@@babsives great team but all the teams ive listed are better than 01/13/20 bayern teams since the reformat. include the bayern teams before 93 then its anither story.
@@guneytopal7076 i agree with your picks. In ucl teams ...as long as madrid is 1st everything looks good to me cos that's just facts people can deny but they can't change the stats.
A team winning everything with most of the players graduating from the academy is something football will probably never see again Ajax and barca are different beasts in that aspect
eh maybe a big achievement maybe not, but what you will never see is someone winning 3 UCLs in a row and 4 in 5, especially now with League formats set to go from 2024!! RM are kings of Europe and yes, our academy may not have produced 11 starters, but its because our president is like that, we dont control the club but love it anyways
@@shivam_dxrk No you didn't produce 11 starters simply coz your academy sucks that's why the best player you ever produced was Raul & since him you only produced very few players includling the best of them which is the big flop Asencio and that's why without Perez's money you went down and you sucked for more than a decade as a team.
@@shivam_dxrk this talk was about academies you did not have to comment about madrid here,we know you are proud of your club amd what you achieved is pretty big and blah blah blah But why the fuck do you have to write it everywhere Why do you need validation?
The greatest team I've personally seen is the Milan team from 03-07 they where dominant full of star power each position had a Champion.. And Ancelotti was Boss
Loved that Henry and Jamie picked the Ajax side that really is under rated in the context of being under dogs and reaching two finals amidst the Italian dominance of the 90's !
1- Real Madrid 2014-2018 4 Champions in 5 years. The best version of Ronaldo with the best team in the Last 20/25 years. Modric, Sérgio Ramos, Casemiro, Kroos, Benzema, Di Maria, Alonso, Iker Casillas, Marcelo, Carvajal, Pepe, Varane, Khedira, Asensio, Bale, Navas... 2- Barcelona 2009-2011 Best version of Messi, Xavi, Iniesta and company 3- AC Milan 2003-2007 Ancelotti first masterclass with a dream team. Rui Costa, Maldini, Cafú, Nesta, Kaká, Pirlo, Seedorf, Stam, Inzaghi, Gattuso, Gilardino, Crespo, Dida, Shevchenko, Costacurta, Rivaldo, Redondo.... 4- Manchester United 2007/08 Probably the best Fergunson United team. Ronaldo, Scholes, Giggs, Rooney, Ferdinand, Vidic, Van Der Sar, Brown, Evra, Nani, Hargreaves, Tevez... 5- FC Porto 2003-2004. Mourinho masterclass. They won the two most important trophys in Europe. Uefa Cup and Champions League. Vítor Baía, Deco, Maniche, Costinha, Ricardo Carvalho, Derlei, Alinitchev, Bosingwa, Carlos Alberto, Jorge Costa...
@@Username-mn7pc ok.... But Ronaldo is Ronaldo. The best player of Real Madrid History.... In Real Madrid's last 4 Champions League victories in 5 years, Ronaldo has scored 60 goals in 52 games. Of course Modric, Kroos, Sergio Ramos were important but there is no doubt about the difference and effectiveness that Ronaldo gave to Real Madrid. 1 Champions League Edition had 13 games. 6 games ingroup stage 2 games in Last 16 2 games in quarter finals 2 games in semi-finals 1 game in final 4 editions of Champions = 13x4= 52 games Ronaldo Goals in Real Madrid last four Champions triumphs 2013/2014 17 goals 2015/2016 16 goals 2016/2017 12 goals 2017/2018 15 goals 17+16+12+15= 60 average goals 60/52= 1,15 THE MAN IS NOT HUMAN
bayern 2013 was legendary! lost the final in 2010, lost the final at home in 2012 & than fought back to win it at wembley against dortmund. core players are absolute beasts & won every trophy there is. muller, schweinsteiger, lahm, robben, ribery, neuer.. it‘s a crime not to mention them if you know ball💀
Milan team from 2005 would have been an all time great team, had the final finished at 3:0 after the first 45 mins...man Dida, Cafu, Stam, Nesta, Maldini, Pirlo, Gatusso, Seedorf, Kaka, Crespo, Shevchenko...
@@flashgordon4339 the one that Cafu, Stam, Crespo and Shevchenko didn't play in and they ground out a hard won defeat against a fairly average Liverpool team, whilst finishing 4th in a very weak Serie A? Players can be well past their best and still win trophies. This is not a revelation.
@@kb5509 Serie A wasn't weak at the time. It was on its course of being weak but not weak. Inter was crazy good and to be fair, Milan were deducted points from the beginning of the season due to 2006 Calciopoli (Fiorentina, Lazio & Reggina had points deducted as well and Juve was sent to Serie B). Serie A was officially a weak league after 2010 or 2011 when Inter was the last Italian club to win the UCL and Milan was the last club to win the Serie A before the Juve dominance.
@@teddymeister95 It was pretty weak. Serie A had been mostly rubbish in Europe for the last 7 seasons (99-00 to 05/06) barring 02/03. And Inter weren't crazy good lol. They were nothing special. Valencia knocked them out of the CL who were a good but not a great team and the year before Villarreal knocked them out of the CL.
A team that’s always slept on is the 1991 Red star team the amount of talent that came from that region was insane they were all extremely intelligent players and they won trophies while the country was at war.
Barca in the 90s was pretty amazing, led by one of the most underrated players of all time, Michael Laudrup. There's a famous player from that team who is now an extremely successful coach. He's quoted as saying "All the important lessons about football, I learned from Laudrup." That coach is Pep Guardiola.
The barca team of 2009 have been the greatest I have ever seen on the grass. How they dominated games, especially that midfield trio of Buskets, Xavi and Iniesta. What an orchestrated midfield.
The 21/22 Madrid Season needs some respect for what they achieved... Without many regular faces and a young team plus old midfield and also the teams they had to go thru... Pretty tough.
Jose's tactical brilliance brought out the best of that Inter team. Sneijder was robbed of the Balon d'Or that year. Also they bested Pep's Barcelona which is no small feat
@Layen GallagherTrue. I agree 100%. I suppose it’s why I instinctively labeled them as “Jose’s Inter”. Take Jose away from that equation, and you get a Bale hattrick at the San Siro. That treble winning side was peak Jose - they would’ve died for him.
@Layen Gallagher I would argue that they had top 5 to 10 players in every position (Chivu and Stankovic probably the weakest ones). Cesar Maicon Lucio Samuel Chivu Zanetti Cambiasso Stankovic Sneijder Milito Etoo Jose made a real team out of them and got them to perform according to their potential. When you say overachieved, are you saying that squad wasn't really good enough to win CL?
@Layen Gallagher If I remember correctly Inter won its 5th consecutive league title that year, so they were definitely better that Milan och Juventus at the time. Inter might not have had the world's top 1 player at all positions(what team has had that ever?), but they didn't have holes in their eleven as most of the other teams had where the quality dropped a lot in some positions.
2010 Inter deserves a shout. Not only did they won the treble, every player would fight for the team and the manager Jose Mourinho. The connection between the manager and the players was special, you just cannot have that.
I think when i look back at every Champions League final then I have to say Liverpool in 2005 when they came back from 3-0 down and coming back to 3-3 against AC Milan and wining penalty kicks that was for me the greatest Champions league final that I have watched on TV
Covid and the format was weird. They also started the season badly and Kovac got fired. Beat Lyon and PSG. We're talking about the 5 best teams ever. Bayern 2012-2013 was more dominant.
Both Bayern 2013 and Bayern 2020 deserve to be on this list. Bayern 2020 literally didn’t lose a single game (and let’s be real they wouldn’t have lost even with a two leg format for the quarters and semis), and the 2013 team was arguably better than they were
@@maximus-go1um meh you cant be serious:v. bayern played most of the teams 2 legged. They only faced barcelona and lyon with 1 leg only. And did you really think lyon and a humiliated Barcelona can defeat them on the 2nd match:))))
AC Milan in 2003-2007 were special to be able to reach 3 finals while all these world class players and teams were there, Ferguson Man U, All stars Real madrid, Henry's Arsenal, Ronaldinho's Barcelona and many others. AC Milan were amazing
A lot of people forgot or weren't old enough to remember just how great the 1992-1995 milan team was. They were the ultimate football team. Then come the mighty Ajax. Only Guardiola's Barcelona are on the same level or maybe better.
I haven't watched this video yet but the first team that came to mind was mid 90's Ajax. I have never seen a more dominant side in Europe than them. Steamrollered every one in that seasons competition.
It was a dynasty followed by another. 80s was all Liverpool, but by the time they got banned due to Heysel and lost grip of England cuz of Arsenal and Everton, AC Milan took the mainstage as the ruler of Europe in the wake of the 90s, then by mid 90s they couldn't hang with a young Ajax who took notes from them (Danks Rijkaard), but then they got challenged and outmuscled by a rising Juventus whose Trap era was responsible for ending Liverpool's dynasty in the 80s. Juve was the main dominator of the late 90s until Man United, Bayern and Real Madrid came along to end the decade into the early 2000s.
93-94 Milan crushing Barca's "dream team" with 3-4 of their best players out should make more lists. One of the late 80s teams should make it too, maybe the one that ripped apart Real in the semis 5-0.
Yea i thought so too, but when Milan won it two consecutively in '89 & '90, the tournament wasn't called "UEFA Champions League", hence why they probably didn't consider it. So they basically picked the best European squads in the last 30 years.
@@ghostbizzle7976 exactly. AC Milan was one of the best teams ever, but that team played Ajax 3 times and didn't even manage to score a goal and lost all 3 games, including the final. I think that Ajax team was out of this planet and is probably the best ever team in de CL.
I became a fan of football in 2010, being an American and all. This show helps me understand the game better and to understand hw the world views leagues players and the culture behind football. For the past ten years, I've been a season ticket holder with the LA Galaxy. It's amazing how much I've come to love the sport; it's on par with how I used to follow the NFL, MLB, and NBA when I was a kid. . Football has truly captured my heart.
United 1999 were actually facing lots of top class teams I mean they faced Bayern 3 Times, they faced Barcelona with Rivaldo and Figo, and then 2 Italian Giants inter and Juventus I actually thought that the opponents each team faced on route to glory should play a considerable part in this list making I mean it's easier to beat Roma, Wolfsburg, city on route to the final rather than psg, Juventus, and Bayern Or even psg, Chelsea, and city
Agree totally same group as Bayern and Barcelona. Meet a free scoring Inter with Ronaldo then Juventus go over to Turin and win also to play Bayern in the final without Scholes & Keane and still win . Also this united team were pushed all the way in the premier league by a great Arsenal side
Celtic 67,,won 5 trophies in one season only team to ever do this, pluss all Scottish players that stayed within 30 miles of one another, and got to the final again in 70,this team is in the famous words immortal, 💚🍀
They hate Madrid love Barca tho Barca is a nearly club we nearly won 3 champions leagues in a row Real is a we did club that is why they Will always be above Barca they May win the Battle but Real Will always win the war
@@emilfrederiksen.1622 lmao it's because as Henry said the La Masia players at Barca dominating against the likes of Galacticos...that's why people like Barca
Special mention to the pre galacticos Real team with Redondo, Raul, Guti, Hierro, Morientes, Roberto Carlos, Salgado, Helguero, Casillas, McManaman. Great football
Barca tiki taka was the most attractive team ever seen but 2018 peak Madrid in a UCL finals would beat that Barca... BCS they just knew how to win... Possession could be 80-20 for all I care but that Madrid team can beat anyone in a UCL finals. Teams knew how to counter that Barca ( Mourinho style in particular)
The 2013 and 2020 Bayern teams were some of the best ever. Not a single team in the competition obliterated their opposition like Bayern did. Blows my mind how a Cara and Henry were laughing at Mica for mentioning one of the two Bayern teams. The disrespect is unbearable.
They played well but the finals were close and either team could have won it. When you look at the Barca 2011 team, there was no debate on who was the better team. It was complete domination. That is why most people put that team as the greatest club team to ever be assembled.
@@spitfirez89 Does not matter what the final ended in. The road to the final, every team was brushed aside in absolute dominance. You name another team that has embarrassed Barca as bad as Bayern did...and other top teams at that. And to add to this nonsese, if VAR existed 5-6 years ago, Bayern would have had at least 2-3 more campions league crowns.
@@MiaSanBayern What do you mean the final doesn't matter? lol if anything the final is the most important game to gauge a team's dominance as it Pitts the 2 best teams against each other. Bayern in 2020 against PSG was not domination, it was a close game that could have gone either way. What was absolute dominance was Barca's 2011 team against Man Utd. Ask most fans and pundits and the general consensus is that the Barca 2011 team was the best club team ever in terms of results and also HOW they played. Rarely anyone would say that about any Bayern team. Also Barca destroyed Bayern in 2015 but I don't really consider them to be the best.
@@spitfirez89 your logic, is if the team scraped by 1-0, scores, away rules, etc. and won a 3-0 in the final , they were dominating the CL. The worst team to ever win it was Chelsea in 2012. Were played off the pitch by Bayern ( a team that was 100x better than Chelsea or any team for that matter during that time) Sorry man but cannot agree with your logic on this one.
@@MiaSanBayern the barca 2011 team did not scrape 1 goal victories. They dominated the teams they played in both the group and knockout stages against teams like real Madrid and arsenal. And again the 2011 barca team dominated their final unlike the 2020 bayern team. Ask most netural fans and pundits and they too will say the 2011 barca team was the best ever. That doesn't mean the bayern team of 2020 wasn't great.
Inter 2009/2010, crushing Pep's Barca for not winning 3 times in a row. At that time, Jose was the hero for both Inter & Madrid fans. Jose give one of the underrated press conference statement ever on Semifinal 2nd leg about the difference between "Dream" and "Obsession". For Inter going to the Champions League final was the "Dream", and for Barca it was the "Obsession", the obsession was winning Champions League at Santiago Bernabeu. The iconic celebration at Camp Nou, the treble, Eto'o back to back winning Champions League. What a moment.
I enjoyed Inter's 'park the bus' at Barca. A brilliant demonstration of how to waste time. The TV pundits were totally biased in favour of Barca so it was great to hear them being shocked by Inter! And Milito had the season of his life.
Bayern 2013 is surely there to be picked! Also the reasons why Bayern 2020 should be there is 1. The venue during the 2nd phase of CL 2020 (quarterfinal and beyond) was neutral and only one leg (no the usual 2 legs) due to COVID; with these unique factors in mind and to beat Barcelona (still one of the best teams during COVID) 8-2 is something more than special! 2. There was a change in coach midway of 2019-2020 Bundesliga season for Bayern Munich (Niko Kovac sacked and in came the magician Hansi Flick); Bayern at that time were like 4th or 5th place in the Bundesliga table and when Flick came in, he's turned the table around immediately for half a season and transformed Bayern into that similar Bayern 2013 team (under Heynckes) that came 1st in the table (winning the Bundesliga), winning Champions League, DFB Pokal cup and finally the UEFA Super Cup!! So thank you, Micah Richards, for that mention!
Bayern is no where near the teams mentioned, and u could put a lot of teams in front of them still, winning DFB pokal or the Bundesliga is no big achievement for them, look at their club compared to anyone else in the league, alongside the French its no way near as impressive as the others lol.
For me if your talking greatest UCL team then i think one of Madrid’s teams from their 3 in a row (with Ronaldo) has to be #1. To win it 3 times in a row is just unbelievable. With that said i think that Barca in 2008 is one of the greatest teams ever. This was the blueprint for an era of dominance by Barca, Spain, and possession football.
The wild thing is barca never won it 2 straight times in xavi/Iniesta dominance although being the reference of football as a team in those years. In my opinion, It shows real madrid 2016-2018 is definitely ahead of them in European football gotha.
in terms of dominating the game, the overall impact of how the modern game is played today AND the fact that Barcelona reached this success with homegrown players AND coach is something out of the ordinary and will go down in history as the greatest team to play the game
@@dnn32 Champions League football is also based on slight margins and sheer luck at times, Barcelona are the first team to win 2 trebles, Real Madrid have never done that... focusing on one tournament only, doesn't give credit that Madrid will go down in history as the greatest, dont forget liverpoool and ajax also won 3 UCL back to back
@@dnn32 So many teams went out of favour and the competition dropped, so, that's why Real could win 3 in a row, if that Barca played from 2016,they would have won 4 or 5 in a row. 2008 to 2012 is one of the greatest era in European football history with Real, Barca, SAF's United, Ancelotti's Chelsea, Mourinho's Inter Milan, Allegri's Milan, Arsene Wenger's Arsenal, Van Gaal's Bayern.
Barca 10/11 played the greatest team football ever and had amazing chemistry, 08/09 and 14/15 Barca had amazing talent but the team chemistry and football wasn’t as good
Exactly, I saw all of them, but with the 10/11 the opponents couldn't even get a touch. Not just in the final but the hole season. Never seen anything like it, before or after, was like a well oiled machine. And also was by far the best Messi, was his absolute peak, he was so unpredictable, you just couldn't defend him. The 09 was great, love Thierry and that Samuel Eto'o is probably the most clinical striker ever, Agüero couldn't even wash his shoes. But as a team, the 10/11 was better, I'd argue that even the Heynckes Bayern of 2013 were better as a team.
Sheeesh great times the goat team. They set the trend winning 6 in a year. Good luck to Liverpool if they can get 4 titles that would be dope and would put there team and era in top 5 teams all time imo
Finally people who know whats up, i always pick 2010/11 above the others, even tho individually its debatable wether pedro and villa are as good as henry, etoo or neymar and suarez but 2011 was so balanced and so good, definitely prime barca and prime football!
I think Jose inter are a bit underrated they had loads of managers loads of players couldn’t win it Jose comes and they beat Chelsea Cska Barca Bayern with players in there last ever chance coming to a end
I don’t think it’s just about winning, it’s how you win and also dominating the teams you play against. Madrid, Barca, Bayern won by dominating the competition.
@@MrCurtis0050 Madrid did not dominate they had luck with them every team they beat in the final was better than them...they had lots of luck...bayern, barca, Milan they did dominate
@@parbhasprasad3181 i agree. atletico had the biggest bottlejob in the history of soccer in 2014 when they conceded in the final minute. they also should have won in 2016 had greizzman not missed a penalty
Madrid really is the standard of football. every decade comes a team that everyone says will dominate football for years and Madrid just doesn't give up. Madrid has outlasted every single era of football.
i think inter milan 2010 must be worth a mention, where nobody had ever guessed that they would make the semi-final of the champions league, rather win the treble at the time. It is definitely worth to mention!
The 2013 Bayern team was stronger - then Guardiola started tinkering and they were never quite the same. 3 Euro semifinals under Pep ought really to have been at least 2 finals and 1 or 2 trophies.
@@carnalea2424 Agree to disagree. I have never seen a team press their opposition as well as that Bayern team under Hansi Flick. They literally looked unstoppable
Man UTD 99 was very underrated considering they didn't have Scholes and Keane due to match suspensions. But as a whole, that team was LOADED: Schmeichel, Keane, Scholes, Giggs, Cole, Yorke, Sheringham, Beckham, Irwin, Solskjaer, Neville, Stam.
I would have count 09-15 Barca as one team, 14-18 RM as one team and 03-07 Milan as one team. My ranking in the following order: 09-15 Barca 14-18 RM 03-07 Milan 95-96Ajax 96-98 Juventus Those five teams all made multiple final appearances during a period of time and would be sort of considered dynasties….
Barça 09-15 you can’t see as one team, the playstyle in 09-11 was very different to 15, much less tiki taka in 15 and they were arguably less dominant in 15. For me when it comes to barça teams its 11 > 09 > 15
2017-18 team wasn't even better than the 2013/14 team of ours and 2016/17 was even better. The bias is crazy, so you folks put 1/8 possible teams of ours and chose 3/5 possible teams for Barca. The hate is unreal, the 2016/17 team would beat anyone in the UCL. They had one of the hardest runs we've ever seen (bar maybe this years 21/22 run) except they were so dangerous ALL the time not just in comebacks. That team was mental no one could stop them.
@@Kushagra.j im going to be honest, 16-17 madrid is the best side to ever play football that i ever got to watch. 2nd is 2011 barcelone. 3rd is 05 - 07 Milan team. 4th i'd say 2015 barcelona
That 2020 Bayern shouldn't be there. Heynckes 2013 Bayern was a far better side. As were Ancelottis Milan between 03-07 or the 08 United team or Mourinhos Inter.
@@StuttGoonerStop living in nostalgia. 2013 Bayern was always my fifa team that year but the 2020 Bayern didn’t just win games, they destroyed their opponents. They were smacking every team by 3-5goals and embarrassed Barca.
1956 - 1960 real madrid, 5 ucls in a row, di stefano and puskas, two of the greatest ever, they scored a combined 14 goals in only UCL finals, greatest club peak ever
@@KingAdjust As far as i saw the only questionable victory was 1957 when they barely defeated fiorentina with a fraudolent penalty, other then that they also got a non-existing penalty in 1960 final against frankfurt, but the game ended 7-3 i don't think it made any difference
@@billiondollarbates you've robbed atletico Madrid and Bayern with offside goals and not getting yellow cards that should have been given this year was no different
@@KingAdjust I think every major team in the world "robbed" someone at some point, Barcelona in 2009 with the chelsea incident, Madrid again in the 2016-2018 three peat, Bayern munich in the 1975 final against leeds (btw my favorite player of all time is Gerd Muller so im impartial in this aspect), liverpool in 2005 etc. but yes i agree that the three peat and this year ucl has saw too many referee mistakes in favor of Real madrid (im not a madrid fan, i just like old school players)
Micah picked the wrong Bayern team. That 2013 team should've made the list. Destroyed Barcelona 7-0 when they were at their height still. Robben, Ribery, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Muller, Neuer. What a team that was.
pep wasnt the manager that year. him leaving had a big effect on them.
@@dc-yc5qh nah bro they had 100 pts in La liga even I had to accept that they got demolished
Definitely they destroyed tiki taka
That Barca team Bayern beat wasn’t mentally there after the passing of their coach
They were not at their height that season especially not at that stage of the season
The 2013 Bayern squad was one of the best ever, Robbery, Neuer, Müller, Kroos, Schweinsteiger and Lahm ... Jupp Heynckes coaching them.
Completly unstoppable in 2013
Well, it was great team. But Hansi Flick havent lost A SINGLE match during 2019/20 season. They won literally all possible cups and trophies they could win.
I tell you this: i have never seen so consistent team as Flick's Bayern.
@@krowaswieta7944 Oh pls dont try to compare the uncomparable xD
If we go down that lane we have to meet up in a pub, drink a few beers and THEN we can start the Bullshit talk xD
Thats not my level, both fantastic and great teams who won it all
@@vitanus Well, you see even 2013 Bayern had its downs and ups.
2019/20 Bayern was scoring more goals but 2012/13 was conceiving much less. Overall Flick's record of winning games is more impresive than Jupps from 12/13.
Robben and Ribery are probably quite a bit stronger than Gnabre and Coman. However, Lewa is much stronger than whoever Bayern's striker was then- Olic? Muller, Neuer and Boateng were still playing in 2019-2020. Kimmich is as good as Schweinsteiger in my opinion. Kroos is quite a bit stronger than Goretzka for now but Alaba is probably a bit better than Dante at CB but Davies has been phenomenal at LB (even compared to Alaba there). Lahm was a great, great player but Pavard also won a WC and a CL and turned up in the biggest games. For me, the midfield is definitely better with the 2012-2013 side due to Kroos but the attack and defence are much more even and might even swing slightly towards the 2019-2020 side. The fact that Bayern literally didn't lose a single game in 2019-2020 and played some of the best football we've seen in recent years deserves credit.
@@hc2155 U got clear vision dude
Madrid won 3 in a row. Yes. But they also won 4 out of 5 years 🤣
Yes they just don't want to admit it's the best of all time. Completely solid team. They won 4 out 5 champions league.
@@franciscoflores9934 there were no teams in their level unlike other teams like barca
Yea but they never got to the level other teams played like. I’d take any of barcelona’s 2009,2011,2015 teams against those madrid teams every time. Different levels.
Madrid got lucky some teams started struggling in 2017-2018. The 2008-2014 era in soccer was extremely competitive and balanced.
@@user-oh4jd7ku2d of course you would. Folks like you make shit lists like this.
That Ajax team for 2 seasons 95-96 played some beautiful football. A team of young players who became world class. VanDerSaar, Danny Blind, Brazil 94 world cup winner Marcio Santos, Frank De Boer, the infamous Winston Borgarde, Ronald De Boer, Marc Overmars, Edgar Davids, Jari Litmanen, Patrick Kluivert, Kanu. This was a great attacking squad with solid defence.
Marcio Santos was a complete waste of money and hardly ever played for the club
The 1995 Ajax team, alongside Pep's Barca- by far the 2 best club sides of all time🏅🏆
A side so good, Rijkaard and Seedorf don't even get mentioned until now 😅
I think they missed out on AC Milan from 2002 to 2007. Three finals and two golds, also an amazing team with Pirlo, Schev, Kaka, Maldini etc.
Agree. I was expecting the 07 Milan team to be mentioned! They were on fire!
The Milan team from 2002 to 2007 never gets the recognition they deserve because of the 2005 final. Had they won that final everyone would say they were one of, if not the greatest team of all time.
@@specter1586 That is not a valid reason when you have teams like Man Utd 1999 and Bayern 2020 in the list. Three finals in five years with 2 wins is an excellent record, far better than any Manchester United team has ever managed in Europe. Over that period Milan were also narrowly beaten semi-finalists in 2006 and quarter finalists in 2004. They were the definition of European royalty and consistency for their era.
There best yr and team was 2005 which is quite ironic
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia They bottled against Deportivo in 2004. Same with Liverpool in 2005.
Can’t believe they left out Milan - maldini- cafu- nesta- gattuso- seedorf- dida - staam - shevchenko- kaka, inzaghi!!! That team dominated the world
But those are *VERY OLD* dida maldini cafu seedorf stam inzaghi. Only pirlo and kaka was at their prime
@@muhammadfarhan581 shevchenko and also nesta aswell actually. They had prime players on every part of the pitch
Rui Costa....
they did put in Milan the greatest Milan team the one from the mid 90s
And pes
I don't know why people fail to mention that Madrid won 4 finals in 5. It's not just 3 in a row. I don't know, I feel like not mentioning that leaves a big hole in how great that team was.
He mentioned it
With the help of referees
Cuz its madrid fam. You guys are good. But at this point nobody really cares. Respectfully
@@danielromero6601 Say that without crying
Bc mentioning it puts messi's barca in a shadow of Cr7's real. It's also the same reason why the media acts like Spain treble wasn't a big deal, it was normal. Messi is not Spanish and see his barca teammates dominated the biggest stage without him hurt so many people. Some pundits even said on TV with no filter messi should have ditch Argentina for spain😂😂.
Bayern 2020 was so crazy, im a psg fan but this team won everything and won all games in the CL this season, Lewandowski missing the record because of the no-away-match cuz of covid, two football masterpiece ( 8/2 vs Barca, 7/2 against Tottenham), Chelsea demolition in 1/16
This was just an amazing team that crushed my dream of seeing psg win it and I have to give them credits for this
Bayern 2013 was insane too
In 2020 Bayern became the first team in the history of the Champions League to win every game up to and including the final. With Barca 2009 they are the only team that won everything in a year (sextuple). They HAVE to be up there. Actually the only CL team Messi has a bad record against.
Their run 2013 was impressive as well but stats wise 2020 you can't ignore.
The panel almost didn't care.
@@nilsonmr7723 that 2020 didn't face Madrid, Liverpool, Milan
@@juanfernandocastilla2845 True, but what that's supposed to mean? XD
I think that season Bayern were the best and they proved it enough. Not every team can face every team in CL...
Those teams you mentioned are great but every season you role the dice anew. Milan wasn't even in the group stage 2020. I'm not even a bayern supporter, just a football fan and a realist.
at least Micah had good choices 👌🏻
Good to see Henry and Carragher both picking Ajax. I remember watching that final. Van der Sar, Reiziger, de Boer brothers, Litmanen, Davids, Seedorf, Overmars, Kluivert. Players who would have great careers at huge European clubs for the next 10-15 years. Insane team and so young at the time.
I agree. Micah reminds me of a football fan who only started watching 5 years ago.
@@jamiecook4288 He was at Aston Villa from 2015-19, only made 29 appearances and then retired so it makes sense
Litmanen was such a great player. Sadly was injured a lot in he's career.
Rirjkard
th-cam.com/video/czQvLsZie08/w-d-xo.html This is the following season but Ajax absolutely dominated Real Madrid at the Bernabeu. This was one of the most impressive away performances I have seen.
Thierry I love you, picking that 95 Ajax team! They were so young but sooooo good! Litmanen, Kluivert, de Boer, Davids, Seedorf and lots of other talents, combined with aged veterans like Blind and Rijkaard. What a team
Henry is so much more knowledgeable than the other two. The benefits of being well-travelled and having tested yourself in different countries and environments I guess
The spine of the Holland team for the next decade.
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia Carragher is the most knowledgeable of the three and it has nothing to do with their playing skills. It's Not Henry! Sorry to burst your bubble, Spitty C knows more about football hands down than any of the current 'pundits'. Micah Richards is one of the least knowledgeable I would say, but he is the heart beat of the show, makes the whole thing fun.
OOH Yeah and don't forget they lost in Penalties to Juve in 96, they could have been 2 UCL..Litmanen was scoring goals from everywhere in that 96 run..omg...i think he moved to Barca after that....Ajax has produced some of the best Talents ever...
Someone should remind him about his failure in Serie A. No space for him to run at
I remember watching that 2011 final. I had never seen Ferguson look so hopeless. It was remarkable.
That barca team was something else. if anything we should have done better in the 2009 final ( which barca shouldn't even have been in?) No shame what so ever losing to them they were the best ever hands down.
Mate that barca team was really unbelievable, I stood in front of the TV as I watch the game I knew we will not win, our players did their best, but they had Messi, simple as that aside from having a great squad they had Messi at his peak, no chance.
Even rooney told fergie to play defensive just shown how great that team was, but as a barca fan i respect fergie to stay on his philosophy until very end which is attacking football even they got humiated so bad
@@bajilucu7997 I Wouldn't call 3-1 humiliating considering we pulled it back to 1-1 and against that team who would beat any team. I agree though we should have sat back like inter did but buyern proved the best way to sink that team was all out attack. But this wasn't our best team either even though we played good football. We should have played better in 09 when we had ronaldo and tevez in the team but its all history now :)
@@JAG-xf2hm if you watch the game you'll know that im not talking about the final score
Zidane’s UCL 3peat with Real Madrid is underrated. That 2016-17 team especially dominated.
Crazyyyy they didnt mention it
@@milanista9470 they basically mentioned it with the 3 peat as a whole
That's what I would say as well. I am a Barcelona fan but in that 3-peat Real was the most dominant in 2016-2017 I think by far. If you remember 2016 not to not give them credit by any means but their draw was probably the easiest, they have ever had till the final, and in 2018 the way they beat Bayern wasn't the best as it was with quite a controversy as I think VAR was still not available, but that has happened for basically any football team ever. But when I think of the best team, I basically look at what weak spots a team have, and in that 2017 lineup you couldn't find a single weak spot, I think Juventus was the best defence in Europe at the time and they smashed them 4-1. Definitely in the top 5 of all time imo over the 2018 team.
Did this guy say underrated and Real Madrid in the same sentence?
😂 Ceferin was their best player
Man, Henry's lip quivering concealing his laughter when being mentioned in Barcelona's '09 team is golden.
Chelsea was robbed of 6 clear penalties in that game vs Barcelona.
@@erikpuka2627 imagine still crying a decade later
@@erikpuka2627 wanna talk about 1st leg or you just remember the 2nd one?
@@Feisty123No one counts that robbed UCL. Worst robbery in football.
Henry is so full of himself. It's annoying
One team that will never get the recognition has the best of all time because they lost in '05 was Milan from '03 to '07. Unbelievable superstars and some all-time greatest players scattered all over the pitch.
Stupid good team
Maldini-Nesta-Stam-Cafu
Gattuso-Pirlo-Kaka-Seedorf
Shevchenko- Crespo
Sure, some of them weren’t in their prime (older - Stam, Maldini, Cafu etc// younger - Kaka, Pirlo) but my lord what a starting XI. Who is the worst outfield player? Gattuso? Crespo? Says everything
@@KC1996LFC and Rui Costa and Inzaghi came off the bench
@@IceMoonie standard milan
Still won 2 out of 3 finals tbf, so I don’t see that loss as something that over shadows their success
I was actually fairly surprised that that edition of A.C Milan didn't make the list.
As a Barca fan, the most painful thing was seeing Madrid win 3 straight when we should have won more at our peak.
I agree.
The Real Madrid team that won 3 CL in a row won only 1 league title. Barcelona won 1 CL and 3-4 league titles during that same time.
@@manisshthakur621 quite bizarre when you think of it
The MSN trio should have won at least 2
Barca isn't as good bro, get over it
For me personally, the greatest i have ever seen, expect for guardiola's barcelona, is ac milan in 2005. The team they had was something absurd. Having player like maldini,nesta,pirlo,kakà,shevcenko,crespo,cafu,gattuso and many more was simply unbilivable. Such a shame that they lost the final against liverpool. Especially the way they lost, from 3-0 to 3-3, is what makes people forget this extraordinary team
Agreed 100%
That 2005 was the peak of Ancelotti Milan. 2003, when they won UCL was the start and 2007 when they last won it was the end of the era. From that period (5 years) they went to 3 finals but lost 1. Ironically, they lost it in 2005 when all the players were in their prime. Kaka was emerging while they still have Rui Costa. Sheva and Crespo upfront and still had Inzaghi on the bench. Not mentioning their defense rosters lead by Maldini. Unreal
No other team than Liverpool in history would have beaten them. Liverpool mentality is just different
They even had Seedorf and Dida
except Inter, we're just used to beating them@@headphoneman10
Bayern 2013 was a bigger force who had certainly been missed..Let's not forget Bayern was the same team that reached CL finals 3 in 4 years from 2010-2013....it had the same core team...Also the way Bayern demolished the Barca in 2013 and again in 2020..are stuff of legends
"Bayern reached 3 UCL finals in 4 years from 2010-2013". Yeah, sure and lost all the finals but one.
Even the 2001 Bayern was better than the 2020 one ....
And now they got knockedout by Villareal🤣🤣
Yeah Bayern reached 3 finals in 4 years.....stuff of legends you say, but let's not forget that Madrid won 3 IN A ROW, and 4 in 5 years. The disrespect to them is insane.
@@ThejusRao yeah and let's not forget the help from uefa for madrid
They all had the wrong Barca team at #1. The ‘08 had some great players. But the 10-11 version had the best team. David Villa, Pedro , and Busquets were so much better for the system that Pep was building. The ‘10-11 had to be the greatest team to ever grace the game.
08/09's Barca won the first ever Sextuple in football's history.
It's hard to argue with facts.
Lol someone hates Barca.
No 2009 was better team. 2011 had messi doing tons of individual stuff
But as a team that 2009 barcelona could do eventhing and thy were not as dependent on messi to succeed.
In fact, in 2009 they kept better posession, had better defenders and etoo and henry would sometimes do better than messi. In the final in 2009 etoo played better than messi.
Etoo was so good he carried inter the year after in 2010.
The 2011 team was tough to beat but they were more dependent on messi.
@Modiluves Cock they stole it from chelsea . True . The ref was a disgrace.
But thats 2009 still a better team than the 2011 Barcelona.
@@acruzro95 that’s because Messi got better. No one could stop him
As a pure Champions League side, Real Madrid 01-02 has to be considered. The original Galacticos. Casillas, Roberto Carlos, Hierro, Salgado, Zidane, Figo, Makelele, Guti, Raul, Morientes. Zidane with the wonder goal in the final.
I think Real Madrid 16/17/18 team was better.
I think messi eto'o and ronaldinho Era of barca should also be considered
Gods what a team that was
You go more by the names tho. Sure the team was stacked but they didnt play as good as other teams were and thats what its about. Also theres not really an "original" Galacticos, they were later called that because they bought Ronaldo, Beckham etc for a shit ton of money.
@@michaelfellner9822 The first galáctico era is considered to be synonymous with the presidency of Florentino Pérez between 2000-2006, from the signing of Luís Figo in 2000, to the departure of Zinedine Zidane in 2006. -Wikipedia
Pep's Barça was from another dimension, it was football in its most beautiful and elegant form. This team lost but what emotion! The art of Iniesta, the knowledge of xavi, the creativity of Messi, the power of Eto'o, the maturity of Thierry Henry, the precision of Daniel Alves, the passion of Puyol, the intelligence of Pique... Short
Dont forget henning Ovebro. This barca team should not even be in the final. Talking about domination. Puuuh
you forgot david villa the guy who had the same rating in a fifa like cr7
With a lot of robberies
@@thehdcode9374 - 12 ball knowlage and cr7 fanboy
@@Ulice90Did you watch the 1st leg?
I think 10/11 Barca is probably the greatest.
12/13 Bayern and 19/20 Bayern were absolute machines can't say for sure which ones was better but 19/20 Bayern was certainly one of the most dominant teams, they put every team to the sword, they scored 43 goals. No team has ever scored as many in a regular UCL campaign, and they did it in 2 less matches, put 10 past tottenham, previous year finalist, put 7 past chelsea, put 8 past Barca. Went on a 15 game winning streak, longest in the UCL history, which only ended when they fielded a second string side with 3 - 4 18 year olds against an Atletico said fighting for their life in the group.
You probably gathered I'm a Bayern fan by now lol. Anyways
2014 - 2018 Madrid team
rest would be that 92 - 94 Ajax team
Those are the 4 standouts I can think of. There's the AC milan teams, the 00 - 02 Bayern team. the current Liverpool team.
Madrid 2013/14 was crazy, 28 goal difference a record at that time, destroyed prime Bayern 5-0 and atletico 4-1 in the final
@@TheBallonDOrWinner-qd2gq What does 28 goal difference mean? Are you talking about the group stage? Anyways, I did include the Madrid team, plus I think the midfield with Kross, Modric and Casemiro from the 16/17 season onwards was more balance and an overall better team than the 13/14 one.
yes but dont forget in was COvid year and it had huge and different impact on different countries and different teams.
@@TheBallonDOrWinner-qd2gq I'm also a Madrid fan but I'd trade every Madrid player to Messi Xavi Iniesta trio, they costed my neighbor (who's also a big Madrid fan) 2 TV
Finally someone that knows ball
AC Milan early 2000's what a team that was!
My personal favorite UCL team. Inzaghi, Kaka, Gattuso, Maldini, Seedorf, Shevchenko
@@muhammadhasham9547 AND ME
@@muhammadhasham9547 Great team I already mentioned it, but they didn't create enough chances or score a lot of goals. If you wanted a draw or win 1:0 yes it was probably one of the best teams, but to humiliate opponent I'd pick Real Madrid 2017
My Italian team, absolutely loved this team. Great players, great managers.
@@patricksterling927 fantastic team my lfc team barely won that European Cup back in 05
The 16/17 madrid has to be better than the 17/18. They were the best european team ever. Every player in that team were at their prime. They had one thing that other teams lacked was the mentality and switching on whenever they want to.
I agree, the amount of good players Madrid had on their bench was the factor of them winning La liga and the champions league 2016-17.
Lol mentality is one thing, but playing the best football is another. Pep’s Barca had MENTALITY and the best football anyone has ever seen.
Deff 16/17 real Madrid was the strongest team out of the three peat era.
Nope. The Milan team from 03-07 is the greatest team assembled. Each position was played by the best in the world at that position. Every position. The fullbacks and midfielders the attackers. All ballon d’or contenders in the top 5 for their position it’s crazy
I still think 09-13 Barca is the best team I’ve ever seen. Couldn’t get the ball off them and Messi was playing outrageous football
I’d say 2010/11 is the best club side ever. 2008/09, I think, showed the system of tiki-taka but 2010/11 showed it executed to perfection. What made it better was that I think the 08/09 team was actually better based on players. But 2010/11 was where they had the perfect players for the system and they had done their roles as well as they could have.
2008 09 barca is over rated. They faced the weakest gased out madrid that year. And plus that united was gased out 38 year old giggs scholes neveile 35 year old ferdidand. Image every singlw unkted player a 25 yearsold vs 24 year old barca
They may have been older players, but they still made 3 finals. Unfortunately, teams can only beat those around them.
@@Kurdt-zk4wt not just that, but they shouldn’t have even been in the 08/09 final. Only made it because of dodgy referee calls
keep crying, Both of the Chelsea games were bad for each side.@@guadwin
@@Kurdt-zk4wtOhhh shut up, you’re talking rubbish 😂
Barcelona 2010/11 is the best footballing team ever I've seen.... The football they played changed my outlook on football from strength and pace to passing and vision...
Real Madrid team 3 champions league in a row 🥱
Barca could never
@@Oscar.919cl is a knock out competition and Real Madrid wasn't even Spanish champions so what's your point... If you aren't even best in your own country then what's the point just some luck in a knockout tournament.
@@MrMooemoney its gotta be Barca 2008/2009 mate. They were magical.
Since Ronaldinho left Barcelona they became a very boring team to watch.. i am not talking about their indivdual players they were obviously all brilliant but their style of play was so fricking annoying.. I am just glad Bayern Munich destroyed that tiki taka bullshit forever
AC Milan 2005:
Absolute insane team.
---------------Dida------------------
Cafu-Nesta-Stam-Maldini
-------------Pirlo-------------------
----Seedorf----Gattuso------
--------------Kaká-----------------
--Shevchenko-Crespo-----
And we beat them and won the CL :P YNWA!
@@BattleDrunk and lost again 07 Inzaghi destroyed your *arse* 😃
@@rihaan4619 Yeah who won it last? :P
Milan 2003, was best ever in my opinion. Maldini, Nesta, Shevchenko, Rivaldo, Pirlo, Seedorf, Gattuso, Cafu, Serginho, Inzaghi, Rui Costa...
How can you forget Kaka..
@@AJ-nd4nk I'm talking about the 02/03 UCL winning side, Kaka came after that season in the summer of 2003.
@@sinisajovanovic8928 Ah! Skipped passed the first bit lol. Yeah, I always loved that AC Milan team from 2003-2007.
@@sinisajovanovic8928 so was cafu
Definitely not
Ridiculous that they didn't mentioned the Ac Milan 2005 squad, I know they lost at penalties against Liverpool, but I think that was one of the most outstanding team i ever seen: Dida, Stam, Nesta, Maldini, Pirlo, Seedorf, Gattuso, Kaka, Shevchenko and Crespo. What a team!
Rui Costa on the bench 🤣
Because they lost that unfortunately they cant be one of the best UCL teams. You can be the best team, but you cant be the best ucl team when you dont actually win the competition. That is the sad truth: there is no place for runner ups:(.
How can your be in a list of the top 5 UCL teams if you didn’t win?
Ajax - 1994/1996 went unbeaten for almost two years in the CL with only four foreigners (Kanu, babangida, finidi George and the great Jari litmanen) veterans like blind and the legend frank Rijkaard and the rest of the squad being youth products from the academy.
Beat one of the great ac Milan sides of all time twice, beat bayern twice and absolutely battered real Madrid at the bernabeau so much that the crowd actually applauded the Ajax team when they left the pitch after 90 min.
Beat Milan 3 times that season 2 in the group and in the final, they are probably the best ever ucl team
@@ghostbizzle7976 You beat me to it and just to add Milan didn't even manage to score in any of those 3 games. One of the best teams I've ever seen.
If I'm not mistaken it was Panathinaikos who eventually ended their unbeaten run? How unlikely. I still get shivers watching the footage of the teenage Patrick Kluivert scoring from veteran Rijkaard's assist in the final.
P.S: little correction to your comment, they didn't beat Bayern twice, the first leg in Germany finished 0-0 and in the second Ajax trounced them 5-2 in Amsterdam. The season after it was Real Madrid whom they beat twice.
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia I think they went 60 odd games unbeaten and lost in a friendly match to a S.Arabian team
Babangida surely wasn't in that team
As a United fan I’ve always liked Micah as a pundit, and now after including the ‘99 treble winning team in his top 5, thank you Micah👏
at least Micah had good choices 👌🏻
That team was mad , barca 2009 was great team but people forget had VAR existed 2009 and 2011 they would’ve not won .
@@yahyaelmi8435cry
Exactly. As Henry was saying that it 08/09 Barca team was academy players so was that United treble team that was mainly homegrown players and academy players
That wasn’t even Utds best team
The 07/08 United team doesn't get mentioned enough. That team was unreal, every single player in the starting 11 was one of the best in the world in their position
Rooney, Ronaldo, Tevez front 3 was as good as it gets
Yawn
Made 3 ucl finals in 4 years, losing two to arguably the greatest club team of all time
if you just go 2 years back you got a Milan team that was stacked with legends at every position on the field while having good chemistry. Sad that they bottled there final.
The reason they aren’t there is because barça 09 gave them a footballing masterclass with the very same players who beat barça the season before . One of the most 1 sided finals I have ever Seen against a world class team. You had the impression that United was a division 3 club in that match apart from the first 10 mins.
Micah's silence when the big boys are talking about games in the mid 90s is epic😂
Other teams that younger football fans should know about.
Johan Cryuffs Ajax Amsterdam won 3 European Cups in a row between '70-'71 to '72-'73 and included legends like Mühren, Rep and Neeskens. This team, first managed by Rinus Michels, revolutionised football with their Total Football style of play and was the foundation upon which the playing style of the great Barca sides of the mid-to-late-2000s was built.
The original Galacticos, Real Madrid of the late 1950s. Captained by the great Alfredo di Stefano- arguably the footballing G.O.A.T.- this team was stacked with star players such as the great Brazilian Didi, Hungary's G.O.A.T. Puskas and Paco Gento. The won five (5!) consecutive European Cups and their 7-3 win over Frankfurt in the '59-'60 final played in Glasgow was an inspiration to Sir Alex Ferguson, "Eintracht Frankfurt beat Rangers 12-4 on aggregate in the semi-final and, being a Rangers fan at the time, we thought those guys were gods. They were the best team I'd ever seen in my life, and then they got slaughtered 7-3 in the final! That put into perspective how good Real Madrid really were."
Its only teams of the champions league that is from 1992
They won 5 in a row because back then the previous year champion played directly in the final of next year..not so dominating.
Also Franco was handing spanish citizenship like cookies😅
Bayern won 3 in a row too after the Ajax team won their 3
@@mirceapintelie361 i thought European cup was a continental not a domestic cup. 😂 So, franco hold clubs from England italy n all hostage? gosh..
And right afterwards we won the CL three times in a row so how are you not mentioning the 73-76 Bayern squad with Müller, Meier, Beckenbauer. A force within Europe at that time
In 08/09 season football reached its peak not just Barcelona was great back then. Liverpool and Chelsea and Man Utd all had great teams and preformed very well in the Champions League who can forget the 4-4 game between Liverpool and Chelsea that was one of the greatest nights in football history.
Which only makes that barcelona team all the more worthy
@@Deadpool-md4ne really isnt tho cos we all know how they got to the final that year💰💰
@@NotMe-el3hg he knows as well.
@@NotMe-el3hg now that they don't wanna talk about🤌
liverpool wasn’t at their peak in 08/09 wtf are you even talking about lol
i swear some of you watch a few highlight videos from 10 years ago and feel like you know what football was like at the time
Micah isn't really knowledgeable about football, but he brings some fun to the screen and I have to believe that's why he's there
and the fact that they just need some one represents City
The fact that he’s sitting there with legends like Henry and Carragher (both CL winners) is a joke !
@@cyborgman4165 oh relax, he has a good personality and is fun to watch, we can't only ask for the biggest players to be pundits
@@cyborgman4165 carragher a legend lmao 🤣 😂 😆
Yeah I dont rate him as a pundit but he is Funny.
4 CLs in 5 years is the football equivalent to 90s chicago bulls. this is cemented in history, period.
Football is clear of basketball
Barca 2008 won a sextuple
@@ulyssescuevas1397 2009 not 2008
@@axesus6966 oops
Barca won 3 titles in 5 years almost same and we got 6 cups in a year which is a record and still.reached semi final in 2008 2010 2012 2013 2019
16/17 Real was the best overall out of the three teams that won those consecutive UCLs
I think they didn't choose that team because that team was not dominant than the ones they chose, like this real Madrid team's record against Barca wasn't good
@@yashpatil5465 Individual matches have literally no meaning whatsoever. Even Real Madrid back in 2008 beat a peak Barca by 4-1 yet couldn't get past last 16 in CL, therefore has no merits.
@@outlawfly664 2008 Barca under Rijkaard had its worse season in years though. That wasn’t peak Barca.
That squad was getting cooked by Luchos Barca at that time
But they playing underdog ball😅
1. Zidane's Real
2. Pep's Barca
3. Del Bosque's Real
4. Ancelotti's Milan
5. Heynckes' Bayern
6. Ferguson's Manchester United
7. Capello's Milan
8. Lippi's Juventus
9. van Gaal's Ajax
Enrique's Barca also thrashed teams for fun
Gotta love your Way to classifie it. I have to swich 3 and 4 but i Know for à fact i am biased ;)
Referees won 3 champions leagues in a row never forgot the fake gifted penalties late on the matches to save Madrid against Juventus,Bayern munich, Wolfsburg if you actually watched them you will know how bad Madrid was paying the referees
Del Bosque’s Real shouldn’t be that higher.
1. Pep's Barça
2.Enrique's Barça
3. The rest doesn't matter.
Madrid fanboys should accept Real ain't top 5 any season. There are many treble winning teams
Real Madrid 2017. Winning 4 out of 5 UCL with 3 straight years. Talk about greatness. Nothing come even close.
Winning 1 league title in those years??? Guess la liga is harder than champions league then.
@@leobell3679 NO WE LOST BY 1 OR 2 POINTS UNLUCKY, ONLY IN 17/18 WE LOST BY 15 POINTS THAT WAS THE END OF A GREAT TEAM
@@leobell3679 They were ranking the best ucl teams. Why bring la linga into this.
@@amil787 I’m not gonna argue if they were good or not because they were. I’m just saying they weren’t as good as everyone thought because sure they won ucl but in la liga they couldn’t beat Barca. This is not an opinion but a fact you can search up. Ronaldo has won 2 la liga trophies in 9 years.
@@RMusing because ucl is an international competition that is supposed to be harder than la liga. How is it possible that they won 3 ucl in 4 years but couldn’t win la liga? During ronaldo 9 years in Madrid they won 2 la liga. This is not an opinion but a fact that can searched up. That Madrid team is a bit overrated that’s all.
Inter Milan 2010 with Mourinho was a beast team as well.
No they wasn’t, they were just managed perfectly. On paper they wasn’t great at all
@@KuyaSamYT
Good teams are always well managed. But what do you mean 'on paper they wasn’t great at all'?
@@mastery7901 they shoved around Barca with 10 men and advanced. Legendary team
@@KuyaSamYT they took a massive dump on a prime Barca. And it is a team sport so the managers are also a crucial part u donut
@@KuyaSamYT That wasnt a good take
That 2003 1/4 final with MU vs REAL is so far the most beautiful Champions League game I’ve seen since 1995 when I first started watching the competition
Zidane, Figo, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldo…
Giggs, Beckham, Ferdinand, Van Nistelrooy…
Galacticos all around
or the semifinal between real and juventus
Seeing both the 08/09 and 10/11 Barca up there as the best two champions league team ever just proves how amazing mourinho is as a coach winning it in 09/10. Simply incredible
as an inter fan, mourinho did a great job winning the treble in 2010 knocking out barça in the semifinals
Everyone knows tho that 08/09 barca was really beaten by chelsea, never seen such a corrupt game before or after that game
@@NotMe-el3hg probably a game from mardona era
If not for Mourinho, Barca would have had treble of trebles
@@NotMe-el3hg complete bs, Barca beat chelshit fair and square, keep crying.
In retrospect, Sacchi's Milan (1989), Van Gaal's Ajax (1994) and Pep's Barcelona (2011) were the greatest teams to watch while they were winning trophies. Real Madrid has outperformed all other clubs in terms of trophies but they were more ruthless than entertaining - except for the era of Zidane as a player, with that memorable goal against Leverkusen (2002). Real surely has winning in their DNA, they showed it this year more than ever.
Real outperformed the others in terms of silverware over a few years so they have to be in this list for that impressive acheivement but it never felt like they were the overwhemingly dominant team in the way that some of these others were. I couldn't see that team putting in a performance like the one that 2011 Barca side did in the final, for example, and I really can't see them beating that team if we were to see them play against each other.
@@PristianoPenaldoSUIIII Same old cliche, same old myth, "they never looked that dominant".
Watch the 16/17 CL-campaign, perhaps?
Its incredible how lazy people have gotten, just goes with the message they've heard.
@@PristianoPenaldoSUIIII 100% agreed
it’s not like Real Madrid obliterated Napoli, Bayern, atlético and Juventus in 2017. 😪
Milan 89-95 HAS to be mentioned. I know, half of the era wasn't in the new format but they made the 89,90, 93, 94 and 95 finals.
FYI, the Ajax final you're thinking of is 1995, when they beat AC Milan. The 1994 final was when AC MIlan destroyed Cruyff's dreamteam 4-0.
Real Madrid's 1998-2002 team was a good era as well. /
That 2011 final always stands out in my mind. Barca were unbelievable, it was like they had completed football.
Man City looked pretty complete last week vs Madrid so interesting to see if they go another level
Era wise, 2016-2018 Real Madrid are the best CL team ever, in my opinion. But single season? I think the boys chose 2009 Barça because they won the treble. But I strongly agree with Sir Alex Ferguson, who said that 2011 Barça was the best team that he's ever seen.
Not completely dominating, since in domestic league they were still beaten by Barcelona. Real Madrid has a thing for CL for sure but still they didn't dominate CL and got lucky in few games like that final with Atlectico Madrid.
@@anshul5705 Real Madrid won La Liga in 2017 along with the Champions League. They are not a lucky team. They are Real Madrid. Luck follows winners around.
@@diegopons4622 Yeah, whatever luck followed them or they followed luck but surely they were not dominating and that's why there are other CL teams which were greater than them.
@@anshul5705 Bullshit. Real Madrid dominated through and through from 2014-2018. And I'm not a Real Madrid fan. But I'm also not going to hate on them. In 2018 alone in the knockout phases they beat: PSG, Juventus, Bayern Munich and Liverpool in the final. That's a great squad.
@@diegopons4622 i dont thinks he is saying that it was a bad squad
He is just being honest, u look at all their
And there were last minute goals, uncalled fouls, questionable ref decisions, yes they were great but you could say they couldve lost a lot of those games. And to see a barca team that was “not good enough” still beat madrid every other game pretty convincingly
Little story. So back in 1994 the World Cup came to the USA, but most of the games were shown on ESPN and ESPN2, which were cable channels. My dad noticed that both my brother and I loved playing soccer and wanted us to watch it so finally decided to make the move and ordered cable tv. After the World Cup ended, I still wanted to watch soccer but the only channels that had it were the same ESPN channels from before. Crazy enough, because ESPN were still somewhat “new”, they didn’t have many tv deals for sports and the only soccer league they had was the Dutch Eredivise. I would get off the school bus after elementary school and run from my bus stop to my house and turn it on. I always remember seeing this 1994-95 Ajax side destroying teams and became a young fan. Also, because of Ajax, I started watching Champions League for the first time. After seeing the coaches wearing the champions league ball patches, I decided that I wanted to be those coaches. So in the end, because of my dad ordering cable for the World Cup, I fell in love with the game, and followed my dream and goal of wearing the champions league ball patch and became a college/professional soccer coach. One day I’ll wear that patch on my sleeve. Thank you dad and thank you Ajax.
Cool story! I swear Netflix could turn this into a movie. Hope you'll get that patch one day!
Man I love your story. This is passion.
Barcelona 2009 to 2011 by very very far the best club team ever.
The way they played, the dominance the opposition, the amount of titles, the fact that in the same period the spanish national team whose backbone were Barcelona players won everything Euro, World Cup...
True😉❗️
bullshit. 2009 got destroyed by Chelsea, 2010 by Inter.
This is only about CL tho
Good team but not best UCL team of all time
And boring as f...
0:12 when Kate said ‘speaking of ‘history’’, Titi looked over at her like he was expecting her to razz on him 😂
Inter 2010 team had phenomenal players and they won 5 out 6 trophies that year. Treble, too.
Yes, but they weren't as good on the pitch as the teams the guys picked. In 2010 Barcelona were extremely superior and Inter were very very lucky in the two legs of the UCL semi. Those three guys didn't pick teams solely based on trophies, trophies need luck.
@@ΓεώργιοςΚουτσαύτης Stop it Inter beat them and Sneider should of won Ballon D'Or......But i do hate Barcelona with a passion.
@@jerry85g7 Sneijder didn't deserve it, he wasn't as good as Messi was individually, nowhere near as good, actually. And despite the result Barcelona were much better over the two legs.
@@ΓεώργιοςΚουτσαύτης They lost to Inter. Sneider also made it to the WC Final. Still hurts that Spain won that WC😭
@@jerry85g7 As I said twice already, regardless of the result Barcelona were better. Also, Sneijder didn't go to the World Cup final, the Netherlands did. The Ballon D'or is an individual award.
Real Madrid 17/18 (3 in a row and 4 out of 5 years)
Barcelona 08/09 (treble winners, better than the 14/15 treble)
Manchester United 98/99 (treble winners, best possible treble in the PL)
Inter Milan 09/10 (treble winners)
Milan 06/07 (made it to the final 3 times in 5 years and won it twice)
My top 5
1994 Milan
You're young
Bayern??
@@babsives great team but all the teams ive listed are better than 01/13/20 bayern teams since the reformat. include the bayern teams before 93 then its anither story.
@@guneytopal7076 i agree with your picks. In ucl teams ...as long as madrid is 1st everything looks good to me cos that's just facts people can deny but they can't change the stats.
A team winning everything with most of the players graduating from the academy is something football will probably never see again
Ajax and barca are different beasts in that aspect
Barca still had Henry and Eto'o , Ajax was truly all academy
@@d4v1do what about 2011?
eh maybe a big achievement maybe not, but what you will never see is someone winning 3 UCLs in a row and 4 in 5, especially now with League formats set to go from 2024!! RM are kings of Europe and yes, our academy may not have produced 11 starters, but its because our president is like that, we dont control the club but love it anyways
@@shivam_dxrk No you didn't produce 11 starters simply coz your academy sucks that's why the best player you ever produced was Raul & since him you only produced very few players includling the best of them which is the big flop Asencio and that's why without Perez's money you went down and you sucked for more than a decade as a team.
@@shivam_dxrk this talk was about academies you did not have to comment about madrid here,we know you are proud of your club amd what you achieved is pretty big and blah blah blah
But why the fuck do you have to write it everywhere
Why do you need validation?
The greatest team I've personally seen is the Milan team from 03-07 they where dominant full of star power each position had a Champion.. And Ancelotti was Boss
Loved that Henry and Jamie picked the Ajax side that really is under rated in the context of being under dogs and reaching two finals amidst the Italian dominance of the 90's !
with a budget of 1/20 :) 1970's even better..
Zidane's Madrid never gets respect.. but the real know
the galacticos were totally overrated and barely won anything
Are you on crack, they talked about them in the video.
@@DaVikes13 ww
You obviously didn't listen to the video
@@DaVikes13 I think he mean real madrid zidane manager 2016-2018
1- Real Madrid 2014-2018
4 Champions in 5 years. The best version of Ronaldo with the best team in the Last 20/25 years.
Modric, Sérgio Ramos, Casemiro, Kroos, Benzema, Di Maria, Alonso, Iker Casillas, Marcelo, Carvajal, Pepe, Varane, Khedira, Asensio, Bale, Navas...
2- Barcelona 2009-2011
Best version of Messi, Xavi, Iniesta and company
3- AC Milan 2003-2007
Ancelotti first masterclass with a dream team. Rui Costa, Maldini, Cafú, Nesta, Kaká, Pirlo, Seedorf, Stam, Inzaghi, Gattuso, Gilardino, Crespo, Dida, Shevchenko, Costacurta, Rivaldo, Redondo....
4- Manchester United
2007/08
Probably the best Fergunson United team. Ronaldo, Scholes, Giggs, Rooney, Ferdinand, Vidic, Van Der Sar, Brown, Evra, Nani, Hargreaves, Tevez...
5- FC Porto 2003-2004.
Mourinho masterclass. They won the two most important trophys in Europe. Uefa Cup and Champions League.
Vítor Baía, Deco, Maniche, Costinha, Ricardo Carvalho, Derlei, Alinitchev, Bosingwa, Carlos Alberto, Jorge Costa...
Best version of Modric ,Ramos and Kroos is the biggest reason for Madrid success
@@Username-mn7pc ok.... But Ronaldo is Ronaldo. The best player of Real Madrid History....
In Real Madrid's last 4 Champions League victories in 5 years, Ronaldo has scored 60 goals in 52 games. Of course Modric, Kroos, Sergio Ramos were important but there is no doubt about the difference and effectiveness that Ronaldo gave to Real Madrid.
1 Champions League Edition had 13 games.
6 games ingroup stage
2 games in Last 16
2 games in quarter finals
2 games in semi-finals
1 game in final
4 editions of Champions = 13x4= 52 games
Ronaldo Goals in Real Madrid last four Champions triumphs
2013/2014 17 goals
2015/2016 16 goals
2016/2017 12 goals
2017/2018 15 goals
17+16+12+15= 60
average goals 60/52= 1,15 THE MAN IS NOT HUMAN
Agreed
Surely a Ronaldo fan did this..
@@nothinghereyet1803 a football fan*
bayern 2013 was legendary!
lost the final in 2010, lost the final at home in 2012 & than fought back to win it at wembley against dortmund.
core players are absolute beasts & won every trophy there is.
muller, schweinsteiger, lahm, robben, ribery, neuer..
it‘s a crime not to mention them if you know ball💀
Milan team from 2005 would have been an all time great team, had the final finished at 3:0 after the first 45 mins...man Dida, Cafu, Stam, Nesta, Maldini, Pirlo, Gatusso, Seedorf, Kaka, Crespo, Shevchenko...
Half those players were well past their best.
@@kb5509 tell that to the ones that won the CL in 2007
@@flashgordon4339 the one that Cafu, Stam, Crespo and Shevchenko didn't play in and they ground out a hard won defeat against a fairly average Liverpool team, whilst finishing 4th in a very weak Serie A?
Players can be well past their best and still win trophies. This is not a revelation.
@@kb5509 Serie A wasn't weak at the time. It was on its course of being weak but not weak. Inter was crazy good and to be fair, Milan were deducted points from the beginning of the season due to 2006 Calciopoli (Fiorentina, Lazio & Reggina had points deducted as well and Juve was sent to Serie B). Serie A was officially a weak league after 2010 or 2011 when Inter was the last Italian club to win the UCL and Milan was the last club to win the Serie A before the Juve dominance.
@@teddymeister95 It was pretty weak. Serie A had been mostly rubbish in Europe for the last 7 seasons (99-00 to 05/06) barring 02/03.
And Inter weren't crazy good lol. They were nothing special. Valencia knocked them out of the CL who were a good but not a great team and the year before Villarreal knocked them out of the CL.
Gotta love Henry's wit and humor
I believer he's the most intellectually elegant sports personality I have ever seen, and his French accent doesn't disappoint.
And his sarcasm.
A team that’s always slept on is the 1991 Red star team the amount of talent that came from that region was insane they were all extremely intelligent players and they won trophies while the country was at war.
Barca in the 90s was pretty amazing, led by one of the most underrated players of all time, Michael Laudrup. There's a famous player from that team who is now an extremely successful coach. He's quoted as saying "All the important lessons about football, I learned from Laudrup."
That coach is Pep Guardiola.
They were the only team who could go up against that AC Milan toe to toe without scandals
Ajax also thrashed AC Milan 3 times in 1995.@@doncarloancelotti2256
Unfortunately, they played for pens in order to beat Marseille. They didn't play to win.
The barca team of 2009 have been the greatest I have ever seen on the grass. How they dominated games, especially that midfield trio of Buskets, Xavi and Iniesta. What an orchestrated midfield.
Nope 2011 the best by far. Also most goals in football history. Pedro,villa, messi,xavi,iniesta, busquet were unstopable
The 21/22 Madrid Season needs some respect for what they achieved... Without many regular faces and a young team plus old midfield and also the teams they had to go thru... Pretty tough.
Jose’s Inter ‘09-10. I would put them up against any team in history.
Jose's tactical brilliance brought out the best of that Inter team. Sneijder was robbed of the Balon d'Or that year. Also they bested Pep's Barcelona which is no small feat
@Layen GallagherTrue. I agree 100%. I suppose it’s why I instinctively labeled them as “Jose’s Inter”. Take Jose away from that equation, and you get a Bale hattrick at the San Siro. That treble winning side was peak Jose - they would’ve died for him.
@Layen Gallagher I would argue that they had top 5 to 10 players in every position (Chivu and Stankovic probably the weakest ones).
Cesar
Maicon
Lucio
Samuel
Chivu
Zanetti
Cambiasso
Stankovic
Sneijder
Milito
Etoo
Jose made a real team out of them and got them to perform according to their potential.
When you say overachieved, are you saying that squad wasn't really good enough to win CL?
@Layen Gallagher If I remember correctly Inter won its 5th consecutive league title that year, so they were definitely better that Milan och Juventus at the time.
Inter might not have had the world's top 1 player at all positions(what team has had that ever?), but they didn't have holes in their eleven as most of the other teams had where the quality dropped a lot in some positions.
2015 bARCA WOULD RIP THAT TEAM IF NOT 2011 Barca would
2010 Inter deserves a shout. Not only did they won the treble, every player would fight for the team and the manager Jose Mourinho.
The connection between the manager and the players was special, you just cannot have that.
Also they had to find a way to beat Peps prime Barcelona on the way to the final to do it. Not an easy task for many teams to accomplish at that time.
@@0RIGINALW1LL tbh hiddink chelsea did it earlier than mourinho. they just unlucky the reff mess up. mourinho copy hiddink tactics to stop barca
@@0RIGINALW1LL They were lucky if not the refs
I think when i look back at every Champions League final then I have to say Liverpool in 2005 when they came back from 3-0 down and coming back to 3-3 against AC Milan and wining penalty kicks that was for me the greatest Champions league final that I have watched on TV
As a City fan, a Pep Guardiola fan & a football fan I love how Jamie Carragher emphasizes on Pep revolutionising the game
At Barcelona, yes
Pep just a copy cat
@@AS-yo2xz too much hate
19/20 bayern being there only once and in 5th is crazy😭😭 literally won the sextuple and had one of the most dominant runs of all time in the ucl
They are biased its no secret
They had the most dominant run, the only team in UCL history to win every single game.
They're a German team - and the pundits only give grudging praise to German teams.
Covid and the format was weird. They also started the season badly and Kovac got fired. Beat Lyon and PSG. We're talking about the 5 best teams ever. Bayern 2012-2013 was more dominant.
@@raliamrani2803 thats just nostalgia bias
Both Bayern 2013 and Bayern 2020 deserve to be on this list. Bayern 2020 literally didn’t lose a single game (and let’s be real they wouldn’t have lost even with a two leg format for the quarters and semis), and the 2013 team was arguably better than they were
Lets be real: good possibilty they would lose in two gamea format
No lies here
2013 comp was way better
@@maximus-go1um meh you cant be serious:v. bayern played most of the teams 2 legged. They only faced barcelona and lyon with 1 leg only. And did you really think lyon and a humiliated Barcelona can defeat them on the 2nd match:))))
@@Minhang-pt2hz re check your information. They played much more than that
AC Milan in 2003-2007 were special to be able to reach 3 finals while all these world class players and teams were there, Ferguson Man U, All stars Real madrid, Henry's Arsenal, Ronaldinho's Barcelona and many others. AC Milan were amazing
A lot of people forgot or weren't old enough to remember just how great the 1992-1995 milan team was. They were the ultimate football team. Then come the mighty Ajax. Only Guardiola's Barcelona are on the same level or maybe better.
I haven't watched this video yet but the first team that came to mind was mid 90's Ajax.
I have never seen a more dominant side in Europe than them. Steamrollered every one in that seasons competition.
It was a dynasty followed by another.
80s was all Liverpool, but by the time they got banned due to Heysel and lost grip of England cuz of Arsenal and Everton, AC Milan took the mainstage as the ruler of Europe in the wake of the 90s, then by mid 90s they couldn't hang with a young Ajax who took notes from them (Danks Rijkaard), but then they got challenged and outmuscled by a rising Juventus whose Trap era was responsible for ending Liverpool's dynasty in the 80s. Juve was the main dominator of the late 90s until Man United, Bayern and Real Madrid came along to end the decade into the early 2000s.
Ac milan got robbed in 1993 .
Guardiolas barcelona didnt won a single championsleague without controversy. They are called uefalona at that time by the people
93-94 Milan crushing Barca's "dream team" with 3-4 of their best players out should make more lists. One of the late 80s teams should make it too, maybe the one that ripped apart Real in the semis 5-0.
Yea i thought so too, but when Milan won it two consecutively in '89 & '90, the tournament wasn't called "UEFA Champions League", hence why they probably didn't consider it. So they basically picked the best European squads in the last 30 years.
They got beat 3 times by the Ajax team in the list the next year
Yeah that Milan side was great and doesn’t get the respect it deserves
@@ghostbizzle7976 exactly. AC Milan was one of the best teams ever, but that team played Ajax 3 times and didn't even manage to score a goal and lost all 3 games, including the final. I think that Ajax team was out of this planet and is probably the best ever team in de CL.
Man utd 07-08, the team that every other team feared to face..., when premier league was dominant ones.
I became a fan of football in 2010, being an American and all. This show helps me understand the game better and to understand hw the world views leagues players and the culture behind football. For the past ten years, I've been a season ticket holder with the LA Galaxy. It's amazing how much I've come to love the sport; it's on par with how I used to follow the NFL, MLB, and NBA when I was a kid. . Football has truly captured my heart.
United 1999 were actually facing lots of top class teams
I mean they faced Bayern 3 Times, they faced Barcelona with Rivaldo and Figo, and then 2 Italian Giants inter and Juventus
I actually thought that the opponents each team faced on route to glory should play a considerable part in this list making
I mean it's easier to beat Roma, Wolfsburg, city on route to the final rather than psg, Juventus, and Bayern
Or even psg, Chelsea, and city
so real madrid 21/22 has to be named
Agree totally same group as Bayern and Barcelona. Meet a free scoring Inter with Ronaldo then Juventus go over to Turin and win also to play Bayern in the final without Scholes & Keane and still win . Also this united team were pushed all the way in the premier league by a great Arsenal side
United was garbage next to Bayern that year, Bayern destroyed them everytime, they dont deserve a mention there
They also faced Bayern in the final without their best midfield duo in Scholes and Keane, which is even more impressive
@@molotovovickow Haha fair, tbh tho 21/22 Madrid are probably the worst team to win the UCL in the last 10 years, maybe even this century.
Celtic 67,,won 5 trophies in one season only team to ever do this, pluss all Scottish players that stayed within 30 miles of one another, and got to the final again in 70,this team is in the famous words immortal, 💚🍀
I'm thankful to have witnessed Barca at its prime every game was magic and guaranteed goal fest. Classicos against Real Madrid we're so intense too
Real madrid 98-2002 is the most underrated team, won 3 ucl in 6 years and still no one mentions them
They hate Madrid love Barca tho Barca is a nearly club we nearly won 3 champions leagues in a row Real is a we did club that is why they Will always be above Barca they May win the Battle but Real Will always win the war
@@emilfrederiksen.1622 lmao it's because as Henry said the La Masia players at Barca dominating against the likes of Galacticos...that's why people like Barca
Special mention to the pre galacticos Real team with Redondo, Raul, Guti, Hierro, Morientes, Roberto Carlos, Salgado, Helguero, Casillas, McManaman. Great football
Indeed, that team was beautiful to watch, specially Redondo, what a player. His back heel at Old Trafford is one of the greatest moves I've ever seen!
Love that real
I think 2016-2017 madrid was definitely better than 2017-2018 madrid.
Yeah 17/18 wasn’t that good, 2016/2017 they was the best easily in that competition, no luck involved like the other previous years
@@mrfab4383 there's no luck involved. Lol. 2014 they dominated 2016 was a good one too. 2017 best and 2018 the most difficult they had.
@@mrfab4383 Yeah, no luck. Remember that semi-finals vs Bayern?
@@maxxvii2037 Explain?
@@maxxvii2037 bayern got only to the overtime with ref mistakes, theb it turned. over those two games madrid had more mistakes against them
That Madrid team winning 4 in 5 years is the greatest team. No doubt about it.
Barca tiki taka was the most attractive team ever seen but 2018 peak Madrid in a UCL finals would beat that Barca... BCS they just knew how to win... Possession could be 80-20 for all I care but that Madrid team can beat anyone in a UCL finals. Teams knew how to counter that Barca ( Mourinho style in particular)
@@brickwall6247 yeah pass pass pass and never shoot😪
No Barça is the best team ever and everyone know that , Madrid is a historic team liké Bayern 2013 or 2020
Style of football does not yield best results everytime ..
So result wise Real Madrid team is greatest
@Sano don't be bitter please
Liverpool with Miłan was the greatest finał in the history, no doubt, such emotions was only once in the final, it was legendary
The 2013 and 2020 Bayern teams were some of the best ever. Not a single team in the competition obliterated their opposition like Bayern did. Blows my mind how a Cara and Henry were laughing at Mica for mentioning one of the two Bayern teams. The disrespect is unbearable.
They played well but the finals were close and either team could have won it. When you look at the Barca 2011 team, there was no debate on who was the better team. It was complete domination. That is why most people put that team as the greatest club team to ever be assembled.
@@spitfirez89 Does not matter what the final ended in. The road to the final, every team was brushed aside in absolute dominance. You name another team that has embarrassed Barca as bad as Bayern did...and other top teams at that. And to add to this nonsese, if VAR existed 5-6 years ago, Bayern would have had at least 2-3 more campions league crowns.
@@MiaSanBayern What do you mean the final doesn't matter? lol if anything the final is the most important game to gauge a team's dominance as it Pitts the 2 best teams against each other. Bayern in 2020 against PSG was not domination, it was a close game that could have gone either way. What was absolute dominance was Barca's 2011 team against Man Utd. Ask most fans and pundits and the general consensus is that the Barca 2011 team was the best club team ever in terms of results and also HOW they played. Rarely anyone would say that about any Bayern team. Also Barca destroyed Bayern in 2015 but I don't really consider them to be the best.
@@spitfirez89 your logic, is if the team scraped by 1-0, scores, away rules, etc. and won a 3-0 in the final , they were dominating the CL. The worst team to ever win it was Chelsea in 2012. Were played off the pitch by Bayern ( a team that was 100x better than Chelsea or any team for that matter during that time) Sorry man but cannot agree with your logic on this one.
@@MiaSanBayern the barca 2011 team did not scrape 1 goal victories. They dominated the teams they played in both the group and knockout stages against teams like real Madrid and arsenal. And again the 2011 barca team dominated their final unlike the 2020 bayern team. Ask most netural fans and pundits and they too will say the 2011 barca team was the best ever. That doesn't mean the bayern team of 2020 wasn't great.
Ajax 1995 team is the greatest champions league team, all the players went onto great things.
Inter 2009/2010, crushing Pep's Barca for not winning 3 times in a row.
At that time, Jose was the hero for both Inter & Madrid fans. Jose give one of the underrated press conference statement ever on Semifinal 2nd leg about the difference between "Dream" and "Obsession". For Inter going to the Champions League final was the "Dream", and for Barca it was the "Obsession", the obsession was winning Champions League at Santiago Bernabeu.
The iconic celebration at Camp Nou, the treble, Eto'o back to back winning Champions League. What a moment.
Barca didn't win the champions league twice in a row, Real Madrid did and even went on to three
not only back to back CL but back to back treble(first spanish treble and first italian treble)
@@keithphalatse9320 barca won in 2009 & 2011. Had they won in 2010 then it wouldve been 3 in a row
I enjoyed Inter's 'park the bus' at Barca. A brilliant demonstration of how to waste time. The TV pundits were totally biased in favour of Barca so it was great to hear them being shocked by Inter! And Milito had the season of his life.
As a Liverpool fan, I have to admit Milan 2007 was pretty impressive. Even Milan 2005 was better than us, even if they lost.
Bayern 2013 is surely there to be picked! Also the reasons why Bayern 2020 should be there is 1. The venue during the 2nd phase of CL 2020 (quarterfinal and beyond) was neutral and only one leg (no the usual 2 legs) due to COVID; with these unique factors in mind and to beat Barcelona (still one of the best teams during COVID) 8-2 is something more than special! 2. There was a change in coach midway of 2019-2020 Bundesliga season for Bayern Munich (Niko Kovac sacked and in came the magician Hansi Flick); Bayern at that time were like 4th or 5th place in the Bundesliga table and when Flick came in, he's turned the table around immediately for half a season and transformed Bayern into that similar Bayern 2013 team (under Heynckes) that came 1st in the table (winning the Bundesliga), winning Champions League, DFB Pokal cup and finally the UEFA Super Cup!! So thank you, Micah Richards, for that mention!
Barca was not that year so bad. Bottled the league and . They were almost knocked out against napoli
Bayern is no where near the teams mentioned, and u could put a lot of teams in front of them still, winning DFB pokal or the Bundesliga is no big achievement for them, look at their club compared to anyone else in the league, alongside the French its no way near as impressive as the others lol.
Bayern is not good
fluke title, neutral avenue in the midst of a pandemic, the whole year was a mess, tainted title.
@@aesir1ases64 🤡🤡🤡
Thierry is so graceful. What a legend.
I love him
biased*
For me if your talking greatest UCL team then i think one of Madrid’s teams from their 3 in a row (with Ronaldo) has to be #1. To win it 3 times in a row is just unbelievable. With that said i think that Barca in 2008 is one of the greatest teams ever. This was the blueprint for an era of dominance by Barca, Spain, and possession football.
The wild thing is barca never won it 2 straight times in xavi/Iniesta dominance although being the reference of football as a team in those years. In my opinion, It shows real madrid 2016-2018 is definitely ahead of them in European football gotha.
in terms of dominating the game, the overall impact of how the modern game is played today AND the fact that Barcelona reached this success with homegrown players AND coach is something out of the ordinary and will go down in history as the greatest team to play the game
@@dnn32 Champions League football is also based on slight margins and sheer luck at times, Barcelona are the first team to win 2 trebles, Real Madrid have never done that... focusing on one tournament only, doesn't give credit that Madrid will go down in history as the greatest, dont forget liverpoool and ajax also won 3 UCL back to back
@@dnn32 So many teams went out of favour and the competition dropped, so, that's why Real could win 3 in a row, if that Barca played from 2016,they would have won 4 or 5 in a row. 2008 to 2012 is one of the greatest era in European football history with Real, Barca, SAF's United, Ancelotti's Chelsea, Mourinho's Inter Milan, Allegri's Milan, Arsene Wenger's Arsenal, Van Gaal's Bayern.
@@anilihism I am talking abt only the champions league. I don't mention domestic trophies. You said it liverpool and Ajax also did in the past
Barca 10/11 played the greatest team football ever and had amazing chemistry, 08/09 and 14/15 Barca had amazing talent but the team chemistry and football wasn’t as good
Agree. 10/11 > 08/09 > 14/15
Exactly, I saw all of them, but with the 10/11 the opponents couldn't even get a touch. Not just in the final but the hole season.
Never seen anything like it, before or after, was like a well oiled machine.
And also was by far the best Messi, was his absolute peak, he was so unpredictable, you just couldn't defend him.
The 09 was great, love Thierry and that Samuel Eto'o is probably the most clinical striker ever, Agüero couldn't even wash his shoes.
But as a team, the 10/11 was better, I'd argue that even the Heynckes Bayern of 2013 were better as a team.
Sheeesh great times the goat team. They set the trend winning 6 in a year. Good luck to Liverpool if they can get 4 titles that would be dope and would put there team and era in top 5 teams all time imo
Finally people who know whats up, i always pick 2010/11 above the others, even tho individually its debatable wether pedro and villa are as good as henry, etoo or neymar and suarez but 2011 was so balanced and so good, definitely prime barca and prime football!
some say brasil 1982 play the best football ever
I think Jose inter are a bit underrated they had loads of managers loads of players couldn’t win it Jose comes and they beat Chelsea Cska Barca Bayern with players in there last ever chance coming to a end
I don’t think it’s just about winning, it’s how you win and also dominating the teams you play against. Madrid, Barca, Bayern won by dominating the competition.
@@MrCurtis0050 Madrid did not dominate they had luck with them every team they beat in the final was better than them...they had lots of luck...bayern, barca, Milan they did dominate
@@parbhasprasad3181 i agree. atletico had the biggest bottlejob in the history of soccer in 2014 when they conceded in the final minute. they also should have won in 2016 had greizzman not missed a penalty
I think the Porto team is better
@@parbhasprasad3181 I swear people just say luck to everything 💀
Madrid really is the standard of football. every decade comes a team that everyone says will dominate football for years and Madrid just doesn't give up. Madrid has outlasted every single era of football.
i think inter milan 2010 must be worth a mention, where nobody had ever guessed that they would make the semi-final of the champions league, rather win the treble at the time. It is definitely worth to mention!
Bayern Barc was better
I agree with Micah, that Bayern team was really amazing
The 2013 Bayern team was stronger - then Guardiola started tinkering and they were never quite the same. 3 Euro semifinals under Pep ought really to have been at least 2 finals and 1 or 2 trophies.
@@carnalea2424 Agree to disagree. I have never seen a team press their opposition as well as that Bayern team under Hansi Flick. They literally looked unstoppable
Bayern 2020 is one of the most dominant champions league runs I’ve ever seen
Yep, but that 2013 team was more impressive imo.
2012/2013 Bayer was far better
ppl always picking the older team because they want to seem more knowledgeable
@@ghostface1500 its facts tho. Bayern 2013 was way better.
@@raaxdrizzio9975 Team might be better, but 2020 was more dominant.
Thank you Micah for mentioned Bayern. Bayern came easily in the finals. Destroyed Chelsea, Barcelona. They were physically to strong
Man UTD 99 was very underrated considering they didn't have Scholes and Keane due to match suspensions. But as a whole, that team was LOADED: Schmeichel, Keane, Scholes, Giggs, Cole, Yorke, Sheringham, Beckham, Irwin, Solskjaer, Neville, Stam.
At lot of that team was like Barca 09 team. Academy players mainly and won the treble while playing Bayern Barcelona Juventus and inter Milan
I would have count 09-15 Barca as one team, 14-18 RM as one team and 03-07 Milan as one team. My ranking in the following order:
09-15 Barca
14-18 RM
03-07 Milan
95-96Ajax
96-98 Juventus
Those five teams all made multiple final appearances during a period of time and would be sort of considered dynasties….
United 08 -11 sqaud 3 cl final appearances
@@jeorgj9491 I forgot about it.
93-95 ac milan 3 finals in a row won in 94 , robbed in 93
Barça 09-15 you can’t see as one team, the playstyle in 09-11 was very different to 15, much less tiki taka in 15 and they were arguably less dominant in 15. For me when it comes to barça teams its 11 > 09 > 15
09-11 barca should be a separate team to the 15 team, the managers were different
2017-18 team wasn't even better than the 2013/14 team of ours and 2016/17 was even better. The bias is crazy, so you folks put 1/8 possible teams of ours and chose 3/5 possible teams for Barca. The hate is unreal, the 2016/17 team would beat anyone in the UCL. They had one of the hardest runs we've ever seen (bar maybe this years 21/22 run) except they were so dangerous ALL the time not just in comebacks. That team was mental no one could stop them.
I think that 16/17 team was the best Non - Barca team ever. 2014-15 and 2011 were much better than 16/17 madrid
@@Kushagra.j im going to be honest, 16-17 madrid is the best side to ever play football that i ever got to watch. 2nd is 2011 barcelone. 3rd is 05 - 07 Milan team. 4th i'd say 2015 barcelona
@@user-ux3jp9oo7r 2011 Barca would've crushed 16-17 Madrid, let's be honest. So no, they never played better football.
Real madrid has never played beautiful football wtf you talking about 😂
they wouldnt touch the ball if they played Barca 2010/11 ☠
Appreciate Micah giving the 2020 Bayern sextuple winning team credit
The 2013 team was also beast! It was just ruined by Guardiola unfortunately
That 2020 Bayern shouldn't be there. Heynckes 2013 Bayern was a far better side. As were Ancelottis Milan between 03-07 or the 08 United team or Mourinhos Inter.
2013 is a better team, no idea how its there
@@StuttGoonerStop living in nostalgia. 2013 Bayern was always my fifa team that year but the 2020 Bayern didn’t just win games, they destroyed their opponents. They were smacking every team by 3-5goals and embarrassed Barca.
@@lucki2smoove-10kshnnow8 Its not nostalgia its the facts. 2020 Bayern are nowhere near 2013
1956 - 1960 real madrid, 5 ucls in a row, di stefano and puskas, two of the greatest ever, they scored a combined 14 goals in only UCL finals, greatest club peak ever
Won by corruption, offside goals, favoured calls, and refs 😂
@@KingAdjust As far as i saw the only questionable victory was 1957 when they barely defeated fiorentina with a fraudolent penalty, other then that they also got a non-existing penalty in 1960 final against frankfurt, but the game ended 7-3 i don't think it made any difference
@@billiondollarbates you've robbed atletico Madrid and Bayern with offside goals and not getting yellow cards that should have been given this year was no different
@@KingAdjust I think every major team in the world "robbed" someone at some point, Barcelona in 2009 with the chelsea incident, Madrid again in the 2016-2018 three peat, Bayern munich in the 1975 final against leeds (btw my favorite player of all time is Gerd Muller so im impartial in this aspect), liverpool in 2005 etc.
but yes i agree that the three peat and this year ucl has saw too many referee mistakes in favor of Real madrid (im not a madrid fan, i just like old school players)
Damn Madrid won 4 cl’s but 3 barca teams in a top 5? Sad
I don’t think you remember how dominant that Barca team was. They suffocated great teams
Every team in world was parking bus on Barcelona
The wild thing is barca never won 2 straight times although they dominated European football
It’s Henry and carraggher. Same reason why they didn’t even mention thinking about 99 or 2008-09 Man united.
@@dnn32 they were 1 non Jose Mourinho's masterclass away from winning UCL 3 uears in a row