5 Champions League records Cristiano Ronaldo can break this season

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Cristiano Ronaldo gestures after winning his fifth Champions League title.
Cristiano Ronaldo gestures after winning his fifth Champions League title.

#3 Become the most capped player in the Champions League

Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo

With 170 appearances in the competition, Cristiano Ronaldo is already the most-capped outfield player in the history of the Champions League.

If Juventus reach the quarter-finals of the 2020-21 edition of the competition, Ronaldo, who missed the Bianconeri's Matchday 1 game and is a doubtful starter for the second Matchday as well, will become the player with the most Champions League appearances.

Only the retired former Real Madrid custodian Iker Casillas (177) currently stands ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo in the list of most appearances in the competition, with Barcelona legend Xavi Hernandez (151) in a distant third place.


#4 Score a ninth hat-trick

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Cristiano Ronaldo roars after scoring one of his three goals against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League Round of 16 last year.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Cristiano Ronaldo roars after scoring one of his three goals against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League Round of 16 last year.

Cristiano Ronaldo has broken a plethora of scoring records in the Champions League. One of them is the number of hat-tricks he has recorded in the competition.

By scoring thrice against Atletico Madrid in the second leg of Juventus' 2018-19 Champions League Round of 16 clash last year, Cristiano Ronaldo not only brought up his first hat-trick for the Bianconeri but also equalled Lionel Messi (8) for most hat-tricks in the competition.

In the process, Cristiano Ronaldo became only the 11th player (third active) in Champions League history to score hat-tricks for two different clubs (Real Madrid-7, Juventus-1).


#5 Win a sixth Champions League title

Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo

By winning a hat-trick of Champions League titles in as many seasons with Real Madrid in 2017-18, Cristiano Ronaldo became only the first player in the history of the competition to win five titles.

Ronaldo is already the only player in the Champions League to score in the final for two different winning teams and the only one to score in three different title matches in the competition.

If Cristiano Ronaldo manages to help end Juventus' two-and-a-half decade long drought in the competition this season, the 35-year-old will become the first player to win six Champions League titles and go level with Paco Gento when the competition was known as the European Champions Clubs' Cup.

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