Ranking the 5 greatest match-winners in UEFA Champions League history

Cristiano Ronaldo (left) and Lionel Messi are two of the greatest match-winners in Champions League history.
Cristiano Ronaldo (left) and Lionel Messi are two of the greatest match-winners in Champions League history.

#3 Sergio Ramos

Sergio Ramos has won four Champions League titles.
Sergio Ramos has won four Champions League titles.

Sergio Ramos is one of the greatest players in Champions League history. He won four titles in the competition with Real Madrid. Ramos has scored key goals in the Champions League; he is one of a handful of players to score in multiple Champions League finals.

Ramos was named in the competition's Team of the Season in all four of Real Madrid's Champions League-winning campaigns. He is one of the most prolific goalscoring defenders in the competition's history. Ramos scored a stoppage-time equaliser against Atletico Madrid in the 2014 UEFA Champions League final. Madrid won that game in extra time to win their La Decima.

He also won the Man of the Match award in the 2016 UEFA Champions League against Atletico Madrid. The Spaniard has also been elected to the UEFA Team of the Year nine times, a record for a defender.


#2 Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi is a four-time Champions League winner.
Lionel Messi is a four-time Champions League winner.

Lionel Messi is, without a doubt, one of the greatest players in the game's history. During his incredible 17-year career with Barcelona, Messi won four Champions League titles.

Messi is one of two players to score over 100 goals and eight hat-tricks in the competition. He scored in two Champions League finals, both against Manchester United, doing so in 2009 and 2011.

Messi has scored 120 goals in 150 appearances in the competition. Now with French giants PSG, the 34-year-old will hope to lead Mauricio Pochettino's men to their first success in the Champions League.


#1 Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo has won a record five Champions League titles.
Cristiano Ronaldo has won a record five Champions League titles.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the most prolific scorer in Champions League history. He has won the competition a record five times once with Manchester United and four times with Real Madrid.

Ronaldo has scored 135 goals in 177 appearances in the Champions League. He has a slew of records in the competition. Ronaldo has won several games in the competition over the years.

The 36-year-old has scored four goals in UEFA Champions League finals. He scored once for Manchester United (in 2008), and twice for Real Madrid (2014 and 2016). He is the only player to score for two different winning teams in the competition's final.

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