The pinnacle of achievement for all football players is to win the UEFA Champions League, considered the most significant of all club trophies in the sport.
However, the Champions League is just one of UEFA’s three annual club knockout competitions, creating a niche set of winner’s medals for players to complete.
With the Conference League added recently in 2021 to go alongside the long-established Champions League and Europa League, it means only a few players have even had the chance to win all three competitions.
The Sporting News brings you an overview of which players can boast a treble of UEFA trophies, with at least one from each tournament.
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What players have won all three UEFA club tournaments?
So far, only one player has won each of the Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League titles at least once, but it comes with an asterisk.
Emerson Palmeri first won the Europa League with Chelsea in the 2018/19 season before securing the Champions League crown two years later with the Blues. He would depart for an ultimately unsuccessful season with Lyon before joining West Ham in 2022, playing a significant role in their Conference League title run his first year with the club.
The Brazil-born Italy international was instrumental to both the Europa League and Conference League titles, but he was a bit-part player in Chelsea’s Champions League triumph in 2020/21, and he did not see the field in the Champions League final.
He famously got all three trophies tattooed on his leg after completing the set, with the final date of each competition to commemorate the victories.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan on the verge of UEFA treble history
Ahead of the 2025 Champions League final, one player can make history with a victory in Munich.
Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan can be the first player to win all three club competitions while seeing the field in all three finals.
The 36-year-old Armenian has enjoyed a long and storied career, playing across Europe with the likes of Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United, Arsenal, Roma, and now Inter. This has afforded him ample opportunities to win various competitions, which he has done with aplomb.
Mkhitaryan’s first triumph came in 2017 when he helped Jose Mourinho’s Man United win the Europa League title. He played a starring role in that charge, scoring six goals in 11 matches, including his side’s second goal in a 2-0 win over Ajax in the final.
It was five years later, again alongside The Special One, that Mkhitaryan would capture the UEFA Conference League crown, coming off the bench for a 17-minute cameo for Roma in a 1-0 victory over Feyenoord in the first-ever final in the brand-new competition.
Now, if Mkhitaryan starts for Inter as expected and helps the Italian club to a European title, it would make him the first player to win all three medals while playing in each of the finals.
