Cristiano Ronaldo 62nd
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Europe’s top -five league clubs dominate football – of course on the continent – now long. Among the 23 clubs of the Champions League, or the European Cup winning, as called, only eight of them are clubs outside the top-five leagues. Only Ajax has won it more than two times. The final non-genuine-five league team that won the competition was 20 years ago, in the 2003/04 campaign, Leiga was the Porto of Portugal. This, of course, supports the argument that modern football is powerful to win a top-five league title in modern football.
While some people may argue that it is easier to win the Ligue 1 of France compared to the Premier League of England or Spain’s Laliga, it is some achievement to lift the title in any of those five divisions. But which players have tasted that glory at the bottom? Here TransfermarkWe have calculated all-time players with the highest league titles in the top-five league divisions (this Premier League, Laliga, Bundesliga and Lig 1). Some of the mythological names take crops in the list.
The top five league players
The way there is one-club man Ryan Gigs. Welshman spent 21 years in Manchester United, as the club enjoyed the most successful period in its history under Sir Alex Ferguson. At that time, he won 13 Premier League titles spread from 1992/93 to 2012/13, with Gigs a part of each of them. While the mythological winger of Red Devils stands out alone in the first place, six players follow them in the second with 12 league titles in the top five divisions. However, two of them may have a good chance to level the stars with Welshman this season.
Icon Lionel Messi won 10 Laliga titles with Barcelona, before 1 win 1 with PSG. David Alaba raised 10 Bundesaliga titles with Bayern Munich, while adding two Laliga titles with Real Madrid – he could combine another with Los Blancos, to top the term. Thomas Muller won all his 12 titles in Bundesleiga with Bayern, and Bayern led the Bundesiga title by eight points and is likely to be equal to the gigs by Mayan May. Gary Neville also won 12 titles, but all Premier League win with Man United.
Real Madrid veteran Pako Gento won 12 Laliga titles with ‘Los Blancos’ in the 1950s and 60s, while Kingsley Common has been a winner everywhere – he won eight Bundesleiga titles with Bayern and two Lit 1 title with PSG by winning eight Bundesleiga titles, and two Siri A Total with Juventus. He won both Seri -A and Bundaliga in 2015/16 as both French, Bayern and Juventus were part of both the squads who shifted to the German club on 30 August, which moved to the German club on 30 August.
Then there are one and six players with 10 titles: Manual Neur, Paul Scols, Argen Roben, Thiago Alchetara, Robert Levandowski and Gianlouigi Buffon. Three players have won 10 top -five league titles – Zlaton Ibrahimovic, Gerard Pike and Pirary. Interestingly, 16 players have the top-five league title 10 or more times, only Buffon and Ibrahimovic have also failed to win the Champions League. The Great Cristiano Ronaldo is ranked 62nd, which has won the top-five league title only seven times in his sensational career.
However, Portuguese Superstars are among 23 players, who have won the title in three top five leagues in Europe. To date, no player has managed the achievement of winning four of the five divisions. As you can see in the above graphic, the list of winners in three different countries includes other mythological names such as David Beckham, Theory Henry and Eden Hazard.