Only seven teams have ever won the European Cup, together with their domestic top division and major cup competition, but this is starting to happen more frequently.
Five of the nine clean sweeps on the continent have occurred since 2009, with Bayern Munich and Barcelona each winning their first trebles this century. However, both teams have since gone on to replicate the feat.
The only team to have won all three trophies in the same season since Guus Hiddink's PSV eleven years prior was Sir Alex Ferguson's storied Manchester United squad from 1999.
Here is a list of all the teams Manchester City would be joining, along with information on how those earlier record-breakers did it.
2012/13 and
In November 2019, Hansi Flick became the new manager of Bayern Munich, taking over a club that had struggled under Niko Kovac, who was also his former coach. He had accomplished everything with them in less than a year. A remarkable run of domestic play saw them win the Bundesliga by a landslide with 19 victories and a draw from their final 20 Bundesliga games. They also breezed through Europe.
Kingsley Coman led them to victory on the continent to complete the treble with a 1-0 victory over PSG, capping up a season in which they won all 11 of their Champions League games en route to the trophy. By the end of the season, Robert Lewandowski had scored 55 goals.
That imitated the remarkable accomplishment made by the first German team to accomplish the feat seven years earlier. It included some of the club's most well-known players from recent years, such as Franck Ribery, Toni Kroos, and Philipp Lahm.
Heynckes' team led the Bundesliga on each and every matchday, which should come as no surprise considering that their 91-point campaign shattered the German Bundesliga record and continues to stand today. While winning their group only on goal differential over Valencia, Europe proved to be a more difficult test, requiring away goals to defeat Arsenal in the round of 16. After that, things became much simpler as they defeated Juventus 4-0 on aggregate and destroyed Barcelona 7-0 over two legs before edging out Dortmund under Jurgen Klopp in the first-ever all-German Champions League final at Wembley.
Inter Milan in 2009–2010
Being the only team in Italy to have won all three major football championships, as well as a significant summer move from Pep Guardiola's champion Barcelona the year before, all played a large role.
Inter was propelled to success in Europe by the goal-scoring tandem of Diego Milito and Samuel Eto'o, who was traded to Barca for Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Without a solid defense, no Mourinho team would be complete, and the Brazilian team of Lucio at center back and Julio Cesar in goal provided just that.
The semi-finals are frequently the true turning point for any Champions League-winning team, and this was once again the case when Mourinho defeated rival Guardiola 3-2 on aggregate before defeating Bayern 2-0 in the championship game.
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