Every time Barcelona and Real Madrid do battle on the big stage, the world watches as El Clasico remains the biggest rivalry in global football.<\/p>\n
As the most successful club in the Champions League, Real Madrid consider themselves the top club in the world, but Barcelona have been hot on their tails over the past few decades, winning silverware of their own to flood their own trophy room and boast themselves as one of the top clubs in world football.<\/p>\n
As the two jockey for position in the global football landscape, El Clasico has risen to become the most iconic rivalry match in the sport.<\/p>\n
The Sporting News compares which club has won more trophies and who has been more successful of late.<\/p>\n
MORE:\u00a0How many times have Real Madrid won the Champions League title?<\/p>\n
How many trophies have Real Madrid won?<\/p>\n
Real Madrid have won the most European titles in the history of the European Cup and the Champions League, with their 15 continental crowns over twice as many as the next challenger.<\/p>\n
They are also the most domestically successful club in all of Spain, although recently Barcelona has been able to close the gap. While they still hold more La Liga titles, historically Real Madrid have struggled in the Copa del Rey compared to the other giants of Spain and even those across other big European leagues and their domestic knockout competition.<\/p>\n
Modern competitionsCompetitionTitles (Rank)LastLa Liga36 (1)2023\/24Copa del Rey20 (3)2022\/23Supercopa de Espana13 (2)2024UEFA European Cup\/Champions League15 (1)2023\/24UEFA Cup\/Europa League2 (T-7)1985\/86UEFA Super Cup6 (1)2024FIFA Club World Cup5 (1)2022FIFA Intercontinental Cup4 (1)2024TOTAL100\u00a0\u2014Defunct competitionsCompetitionTitlesLastCopa de la Liga11985Copa Eva Duarte11947Latin Cup21957Ibero-American Cup11994Campeonato de Madrid231935\/36Copa Federacion Centro41944\/45TOTAL32\u00a0\u2014How many trophies have Barcelona won?<\/p>\n
While Real Madrid have been the most successful team in European history, Barcelona’s rise to prominence in the early 1990’s has seen them begin to dominate domestic Spanish competition.<\/p>\n
Barcelona’s 28 La Liga titles are second-most to Real Madrid in Spanish top flight history, but 18 of those have come since the 1990\/91 season, compared to 11 for Real Madrid in that span.<\/p>\n
Additionally, they have won the most Copa del Rey titles of any club ever, 12 more than second-place Real Madrid as they dominate the domestic Cup competition.<\/p>\n
Modern competitionsCompetitionTitles (Rank)LastLa Liga28 (2)2024\/25Copa del Rey32 (1)2024\/25Supercopa de Espana16 (1)2026UEFA European Cup\/Champions League5 (5)2014\/15UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup4 (1)1996\/97UEFA Super Cup5 (T-2)2015FIFA Club World Cup3 (2)2015TOTAL93\u00a0\u2014Defunct competitionsCompetitionTitlesLastCopa de la Liga21986Copa Eva Duarte31953Latin Cup21952Inter-Cities Fairs Cup31965\/66Catalan football championship231937\/38TOTAL32\u00a0\u2014Have Real Madrid or Barcelona won more trophies?<\/p>\n
Of the modern competitions that the two clubs can contest,\u00a0Real Madrid have won more trophies than Barcelona\u00a0as their 100 trophies have just about pipped Barcelona’s 93.<\/p>\n
With Real Madrid leading in both Champions League and La Liga titles, they have the overall lead, but Barcelona’s recent catch-up over the past 20 years has been largely focused on domestic football, where they have won more La Liga and Copa del Rey trophies than Real Madrid in the modern era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every time Barcelona and Real Madrid do battle on the big stage, the world watches as El Clasico…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-647946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}