5 clubs with the most number of red cards in Champions League history
Since the inaugural UEFA Champions League tournament in the 1992-93 season, the level of football has substantially risen, with the gaining importance of proper science-backed diet and training programmes.
With the implementation of these various programmes, players have gotten fitter and resorted to a cleaner game with the reduction in the number of nasty challenges in matches.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edgar Davids hold the joint record for the most number of sending offs in the tournament with 4 each.
A number of players have been sent off in the tournament's history since its rebranding to the Champions League in 1992, but a few players from certain clubs have done so on multiple occasions.
On that note, here we take a look at the 5 clubs with the worst disciplinary records, who have gone on to have the most number of red cards in Champions League history.
#5 Galatasaray AŞ
With 15 red cards in the tournament, Turkish giants Galatasaray sit in the fifth spot as the club with the most number of dismissals to their name. The Turkish giants recorded their best ever finish in the tournament before the rebranding in 1988-89, as the club reached the semi-final.
Galatasaray have reached the quarter-final stage of the competition on four other occasions, twice before the re-branding in 1962-63 and 1969-70, and twice after in 2000-01 and 2012-13. The club currently sit in second place, and a point behind leaders Istanbul Bakasekhir in the Turkish Super Liga.
With more than half a season to go, the club is well positioned to make a run and challenge for the crown and earn their place back against Europe's elite. Under manager, Fatih Terim, the club are gradually progressing displaying some attacking and entertaining football.
The club is also the most successful Turkish club in the competition despite not making this year's knock-out phase.