5 clubs who won all six matches in the UEFA Champions League Group stages
Played 6, Won 6, Drawn 0, Lost 0 and maximum points. Which teams have managed to do that?This season's UEFA Champions League has reached the halfway mark of the group stages and there is only one side that has won all their matches. No, it isn't Real Madrid or Barcelona and certainly not Chelsea or Manchester City. That honour goes to Russian side Zenit St. Petersburg who sit atop group H with a 100% record.This list takes a look at those teams who over the years started their campaigns in roaring fashion over the years – specifically the teams who have navigated through the group stages of the Champions League with 100% records.There have been six sides who have gone on to win the Champions League unbeaten. However, none of the teams have won the title with a 100% record in the group stages.
#1 AC Milan - 1992/93
The first club to win all their matches in the UEFA Champions League group stages was AC Milan. The Rossoneri achieved this feat in the 1992/93 Champions League season.
The tournament proper that season had just two groups of four teams each and the group winners would meet each other in the final. The Milan side featuring Marco Van Basten, Frank Rijkaard and Jean-Pierre Papin would run riot through their group, scoring 11 goals and conceding just one.
The side coached by Fabio Capello began in dominating fashion at the San Siro, crushing IFK Goteburg 4-0. Brazilian legend Romario became the only man to breach Sebastiano Rossi’s goal when he poached home a consolation in Eindhoven as PSV suffered a 2-1 defeat next. Porto were beaten twice by single goal margins and the Italians rounded off their group stage adventure by beating PSV and Goteburg once more.
However, the Italian Serie A champions lost the final against an equally strong Olympique Marseille side featuring Rudi Voller and Didier Deschamps with an unlikely goal from centre-back Basile Boli. The result might not have been much of a shock as the French side were also unbeaten during the group stages, but they had drawn three of their matches compared to Milan’s all win record.
Milan would go on to win the Champions League the very next season, thrashing Barcelona 4-0 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens where as Marseille would be found guilty of match fixing in the French league and would consequently be relegated to Ligue 2 and banned from Europe.
| Team | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.C.Milan | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | +10 | 12 |
| IFK Goteborg | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 6 |
| Porto | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| PSV Eindhoven | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | -9 | 1 |