THE RAFTERS — WORLD FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS (Club Play Only)

8StarSports · The Rafters · World Football foundation pack. Compiled October 19, 2026.

SCOPE — CLUB PLAY ONLY (Jason S. Jackson's standing rule for this pack): club competitions only. No internationals, no World Cup, no national teams appear anywhere in this pack. Method: No figure from memory alone. Every row below was corroborated by at least two independent sources actually fetched during research; the full verification trail — source logs [U]/[E]/[L]/[I]/[G]/[F], disputes registers, and UNVERIFIED items — is in the companion file wf-sources-and-notes.md. Where two sources disagreed, both values are printed there — never silently resolved here. Coverage: The European Cup / Champions League roll is complete 1955–56 → 2025–26. League champions rolls are complete for: England 1888–89 → 2025–26 · Spain 1929 → 2025–26 · Italy 1929–30 → 2025–26 (plus a separately-based pre-1929 roll, 1898–1929) · Germany (Bundesliga) 1963–64 → 2025–26 · France (Ligue 1) 1932–33 → 2025–26. War gaps are printed as gaps. FULL FINAL LEAGUE TABLES are included ONLY for the three most recent completed seasons in each league (2023–24, 2024–25, 2025–26 — 15 tables). Every other season is champions-only. No table row was fabricated; every one of the 15 tables is two-source verified.

Contents

1. European Cup / UEFA Champions League — finals roll & winners table
2. England — champions roll, titles table, full tables 2023–24 → 2025–26
3. Spain (La Liga) — champions roll, titles table, full tables 2023–24 → 2025–26
4. Italy (Serie A) — champions rolls (1929–30 → and 1898–1929), titles table, full tables 2023–24 → 2025–26
5. Germany (Bundesliga) — champions roll, titles table, full tables 2023–24 → 2025–26
6. France (Ligue 1) — champions roll, titles table, full tables 2023–24 → 2025–26

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1. EUROPEAN CUP / UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

SECTION A — Finals roll, 1955–56 to 2025–26 (71 finals, complete)

Score conventions: (aet) = after extra time; (pens X–Y) = penalty shoot-out score; replay = the 1974 final was replayed two days later at the same venue after a 1–1 draw — the only replayed final in the competition's history [U1][U2].

2025–26 final detail (researched, not assumed): Played 30 May 2026 at the Puskás Aréna, Budapest. Paris Saint-Germain retained the trophy — back-to-back titles — beating Arsenal 4–3 on penalties after a 1–1 draw through extra time. Kai Havertz gave Arsenal an early (6th-minute) lead; Ousmane Dembélé equalised with a 65th-minute penalty. Eberechi Eze and Gabriel Magalhães missed in the shoot-out [U3][U4][U5]. (One low-quality report gave different scorers/minutes — see Dispute D6.)

Sources for the roll as a whole: Wikipedia's finals list [U1] (which itself cites RSSSF and the UEFA Statistics Handbook) cross-checked row-by-row against NBC Sports' year-by-year winners list [U2], which independently gives the winner, runner-up, score, shoot-out score and city for every final including 2026.

All-time winners table (by club)

24 clubs have won the trophy [U1]. Titles and runner-up counts below are from [U1]'s by-club table, corroborated by counting the finals roll in [U2] (see Dispute D5 on errors inside [U2]'s own summary lists).

Runners-up without a title: Atlético Madrid 3; Reims 2; Valencia 2; Arsenal 2; Fiorentina 1; Eintracht Frankfurt 1; Partizan 1; Panathinaikos 1; Leeds United 1; Saint-Étienne 1; Borussia Mönchengladbach 1; Club Brugge 1; Malmö FF 1; Roma 1; Sampdoria 1; Bayer Leverkusen 1; Monaco 1; Tottenham Hotspur 1 [U1].

Check sums: titles in table = 71; runner-up finishes = 71. ✓

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2. ENGLAND — TOP FLIGHT

SECTION A — English Top-Flight Champions Roll, 1888–89 to 2025–26

Era key: Football League (1888–1892, single division) → Football League First Division (1892–1992) → Premier League (1992–present). Sources: [E1] + [E2] for 1888–1992; [E1] + [E3]/[E4] for 1992–2026.

All-Time Top-Flight Titles by Club (1888–2026) [E1]

24 clubs have won the English top-flight title.

Note on the headline totals: the Premier League's own 2025–26 title report states "Across the full history of the English top flight, Arsenal have now been crowned champions 14 times – behind only Liverpool and Man Utd, who have both won the title 20 times" [E6] — agreeing with [E1].

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SECTION B — Full Final League Tables (Three Most Recent Completed Seasons ONLY)

Coverage: full tables are given for 2023–24, 2024–25 and 2025–26 ONLY. All other seasons in this pack are champions-only (Section A).

B1 — 2023–24 Premier League — Final Table [E8][E9]

Notes: Everton finished on 40 pts after an 8-point deduction (6 + 2) for profit-and-sustainability breaches; Nottingham Forest finished on 32 pts after a 4-point deduction. Both deductions are stated in [E8] and [E9].

Relegated: Luton Town, Burnley, Sheffield United.

B2 — 2024–25 Premier League — Final Table [E10][E11]

Relegated: Leicester City, Ipswich Town, Southampton. (See Disputes D3 for the one conflicting W/D/L printing of Manchester City's row in a third source.)

B3 — 2025–26 Premier League — Final Table [E7][E12]

Season ran 15 August 2025 – 24 May 2026. Arsenal champions (85 pts); relegated: West Ham United, Burnley, Wolverhampton Wanderers [E3][E7][E12].

Note on column order in one corroborating source: Sportradar [E12] prints its columns as W–L–D; read in that order its figures are identical to the W–D–L figures above for every club (e.g. Bournemouth W13, L7, D18). See Disputes D4 for the one GD printing that disagrees.

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3. SPAIN — LA LIGA

SECTION A — La Liga Champions Roll (complete, 1929 – 2025–26)

Roll integrity check: 95 championships awarded (1929 + 1929–30…1935–36 = 8; 1939–40…2025–26 = 87; 8 + 87 = 95). The all-time titles table below also sums to 95 — the two tables close on each other.

2025–26 note (searched, not assumed): Barcelona retained the title — their 29th — securing it with three matches to spare by beating Real Madrid 2–0 on 10 May 2026 [L3][L4][L9].

All-time titles table

Only nine clubs have ever won La Liga [L1][L2].

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SECTION B — Full Final League Tables (three most recent completed seasons ONLY)

All other seasons are champions-only (Section A). Tie-break note: La Liga separates level teams first on head-to-head record, then goal difference — finishing order below follows the official head-to-head order where two sources agreed on it.

2023–24 — Final table

Relegated: Cádiz, Almería, Granada [L5][L6].

2024–25 — Final table

Relegated: Leganés, Las Palmas, Valladolid [L7][L8]. Barcelona's 28th title [L8].

2025–26 — Final table

Relegated: Mallorca, Girona, Real Oviedo [L9]. Barcelona's 29th title, sealed 10 May 2026 [L3][L9].

Transcription note on [L4]: Sportradar's standings grid labels its middle columns "W | L | D"; its figures were read in that printed order and re-expressed here in standard W-D-L order. Every row so converted matches [L9] and [L10] exactly (all 20 rows, all columns).

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4. ITALY — SERIE A

SECTION A — ITALIAN CHAMPIONS ROLL

A1. Modern single round-robin Serie A — 1929–30 to 2025–26

Basis: The championship branded Serie A, launched 1929–30 as a single national round-robin top division [I1][I2][I3]. Club names are given in their modern form, with the period name noted where it differs materially (Ambrosiana-Inter).

Era notes

• Note 1 — WWII gap. No Serie A championship was held in 1943–44 or 1944–45 [I1][I2][I3]. A wartime Campionato Alta Italia was held in 1944 and won by Spezia. In 2002 the FIGC awarded Spezia a special decoration for that victory and authorised a tricolour badge, but the federation clarified that this does not constitute an official scudetto [I1][I4]. Spezia is therefore not entered in the Serie A roll above.
• Note 2 — 1945–46. The first post-war championship was not the normal single-group Serie A: a regional/two-group Divisione Nazionale was resurrected for that season [I1]. Torino won it. It is counted in the roll (and in Torino's official title total) with this format note attached.
• Note 3 — 1948–49 and Superga. Torino's 1948–49 title was the last of the Grande Torino side. That team was killed in the Superga air disaster in 1949, which ended the post-war Torino dominance described by both main sources [I1][I2].
• Note 4 — Calciopoli. Following the 2006 Calciopoli scandal: the 2004–05 title (originally Juventus) was revoked and left unassigned; the **2005–06 title was put sub judice and then assigned to Inter** by the federation/courts [I1][I2][I3]. The roll prints exactly that: 2004–05 "No champion (revoked)", 2005–06 "Inter (awarded)".
• 2025–26 verification. Inter are listed as current champions, 21st title, in the champions list [I1]; SportsAdda records Inter winning the 2025–26 title on 3 May 2026, beating Parma 2–0, finishing on 87 points [I2]; worldfootball.net lists 2025/2026 — Inter, 21st title [I5]; OneFootball's final-standings report also records Inter winning their 21st Scudetto in 2025–26 [I9].

A2. Pre-1929 champions — early FIGC era, 1898–1929 (separate basis)

Basis: Separate from Serie A. These are the officially recognised Italian Football Championships held before the 1929 reorganisation into Serie A [I1][I4]. Formats varied — single-day knockouts, regional groups with play-offs, Prima Categoria, Prima Divisione and Divisione Nazionale — and are not a single round-robin league. Both champions of the split 1921–22 season are printed. The 1926–27 title was revoked and left unassigned, so that season has no champion.

Corroboration: the full sequence above matches both the Wikipedia champions list [I1] and the RSSSF "Italy — List of Champions" list [I3], and the season-by-season list in [I2]. The split 1921–22 season (Novese FIGC / Pro Vercelli CCI) is stated explicitly in [I1] and [I3].

A3. All-time titles table

Basis stated: All officially recognised Italian championships, 1898–2026, counting BOTH the pre-1929 era (A2) and the Serie A era (A1), counting both 1921–22 champions, and EXCLUDING revoked/unassigned titles (1926–27, 2004–05) and EXCLUDING Spezia's 1944 wartime decoration (not a scudetto). Source: performances table in [I1], corroborated by the by-team list in [I6] and by [I2]/[I3].

Note on a common error: some secondary lists still print Inter on 20 and Milan on 19 / Juventus-era totals from before 2025–26. Inter's 21st title is the 2025–26 title verified above [I1][I2][I5][I9]. A pre-2025–26 source printing "Inter 20" is out of date, not a dispute about the earlier titles.

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SECTION B — FULL FINAL LEAGUE TABLES — THREE MOST RECENT COMPLETED SEASONS ONLY

Coverage is explicitly limited to 2023–24, 2024–25 and 2025–26. No full table is claimed for any other season.

B1. 2023–24 Serie A — final table

Verified identically in [I7] (Wikipedia 2023–24 in Italian football, sourced to Serie A) and [I8] (Global Sports Archive). Inter's 94 points / 19-point margin is also stated in [I10].

B2. 2024–25 Serie A — final table

Verified in [I11] (Wikipedia 2024–25 Serie A, source line: Serie A) and corroborated on every row's W/D/L, GD and points by Football Italia's final table in [I12]. Napoli's title line — 82 points, 24 W, 10 D, 4 L — is also stated in Football Italia's champions report [I13].

B3. 2025–26 Serie A — final table

Verified identically (all W/D/L/GF/GA/GD/Pts) in [I14] (ItaliaMia final-standings archive, "Archive verified: September 30, 2026") and [I15] (Football Italia 2025–26 season table). Champion, Champions League places (Inter, Napoli, Roma, Como) and relegated clubs (Cremonese, Hellas Verona, Pisa) are also stated in [I9] and [I16]. One ordering dispute exists at positions 12–13 — see Disputes D4; the order printed below (Torino 12th, Parma 13th) is the one given by [I14] and by Sportradar's 2025–26 standings [I17].

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5. GERMANY — BUNDESLIGA

SECTION A — Champions roll, complete (1963–64 – 2025–26)

63 seasons, 13 different champions. Sources: [G1] season-by-season, cross-checked against the per-club winning-seasons lists in [G2] and the official league champions feature [G3]; 2025–26 additionally [G6][G7].

All-time Bundesliga titles (Bundesliga only, 1963– )

Note on counting basis: this table is Bundesliga titles only. Bayern's 34 here excludes their 1932 pre-Bundesliga German championship; sources that count all German championships give Bayern 35 — see Disputes D-G1. Sources: [G2].

SECTION B — Full final league tables (three most recent completed seasons only)

Bundesliga 2023–24

Sources: [G8] and the DFL/Bundesliga official season report [G9] — identical in every row.

Bundesliga 2024–25

Sources: [G10], reconciled with Sportradar [G11] (which prints its columns in W-L-D order; values agree once read in that order) and [G12]. A fourth page found in search (Archysport) printed a wrong table for this season — see Disputes D-G3.

Bundesliga 2025–26

Sources: [G13], Sportradar [G14] (W-L-D column order, reconciled) and FC Bayern's official honours page [G7] (positions, goals and points for all 18 rows). Bayern's 122 goals is a Bundesliga single-season club record per [G15].

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6. FRANCE — LIGUE 1

SECTION A — Champions roll, complete (1932–33 – 2025–26)

WWII basis, stated honestly: the official French championship was suspended from 1939–40 through 1944–45. Wartime competitions were held (regional North/South championships, and federal-team championships in 1943–44), but they are NOT official titles and no champion is recognised for those seasons. The gap below is printed as a gap. [F1][F2]

1992–93 basis: Olympique de Marseille finished first but the title was stripped by the LFP after the Valenciennes match-fixing (bribery) scandal; the 1992–93 title was not awarded to any club. It is printed below as "— no champion". [F1][F2]

88 professional-era seasons played, 87 titles awarded (1992–93 vacant), 19 different champions. Sources: [F1] season-by-season, fully cross-checked against RSSSF's yearwise champions list [F2], including the wartime entries, the 1992–93 "title not awarded" entry, and the 2025–26 line (PSG, 34 P, 24-4-6, 74–29, 76 pts).

All-time titles — Ligue 1 era basis (professional championships only, 1932– )

Counting basis: professional (Ligue 1 / Division 1) titles only, per RSSSF's "Number of Titles (87)" table [F2] and the Ligue 1 performance table [F3]. Marseille's figure is 9 because the stripped 1992–93 title does not count. A different Wikipedia performance table adds pre-1932 amateur-era titles (Marseille 10 incl. 1928–29 amateur; Lille 6 incl. Olympique Lillois' amateur/professional entries) — that combined basis is NOT used here; see Disputes D-F1.

SECTION B — Full final league tables (three most recent completed seasons only)

Ligue 1 2023–24

Sources: [F7] and [F8] — identical in every row. Montpellier's 41 points include a 1-point deduction for crowd trouble (noted in [F7]); Metz finished above Lorient on head-to-head away goals [F7].

Ligue 1 2024–25

Sources: [F9] and FBref [F10] — FBref's fetched rows 1–14 match exactly; finishing order and points for rows 15–18 additionally match the points list in [F11].

Ligue 1 2025–26

Sources: [F5] (full final table as carried in the 2025–26 season templates) and Sportradar [F6] (W-L-D column order, reconciled — every row agrees). RSSSF's champions line for 2025–26 [F2] independently matches the champions' row (PSG 24-4-6, 74–29, 76). Lens won the 2025–26 Coupe de France per the note in [F5], which is why the cup-winner European place passed down the league table — context only, not a table figure.

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