Jan Oblak Atlético Madrid profile, career and honours

The goalkeeper the era was built on

Jan Oblak arrived in 2014, in the same summer as Antoine Griezmann and immediately after the season that produced a league title and a Champions League final. He has made 538 appearances since, which puts him among the three most-used players in the club’s history alongside Koke and Adelardo.

For a side whose identity is a defensive structure, the goalkeeper is not the last line so much as the premise. The tactics page sets out how a 4-4-2 that concedes territory deliberately depends on the two players behind it being right almost every week for a decade.

What he has won

The 2020–21 league title, the 2017–18 Europa League and the 2018 UEFA Super Cup.

Three major honours from a career spanning more than five hundred matches is a modest return by the standards of goalkeepers at Europe’s biggest clubs, and it is an accurate reflection of where Atlético actually sit: a side that reaches finals more often than it wins them, and that has won one league championship in the eleven seasons Oblak has been there.

Milan

He was in goal for the 2016 Champions League final against Real Madrid in Milan, which finished 1–1 and went to penalties.

A goalkeeper’s career is measured partly in shoot-outs, and the biggest one of his went the other way. The two finals are covered together on the Champions League finals page; the 2018 Super Cup win over the same opponent in Tallinn is the nearest thing to a reply, and Oblak was there for that too.

Longevity as the achievement

The most striking thing about the record is not any single save. It is the absence of a gap.

Five hundred and thirty-eight appearances across more than a decade, in a position where one bad season ends a tenure and one bad injury ends a career, at a club that changed its stadium, sold and re-signed its record scorer and won a league title in the middle of it. Goalkeepers who hold a first-choice place at a Champions League club for eleven straight seasons are rare, and the legends gallery shows only Koke’s span running longer.

Alongside Abel Resino, whose 303 appearances covered the years the club could not win a league, Oblak is one of only two goalkeepers in the gallery, and the comparison between their eras says more about Atlético than either record does alone.

The comparison the gallery invites

Two goalkeepers appear among the club’s legends, and the gap between them is a century of Atlético in miniature.

Abel Resino made 303 appearances between 1986 and 1995 and won two Copas del Rey, because that was all there was to win in a decade sitting inside a nineteen-year league drought. Oblak has 538 appearances since 2014 and a league title, a Europa League and a Super Cup, because he arrived at the start of the most successful period in the club’s modern history.

Neither difference is about goalkeeping. It is about which decade a player was available in, a point the league record makes visible at a glance, with the titles clustering, stopping for nineteen years, then clustering again.

Eleven seasons, three honours

The trophy count is the part that surprises people who know the appearance figure. Five hundred and thirty-eight matches have produced one league title, one Europa League and one Super Cup.

That ratio is not a comment on the goalkeeper. Over the same period the club finished league runners-up in 2017–18 and 2018–19, lost a Champions League final on penalties, and lost a Copa del Rey final in 2025–26. Atlético reach finals more often than they win them, and a goalkeeper’s medal collection reflects the club’s conversion rate rather than his own. The honours list shows the whole picture.

How many appearances has Jan Oblak made for Atletico Madrid?

538 and counting since joining in 2014, which places him among the three most-used players in the club's history.

What has Oblak won with Atletico?

The 2020–21 La Liga title, the 2017–18 Europa League and the 2018 UEFA Super Cup.

Did Oblak play in a Champions League final?

Yes, the 2016 final against Real Madrid in Milan. It finished 1–1 and Real Madrid won the penalty shoot-out.

When did Jan Oblak join Atletico Madrid?

In 2014, the same summer as Antoine Griezmann and immediately after the club's league title and Lisbon final.