Atlético Madrid Records and Statistics: the All-Time Numbers in Full

Atlético Madrid’s trophy cabinet tells the story of a club that has spent over a century as the third force in Spanish football and has repeatedly refused to accept the billing. Eleven league titles is a total only Real Madrid and Barcelona better in Spain. This page gathers the honours, the record holders and the seasons that produced them.

The honours at a glance

Competition	Titles	Most recent	Competition	Titles	Most recent
La Liga	11	2020-21
Copa del Rey	10	2013
Supercopa de España	2	2014
UEFA Europa League	3	2018
UEFA Super Cup	3	2018
European Cup Winners’ Cup	1	1962
Intercontinental Cup	1	1974

Each of these competitions gets its own treatment on the trophies page; what follows here is the statistical skeleton.

Eleven league titles, three distinct eras

The league titles cluster into eras. Two came either side of 1940 under the Athletic Aviación name, then two more in 1949-50 and 1950-51 with the celebrated forward line of the Helenio Herrera years. The middle period brought four titles between 1965-66 and 1976-77, the golden age of Luis Aragonés, Gárate and Adelardo. The doblete season of 1995-96 stood alone for a long time, a league and cup double landed under Radomir Antić with Diego Simeone, then a player, in midfield.

Simeone the coach added the last two. The 2013-14 title arrived after eighteen years of Barcelona and Real Madrid trading the trophy between themselves, and the 2020-21 title was clinched on the final afternoon with a comeback win at Valladolid.

2013-14: the season that broke the duopoly

No Atlético season carries more statistical weight than 2013-14. The team finished on 90 points, conceded just 26 league goals, and got 27 league goals from Diego Costa. The final day distilled the whole campaign: needing a result away to Barcelona, who could take the title themselves by winning, Atlético fell behind to an Alexis Sánchez strike and equalised through a Diego Godín header early in the second half. The 1-1 draw at Camp Nou made Atlético champions on the pitch of their direct rival. How the team was built to do this is covered on the tactics page.

Europe: three Europa Leagues and an old first

Atlético’s European record has a distinctive shape. The club won the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1962, its first continental trophy, and the Intercontinental Cup in 1974 after beating Independiente over two legs. The European Cup itself has been cruel: three finals reached, in 1974, 2014 and 2016, and all three lost, the last two to Real Madrid.

The Europa League is a different story. Atlético won it in 2010 in Hamburg against Fulham, in 2012 in Bucharest against Athletic Bilbao, and in 2018 in Lyon against Marseille. Each of the 2010, 2012 and 2018 wins was followed by a UEFA Super Cup victory, which is why both totals stand at three.

The record holders

Appearances. The benchmark for six decades was Adelardo Rodríguez, the midfielder from Badajoz whose 553 appearances across the 1960s and 1970s looked untouchable. Koke, a product of the club’s own academy, eventually passed the mark and continues to extend the record. Adelardo’s 553 remains the reference figure that had to be beaten.

Goals. Luis Aragonés stood for decades as the club’s top league scorer, a remarkable double legacy given that he later coached the club and remains a spiritual reference for its identity. Alongside him in any conversation about Atlético’s great scorers sits José Eulogio Gárate, the elegant forward who collected Pichichi honours three seasons running at the turn of the 1970s while leading the line of the era’s title sides.

The academy thread. Fernando Torres belongs in the records conversation for a different reason: a youth product who debuted as a teenager in 2001, captained the club before he was old enough to rent a car, and returned in 2015 for a second spell that ended with the 2018 Europa League. Torres and the pathway that produced him, along with Koke, are the backbone of the academy story.

Reading the numbers honestly

A few cautions for anyone using these figures. Appearance and goal totals for players from the pre-war and early post-war decades vary between sources depending on which competitions are counted, which is why this page pins exact numbers only where the record is beyond dispute. Where a total is contested, the honest framing is narrative: Aragonés and Gárate are among the club’s greatest scorers, and no serious accounting says otherwise. The season-by-season detail behind all of it lives in the club history section, and contemporary match reports from the 2010-2015 period can be found in the archive.

FAQ

How many league titles has Atlético Madrid won?

Eleven. The first came in 1939-40 and the most recent in 2020-21. Only Real Madrid and Barcelona have won more Spanish league titles.

Has Atlético Madrid ever won the Champions League?

No. Atlético reached the European Cup final in 1974 and the Champions League finals of 2014 and 2016, losing all three, the last two to Real Madrid. The club has won the Europa League three times (2010, 2012, 2018) and the Cup Winners' Cup in 1962.

Who holds Atlético Madrid's appearance record?

Koke, the midfielder who came through the club's own academy. He surpassed the long-standing mark of 553 appearances set by Adelardo Rodríguez in the 1960s and 1970s and is still adding to his total.

Who is Atlético Madrid's greatest goalscorer?

Luis Aragonés was for decades the club's top league scorer and remains its most complete legend, having also coached the club. José Eulogio Gárate, a three-time Pichichi winner around 1970, belongs in the same conversation.

What was special about the 2013-14 season?

Atlético won La Liga for the first time in eighteen years, finishing on 90 points ahead of Barcelona and Real Madrid, and sealed the title with a 1-1 draw away at Barcelona on the final day. The team also reached the Champions League final that same season.