Chelsea complete clean sweep of European trophies: Manchester United lead contenders of who might be next

Chelsea has completed the set. Immediately 4-1 win over real betis In the final of the Conference League, Enzo Maresca’s side became the first team in European history that won every great honor: two-time Champions League and Europa League winners that ensure that their season dominated the lowest layer of continental football in the only acceptable way.

Add their brace from UEFA Super Cups and the now destroyed Cup winners’ cups, and that of them is a European trophy that can match that few teams for pure variety. Indeed, can anyone? Let us park the heritage competitions, even the Intertoto Cup, a minute. Who would Chelsea, if someone could follow in sweeping European prices?

It is not as easy as a comparison if you accept immediately. Without wanting to say it obvious, teams should actually play in the Conference Competition to win it.

It is extremely difficult to propose a world where some of the largest teams on the continent are so dramatically struggling in their domestic competition that they fall to the third layer. It is clear that you come up in Real Madrids and Bayern Munich, but let’s imagine that multi -year Scottish champions Celtic won in the Europa League in the near future and won the Europa League, who finish that box. They should somehow have a sufficiently disastrous competition campaign to eventually fall into the Conference League, where Scotland is represented by Dundee United in the second qualifying round. Perhaps there is a strange path in the Qualifiers of the Europa League, but it is not likely.

The European Cup is the other complicating factor. Our pool of teams will mainly have to include those who have already won it. There are perhaps only three teams who have not yet won those who have realistic prospects to win the Champions League in the near future. Paris Saint-Germain is of course one of them, Atletico Madrid and Arsenal the others. Maybe Newcastle has an argument. It is difficult to see that many of them, perhaps only the last two, who often fall into the Conference League. Anyway, the two still have many trophies to win.

There is also another factor to consider. Can one of the three Conference League champions complete the set? Well, Ermm, no. Maybe a Europa League for West Ham or Roma, but she and Olympiacos don’t win the big one. We then have our swimming pool to select. We will be behind teams who have already won a European Cup/Champions League and perhaps realistic themselves in the lower corners of the continental competition countries. Here are the best options we can think of:

1. Manchester United

The challenge of choosing top teams that can complete the sweep is that to end up in the conference competition, they must have a domestic season of remarkable inadequacy where they then bounce back with, well, at least normality. In the short term, It is difficult to see how things could go so badly for, for example, Liverpool that they would not get at least Europa League.

Then there is Manchester United. After the travails of the last few months, each type of 2025-26 season that ended with those who qualified for the Conference League would be an unmistakable triumph. Seventh place? Someone gets a date in the diary for prices. A competition cup and 15th place? Does anyone have the number for an open-top bus?

If an English club enters the conference competition, the proof is so far that they will go pretty far. Every season of the competition has had a Premier League and a half finalist with Tottenham the only club that did not reach the last four. That was in the old format, in the new, Chelsea’s B team succeeded in winning every game to surpass the competition phase. It would certainly not need much to get their act together for Manchester United to win the conference competition? The bigger challenge would qualify for it.

2. Juventus

If there is another nation that comes close to the power of England, it is Italy, where two clubs have won both the Champions and the Europa League: Inter and Juventus. It is the last thing that seems a more chance to eventually be in the conference competition. They may have gone in the Champions League this season, but given the institutional turbulence in Turin in recent years, a drop -down seems to be the table credible for the near future.

Just like the Premier League, the recent record of Serie A in the Conference League is impressive. And for Serie A read Fiorentina, the Italian representatives in the three seasons that followed Roma’s Triumph in the first season of the competition. Viola have been extremely successful, if only in producing heartache for their supporters. Successive definitive defeats were followed by a bruising extra time defeat against betis. Could Juventus go a few steps further if they get the chance?

3. Porto

The only Portuguese side that both the Champions League and the Europa League have won, Porto has finished in the top three every year since 1974. That is our real problem here, since it probably needed to fall to the fifth to go to the conference competition. Put them in this competition and they would have such a good chance as anyone who is not from the Premier League and Serie A. the challenge, she is just there.

4. The big three in the Netherlands

A fairly simple, this. All three Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord have two-thirds of the set and nobody should consider winning a conference competition. Indeed, Feyenoord almost almost defeated Chelsea back in 2022, where they were defeated in the final by Roma.

For all three teams there is a bit of what we call the Celtic dilemma that limits their chances. These teams were the first to third this season in the Eredivisie with the fifth AZ Alkmaar qualification for the Conference League via a European play-off. On the other hand, both Ajax and Feyenoord have shown in recent years that a drop-off season is possible. File this under plausible.

5. Borussia Dortmund

Here is a slightly more long-shot option. Borussia Dortmund has currently won one of the three European trophies, the Champions League of 1997, to deal with their 1966 Cup Winners’ Cup Crown. They are also Champions League -resistant plants that were shown in 13 of the last 14 seasons. However, the latter status looks more economical in recent years, a top-four finish this season only only secured by two points, last year it is fifth enough to bring them back to the competition in which they finished second place.

What should happen here is a continuation of Dortmund’s drop decrease in the competition, while retaining a level where they can win both the conference and the Europa League (probably in that order). It is a narrow path, but one that is more logical than many of the scenarios we have left.

That speaks earlier to the scarcity of teams that can ever replicate the performance of Chelsea. The location of the blues in history can still be undisputed for a long time.