Which club was the first from England to win the UEFA Champions League?

Manchester United was the first English club to win the UEFA Champions League, defeating Bayern Munich in the 1999 final.

Played at Barcelona’s Camp Nou on 26 May 1999, the final appeared to be slipping away from United after Mario Basler gave Bayern a first-half lead. United scored twice in stoppage time: Teddy Sheringham equalised in the 91st minute, and Ole Gunnar Solskjær supplied the winning goal two minutes later.

The victory was United’s second European Cup, following their 1968 triumph, and it made them the first English winners since the competition’s modern Champions League rebranding in 1992. It also completed an unprecedented English treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and European Cup.

The broader historical wording matters. Liverpool had already won the European Cup four times before 1999, including in 1984, so Manchester United were not England’s first European Cup winners overall. They were the first English winners specifically of the renamed Champions League era.