Champions League records broken in 2014-15 season

The Champions League 2014-15 season ended with Barcelona claiming the title for the fouth time in the last decade. While that was how the story ended, there were a bunch of milestones that were reached along the way. With the likes of Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo breaking records virtually every time they played, many records were smashed this season.

It wasn’t just the duo, from the oldest goalscorer to the fastest red card, a number of different milestones were reached. Often it meant reaching new heights but sometimes it also meant that new lows were reached as well.

We’ve listed all that we could find and they amount up to 31 and here they are –

Champions League Records broken this year:

Cristiano Ronaldo finished the season as the highest goal scorer in the history of Champions League with 78 goals with Messi close behind with 77 goals.

Outgoing Barcelona midfield legend Xavi Hernandez broke Ryan Giggs's record of all all-time appearances in the Champions League, (151) this season when he came off the bench against PSG in group stage. By the end of the campaign, he had accumulated a total of 157 appearances for Barcelona in Champions League.

Lionel Messi also became the first player to be the top scorer in Champions League in 5 different seasons. He was tied on 4 with German legend Gerd Muller.

Veteran Italian striker, Francesco Totti of A.S. Roma became the oldest player (38 years, 59 days) to score in a Champions League, when he scored against CSKA Moscow on 25th November 2014.

Luiz Adriano of Shakhtar Donetsk equalled Cristiano Ronaldo's record of 9 goals for most goals in the group stage of the Champions League in a single season.

Lionel Messi added one more hat-trick to his record of four hat-tricks, which is the highest by any player in the Champions League.

Luiz Adriano also equalled Messi's record of scoring 5 goals in a single match.

Real Madrid were able to open up a 14 points advantage in group stage making the biggest disparity in points between the group winner and the runner-up team ever in Champions League history. Real Madrid finished the group stage with 18 points, the second place team Basel were on 7 points. They broke the record of Spartak Moscow, set in 1995-96 season who had an eleven-point advantage over the group runner-up Legia Warsaw.

Barcelona have reached 11 UEFA Champions League semi-finals, the highest by any team in the Champions League. Real Madrid has ten and Bayern has nine semi-final appearances

Barcelona contested an eighth successive quarter-final, another UEFA Champions League record. They previously shared the mark of seven with Manchester United FC (1996/97–2002/03) and Real Madrid (1997/98–2003/04).

This was the fifth consecutive season that Spain had multiple teams in the semi-finals, which is also a new record.

Real Madrid's win at FC Schalke 04 in the round of 16 first leg was their tenth in a row, equalling the all-time competition record set between April and November 2013 by Bayern

Bayern Munich became first team to score five or more goals multiple times in a single Champions League season as they beat AS Roma in the group stage, Shakhtar Donetsk in the round of 16 and FC Porto in the quarter-final.

Ronaldo scored ten goals in this campaign making the fourth straight season that he has hit double figures. No other player has achieved such a feat in the history of Champions League.

Real Madrid played in the knockout phase for a record 19th time. They have never failed to progress from the group stage and are currently on a record run of 18 consecutive knockout phase appearances. The next best-placed clubs in that category are Arsenal FC (12) and Barcelona (11), both of whose sequences are also ongoing.

The red card for Shakhtar defender Olexandr Kucher in the round of 16 match against Bayern was the fastest in UEFA Champions League history. Clocked at three minutes 59 seconds.

Real Madrid became just the sixth team to win all six group stage fixtures and the first club to have done it twice.

Barcelona finished as group winners for the eighth successive season, thus extending their own competition record. It was the 16th time that they did which is also a tournament record.

AS Monaco became the ninth club to finish the group stage conceding just a single goal, after Milan (1992/93), AFC Ajax (1995/96), Juventus (1996/97, 2004/05), Chelsea (2005/06), Liverpool FC (2005/06), Villarreal CF (2005/06) and Manchester United (2010/11).

FC BATE Borisov conceded 24 goals, the highest in the history of Champions League group stage.The previous record was jointly held by GNK Dinamo Zagreb and FC Nordsjælland, was 22.

Shakhtar’s 7- 0 thrashing of BATE Borisov equalled the biggest-ever away win for any team, Marseille’s 7-0 thumping of MSK Zilina in November 2010.

Roma are the first side to concede seven goals twice, losing 7-1 at Manchester United in April 2007 and losing to Bayern Munich 7-1 this season.

Shakhtar’s 7- 0 thrashing of BATE Borisov made them the first club to score six goals in the first half.

Porto midfielder Yacine Brahimi scored a hat-trick on his UEFA Champions League debut, against BATE thus becoming the seventh player to do so, after Marco van Basten (Milan), Faustino Asprilla (Newcastle United FC), Yakubu (Maccabi Haifa FC), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Vincenzo Iaquinta (Udinese Calcio) and Grafite (VfL Wolfsburg).

This is the first time two teams from the same country have won the Champions League in back-to-back seasons (Real Madrid in 2014 and Barcelona in 2015). The last time it happened, it was AC Milan who won in both 1989 and 1990.

This is Juventus’ sixth loss in the Champions League final. No other club has lost so many finals. They had previously lost in 1973, 1983, 1997, 1998 and 2003. They have won the competition twice. Juventus have now lost their last four Champions League finals.

Barcelona are the only team to win the treble twice (2009 and 2015). They have also won their last four Champions League finals.

Barcelona beat 6 different league champions on their way to their fifth Champions League crown. They beat Paris Saint-Germain (France), APOEL Nicosia (Cyprus), Ajax (Netherlands) in the group stages, Manchester City (England) in the Round of 16, PSG again in the quarter-final, Bayern Munich (Germany) in the semi-final and Juventus (Italy) in the final. They played only league champions in every round.

This is also the first time two players from the same team have scored 10 goals in a season (Messi and Neymar).

Neymar is the first player to score in both legs of the quarter-final (PSG), both legs of the semi-final (Bayern Munich) and final (Juventus) of a single Champions League season.