sport news Sportsmail takes a look at the English players to have won the Champions League ... trends now
In their first Champions League final since their 2019 triumph over Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool are back and are bidding to win their second European Cup under Jurgen Klopp and seventh in all.
Jordan Henderson, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Joe Gomez all formed a key part of the 2019 squad and will all likely at least be in Saturday night's match day squad.
Liverpool are looking to exact revenge on Real Madrid who beat them in the 2018 final in Kyiv. In turn, Real Madrid were looking to pay Liverpool back in that final for their 1-0 defeat to the Reds in Paris in 1981.
With the three English clubs (Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea) having won the trophy twice since its rebranding in 1992 from the European Cup to the Champions League, and all of those wins being distant from the other, Henderson, Alexander-Arnold and Gomez will be joining an elite club should they beat Real Madrid in Saturday's showpiece.
Including the likes of Steve McManaman, Gary Neville and Owen Hargreaves, Sportsmail takes you through the players to have won one of football's greatest prizes twice.
Jordan Henderson (c) is bidding to lift the trophy twice as captain - only one other Englishmen has achieved that feat
Steve McManaman
Having departed an ailing Liverpool in 1999 for Real Madrid, on the face of it it would have appeared that McManaman was stepping into an environment where winning the Champions League was an inevitability.
That was not the case when the he arrived in the Spanish capital, with Los Blancos in the midst of a debt-ridden crisis that saw them forced to sell the likes of Davor Suker and Predrag Mijatović while they released Clarence Seedorf. All three players had played in Real Madrid's 1998 triumph over Juventus a year prior, with Mijatović scoring the only goal.
A difficult start turned into the dream end for McManaman's first season. John Toshack, both a household name in Liverpool and Madrid, had been sacked in November as the coach and replaced by Vincente Del Bosque.
Steve McManaman lifts his first Champions League trophy in Paris after beating Valencia
Del Bosque guided Real Madrid to the final of the competition, via tricky ties against the holders Manchester United and 1999's runners-up Bayern Munich, where they beat Valencia 3-0.
McManaman put in a man of the match display, with his second half volley clinching the game for Real Madrid before Raul added a third.
Sir Alex Ferguson said of his performance that night: 'I thought McManaman was excellent, there is no question he was man of the match. He was a threat all night and gave Real great penetration from midfield.'
The Liverpool native was awarded man of the match by the English media after his display
His 2000 triumph meant he was the first English player ever to win Europe's showpiece trophy with a foreign club.
The Liverpool native would not enjoy the same personal success in 2002, when Real Madrid beat Bayer Leverkusen at Hampden Park, remembered of course for Zinedine Zidane's famous strike.
However, he became the first English player to have won the Champions League twice as Real Madrid claimed their ninth European Cup in all.
Gary Neville
The former Manchester United captain's delight at Liverpool missing out on the opportunity to better Sir Alex Ferguson's achievement in 1999 has brought the treble back into sharp focus.
The right-back formed a key part of United's 1999 side, providing attacking impetus as well defensive nous on a right-hand side that unsually contained Ryan Giggs for this final.
Manchester United found themselves on the ropes for much of the final at the Nou Camp, with Neville and his fellow three defenders working overtime as United's midfield, missing Roy Keane through suspension, was breached time and again.
Gary Neville (r) and team-mates celebrate on the pitch after astonishing comeback in 1999
What happened in the final minutes of the game, after Bayern Munich fans had already let off some celebratory flares in their end, will forever be written into United folklore.
'The second goal goes in and literally I'm planked on the floor on my back. Literally, I think I nearly actually went into tears. I was emotional, I was screaming,' he told Sportbible of that final moment.
'My first words to Ole were "you have no idea what you’ve just done, you’ve just created history in that moment". It was mind-blowing,' he added.
Gary Neville, clad in his club suit and match-day jacket, lifts the trophy to the delight of his team-mates
Neville's part in the 2008 double-winning season of the Premier League and Champions League was limited to one appearance, when he came off the bench against Roma in the quarter-finals of European competiton.
He was not selected for the squad having missed the entire season, barring the nine minute cameo against Roma.
Like Keane in 1999,
