Currently, Barcelona’s squad has only three players who have experienced winning the Champions League and know what it means to lift Europe’s most prestigious club trophy.

Marc-André ter Stegen won the title with Barcelona in the 2014-15 season during their 3-1 victory over Juventus. Robert Lewandowski triumphed with Bayern Munich in the 2019-20 season, the same campaign where Barcelona suffered their infamous 8-2 defeat in Lisbon. Hans-Dieter Flick was also on Bayern’s bench that season. The third player is Andreas Christensen, who won with Chelsea in the 2020-21 season after defeating Manchester City 1-0 in the final.

These three players, now aiming for their second Champions League title, are not the only ones with semi-final experience. Among Barcelona’s squad, only two other players have played in the Champions League semi-finals:

Frenkie de Jong reached the semi-finals with Ajax in the 2018-19 season. That team won 1-0 against Tottenham in London but were eliminated in the second leg in Amsterdam after a 3-2 defeat, missing out on the final against Liverpool in Madrid.

The other player is Dani Olmo, who reached the semi-finals with RB Leipzig in the 2019-20 season. He scored a crucial goal in the quarter-final against Atlético Madrid, contributing to a 2-1 victory, but Leipzig lost 3-0 to Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals.