City, Blues, Spurs Ready for Epic Comebacks in Champions League Challenge!

Biggest Champions League comebacks in history as Man City, Chelsea, Tottenham attempt all-time famous wins originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . As Europe's premiere football competition, the UEFA Champions League brings with it both the elation of realising dreams as well as the heartbreak of failure.

Both emotions are elevated the highest when one team comes from behind to win and advance, keeping alive their chances of lifting a famous trophy while the other team suffers the gut-wrenching end of their run. Major comebacks are rare in the Champions League knockout stage, as over two legs it can be difficult for one team to reverse an adverse scoreline from the first leg. With multiple Premier League clubs facing a significant deficit in the 2025/26 Round of 16, with many English sides disappointing on the road, there still is some history on their side.

The Sporting News brings you an overview of some of the biggest and most famous turnarounds in the history of UEFA's most iconic competition. MORE: 2025/26 Champions League top goal scorers Biggest comebacks in Champions League history Home The biggest comeback for a home team in the second leg is four goals , which has been accomplished only once. Barcelona managed this in the 2016/17 Round of 16 in what was known as "La Remontada" for its improbability.

It was only the fourth time ever this had been accomplished in any UEFA competition at any stage (once in the Europa League qualifying stage, and twice in the early rounds of the old UEFA Cup), and the first and only in the modern iteration of the Champions League. A three-goal turnaround has happened on four occasions previously in the Champions League, most recently in this year's Round of 16 when Sporting CP fell 3-0 to Cinderella story Bodo/Glimt in the first leg, only to turn it around in dramatic fashion at home a week later in extra-time. Turnaround Season Stage Team Opponent First leg Second leg Final Aggregate 4 goals 2016/17 Round of 16 Barcelona PSG 4-0 6-1 6-5 3 goals 2025/26 Round of 16 Sporting CP Bodo/Glimt 3-0 5-0 5-3 3 goals 2018/19 Semifinals Liverpool Barcelona 3-0 4-0 4-3 3 goals 2017/18 Quarterfinals AS Roma Barcelona 4-1 3-0 4-4* 3 goals 2003/04 Quarterfinals AC Milan Deportivo La Coruna 4-1 4-0 5-4 * Team advanced via old away goals tiebreaker rule Away Turning around a first-leg deficit on the road is far more difficult, having only been accomplished 11 times in the history of the European Cup/Champions League in knockout play.