article_snippet.sent: The four teams have combined to win the European Cup or Champions League 21 times, with 16 runner-up finishes, in the competition's 60-year history.
article_snippet.sent: Many would have wanted this as the final.
article_snippet.sent: Bayern set off in their quest to regain the title their won at Wembley in 2013 by topping a tough Group E, which featured Manchester City, Roma and CSKA Moscow, with five wins out of six.
article_snippet.sent: their showed no signs of letting up in the last 16 as well, thrashing Shakhtar 7-0 at the Allianz Arena.
article_snippet.sent: But the last eight was a different story.
article_snippet.sent: Bayern fell to a shock 3-1 defeat in Porto in the first leg and needed something close to a miracle to go through.
article_snippet.sent: What their got was five goals in a sensational first half on their way to a 6-1 second leg victory.
article_snippet.sent: But their 5-1 aggregate thrashing of Borussia Dortmund in the last 16 went under the radar, as did their 1-0 win over Arsenal's conquerors Monaco in the previous round.
article_snippet.sent: The 2014 winners were an unstoppable force before Christmas and won 22 games in a row in all competitions, including all six matches in a group that featured Liverpool, Basle and Ludogorets.
article_snippet.sent: It's been a different story in 2015, though, and The 2014 winners progress through the knock-out rounds has been far from convincing.
article_snippet.sent: In the last 16 The 2014 winners were made to hang on by Schalke, who inflicted a shock 4-3 defeat at the Bernabeu after Real cruised into a 2-0 lead in the away leg.
article_snippet.sent: In the last round, an 88th-minute strike from Javier Hernandez was all that separated The 2014 winners and local rivals Atletico Madrid.
article_snippet.sent: AS have also listed the number of times each of these four teams have won the trophy - 21 cups between these four teams from 37 finals.