Which club has won the most trophies in Europe?

The most successful clubs from the best leagues revealed

Barcelona's UEFA Super Cup victory this week marked their fourth trophy in 2015, with two more to possibly follow before the year is out, but which European club has won the most trophies ever?

It's not exactly a straightforward question to answer, because opinions differ over what should constitute a trophy.

Chelsea have won 26 trophies – to find out which clubs make up Europe's 10 most successful sides from the strongest leagues.

For example, Arsenal have technically lifted three trophies in the past month, but no one in their right mind would count either the Barclays Asia Trophy or Emirates Cup as a serious piece of silverware.

But does the Gunners' Community Shield success go on their honours list?

In the past, one-off contests such as the Shield have been dismissed when it comes to trophy tallies, but these events – often known as 'Super Cups' – appear to be growing in prestige across the continent.

For the purposes of simply counting the number of trophies won, we have included such competitions, although debate will continue to rage as to their relative merits.

Atletico Madrid have won 28 trophies

Inter have won 39 trophies

Arsenal have won 43 trophies

Additionally, we have restricted our ranking to clubs from the top four league competitions in Europe: England, Spain, Germany and Italy. These countries are historically the most dominant in European competition and, therefore, we have adjudged their domestic competitions to be the toughest to win.

If we left it open to clubs from any European league, the result would see Scotland's Rangers come out on top, with Northern Ireland's Linfield in second and Scotland's Celtic in third. But we are more interested in finding out who's the cream of the cream.

AC Milan have won 47 trophies

Juventus have won 58 trophies

Liverpool have won 59 trophies

Manchester United have won 62 trophies

Bayern Munich have won 63 trophies

Real Madrid have won 79 trophies

Barcelona have won 82 trophies

So take a look at the ranking above to see which clubs feature and let us know your thoughts by leaving a comment below.

Competitions included: All UEFA competitions bar the Intertoto Cup (but including the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup), the Intercontinental Cup, the FIFA Club World Cup, domestic top division titles, main domestic cups and League Cups (now defunct in Germany and Spain and never competed for in Italy, but held since the 1960s in England), and domestic 'Super Cups' (known in England as the Community Shield).