Football’s ultimate trophy cabinets: The five players with the most career trophies | OneFootball

When footballers reflect on their careers in retirement, the number one memories will be trophies won. Every player dreams of lifting silverware and none have done so more regularly than the names on this list.

Here are the five footballers with the most trophies won.

5. Sergio Busquets - 38

Part of a brilliantBarcelona team dubbed arguably the best club side the game has seen. Sergio Busquets won a wealth of honours after progressing to the first team from La Masia.

Busquets boasted a football IQ few midfielders can match, with an innate ability to evade the pressure of a press.

He won nine La Liga titles and threeChampions League trophies in Catalonia, while conquering the international stage with World Cup, European Championship and UEFA Nations League medals with Spain.

A late-career venture to MLS brought a trio of trophies at Inter Miami before retirement to swell one of the most stacked trophy cabinets in football history.

4. Marquinhos - 39

An ever-present inParis Saint-Germain’s emergence as a football superpower. Marquinhos moved to Paris as a teenager in the infancy of the club’s Qatari-backed regime, before becoming the bedrock of their domestic dominance.

In total, the centre-back has won 10 Ligue 1 titles among his honours and captained PSG to quadruple success - including a maiden Champions League - in 2025.

He’s one of an exclusive group of players to have won both the Champions League and Copa Libertadores, having lifted the latter with Corinthians in 2012.

3. Hossam Ashour - 39

Hossam Ashour spent 17 years in the senior side at Egyptian powerhouse Al Ahly. He won a staggering 13 league titles with Africa’s most decorated club, including seven straight Egyptian Premier Leagues between 2005 and 2011.

The defensive midfielder also won the CAF Champions League six times, accounting for 50% of Al Ahly’s record 12-time haul.

2. Dani Alves - 43

Dani Alves became the first footballer to win 40+ trophies, during a trophy-laden career spent representing some of Europe’s most successful sides.

Alves won back-to-back UEFA Cup trophies at Sevilla, before a transfer toBarcelona brought the most decorated period of his career.

He won five La Liga titles and three Champions League trophies with the all-conquering Catalans and later lifted league titles withJuventus and Paris Saint-Germain.

Recognised as one of the finest full-backs of all time, Alves has the trophy cabinet to back that argument.

1. Lionel Messi - 48

Lionel Messi, for many, is the greatest footballer to have played the game. Those fortunate enough to have watched him closely across the last two decades would find that difficult to disagree.

The inspiration behindBarcelona’s golden era, he won 10 league titles in Spain, alongside seven Spanish Cups and four Champions League crowns.

Further success followed atParis Saint-Germain and Inter Miami, while with Argentina a rollercoaster ride eventually reached huge heights.

After a drought-breaking Copa America in 2021 (successfully defended in 2024), he inspiredLa Albiceleste’s third World Cup win in Qatar.